*POINTS TO PONDER*

SANNYASA

Sannyasa is the giving up of the ego. Even though a person may be living as a householder in the family circle, the various occurrences of the world will not affect him if his ego is surrendered. Thus dream experiences do not really affect us.

As he quietly lies in his bed, a man dreams he is in water, but his bed is not really wet. On the other hand, a person in the sannyasa ashrama, yet who is still attached to the body, is a karmi (person of action, not renunciation).

So long as anyone thinks that they are a sannyasin they are not one. So long as one does not think of world-illusion, one is not worldly, but is a real sannyasin, The patients must themselves take the medicine prescribed by the doctor to be cured of illness. So too, the guru prescribes the path, but the aspirants must themselves follow it.

Where is renunciation? It is not outside us, it is here (pointing to the heart). Where is solitude? In the mind.

Conscious Immortality

*POINTS TO PONDER* - Ramana Maharshi

“First one sees the Self as objects, then one sees the Self as void, then one sees the Self as Self, only in this last there is no seeing because seeing is being.”

(Bhagavan in 'Day by Day with Bhagavan' 21-7-46)

*WORDS OF WISDOM* - 'Ramana Maharshi'

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 realization of God?

Maharshi: Suffering is the way for Realization 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?

Talks With Ramana Maharshi

*Words of Wisdom*- Ramana Maharshi

Visitor: That which rises as 'I' within us is the Self, is it not?

Sri Ramana Maharshi: No, it is the ego that rises as 'I'. That from which it arises is the Self (Atma).

Source: Day by Day with Bhagavan