If you regard Brahman, your own real nature, as something different from you, it will feel shy, separate from you and slip away.
Any effort to reach reality, thinking it to be different from oneself, will cause the non-dual experience, wherein one abides as reality, to go extremely far away.
Do not falter, even for a moment, believing that you face insurmountable obstacles [on the path], but remain vigilant in the unfailing and guaranteed method you have adopted - that of not forgetting the Self.
Bhagavan: All thoughts such as 'attainment is hard,' or 'Self-realization is far from me’ or, ‘I have got many difficulties to overcome to know the reality,' should be given up as they are obstacles; they are created by this false self, ego.
It is harmful to regard as important the ecstatic experiences of a mind that has not clearly known reality through the sakti of Siva.
~RAMANA MAHARSHI
Padamalai, edited by David Godman, p 231
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