DO NOT DOUBT THAT YOU ARE THE REALITY
Q. How can one quicken this coming of realization?
A. As one strives to know the true ‘I’ the attachment to objects, the bad and degrading thoughts gradually drop off.
The more one does not forget the Self, the more do elevating qualities become ours. Realization will come eventually.
Q. How can one quicken this coming of realization?
A. As one strives to know the true ‘I’ the attachment to objects, the bad and degrading thoughts gradually drop off.
The more one does not forget the Self, the more do elevating qualities become ours. Realization will come eventually.
Q. Why does an Upanishad say, “He whom the Atman chooses, to him alone
does It reveal Itself, not to others?” Does not this seem arbitrary?
A. No. It is correct.
It chooses those only who devote themselves to It, who become Its devotees.
It draws such devotees inwards to Itself.
One must turn inward to find the Atman.
He who thinks of It, It will draw to Itself.
All such thoughts as ‘Attainment is hard’ or ‘Self-realization is far from me’, or ‘I have got many difficulties to overcome to know the Reality’, should be given up, as they are obstacles; they are created by this false self, ego.
They are untrue.
Do not doubt that you are the Reality; live in that understanding.
Never question it by referring your realization of it to some future time.
It is because people are victimized and hypnotized by such false thoughts that the Gita says that few out of millions realize the Self.
The order of asramas [four stages of life] was established as a general principle, i.e. to regulate the gradual development of the ordinary run of humanity.
But in the case of one highly mature and fully ripe for Atma vichara there is no graduated development.
In this case jnana vichara, i.e. the Self enquiry and the blooming of jnana, are immediate and quick.
- Conscious Immortality
A. No. It is correct.
It chooses those only who devote themselves to It, who become Its devotees.
It draws such devotees inwards to Itself.
One must turn inward to find the Atman.
He who thinks of It, It will draw to Itself.
All such thoughts as ‘Attainment is hard’ or ‘Self-realization is far from me’, or ‘I have got many difficulties to overcome to know the Reality’, should be given up, as they are obstacles; they are created by this false self, ego.
They are untrue.
Do not doubt that you are the Reality; live in that understanding.
Never question it by referring your realization of it to some future time.
It is because people are victimized and hypnotized by such false thoughts that the Gita says that few out of millions realize the Self.
The order of asramas [four stages of life] was established as a general principle, i.e. to regulate the gradual development of the ordinary run of humanity.
But in the case of one highly mature and fully ripe for Atma vichara there is no graduated development.
In this case jnana vichara, i.e. the Self enquiry and the blooming of jnana, are immediate and quick.
- Conscious Immortality
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