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Be As You Are - N Natarajan

In the words of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, there is nothing for us to acquire afresh for Self-realization. Our true nature is Bliss and Bliss alone. We only think erroneously that we are the body and we are in bondage. In reality there is no bondage. We should only leave off the idea that we are the body and remain in our true nature devoid of thoughts.

Reality is only one. How can it be realized? Who is to realize? If you enquire yourself ‘Who wants Self-realization?’, the very thought and the attendant feelings will disappear and you will remain only in your true nature. If you are non-self then only you must try to realize the Self. But you are the Self, the only one — and ever present without a second. If there are two selves, then only one Self is to realize the other Self. Who is to realize whom when there is only one Self?

© "The Mountain Path" (December, 2000) published by Sri Ramanasramam Post, Tiruvannamalai 606 603. Website: www.ramana-maharshi.org. Reprinted with permission.

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