Ramana Maharshi speaking about Self-realization:<\/p>\n
\nLater in the morning, at Rishikesananda\u2019s request, Bhagavan [Ramana Maharshi] recounted his first experience of the Self in his upstairs room at Madura. \u201cWhen I lay down with limbs outstretched and mentally enacted the death scene and realised that the body would be taken and cremated and yet I would live, some force, call it atmic power or anything else, rose within me and took possession of me. With that, I was reborn and I became a new man. I became indifferent to everything afterwards, having neither likes nor dislikes.\u201d<\/p>\n
…Later Bhagavan said, \u201cThe spark of jnana will easily consume all creation as if it were a mountain-heap of cotton. All the crores of worlds being built upon the weak (or no) foundation of the ego, they all topple down when the atomic bomb of jnana comes down upon them.\u201d<\/p>\n
[Quoted by A. Devaraja Mudaliar in Day by Day with Bhagavan,<\/i> 22-11-45 Morning and Afternoon]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Today’s brain teaser<\/h3>\n
The photo shows Ramana a couple of years after the atomic bomb went off for him. Look at his face. I mean really look at it. Does that look like the kind of “awakening” we read about on social media?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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