The state of Self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. All that is needed is that you give up your realization of the not-true as true.
Sri Ramana Maharshi
These teachings, which are found in a variety of different texts and expressed in a variety of different ways are so simple, yet so complicated at the same time! They are complicated because they are so simple. Our concept addicted minds tend to want to analyze them to death...and the thing about Self-realization is that it goes beyond the need for words. It really can't be described nor can it be understood conceptually. It is not about striving and doing anything. It is all about letting go of something we have been erroneously clinging to and falling back into what is. We can meditate for 8 hours a day and practice every religious ritual out there at every given moment...but if we continue to hold onto our concepts, our ideas that we are these bodies and personalities and that everything else in the world is separate from us...we will never become Self-realized. The idea of "me" has got to go! This idea we have of being a "me" is not true. Until we let go of that, we will never realize who we always are and have always been.
Hmm! Now that is something to think about.
All is well.
David Godman (Editor) ( 1989) Be As You Are: The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi. Penguin (Kindle Edition)
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