"The value of regular meditation is that it takes you away from the humdrum of daily routine and reminds you that you are not what you believe yourself to be... as long as you take yourself to be a person, a body and a mind, separate from the stream of life, having a will of its own, pursuing its own aims, you are living merely on the surface and whatever you do will be short lived and of little value, mere straw to feed the flames of vanity." N.M.
Ramana Maharshi's take on Jnana meditation, what he called "self inquiry," is in my experience the simplest and most direct path to realization of the self. Dwelling on "I am" dissolves the transient and clarifies what is. I become "am," and this is where I abide. It is not home for me yet, just a place I visit and know exists. The glass has been polished through prolonged and earnest meditation. Now the glass must be smashed, disappear, in one sense changing nothing, in another changing everything.
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