Those who have made the hardest sacrifice, that of the Ego,
have nothing more to renounce.
Unlike the Ego which rises & sets, the true Self abides
for ever the same. Turn your back on the false Ego, & so destroy it, &
then shine as the one Self alone.
The true light of Awareness pure, subtle, egoless,
non—objective, silent, which tires the mind & baffles it till it admits
"I know not”, this is Being-Awareness, this the Self.
Here in this earthly life there is no greater good than
gaining the grandeur of the Self supreme. To gain it & enjoy it, search
within & first destroy the ego false & worthless.
What does one gain, you may well ask, by giving up the
wealth immense of worldly pleasure & seeking only mere Awareness ? The
benefit of true Awareness is the unbroken prevalence of Peace within the heart,
the Bliss of one’s own natural Being.
True clearness, freedom from the mind's ripples &
shadows, this alone is ever-fresh Immortality. By this Awareness pure, by this
alone & by no other means, can Death, mere Delusion, end.
Though in this false World one may live on, the ending of
both “I” & "mine" in the
clarity of true Awareness void of every doubt, this only is Abidance in the
Bliss of being That.
Worth pursuing is Self-Inquiry, worth enjoying is the Self’s
Infinitude. Worth giving up is the Ego-sense.
To end all sorrow the final refuge is one’s Source, the Self of pure
Awareness.
The deeds we do in Dream touch not our Waking life, but slip
away when we awake. Even so, our deeds
done in this clouded Ego-life disappear & leave no trace when we wake up in
the divine white Light of Self- awareness.
Based on the Teachings of a great Sage:
Unconditioned Being, Non-Dual Consciousness, & perfect Peace,
the 3 characteristics of profound Deep Dreamless Sleep correspond to the 3
constituents of individual experience, namely, Life, Thought & Feeling. But they [the
3 constituents] are no more than aspects of the real Self which must be Single
[Non-Dual] & immutable. They/ It are Single because It observes,
& therefore transcends, the variety of objective
experience, whenever the latter arises; & immutable because it remains unaffected by the appearance or the
non-appearance of that variety of objective
experience.
We could not, however, know anything about it if we departed
from our Unconditioned State
An objection to
our describing 1 aspect of Deep Dreamless Sleep as the state of Unconditioned
Being is likely to be raised. It is that
the Mind, though in abeyance, cannot be wholly absent, for otherwise a sleeper could
not be roused by Sensations.
The objection
implies that what we view as Deep Dreamless Sleep, from the standpoint of Duality,
is the experience of a "sleeper", that the subject of the subject-object
relationship [a necessarily "Bootstrapping" or Dependent Origination relationship] remains, in fact, even when
there is no objectivity. The objection
assumes, moreover, that the Waking-Body
persists in Deep Dreamless Sleep.
But do others not see it ? Now other bodies, like our own, are notions
that belong to the particular state of mental activity at present being
experienced [the Waking-State]. If others observe some response to a stimulus
in what they see as a "sleeper's" Body or Brain, they do so as a part
of their Waking experience. They tell us
so as a part of our Waking experience.
Some selected verses from the Ramana Maharshi disciple Master Nome:
That which truly is never ceases to be; that which ceases never actually is.
That which truly exists never changes; that which changes never truly exists.
That which is changeless is without destruction; the indestructible is only that which is without creation.
The Unborn is the undying; the unchanging is alone Being which never changes its nature. The Self ever is just as it is.
There is no time when Being is altered. There is no time when you are not the Self.
Immutable Being is Peace itself. Being alone knows itself, the "I"-less "I" realized as "I", forever undefined, the only Existence, the only Knowledge, the only Knower.
Thus is Brahman, Absolute Reality, always present, unmarred perfection, the unformed Void, attribute-less Being, ever itself just as it is. The only identity, only Reality, Being alone knows itself.
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