Followed by a 3 minute video on what next after waking up. The answer was acceptance of the current situation.
It was gone twelve before they left so they must have enjoyed it.
THE SELF - SRI RAMANA
The
mind is nothing but the thought 'I'
Thoughts arise because of the thinker (subject). The thinker is the ego, which if sought will automatically vanish.
Without consciousness, time and space do not exist; they appear in consciousness but have no reality of their own.
The absolute consciousness alone is our real nature.
Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
The mind cannot seek the mind. You ignore what is real (awareness) and hold on to that which is unreal, then try to find what it is. You think you are the mind and, therefore, ask how it is to be controlled? If the mind exists, it can be controlled, but it does not. Understand this truth by inquiry (into the nature of the mind).
The eternal (awareness) is not born nor does it die. We confound the appearance (the world) with Reality (awareness). Appearance carries it's end in itself. What is it that appears anew? If you cannot find it, surrender unreservedly to the substratum of appearances (awareness); then Reality (awareness) will be what remains.
Reality is simply loss of ego (awareness of awareness). Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego has no existence (being only thoughts), it will automatically vanish (when you are still), and Reality (awareness) will shine forth by itself in all its glory. This is the direct method. All other methods retain the ego. In those paths so many doubts arise, and the eternal question remains to be tackled. But in this method the final question is the only one and is raised from the very beginning.
No practices (sadhanas) are even necessary for this quest.
Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
"I Am that I Am" sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in "Be still."
The state we call Realization is simply being one's self, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
Thoughts arise because of the thinker (subject). The thinker is the ego, which if sought will automatically vanish.
Without consciousness, time and space do not exist; they appear in consciousness but have no reality of their own.
The absolute consciousness alone is our real nature.
Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
The mind cannot seek the mind. You ignore what is real (awareness) and hold on to that which is unreal, then try to find what it is. You think you are the mind and, therefore, ask how it is to be controlled? If the mind exists, it can be controlled, but it does not. Understand this truth by inquiry (into the nature of the mind).
The eternal (awareness) is not born nor does it die. We confound the appearance (the world) with Reality (awareness). Appearance carries it's end in itself. What is it that appears anew? If you cannot find it, surrender unreservedly to the substratum of appearances (awareness); then Reality (awareness) will be what remains.
Reality is simply loss of ego (awareness of awareness). Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego has no existence (being only thoughts), it will automatically vanish (when you are still), and Reality (awareness) will shine forth by itself in all its glory. This is the direct method. All other methods retain the ego. In those paths so many doubts arise, and the eternal question remains to be tackled. But in this method the final question is the only one and is raised from the very beginning.
No practices (sadhanas) are even necessary for this quest.
Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
"I Am that I Am" sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in "Be still."
The state we call Realization is simply being one's self, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
Sādhanā,
literally "a means of accomplishing something", is an
ego-transcending spiritual practice
