Meditation...

Q. What meditation will help me?



A. No meditation on an object is helpful, for this reason. You must learn to realise the subject and object as one and in the meditating on an object, whether concrete or abstract, you are destroying that sense of oneness, and creating duality. Meditate only on the Self. Try to realise that the body is not you, the emotions are not you, the intellect is not you. When all these are stilled, you will find—Something else is there; hold that it will reveal itself.



Q. But when I have stilled all I almost fall asleep?



A. That does not matter. Put yourself into the condition as deep as sleep, and then watch: be asleep consciously: then there is only the one Consciousness.



Q. Is Yoga a good method of approach?



A. In the end there was only one approach to the Goal, and that was through the realisation of the Self, so why waste time on other roads which at the best will only lead on to the final path; better to be on the final path itself all the time, than on an auxiliary road. Meditate on what the Self is-that is all, there is nothing else but to find the answer to that. See the Self in all; act automatically, so to speak and let 'it' and it always will. Do not look to results do the right and leave it."




Conscious Immortality

Conversations with Ramana Maharshi

by Paul Brunton

Chapter 4


THE MEANING OF PHILOSOPHY