Q: What then is in the centre of consciousness? Nisargadatta Maharaj: That which cannot be given name and form, for it is without quality and beyond consciousness. You may say it is a point in consciousness, which is beyond consciousness. Like a hole in the paper is both in the paper and yet not of paper, so is the supreme state in the very centre of consciousness, and yet beyond consciousness. It is as if an opening in the mind through which the mind is flooded with light. The opening is not even the light. It is just an opening.
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:06 PM, roomsearching <[email protected]>wrote: > How is one to think of the Self? > > Ramana: The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the > reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as > this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage. The > purport of meditation on the Self is to make the mind take the form of the > Self. In the middle of the heart-cave the pure Brahman is directly manifest > as the Self in the form 'I-I'. Can there be greater ignorance than to think > of it in manifold ways, without knowing it as aforementioned?
