2/15/09

Robert Adams on Ramana Maharshi

S: What is the relationship between effort and realization, since only the ego is doing this effort. How can the ego doing this effort...

R: What you call effort has been preordained.

S: Self enquiry is the ego doing effort?

R: Self-enquiry is the ego trying to find itself as the self, so the effort is brought on through your karma so that you may become self-realized. It is a privilege to have been able to find in this life the method of self-enquiry. Therefore, it’s been predestined that you should make the effort to find yourself.

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