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Excerpt about God from Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Mr. P. Brunton, while reading Upadesa Manjari, came across the
statement that the ego, the world and God are all unreal. He desired
to use a different word for God or at least a qualifying adjective, e.g.,
the Creative Force or personal God.
Sri Bhagavan explained that God means SAMASHTI - i.e., all that
is, plus the Be-ing - in the same way as ‘I’ means the individual
plus the Be-ing, and the world means the variety plus Be-ing. The
Be-ing is in all cases real. The all, the variety and the individual is in
each case unreal. So also in the union of the real and the unreal, the
mixing up or the false identifcation is wrong. It amounts to saying
sad-asadvilakshana, i.e., transcending the real and the unreal - sat
and asat. Reality is that which transcends all concepts, including that
of God. Inasmuch as the name of God is used, it cannot be true. The
Hebrew word Jehovah = (I am) expresses God correctly. Absolute
Be-ing is beyond expression.

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"Sri Bhagavan explained that God means SAMASHTI - i.e., all that is"

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