
Dear Kassy, Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya Namaste. Thank you for your messages. Focused, intense meditation to know the Self yields freedom from the illusory limitations. This is to be regarded as true concentrated meditation and not the mere riveting of mental attention or the combating with thoughts. One should neither remain with the thoughts nor fight with them, as if they were real entities or as if they had any validity apart from the belief posited in them, but one should inquire and know himself in thought-transcendent Knowledge. All the happiness ever desired and all the love for which you have ever yearned exist within you. Finding it, you become delighted at heart and ever peaceful. This Truth is to be realized in all its perfect fullness,whether you are alone or in a relationship. You may wish to refer again to the earlier instruction about depth of love and egolessness. That advice reveals both what is within and also the way to relate. Yes, though written as an autobiographical description at the request of the President of Sri Ramanasramaam, "Timeless Presence" is actually, for the most part, much more a description of realizing that is"samanya," common to all or universal, a dissolution of the falsely assumed individual and an expression of what an Upanishad declares, in the description of how the ancient sages realized, to be like the tracks of the birds in the sky. Ever yours in Truth, Nome
In this letter, he referred me back to an earlier letter for instruction.
Dear Kassy, Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya Namaste. Thank you for your message. Love may be said to be the unitary "feeling" of Being; that is, it is of the very nature of the indivisible Self. One who revels in the Self isthe same in a crowd or in a solitary place, with close friends or without,married or single, and so forth and so on. That which is truly desired by all is the Bliss of the Self, which is undivided Being. Finding that within, all desires dissolve for the one who knows. The Being of the Self is ever-existent. It is not born when the body is born and does not perish with the death of the body. It exists: realize it within you and do not postpone your bliss. Love in the form of desire, wishing for someone or something else toprovide the happiness that is actually innate, is mired and entangled in delusion. If it is in the form of the desire to make the other or othershappy, too, it is higher because of less egotism. If it is the wish for others to be happy with no regard for the ego, it is better. If it is in the form of the perfect fullness of the Self, with no notion of ego or other, it is true and without a veil. Such a one experiences neither desire nor fear and rests content within. I hope that the above is helpful for you. Reflect upon its meaning and inquire to know yourself. You will thus be ever happy and at peace. Ever yours in Truth, Nome
In this letter, he referred me back to an earlier letter for instruction.
Dear Kassy, Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya Namaste. Thank you for your message. Love may be said to be the unitary "feeling" of Being; that is, it is of the very nature of the indivisible Self. One who revels in the Self isthe same in a crowd or in a solitary place, with close friends or without,married or single, and so forth and so on. That which is truly desired by all is the Bliss of the Self, which is undivided Being. Finding that within, all desires dissolve for the one who knows. The Being of the Self is ever-existent. It is not born when the body is born and does not perish with the death of the body. It exists: realize it within you and do not postpone your bliss. Love in the form of desire, wishing for someone or something else toprovide the happiness that is actually innate, is mired and entangled in delusion. If it is in the form of the desire to make the other or othershappy, too, it is higher because of less egotism. If it is the wish for others to be happy with no regard for the ego, it is better. If it is in the form of the perfect fullness of the Self, with no notion of ego or other, it is true and without a veil. Such a one experiences neither desire nor fear and rests content within. I hope that the above is helpful for you. Reflect upon its meaning and inquire to know yourself. You will thus be ever happy and at peace. Ever yours in Truth, Nome
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