The self according to Vedanta

Truth is one. The sages speak of it in different ways

Such is this diciple da Maharshi : Harilal, who will come to push Henri Le Saux to an even greater stripping down... and visiting his cave and the books which are still there he says to him:

"What is the use of all this? these books,...all this time wasted in learning languages...in what language do we speak with the soulman?...

 

Now I don't read any more, or so little that it's just as well...

 

Not even the Gita, whose verses used to sing constantly in my heart... No more I meditate...

 

the âtman has nothing to do with meditation...

 

nor with Japa (repetition of the name of God)

 

nor with the Mantras (litanies) ...and other prayers...

 

all this is practised when one is still a child...

 

you need it then...

 

but all this is a game... the game of lilâ (divine game)...

 

Stop your prayers.

 

cease your rites,...

 

cease your contemplations on this or that...

 

just realise that you are...TAT TVAM ASI...You are That!

 

There is no difference anywhere!.

 

there is only the âtman... God is the Atman...

 

The Self of all that is... the Self alone exists...."

 

 

 

Then the disciple can say to the Master:

 

"You have taken us to the other shore beyond the non-knowing..."