A quite common question... this is a question people ask: "Who is God?"
See, the acknowledgment of your own Being is the acknowledgment of God's Truth! There is no separation between You and Reality. Your Being is the Divine Reality. Your Being is this Reality of God.
But for a long time, you've been identifying with an image you have of yourself. An image that grew with you. So, since childhood, you have been carrying this image. You have been cultivating this image. It's the image of the person you believe you are.
So, you have an idea of who you are. You have an idea of what the world is, what life is, and you also have an idea of who God is.
It's not possible the acknowledgment of the Truth, this Truth of God, without the clear acknowledgment of the Truth of who You are. So, the point is "who am I?" and not "who is God?"
The question "where is God?" is answered when you find yourself. If you recognize the Truth about Yourself, you find the truth of where God is. Therefore, you need to work towards this direction. This is the work of Self-Knowledge, Self-Realization. Only this work gives you this Vision: the Vision of God, which is the vision of Yourself!
When you're entirely free from that presumption – because it's a presumption indeed – the presumption of a separate identity, of being someone in this whole manifestation, someone separate, unique, exclusive, someone particular.
Life is the Whole. It's a Totality. And, in this Totality, what prevails is the Divine Reality, the Reality of God. This is the Reality of your Being!
Your suffering, all your misery, all the complications in your life, all of them are based on this arrogance, this mistaken identification with this false center, with this false "me," with this image you have of yourself. This is not real. This is not You! This is not the Divine Reality!
So, the answer to the question "who is God?" is found in the answer to the question "who am I?"
So, Ramana Maharshi presented this question to the world by showing us that this is the answer we can have about where God is. So, God is in where we are what we are. That's where God can be found. This is the Truth about Me. This is the Truth about God. This is the Truth about You. This is the Truth about Ramana Maharshi. This is the Truth about Life!
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