Thursday, October 20, 2011
Question : When a man realizes the Self, what will he see?
Ramana Maharshi - There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
The state of Self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or
reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always
are and which you always have been. All that is needed is that you give up your
realization of the not-true as true. All of us are regarding as real that which
is not real. We have only to give up this practice on our part. Then we shall
realize the Self as the Self; in other words, `Be the Self'. At one stage you
will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self which is so
self-evident. So, what can we say to this question?
That stage transcends the seer and the seen. There is no
seer there to see anything. The seer who is seeing all this now ceases to exist
and the Self alone remains.