Here, we come across an issue I would like to address with you. The issue is: who is God? For me, this had always been an issue, a question. There has always been inside me a very deep interest in this.
So, Ramana Maharshi's Presence was a determining factor for the answer to this question.
One thing we all experience is this internal movement of thoughts going on. They happen and you don't have any control over them.
A thing you don't realize, due to the lack of attention to yourself, is that question "Who is God?" or "where is He?" is answered directly, objectively, when this very movement of thought is nullified, when that very frequency of thoughts running internally is verified.
In general, we live based on thoughts. Our entire personality is centered on thoughts. There is no room for the Acknowledgement of the Truth. There is no room for the answer to "who is God?"
If for a few moments we abandon this movement, we have this direct answer, because the Truth of who God is the Truth of who we are.
So, Ramana, Ramana Maharshi has always posed the question "who am I?" So, when you come to Ramana or those who came to him by that time and brought up issues, dilemmas, conflicts, problems, the question He always asked was this: "Who are you? Investigate, ask 'who am I?'"
That's because, in the answer to "Who am I?", in this answer, you find the Truth of God.
God is your Being. God is your Divine Nature.
Identified with thought's movement, mistaken for the movement of thought, entangled with this thought's movement, you do not become aware of Yourself, the Truth You are. This Truth You are is the impersonal Truth. It is the timeless Truth. It is the untranslatable, indescribable Truth. It is the Truth of God.
So, the answer to the question "who am I?" is the same answer to the question "who is God?" This represents the end of all conflict, suffering, all the illusion of this imaginary "me," this "me" as a separate identity.
So, Ramana Maharshi's Presence was essential and That has been essential for those who seek the Truth about themselves.
So, the Master is the one who represents the end of your search. In India, they call Guru: the One who lives completely in His Being, different from this egoic life, of this life identified with thoughts. A life where you are totally occupied with expectations about future events that, actually, may or may not happen;preoccupied and occupied with recollections and memories of what apparently happened, apparently happened to a particular and personal identity, this "me," this "I," which is not real.
There is no identity present in this experience, in life's experience. These are beliefs, in which we were brought up, we were taught. And to be stuck to this is to be apparently far away – apparently, I say – apparently far from the Truth of God, the Truth of Yourself.
What Ramana's Presence, what the Guru's Presence shows you, makes you realize, is that You are one with Life, You are one with Reality, You are one with God.
So, this vision is completely changed. This old model is completely destroyed. So, speaking particularly of what occurred and what happened here, the moment you realize the illusion of an identity is no longer present, this very impression of a "me" disappears. So, there is no longer this "me." There is no longer this experiencer. There is no longer this thinker. And this represents a unicity with everything, I'd say unity with everything. This is something overwhelming. This is something that completely transforms this whole viewpoint. This particular view disappears and the Vision of Reality comes up.
Then, a full comprehension that everything is one Reality takes place; and this Reality is God's Reality. This Reality is the Reality of your own Being!
So, in this sense, there is no difference between You and the Master's Presence, You and Ramana's Presence, you and God's Presence.
We are facing something revolutionary! The understanding that sitting on the grass is part of everything around you, and that sitting on the grass is Life, the whole Life, the whole manifestation of Life, this whole Presence of Life, Presence of God, this is something untranslatable. It is something words cannot communicate.
So, the answer to the question "who am I?", or the answer to the question "who is God?" or "where is He?", is found at this moment, at the moment that sitting on the grass is taking place.
Then something entirely new opens up, something, in fact, untranslatable.
That's the end of the illusion of someone present who was born and will die. That's the end of this internal movement of projections towards the future or the idea of getting rid of a past. That's when we face What we could call Love, Truth, Freedom, Peace. That's when, we are before the Divine, God, Life!
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