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Dialogue between Ramana Maharshi and Paramhansa Yogananda Swami Yogananda with four others arrived at 8.45 a.m . . . The group had lunch in the Asramam. Mr. C. R. Wright, his secretary, asked: How shall I realise God? M.: God is an unknown entity. Moreover He is external. Whereas, the Self is always with you and it is you. Why do you leave out what is intimate and go in for what is external? D.: What is this Self again? M.: The Self is known to everyone but not clearly. You always exist. The Be-ing is the Self. ‘I am’ is the name of God. Of all the definitions of God, none is indeed so well put as the Biblical statement “I AM THAT I AM” in EXODUS (Chap. 3). There are other statements, such as Brahmaivaham, Aham Brahmasmi and Soham. But none is so direct as the name JEHOVAH = I AM. The Absolute Being is what is – It is the Self. It is God. Knowing the Self, God is known. In fact God is none other than the Self. D.: Why are there good and evil? M.: They are relative terms. There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego. Trace the source of the ego. It ends in the Self. The source of the ego is God. This definition of God is probably more concrete and better understood by you. D.: So it is. How to get Bliss? M.: Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand you are always Bliss. This desire is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Enquire. In deep sleep you were blissful: Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss? It is the ego. Seek its source and find you are Bliss. There is nothing new to get. You have, on the other hand, to get rid of your ignorance which makes you think that you are other than Bliss. For whom is this ignorance? It is to the ego. Trace the source of the ego. Then the ego is lost and Bliss remains over. It is eternal. You are That, here and now . . . That is the master key for solving all doubts. The doubts arise in the mind. The mind is born of the ego. The ego rises from the Self. Search the source of the ego and the Self is revealed. That alone remains. The universe is only expanded Self. It is not different from the Self. D.: What is the best way of living? M.: It differs according as one is a Jnani [knower] or ajnani. A Jnani does not find anything different or separate from the Self. All are in the Self. It is wrong to imagine that there is the world, that there is a body in it and that you dwell in the body. If the Truth is known, the universe and what is beyond it will be found to be only in the Self. The outlook differs according to the sight of the person. The sight is from the eye. The eye must be located somewhere. If you are seeing with the gross eyes you find others gross. If with subtle eyes (i.e., the mind) others appear subtle. If the eye becomes the Self, the Self being infinite, the eye is infinite. There is nothing else to see different from the Self. He thanked Maharshi. He was told that the best way of thanking is to remain always as the Self. Later the yogi [Yogananda] asked : How is the spiritual uplift of the people to be effected? What are the instructions to be given them? Maharshi: They differ according to the temperaments of the individuals and the spiritual ripeness of their minds. There cannot be any instruction en masse. Yogananda: Why does God permit suffering in the world? Should He not with His omnipotence do away with it at one stroke and ordain the universal realisation of God? Maharshi: Suffering is the way for Realisation of God. Yogananda: Should He not ordain it differently? Maharshi: It is the way. Yogananda: Are yoga, religion, etc., antidotes to suffering? Maharshi: Who suffers? What is suffering? (No answer. Finally the Yogi rose up, prayed for Sri Bhagavan’s blessings for his own work and expressed great regret for his hasty return. He looked very sincere and devoted and even emotional.)

Forgiveness comes from acceptance, which comes from understanding. When you understand that existence is a process of continuous Self-learning, Self-discovery through an infinite number of forms and manifestations, there is nothing left but to accept all as aspects of oneness. From this perspective, there is nothing left to forgive. The whole existence appears as an endless journey of Self-discovery of what IS - perfect, eternal, and infinite.

@Razard86 I start to like You

I should have written "...an imagined one" - to be precise

@Razard86 There's one more interesting stuff here - the concept or idea that to wake up from imagined fiction, one needs to take an equally imagined dose of imagined 5meo or do anything imagined, including yoga and meditation, to wake up. What The Fuck? It's like waking up from a normal dream would require a need to do anything in that dream to wake up. Maybe this dream of reality is not an ordinary dream?

@Julian gabriel Thank You for touching on this subject... Sat Nam Bro @Razard86 I'm not claiming anything against non-duality or ultimate reality, and I'm really happy that you have reached a state of constant peace and blissfulness. Really I mean it. I'm not joking. The thing is that on this imaginary low level of consciousness, where consciousness has stuck in the belief of separation and division, everything appears relatively very different and real as it can be. Why is it so? I don't know... For fun, for the sake of exploration, learning, and testing? I honestly don't know. You tell me. The fact is, it is not so easy to wake up from this dream for good. Would you still be in that enlightened state without psychedelics if, in case of some war conflict, your country or place that you dream of being here now would be destroyed, and no supply of 5meodmt would be available? Could you remain in this state without psychedelics, with a shitty nightmare going out of your window? If so, my sincere respect... You're welcome

@Breakingthewall Everyone will realize this in this life or some of the next... You won't change anybody's mindset. Although I can only imagine that for some here, in case of the sudden death of the body (not wish to anybody to be clear), the surprise of what was believed here will be very significant, including myself.

@Razard86 I suppose you also enjoy this illusion. Otherwise, what are you doing here? I see plenty of so-called non-dualists here, for whom everything is an imaginary illusion, and yet they are stuck here as flies to the shit and treat their statements deadly seriously. Interesting, isn't it?

@Razard86 what can I say... Follow your way, I follow mine. That what freedom is for??

Before taking a step towards non-duality, it is good to be rooted in duality. Where we are, on the lower vibrations, everything is dual as hell, and our conversation is proof of that. And the path from duality to non-duality requires the death of the Ego on the cross - metaphorically speaking. And that takes courage. And this one comes from the practice of looking into the abyss, communing with the abyss. It's not that simple. However, I wish this for everyone - courage. “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” Frank Herbert Dune

@Jehovah increases Read carefully, my friend. That's not what I was saying. People make a real sacrifice fighting for a better tomorrow. And they suffer for it. They are persecuted and tortured, currently, at the moment. This is how it works in this dimension. Anything else you don't know?

@Razard86 With all due respect, my friend, I will not discuss with you how many devils will dance on the head of a pin and which devil is more imaginary and which less. We have already talked about it. The fact is that you are a man on earth, and you cannot just unimagine it. You're here to learn, like all of us. The more humility and practice in learning, the better. This gives measurable results. Regards

Less theory, more practice, I advise

Metaphorically, but also quite seriously, Jesus dies on the cross somewhere in the world every day. People are imprisoned because they fight for the rights of racial minorities, human rights, and freedom of speech. Women are stoned when they testify to the courage to be a woman. Jesus is not just any story. What pisses me off the most about such theoreticians of enlightenment as here on this forum is that sometimes, from behind armchairs in warm, comfortable apartments, completely safe, they tell such nonsense that it's hard to read. Each of the claims made here will be thoroughly tested by the Greatest Teachers - Life and Its assistant - Failure. Unfortunately, Spirituality in the hands of the Ego is not Spirituality.

Nothing/nobody to judge, nothing/nobody to forgive, no mistakes, only learning, exploration, and finding joy and happiness within you. Stay with an open mind for a different view. Peace & Love Sat Nam

Grateful for Everything good that has happened and for Nothing bad ever happened. Grateful for Everyone I have met and for Nobody inside me. At least, for @Gabith and@Breakingthewall, for their gratefulness, and for every next grateful soul that will post their gratitude here. Sat Nam Friends.

@Kalki Avatar What "what"? Nothing. Relax. Your level of stress should be exponentially lower than ours by volumes lower.

@Breakingthewall true

@viatrufka Your POV = mine. Coincidence? I don't think so???

@Breakingthewall "(...) nothing to forgive; no istakes, just learning (...)" - watch this below my friend...

That's the way indeed... Thank You ?

The fractal nature of infinity - a solipsism trap for the human mind. This post is not meant to discredit or nullify anything. On the contrary, I want to show you that the expansion and evolution of consciousness (or in consciousness) is like a Russian matryoshka, like classes in school. What follows it does not override what precedes it. When you initiate the process of becoming aware of the nature of Infinity, your assumptions as to what Reality is always doomed to be reconstructed with each new discovery, and this process will never end. The question is, did it have any beginning? I do not know. Contemplating the Infinite transforms your thinking - from linear to nonlinear to spherical. At some point, I realize that looking for the smallest (first) or largest (last) fractal is like looking for the beginning and end of a circle or sphere. I can play around with indefinitely scaling the size of a circle, sphere, or object. I can scale linearly, logarithmically, or chaotically whatever my heart desires. And here, at this moment, when fun, meditation, contemplation, and ordinary everyday life suddenly meet in my magical Now - something I cannot put into words - everything exists. The only thing is an existence born of Consciousness, in Consciousness. Everything is and is not at the same time. Such a superposition of Nothing and Everything. Neti, Neti. I can squeeze everything down to the size of a zero-dimensional point - one of the infinite paradoxes of infinity here - something that has zero dimensions does not exist and exists simultaneously. As a thought, a concept, it is also existence. Infinity breaks the human mind, it is non-human. We are afraid of it and avoid it at all costs. When you experience the Universe within you, the ego quickly captures and conceptualizes the experience. For your own safety, that is mine and yours. But scaling happens in both directions. Suddenly, it slips away from everything you know and goes towards a border that it will never cross, and yet, a border may be there. And behind it, another, greater Infinity. Or less! You can't get it. Figuratively, although it does not reflect what I feel - the wave is only a manifestation of the Ocean, an expression of its activity, but to be the Ocean, it must surrender its existence as something in motion, changing, experiencing its shores and borders. To feel this Infinite Depth, Space, one has to be ready to cross all boundaries, even those whose existence we have not yet realized. There are infinitely many of them. Apart from what is human, there is also the Alien. I recommend the document below - it's a bit too skeptical and too scientific for me, but worth a look anyway till the end. ...and go for Infinity by any means available for human beings and beyond Sat Nam

That is true. Anyway, stories are, what keep us going, what keeps existence in motion. Infinity is, I don't know what. Honestly, I don't know. But it magnetizes me like an abyss behind all stories ever told. To quote Nietzsche: "if you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." Somewhere in the depths of my heart, there is that primal desire to dissolve into the vastness of the night sky and beyond. Here, language reaches its limitations:)

Note one more thing: the concept of God is well conceptualized at the level of the human mind. The ego immediately captures God-realization - just with the etiquette of God! - and it's ok, it's safe again, he's safe. The greatest dangers to his existence - unconditional Love and Infinity have been neutralized by a simple and effective God-realization. From now on, everything that is dangerous and uncomfortable is only a momentary imagination, a hallucination. This is how you find yourself in the golden cage of your own mind. But real life awaits elsewhere. Start with the fact that You are, always. There is no such possibility for you to stop being. Find out if it's true. Find out who you truly are. It awakens the Force. And may this Force be with you . Let God-realization be just the beginning, not another dead-end.

This kind of reflection has just come to me - realizing what Infinity is, finding it all around us and in us, makes us familiar with the possibility of crossing our own limitations. It sets us free. Perhaps one day, you or I will be ready for the final leap into Infinity