Thursday, May 28, 2009

The phenomena we see are curious and surprising, but the most marvelous thing of it all we do not realize, that the one, and only one, illimitable force is responsible for all the phenomena we see and the act of our seeing them. Do not fix your attention on all these changing things of life, death and phenomena. Do not think of even the actual act of seeing them, or perceiving them, but only of that which sees all these things. This will seem nearly impossible at first, but by degrees the result will be felt. It takes years of steady, daily practice, but that is how a Master is made. Give yourself a quarter of a hour a day, keep your eyes open, and try to keep the mind unshakably fixed on That which Sees. It is inside yourself. Do not expect to find that 'That' is something definite on which the mind can be fixed easily; it will not be so. Though it takes years to find that 'That' the results of this concentration will soon show itself, in four or five months' time, in all sorts of unconscious clairvoyance, in peace of mind, in power to deal with troubles, in power all round, always unconscious power. I have given you this teaching in the same words as the Masters give it to their intimate disciples. From now onwards let your whole thought in meditation be not on the act of seeing nor on what you see, but immovably on That which Sees.

Ramana

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