Ramana Maharshi · Teachings from 1936
Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
Sri Ramana Maharshi on The Secret of Jnana is Bhakti
From the 1936 Aham Sphurana manuscript, edited by John David.
Gajapathi: To everyone who comes here Bhagavan recommends vichara only.
Bhagavan: self-enquiry/">Vichara is a means to eliminate ignorance, which obnubilates Love from Shining forth, for the nature of the Self is Love Itself. Love cannot be practised as a sadhana. All that is possible is to surrender to it. There is no such thing as inculcation of Love. Love is already there. It, alone IS. All that is needed on your part is to give up thought, which makes you imagine yourself to be apart from Love, and so merge in Love. Then there is only Love, which is bliss beyond imagination.
To one who has discovered the ecstatic joy of volitionless Love, sadhana is a laughable absurdity. Unto those who solicit justifications, we may say that such Love blossoms only in souls which have perfected their sadhanas in previous births.
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