But as both Ramana Maharshi and Shri Atmananda said very clearly, the direct
practice of Advaita isn’t character development through worship or through meditative
exercise. The direct practice is enquiry. What then takes the enquiry from theoretical
imagining and postulation into actual practice?
That doesn’t happen just by following religious or yogic prescriptions. Instead, the
enquiry gets practical when it turns genuinely back – when it is one’s own beliefs and
assumptions that are genuinely in question. It’s only by unseating one’s own prejudiced
and preconceived beliefs that questioning can come to clearer truth. That unseating
puts the theory into practical effect.
p. 37
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