Sri Anandamayi Ma once said, "The lute of man's short life is strung with so many strings; they have to be cut asunder. There is no real substance to these many strings. It is futile to let one's thoughts be occupied with the ties by which one is bound." This points to the idea that the problems and even the answers of our life are illusions in a world of abstraction. |
To put it another way, the path to enlightenment is not a mental path although mental discipline is a prerequisite to walk it. |
Or as Ramana Maharshi said, "He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer ... Find out who is the doer and the Self is revealed." |
"Then, when at his lotus feet, one has sacrificed, without reserve, whatever small power one possesses so that there is nothing left. That one may call one's own. Do you know what he does that fortunate moment? Out of your littleness he makes a perfect whole and then nothing remains to be desired or achieved. The moment your self dedication becomes complete, at that very instant occurs the revelation of the indivisible unbroken perfection which is ever revealed by the self." ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma. |
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