Brief Eternity (My Life And Quest -12)
The mind must be completely saturated by understanding of non-duality — that there is only the One Self. It is not enough to hold this as a theory.
The mind must be completely saturated by understanding of non-duality — that there is only the One Self. It is not enough to hold this as a theory.
After two to three years at Tiruvannamalai it became necessary to earn an income again and I took a job as an assistant editor of a newspaper in Madras, the nearest large town. Thus my destiny took the shape that Bhagavan approved for his followers — a period of intensive training followed by the practise of Self-enquiry in the life of the world.
“From the standpoint of the path of Knowledge, it is the supreme state of the Self. It is different from the ego, which you call your self.”
I told him, “think of Infinity as God and x as yourself. Now go and think it over and come tomorrow and tell me what you make of it.”
‘There is no god but God’; and according to Islamic tradition this has been used with full understanding, as a weapon for fighting the ‘greater holy war’, from the beginning. It is the same as that tremendous sentence from the Bhagavad Gita: “There is no existence of the unreal and no non-existence of the Real.”