All Enveloping Light-Part III

Death of the Body and the Mind

The question 'Who am I?" helps us to get disentangled from the ever-so-obvious. When we face this question, one day the trap will release us. But face it, we must.

You as an ego are born afresh infinite times every day, but, there is no reality and no permanency in you, and only the telephone needs to ring to wipe out the I-thought or I-feeling; and indeed, in reality you do not exist other than as an "imaginary image" in your own head; in reality you were never born…… to realise all that requires courage, and lots of it, if only because it goes straight against common sense and accepted truths and respectability.

But what Sri Ramana Maharshi, the radiant Master, stands for is the death of you as a body and you as a mind. He or his words propagate the total disappearance of everything you call 'I" and at all levels.

When it is seen that every perception, sensorial or mental, is nothing but a movement in consciousness, in light, then, from that moment on, every perception chants the glory of this clarity, just as one can see a wave as a song of the sea.

The Discovery

When I arrived, regarding myself as a poor man in need of help, Sri Ramana Maharshi revealed to me that I was more than a millionaire, and the source of all things. Nor has Sri Ramana Maharshi asked anything from me – not even my love or respect. It was his mere presence that uncovered or unleashed in me what cannot be described by words such as love or respect; it went deeper than the deepest feeling. My meeting with him was in no way a matter of giving or receiving, even though for a long time I thought so (he had given me his love, I had given him my heart). It was the naked, radiant confrontation of illusion and truth, in which confrontation, illusion could not stand up. It was wiped away, but not because He wanted it. He wanted nothing, and accepted me as I was. He did not wish to change me, but he saw me as I really was – a whirlpool of light in an ocean of light.

About the author

Walter A Keers

Walter A Keers was one of the followers of Ramana Maharshi.

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