The Goal: The Teachings of Bhagavan - Arthur Osborne

Part III

The sensation is common both to the Realized Man and the unrealized Man. The difference is that the Unrealized man identifies himself with the body that feels it, whereas the Realized Man knows that all this is Self, all this is Brahman. If there is pain, let it be; it is also a part of the Self and the Self is perfect.

Or whether he can commit sins. The very raising of this question implies failure to understand what is meant by ‘Self-Realization’. Sin is the action of the ego or the individual being in its own interests against the universal harmony or the Will of God. But where there is no ego, where there is only the Universal Self, who is to act against whom?

© "The Teachings of Bhagavan: Sri Ramana Maharshi - In His Own Words" published by Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai 606 603. Website:www.ramana-maharshi.org. Reprinted with permission. Part II of this article appeared in Splendour, July 2005 issue.

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