ENLIGHTENMENT BY SELF-INQUIRY–pt108

[The Teaching  of Non-Duality has been adapted from Master Nome, disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi.]

Not in relation to anything is the Unborn, the uncreated Consciousness. Instruction regarding the “Witness” is given only for those who are attempting to transcend the Mind.  A person has some sense that there is a state that is the highest good & that is free of the "I" & the World.  Falling asleep is dear & agreeable to us . If one misses sleep for some time, he longs for it. The subsidence of the "I" & the World make sleep dear. A state of Dreams full of images of himself & the World is not so appealing.  More Dreams like the present state are not so much wanted.

The removal of super–imposition is accomplished by Self-Inquiry. This is the intention of the negation of the Upanishads, "neti neti" – "not this, not this".  Such indicates the negation as one's attributes, identity, or definition, of what is not truly the Self, not the essential Existence, or pure Consciousness. The removal of super–imposition is the Revelation of the Truth. The Truth or Reality is not to be newly created.  Nor did the super–imposition diminish Reality in any way, just as the Snake did not chase the Rope away.  But to see the Rope, the Imagination of a Snake must cease.  Similarly, to know the Truth of the Self, Ignorance must cease. 

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–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada

 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com

ENLIGHTENMENT BY SELF-INQUIRY–pt107

[The Teaching  of Non-Duality has been adapted from Master Nome, disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi.]

In the Truth of No-Creation, in which there are no suppositions, no doctrines, & no ideas of any kind, there is no question of action. One Consciousness, when viewed from the perspective of the Universe appearing or existing, is called God, or the Supreme Lord. When viewed in terms of everything being only within the Mind, the same Consciousness is called the Witness. When known as it is, it is called pure, Non-Dual Consciousness.  In relation to the Universe, it is God. In relation to the Mind, it is the Witness, which includes being the Witness of the whole Universe. 

Partless Existence, which is the Self, is beyond the changeful appearances in the Mind. So, how can the Senses be considered to be the Self ?  The Senses are part of the Body. The Body is perceived only by the Senses & has no reality apart from them. Each Illusion (Body & Senses) depends on the other. Such Illusion is like the "painting of a wall that is painted on the wall depicted when the wall itself has not yet been built." The Self is bodiless & is not a part of the Body or associated with a location in relation to a Body, unlike the Senses. So, how can the Senses be considered to be the Self ?

The Mind, or the Ego, is objective, appearing by the Light of pure Consciousness alone. Pure Consciousness is the Absolute & is directly realized as existing as the Absolute when the "this" or objective portion, falsely attributed to the Absolute is negated. Ignorance, or Illusion, is merely a superimposition.  By “super–imposition" is meant the imagined placement of some attributes that do not belong to the Self upon the Self.  The basis of the super–imposition is real. It is Pure Existence, Consciousness pure. 

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“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”
–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada

 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com

ENLIGHTENMENT BY SELF-INQUIRY–pt106

[The Teaching  of Non-Duality has been adapted from Master Nome, disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi.]

If we know the Self, it is that in which there is "no World seen", "no seer in it", & neither an action nor an actor. If you ask, at the level of actions & taking for granted that a Body & a World are present, the explanation is given that it is the "reflected light" of the Self. When one turns toward that, he becomes swept up in that & leaves the worldly shadows & illusions behind. If you leave them behind entirely & plunge into that in which you are becoming absorbed, you find That in which there is no "I" & no "World" – "nothing is being done."

Sri Sankara declares that just as "trees on the bank" seem to move when one is in a moving boat, so Transmigratory existence (re–incarnation) seems to be true to one who mis–identifies the Self with the Mind.  Thus, when the Mind moves, one thinks that the Self moves. When the Mind is still, one assumes the Self is still.  Because the modifications of the Mind are pervaded by the reflected light (chidabhasa) of Consciousness (chidabhasa), with the qualities of Reality & identity borrowed from Pure Existence, one assumes that the Self is identical with the Mind & identifies himself with those modifications.  Thus, one imagines, “my thoughts, my state, my experiences, etc.”

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“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”
–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada

 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/

ENLIGHTENMENT BY SELF-INQUIRY–pt105

[The Teaching  of Non-Duality has been adapted from Master Nome, disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi.]

In the statements of the "saints" (devotional Sages, liberated by the practice of Non-Dual Bhakti & Surrender to the Absolute), the "I" is solely pure Brahman, the pure Self & not an Individual.  Ego–less & self–less in their activities when performing self–lessly, they make divine use of something that would otherwise be "worthless" (Body, Mind, etc.).  The inspiration can be said to be the "reflected light" of the Self (chidabhasa in terms of Atman; mahat in terms of Brahman).

Spiritual practice is carried on with the Mind & addresses the Mind so that Consciousness alone remains. To see Illusion as Illusion, Ignorance as only Ignorance, is sufficient & most effective for clearing the way to experience Self-Knowledge.  Bondage is only Ignorance, or error in understanding. One does not at first attain Self-Knowledge due to his Ignorance about the true nature of the Self & the beginning adherence to false conceptions about the Self.  The Ignorance makes one feel bound, & the adherence to false notions maintains the Ignorance, yielding the apparent solidity & false continuity of Illusion. Both the Ignorance & the tendency to adhere to it are destroyed by Self-Inquiry to know the Truth of the Self. 

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“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”
–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada

 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/

ENLIGHTENMENT BY SELF-INQUIRY–pt104

[The Teaching  of Non-Duality has been adapted from Master Nome, disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi.]

A single Source of Happiness with unlimited powers has to be accepted, Sri Ramana said, That, in itself, "flattens" the Ego completely. Your Body, Speech, & Mind are merely instruments. They are not instruments for worldly desire driven by an Ego, but they are instruments in the hands of a Higher Power. Thus, you stand Dis–identified (instead of Mis-identified). If you abide entirely Dis–identified & plunge into the depths of your own Existence, you stand as That which is utterly immovable. The inspired activities go on without your involvement in them. We may say that the Lord does them. That is the reason why some of the saints have jokingly said that they stand even higher than the Lord, because the Lord is doing everything, & they are just peacefully being immovable.

When one recognizes that the Source of Happiness & Peace is within, that Suffering is not produced by external factors (such as other people, objects, & circumstances or their absence) but is created by one's own Delusion, he commences a Path to Self-Knowledge. Proceeding to Self-Inquiry within oneself as to "what one is", is the practice.  Listening (sravana) to the Teachings pertaining to Self-Knowledge, Reflection (manana) upon them, & deep Meditation (nididhyasana) to be absorbed in their essential meaning support this Self-Inquiry to know the Self.  Eliminating Ignorance, or Mis-identification, by such Self-Inquiry results in Self-Realization, which is Freedom from Delusion regarding the Self, or Reality. One should know that the Self is not made of matter & is, therefore, not the Body. The idea of being a Body occurs only in one's Mind.  All delusions are created & sustained only in the Mind. They are not physically caused. The Body does not produce Ignorance & Egoism & such. So one should quest within the Mind itself, transcending the Mind while destroying its Illusions. 

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–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada

 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/

ENLIGHTENMENT BY SELF-INQUIRY–pt103

[The Teaching  of Non-Duality has been adapted from Master Nome, disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi.]

Worldly thinking is a desperate search for Happiness, which however is only to be found within. Knowing that it is within, devoting our self to that which is within, our Thought, your Speech, & our Action become inspired, motivated by that very same Power within. It is not that the Self ever thinks, & certainly the Self never does anything.  But the best actions & thoughts preceding those actions are streaming forth from this inspiration of the Self.  So, the selfless activity is filled with a certain Happiness to which the worldly attempt can never compare.  Any worldly attempt at happiness that is driven by a desire to secure Happiness external to oneself can never compare.

What prevents Self-Knowledge is one's own adherence to Ignorance about the Self.  If the Ignorance ceases, Self-Knowledge shines, & one's own Pure Existence is left in its True State.  Ignorance consists of Mis-identifications regarding oneself.  With Mis-identification, there seems to be 2, an Absolute Self & an individual self. The Non-Dual Teachings of Self-Knowledge are intended to remove that false differentiation by dissolution of Mis-identifications.  Mis-identification starts with the assumption of being an individual entity, a separate "I", & consists of defining this "I" in a variety of delusive ways.  Thereupon follow the Mis-identification s with the Mind or thought, with the Life Energy or prana, with the Senses, with the Body, & then with various things in the World or the relation to them.  From all these Mis-identifications there arise all kinds of modes of Mind, emotions, & Bondage of all sorts that create suffering. 

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–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada

 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/

ENLIGHTENMENT BY SELF-INQUIRY–pt102

Realizing Non–Dual Liberation, Enlightenment by Self-Inquiry – pt102

[The Teaching  of Non-Duality has been adapted from Master Nome, disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi.]

Something deeper than the Mind knows this Knowledge. If there is thinking, that does not represent a disturbance. But the thinking must proceed from something else besides Mis-identification.  Likewise is it with the action. When you are caught up in the inspiration toward that which is self–less, or Ego–less, the motive for the thinking & the action is very different from the motive in your attempt to pursue your Happiness through that thinking & doing.

Reality is ever-existent.  If one perceives something that has appearance & disappearance, it is but a temporary thing.  If one examines the experience of that, one sees that it is not Pure Existence itself, but a guise for it, a mis–perception of it.  Or else It is an Illusion based upon Reality, but not Reality itself.  Pure Existence does not come or begin & then go or cease to exist.  To know Reality as it is, one must cease to regard as real what are only mis–perceptions or Illusions. The Self is the Reality, ever-existent, Unborn, Imperishable, Limitless, & Formless. The Self is identical with the Absolute.  If one does not experience it as such, it is due to lack of Self-Knowledge.

The Self, being Space-like but not in Space, has no location. The Self is neither a particular part of the Body nor confined inside it. If the Self were a spot or in a spot, the spot could be pointed out, & that very form would be the Self or would contain the Self.  But then the Self would neither be Existence nor Real, neither Infinite nor Eternal.  There would be no Liberation from Bondage. Then, the very declarations of the Wise would become false. This result & its presumed causes are absurd.  If the Self would be located throughout the Body or in a bodily spot, such location would be objective. The Self, though, is non–objective, & the non–objective cannot have an objective location or other objective attributes. If the Self were located in the Body, when that part of the Body underwent change or decay, so would Pure Existence itself.  If that part of the Body would be lost, the Self would be lost; if forgotten, then forgotten.

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“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”
–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada

 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/

ENLIGHTENMENT BY SELF-INQUIRY–pt101

[The Teaching  of Non-Duality has been adapted from Master Nome, disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi.]

Silence can be of help, but such are not the Core or the Essence. The real Silence must be found in that in which the Ego-"I"-notion does not appear. Better than quieting the Mind is the dissolution of the Mind.  It is fine to do things that tend to support our spiritual practice of turning our Mind inward. There is no point in our Mind immersing itself in worldly topics & making as much noise as possible. So doing those things that we find supportive of our spiritual practice means wisely governing, or directing the use of our Senses, our Speech, our thinking, & such.  But the essential key is the Knowledge of our Self, the dissolution of false Identity, & the dissolution of the idea of an existent Mind.

Absolute Reality is Infinite & Eternal & can be realized so that one remains in that Absolute Reality, as it, always.  To thus realize is to remain in lasting Peace, complete spiritual Freedom, & perfect Happiness, which is spiritual Bliss. The way to do this is to know oneself, for if one knows oneself as one really is, that itself is indeed the Absolute.  What one really is not what one might have mistakenly conceived oneself to be.  Regardless of whatever be the spiritual practices in which one may engage, eventually he or she is brought to this: the importance of knowing one's True Nature as it is.  Self-Inquiry, which is characterized by asking within oneself, "Who am I ?", is the keen Discernment of what one is & the relinquishment of ignorant mis–identifications. 

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“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”
–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada

 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/

ENLIGHTENMENT BY SELF-INQUIRY–pt100

[The Teaching  of Non-Duality has been adapted from Master Nome, disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi.  Sections appended below derive from Sri Ramana's Teaching.]

Any desire [such as to teach] assumes some motive to acquire Happiness, & that cannot be for one who is full of Bliss.  Sri Ramana Maharshi taught Non-Duality out of compassion & Grace.  If we take up his Teaching in right earnestness & question: "Who is in need of such compassion ?" then we discover just how illimitably compassionate this Teaching is. This Teaching reveals the True Nature of the recipient.  If the recipient of Sri Ramana's Teaching, considering them compassionate, meditates on who it is that is receiving compassion, then his "I"–ness vanishes, which is the greatest compassion.  The mediator's state becomes "I"–less & without Duality. Discussion of compassion at that point is not possible.

What truly exists stands Self-Revealed & the possibility of Bondage with its concomitant Suffering is no more.  There in no un–reality & no one to imagine it.  In Self-Realization, there is no change of states between active & in–active, or between thought & its absence.  Only 1 uncreated, unchanged Existence exists.  In Self-Realization there are no "degrees" of any kind. There is not a Liberation while alive contrasted with Liberation after disembodiment. There is no individual "I", no perception of forms, & no disappearance of the perception of forms.  In this wakeful Bliss, there is nothing further to be accomplished.  The Self is Non-Dual, like Space, Formless, Infinite, Pure Existence, Void, Un–created, Time–less, & Ever-existent.  The Self ever is just as it is, & the Self alone exists.  This "ever–Existence" is the significance of Silence.

[Ramana]

Why must Self-Realization take a long time ?  The idea of Time is only in your Mind. It is not

in the Self. There is no "time" for the Self.  Time arises as an idea after the Ego arises.  But you are the Self beyond Time & Space.  You exist even in the absence of Time & Space.

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“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”
–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada

 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/

ENLIGHTENMENT BY SELF-INQUIRY–pt99

[The Teaching  of Non-Duality has been adapted from Master Nome, disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi.  Sections appended below derive from Sri Ramana's Teaching.]

The Mind can tell you everything about "everything", because everything is entirely in the Mind. It cannot tell you anything whatsoever about the Self.  If the Mind attempts to look at the Self, the Mind loses its form & is swallowed up in it. You alone can know your Self; an "other" cannot do so. The Mind is such an "other".  The Mind is only an instrument, inert, & not capable of seeking.  Self-Knowledge cannot be "taught" by an "other".  Sri Ramana Maharshi was immovable in the absolutely solid Knowledge that there is only one Self, without an "other".

True Knowledge is not a thought – it is transcendent Knowledge.  In this Knowledge, the Self is itself the conviction & certitude in itself.  The Self itself is the depth & power of meditation upon the Knowledge. The Self itself is the real Teaching & the final proof of itself. The Self itself is That which is to be Known, the Knower himself, & the Knowledge itself.  The Self, itself, is the revelation in the ineffable Silence of Dakshinamurti & Sri Ramana Maharshi.  The Self has no states or degrees.  The Self is not bound, not striving for Liberation, & not liberated.  The Self is never bound, & there is no separate state of Liberation. There is in the Self no coming into existence of Illusion & no ending of Illusion. In Self-Realization no new thing has been attained, nothing has been made purer, nothing has been produced, nothing has been acquired, nor has anyone been transformed.

[Ramana]

The Self is always realized. It is not necessary to seek to realize what is already & always realized. For you cannot deny your own existence. That Existence is Consciousness, the Self.  Unless you exist you cannot ask questions.  So you must admit your own existence.  That Existence is the Self.  It is already

"realized".  Therefore the effort to realize results only in your "realizing" your present mistake – that you have not realized your Self.  There is no new Realization. The Self becomes revealed.

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“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”
–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada

 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/

ENLIGHTENMENT BY SELF-INQUIRY–pt98

[The Teaching  of Non-Duality has been adapted from Master Nome, disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi.  Sections appended below derive from Sri Ramana's Teaching.]

The World–less, "I"–less Reality is your True Nature, & that alone is completely satisfying. "True" & "false" are concepts about Existence.  "Conscious" & "inert" are concepts about Consciousness. "Suffering" & "Happiness"” are concepts about Bliss. Neither of the concepts of these Dualities can compare with the Existence-Consciousness-Bliss realized as the No-Creation ("the World is not seen") & the Unborn ("no 'I' ") nature of the Absolute.  No-Creation is the Realization of Knowledge, in which Reality comprehends Itself, & this is not a sensory experience. Reality is the Self of all. There is no existent "other" one to find it otherwise.

Always, there is 1 Reality, the Non-Dual Self.  All Illusion arises without a real cause & vanishes in the Knowledge of the Self.  Self-Knowledge, or Self-Realization, is the natural state (sahaja), the only Real State there is.  Pure Existence is forever un-changing.  The Self is the Source of all.  All depend on & appear in the Self.  The Self is the Beginning. The Self is that which pervades all.  The Self is the actual Existence of all.  The Self is the "middle".  The Self is That into which all dissolves.  The Self is the End. The Self, being universal, is all in all at all times.

The Self is solid Existence, invariable, unmodified, indestructible, & ever Still.  The Self is ever-shining Consciousness, the one all-pervading Light "without a shadow".  The Self is Bliss, the long-sought Happiness, the invariable perfect Fullness (purnam), & the Bliss of the Sages.  Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self of the Sages, the Self of the spiritual aspirants, the Self of the Guru, the Self of the disciple, & the Self of All. Knowledge is Pure Existence.  Pure Existence is Knowledge.  There is no Duality in this. That is, in this there is no Knower & Known, & no being one thing & knowing another. There is no Ego in this. This is Ego–less Knowledge.

[Ramana]

Can the feeling in a place be Bliss ?  When you leave that place you say you are unhappy. Therefore this Peace is not permanent, it is mixed with unhappiness which is felt in another place. Therefore you cannot find Bliss in places & in periods of time.  Bliss must be permanent in order that it may be useful.  It is

your own Existence which is permanent.  Be the Self & that is Bliss.  You are always that.

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–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada
 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/

ENLIGHTENMENT BY SELF-INQUIRY–pt97

[The Teaching  of Non-Duality has been adapted from Master Nome, disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi.  Sections appended below derive from Sri Ramana's Teaching.]

Freedom from fear, & increasing Bliss act as a continuous drawing to realize it conclusively, so that there is no interruption in it. To be free continuously, & to thus be happy, or blissful, continuously without a break, is the motivation that, when we did not know better, manifested as fear. The Wise know how to make good use of the experience without placing emphasis on only the objective portion of the experience, so that we do not think of the experience as "solid" or as a thing in itself.

But the Self alone is Infinite, & Causality is not real. One cannot actually recall when this ego, the root of Maya, began, was created, or was born, though there is the knowledge of perpetual existence, which is of the Self alone, for never was there a time when you were not, and never will there be a time when you will cease to be. Thus, the Self is ever the Unborn—neither coming from another state or thing nor giving birth to any—and the ego is unborn as it never comes to be. This may also be regarded as the final significance of the Maharshi's inquiry as to “Whence am I?" graciously given to show the method of tracing inwardly from where the identity of "I" derives, as well as "Who am I ?"  

How can there be the Ego's Effect (Delusion), when the supposed Cause itself has never come to be ?  The Ego is an assumption.  Who assumes this assumption ?  No one.  Who knows the Knowledge of the Self ?  The Ego-"I" cannot know the Self since the Self alone is capable of knowing (anything). 

The Ego-"I" is inert, & the Known is a mere notion, a vacuous imagining, & an assumption that is non–existent.  There is no Ego to be ignorant or to be bound, to attempt to know the Self, or to return to it or unite with it.  The Self is what you are, & it is innately Ego–less.  This Ego–less Knowledge of the Self is the Knowledge of the Non-Dual, indivisible nature of the Self, the only true "I"  in which there is never an individual "I".

[Ramana]

In comparing oneself to a Sage, the difference implied in the terms "he" & "I" are obstacles to Self-Knowledge,  jnana.

Sankara in Vivekachudamani says that after the dissolution of the physical "sheath" the liberated man becomes like "water poured into water & oil into oil."

It is a State in which there is neither Bondage nor Liberation. Taking another Body means throwing a veil, however subtle, upon Reality, which is Bondage. Liberation is Absolute & irrevocable.

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“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”
–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada
 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/

ENLIGHTENMENT BY SELF-INQUIRY–pt96

[The Teaching  of Non-Duality has been adapted from Master Nome, disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi.  Sections appended below derive from Sri Ramana's Teaching.]

The unreal cannot know the Real. The Ego is un–real, & as long as we take up our position, as it were, in the Ego, our knowledge of things is un–real. If we want to know what is what, we must know who is who. The undifferentiated, doubtless state is that which has abandoned the objective outlook. The highest Bliss, the most profound Happiness.  Profound Happiness is remaining in that state in which one is just the Absolute, with no separate identity, no Ego-"I"-notion, no being drawn toward an "I"-notion, & no conception of an objective World.

That the Ego is said to rise from the Origin, or Substrate, of the Self is expedient teaching for those desirous of Liberation intended to guide them to the Origin, the one Substrate, in order to realize its Ego–less nature. Such instruction should not be interpreted as about the Ego really being born or the Self actually giving birth to it.  The Ego cannot be self-produced, for to imagine so would be to suppose its pre-existence, which is absurd.  And that would lead to the consequent question as to what caused that pre-existent Ego. This in turn would lead either to the Delusion regarding the Effects causing the Cause or a modification in the eternally, changeless Self.  Those possibilities have already been negated by Self-Inquiry, or relegated to an infinite regression.

[Ramana]

What is Bliss but your own Existence ?  You are not apart from Existence which is the same as Bliss. You are now thinking that you are the Mind or the Body which are both changing & transient.  But you are unchanging & Eternal. 

Ignorance must go.  Who says, "I am ignorant ?"  He must be the "witness" of Ignorance.  That is what you are.

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“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”
–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada
 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/

ENLIGHTENMENT BY SELF-INQUIRY–pt95

[The Teaching  of Non-Duality has been adapted from Master Nome, disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi.  Sections appended below derive from Sri Ramana's Teaching.]

Our focus should be the Knowledge of the Self & not an attempt to determine what "this" is without first knowing "I".  If we attempt to determine what "this" is, without first knowing the "I", the best that we can hope for is one of those doctrinal suppositions mentioned previously. While that might be regarded as useful for some people as some kind of stepping stone, it would be a stepping stone to actually inquiring into the “I” and knowing the Self as it is, for in that way, alone, does one know Reality. This is so because the Reality, alone, can know the Reality.

The Ego is not produced by the World, the Body, the Senses, the Prana, or the Mind. These produce phenomena, sensations, physical, subtle & mental experiences, & thoughts.  These appear after the Ego is differentiated, & so they cannot produce the Ego, for the Effect does not produce the Cause.  The Ego is not produced by the Self, which is the Absolute.  The Absolute Self does not produce or create at all but ever just exists.

[Ramana]

Liberation is our nature. It is another name for us.  Our wanting Liberation is a very funny thing.  It is like a man who is in the shade, voluntarily leaving the shade, going into the Sun, feeling the severity of the heat there, making great efforts to get back into the shade & then rejoicing. We are all doing exactly the same. We are not different from the Reality. We imagine we are different & then undergo great spiritual practices to get rid of the feeling of difference & realise the Oneness. Why imagine or create the feeling of difference & then have to destroy it ?

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“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”
–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada
 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/

ENLIGHTENMENT BY SELF-INQUIRY–pt94

Nome

[The Teaching  of Non-Duality has been adapted from Master Nome, disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi.  Sections appended below derive from Sri Ramana's Teaching.]

If we want to know "what ?" is "what", we must know "who ?" is "who".  The undifferentiated, doubtless state is that which has abandoned the objective outlook. What we all want is that which causes the highest Bliss, that which is truly happy. The highest Bliss, profound Happiness is remaining in that state in which one is just the Absolute Self. This prompts the aspirant to seek Liberation in the World–less, Ego–less state. For those who have realized the highest Truth though, that Truth is everywhere, of the nature of Bliss-Consciousness, & there is not a particle of this Universe that is without this Bliss-Consciousness.

Where is the Ego ?  It is not in the World, which is unreal.  The Ego is not in the Body, which is unreal & it is not the Self.  The Ego is not in the Senses, which are unreal & it is not the Self.  The Ego is not in thought, which is unreal & not the Self.  The Ego is not in the flawless, unmodified, perfect Self.  The Ego is never actually experienced by itself & is not actually experienced in any of these.  The Ego dwells nowhere.  If the Ego is not a thing in itself, does not reside anywhere, & is not inherent in anything, the remaining possibility is that its supposed existence is an effect produced by something else, but only the Self exists & the Self exists produces nothing.

[Ramana]

It is the Mind that veils our Happiness. How do we know that we exist ?  If you say because of the World around us, then how do you know that you existed in Deep Dreamless Sleep ?

The Mind cannot kill itself.  So your business is to find the Real Nature of the Mind. Then

you will know that there is no Mind. When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere.  Remaining in the Self, one need not worry about the Mind.

The above themes & 2500 pages more are freely available as perused or downloaded PDF’s, the sole

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“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”
–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada
 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/