god and self
In The Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharishi, a disciple asks, "Should I not try to help the suffering world?" Ramana Maharishi answers, "If God has created the world, it is his business to look after it, not yours." Ramana Maharishi's response presumes many things about the nature of God, Self, and the world. It shows that the conventional view of morality and therefore, the disciple's question, is wrong. A point that Ramana Maharishi makes many times in his teachings is that ". . . the Self itself is God" (Maharishi 8). If you see God in all, then you should see God in the Self. Since God is an expression of the Self, in order to see God in Self, you have to be God. Ramana Maharishi says that "if God is apart from the Self, He must be a selfless God, which is absurd" (Maharishi 64). Therefore, if union with God was something that had to be obtained, then it is not real and only an illusion. Ramana Maharishi says that "the Self is the only sentient object. There is nothing apart from the Self" (Maharishi 22). The Self is the source of everything. Nothing occurs that is not related to the Self. The Self is the power and the ground for everything that we do. You never have to "fi
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Approximate Word count = 936
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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