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☀️SELF-ENQUIRY - NATURE & PURPOSE☀️

🌿Karshni: What is the nature of Self-enquiry? What is its purpose? Is there any greater good obtainable by other means?

🌿Bhagavan: The ‘I’-thought is said to be the sum-total of all thoughts. The source of the ‘I’-thought has to be enquired into.

🌿This is Self-enquiry, and not the study of scriptures [alone]. When the source is searched for, the ego gets merged in it.

🌿When the ego, which is mere reflection of the Self, totally disappears, what remains is the true Self alone in all its plenitude and perfection.

🌿The result of Self-enquiry is freedom from all suffering. This is the highest of all fruits. There is nothing higher than this.

🌿Marvellous occult powers may be had through other means. But in the end Freedom can come only through Self-enquiry.

~Sri Ramana Gita, Chapter 7, Verses 2-7

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☀️🌿SHUBH GURU-PURNIMA🌿☀️

✨Guru and Grace✨
🪔As Explained by Sri Ramana🪔

I have not said that the Guru is not necessary. But a Guru need not always be in human form. First a person thinks that he is inferior and that there is a superior, all-knowing, all powerful God who controls his own and the world’s destiny and worships him or does bhakti (devotion).When he reaches a certain stage and becomes fit for enlightenment, the same God whom he was worshipping comes as Guru and leads him onward. That Guru comes only to tell him, ‘That God is within yourself. Dive within and realize’. God, Guru and the Self are the same.

Realization is the result of the Master’s (Guru’s) grace, more than teachings, lectures, meditations, etc. They are only secondary aids, whereas the former is the primary and essential cause. Guru’s grace is always there. You imagine it to be something somewhere high up in the sky, far away and which has to descend. It is really inside you in your Heart, and the moment, by any of the methods, you effect subsidence or merger of the mind into its source, the grace rushes forth, spouting as from a spring from within you.

Contact with jnanis is good. They will work through silence. A Guru is not the physical form. Hence His contact remains even after the physical form of the Guru vanishes.After your bhakti to God has matured you, God comes in the shape of a Guru and from outside pushes your mind inside, while being inside as Self He draws you there from within. Such a Guru is needed generally, though not for very rare and advanced souls.

One can go to another Guru after one’s Guru passes away. But after all, Gurus are one, as none of them are the form. Mental contact is always the best.Satsangh means association with Sat or Reality. One who knows or has realized Sat is also regarded as Sat. Such association is absolutely necessary for all. Adi Sankara has said, “In all the three worlds there is no boat like satsangh to carry one safely across the ocean of births and deaths.”

Guru not being confined to physical, His contact will continue to those in need, even after His form vanishes. If one Jnani exists in the world, His influence will be felt by or benefit all people in the world, and not simply His immediate disciples. As described in "Vedanta Chudamani", all the people in the world can be put under four categories: The Guru’s disciples, bhaktas,those who are indifferent to Him and those who are hostile to Him. All these will be benefited by the existence of the Jnani — each in his own way and to various degrees.

⭐️🌸Wishing you all a very Auspicious Guru Purnima. May the grace of all-pervading Sadhguru Sri Ramana guide us all towards our highest good and bless us with the ultimate realization and bliss.🌸⭐️

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K.M. Jivrajan: Has one necessarily to pass through the stage of seeing occult visions before attaining Self-realization?

Bhagavan: Why do you bother about visions and whether they come or not?

K.M. Jivrajani: I don’t. I only want to know so that I shan’t be disappointed if I don’t have them.

Bhagavan: Visions are not a necessary stage. To some they come and to others they don’t, but whether they come or not, "you" always exist and you must stick to that.

K.M. Jivrajani: I sometimes concentrate on the brain centre and sometimes on the heart — not always on the same centre. Is that wrong?

Bhagavan: Wherever you concentrate and on whatever centre there must be a "you" to concentrate, and that is what you must concentrate on. Different people concentrate on different centres, not only the brain and the heart but also the space between the eyebrows, the tip of the nose, the tip of the tongue, the lowermost chakra and even external objects. Such concentration may lead to a sort of laya [subsidence of mind] in which you will feel a certain bliss, but care must be taken not to lose the sense of ‘I am’ in all this. You never cease to exist in all these experiences.

K.M. Jivrajani: That is to say that I must be a witness?

Bhagavan: Talking of the ‘witness’ should not lead to the idea that there is a witness and something else apart from him that he is witnessing. The ‘witness’ really means the light that illumines the seer, the seen and the process of seeing. Before, during and after the triads of seer, seen and seeing, the illumination exists. It alone exists always.

K.M. Jivrajani: It is said in books that one should cultivate all the good or daivic qualities in order to prepare oneself for Self-realisation.

Bhagavan: All good or daivic [divine] qualities are included in jnana and all bad asuric qualities are included in ajnana. When jnana comes all ajnana goes and all daivic qualities come automatically. If a man is a jnani he cannot utter a lie or do anything wrong. It is, no doubt, said in some books that one should cultivate one quality after another and thus prepare for ultimate moksha, but for those who follow the jnana or vichara marga [path of self-enquiry] their sadhana is itself quite enough for acquiring all daivic qualities; they need not do anything else.

~Excerpt from: Day by day with Bhagavan, 18-07-46

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