HERE and NOW YOU ARE THAT

Do not try to keep quiet, do not make being quiet into a task to be performed. Don't be restless about being quiet, miserable about being happy. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

The ultimate Truth is so simple that it is laughable.Have a look at your own existence. Look at your own being.You are alive right now. You are aware of being. That is IT. It is awareness of being. 'I' exist right here and now is the Sought-after Truth.

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One 'believes' that there is bondage and therefore seeks liberation. But the fact is that there is no bondagebut only liberation. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Awakening from the illusion called spirituality and religion.

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Have you ever wondered when you will find the Self?

The very moment you stop Seeking. Self means You. Being oneself is being the Self. Consciousness AKA the Self is just another name for Life and you. You are Life. Being alive is the experience itself. Alive-ness is being the Self. That is what the fuss is all about. If you are wise you will realize that a spiritual Self never existed. All that exist is consciousness. That alone is the Infinite Self. It is nothing new, special or spiritual but natural. The natural presence of existence, we all are and like to be.
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Know thyself. Get to know your true nature. What is one's true nature?Consciousness. What is consciousness?The true nature of Life. Common to everyone. It is the Oneness. Consciousness present is the ordinary natural activity of being alive, being conscious or sentient. Same presence of Life or living-ness or conscious-ness. The ignorant call it God. To the wise consciousness is Life itself. We are that naturally. The experience is here and now. It is pure being. Being alive is itself abiding as that presence, power and intelligence or living-ness. If you ever wondered what the words Self, He, Reality or God etc, are pointing to, that is IT! Only the ignorant who is veiled 'believe' the words God, Self, That, He, etc represent something else. Just like mythology. Gods and Goddesses are illusory. One God or many Gods is only fiction or illusion. There is absolutely nothing mystical or spiritual about it. Closer than close. One's own existence is this presence of consciousness or living-ness. No one is ever apart from their own being. 'I' exist is certain. The experience is always here and now. Who is not aware of being oneself? The 'I' and consciousness are One and the same presence of existence. Spirituality and religions are pointing to fiction. Life is the Reality. Life is the Precious, the Beloved, the Divine Beauty. Life is that Reality. Nothing new to anybody. Is it spiritual, mystical, religious or holy? Of course not. Spiritual and religious crap is the poison not the cure.

Consciousness present is Life itself. So natural, so ordinary. The natural state of being common to everyone alive. All the great Prophets, Saints, Sages, Gurus, Masters, Yogis and Jnanis, Buddhas etc, are and have only been keeping ignorant Seekers on a Seeking path to nowhere. That is the simple Truth. Consciousness as a spiritual, mystical presence, power or as a God of religions never existed. Spirituality and all religions are only false knowledge cultivated by the ignorant. Makes these veiled people feel better about themselves to 'believe' in illusion. Forget about spirituality and all religions is you want to be Free. Because they alone are the only psychological or illusory chains, cage or bondage. There is no God, there is no karma, there is no hell, no heaven and all that crap. Just made religious B.S. to control the ignorant with fears and superstitions. There is no bondage and there is no liberation. One 'imagines' that there is. Spiritual and religious people are only feeding each other wrong knowledge. To find the Truth, they are paradoxically turning toward the false. They are only looking for it toward the wrong direction. If you want to be bound to illusion. Adopt a Religion or a holy Guru. That is what they do. They will feed you crap after crap and sugar coated it with a smile. Mostly in love with money and self-gratification. Everybody wants be a special being. Crap after crap spews out of them to give birth to spiritual books AKA spiritual crap. Enlightenment or spiritual liberation is a hoax! Money making religious concept. What liberation? When there is no bondage, one only believes that there is because everyone else around them believes it too. Ignorance is contagious. They all catch the same boat by Seeking illusion while they are already Free. After all what binds you? Have a look. Can you find your chains? There is no spiritual bondage and there is no spiritual liberation. Spiritual and religious people only 'believe' that there is. Oops!

Just a false notion foolishly 'believed' to be true. Nothing else. Who told you that you are bound and why did you believe it? Bondage is only attachments to a false notion of being bound. Spiritual and religious Seekers become strongly attached to their acquired spiritual crap that they even define themselves according to their religious 'beliefs. Too bad for them! Paradoxically the Reality is not spiritual, mysterious or religious. Ask a spiritual person what is the Reality and they cannot tell you. They will spin some ideology they picked up from books and others. The Sought-after Truth is not found inside any spiritual or religious book or scripture. That is the funny paradox. The joke of it all. Paradoxically to look for it is to always look away from it. All these people that parade themselves as spiritual or religious beings are all for show. Posers pretending to be. You do not need to go suck up to some A-hole pretending to be God.Why should you? Remove ignorance. Nothing else is necessary to know your real self. If you want to know the true Self, that is how you do it. Remove ignorance with understanding. That is all. So simple. You won't become enlightened, walk on water, raise the dead or ascend to heaven and all that religious B.S. You simply get to know the Truth about your real self. You get to know the simple answer to who am 'I'. Then the Search for the Self that was never lost ends. Understanding is Realizing. That is the Secret. Understanding what is simply being pointed to is all that is required. What is the Self ? Consciousness. What is consciousness? Being yourself. Conscious-ness is 'I' am-ness. The natural state of being oneself is the Self. It is the cognitive state in which you are aware of being. Consciousness, wakefulness, awareness, are all one and the same. That is IT. Without the spiritual and religious crap camouflaging the simple Truth. Consciousness is not spiritual, religious or mystical but natural. So simple. It is being oneself. To be awake is to be aware. Being aware is knowing that you are. Because you are not un-conscious. One's true nature is not spiritual or mystical, but plain ordinary everyday awareness. Being aware is that.

To be awake is awareness. Awareness is another name for wakefulness, for sentience or cognizance. What can be easier than that? The Self or true consciousness is plain ordinary everyday wakefulness. That is all there is to realize. That present awareness is the Sought-after Truth. Self-Realization is to simply realize that being aware or awake is being the Self. Full stop. Everyday you are awake. Everyday you are alive and conscious. The Self is being alive and conscious. Realize that here and now you are conscious. Realize that you are aware of being. 'I' am is certain. Consciousness and 'I' am or plain ordinary awareness of being oneself naturally is synonymous. It is all the Same. Some people call this presence of consciousness or Living-ness, God. Only because they do not know what this consciousness truly is so they mystify it. 'I' am is that living-ness or consciousness. 'I' am is what people refer to as God. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ All Religious concepts about consciousness or 'I' am as being something holy, mystical or spiritual are false. Just like a Santa Claus and a Tooth Fairy do not exist. Some people forgot to be told that a God sitting somewhere in the clouds is also false imagination and illusion. It is time to Wake up! Forget all that non-sense. Know the simple Truth about your own existence. Consciousness is just another name for Life. That is all. Present as unchanging awareness during the waking state. Sentience, cognizance or being and remaining aware is consciousness itself. Consciousness or the Self is simply being conscious. The natural state of being. Being aware. Everyone's true nature is common to all plain ordinary everyday awareness. That is the funniest part of all. It is so plain, so boring and so ordinary, that it is simply overlooked.

Being conscious is not spiritual or religious but being awake from sleep or present as awareness. Being conscious is the natural cognizant state of being aware and remaining aware. Are you aware? Being aware is being the Self. Same, same. That is what the Self simply is, plain ordinary present awareness. That is the final realization to end the Search for the Self that was never lost. Yet some people will strive to become something they already are and have always been all along. How funny. They have no idea to what they are looking for, so they are spending their time blindly searching for something mystical, when paradoxically 'being aware' is natural. No one told them. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Of course everyone alive is already abiding as this living-ness AKA conscious-ness naturally. Understand what this consciousness simply is. Then you will laugh at yourself for Seeking the Self. Being conscious is this consciousness itself. So simple. If you are aware of being, you are undeniably conscious. That is IT. Consciousness present is the knowing that you are present or present awareness. Consciousness present or awareness of being is known to all as 'I' am. Consciousness present is me, myself and 'I'. That is all there is to understand or realize to know one's true nature. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. Are you alive? Are you conscious? Are you aware? There you go sport. That simple! Awareness of being oneself is this presence of consciousness itself or the Self. The words Self, consciousness or wakefulness are directly pointing to this presence of self-shining awareness, which is experienced directly as the knowing that you are. As present awareness. As pure awareness of being. As 'I' am.

It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ What are you looking for? Did someone sell you holy water by the River by camouflaging this simple Truth about the Reality with spiritual and religious crap? That is a common practice used by countless spiritual and religious con artists or posers to swiftly entice the veiled and the ignorant Seeker to believe the false or illusion to be true. Only the Search for a mystical, spiritual or religious Self is a Trap. Because it does not exist. There is no spiritual bondage and there is no spiritual liberation either. Being alive is being IT. What you seek is what you are. You gain nothing because you lost nothing.Thou art that already. While the fools AKA spiritual and religious people are busy Seeking something new, different or special to experience or add on to themselves. Life is what is happening naturally and effortless here and now or presently. Ever wondered what is always present here and now? You are. 'I' am is always with you as the knowing that you are. You are that. Consciousness is being you. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be alive and awake from sleep is to be the Self. That is the Secret. It is no big deal. Only spiritual and religious people do not want you know this simple Truth. After all, would you blindly follow and worship the false or illusion if you knew what this presence of consciousness is truly all about? Consciousness is what we are.No one is ever apart from their own being. Can you separate yourself from your own existence and negate or deny being? Everyone alive knows and says 'I' am. Consciousness is just another name for Life. Existence is the experience. The Reality is Life itself. Call off the Search. Being alive is being the Self. Full stop! That is the absolute Reality and the real experience itself. That is IT.

Here and now you are that. Without trying to be anything different, special or spiritual. To be alive and aware of being oneself naturally is the experience itself we call Life and the Reality. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The Waking State. Also known as the 'Realized' state. Being awake from sleep is always abiding as pure consciousness itself. That is what everyone's true nature simply is. Awareness of being. Wakefulness is being and remaining aware. Just like a fish in the water crying that he is thirsty. Being conscious is abiding as present awareness or consciousness itself. That is everyone's true nature, the natural state of being common to everybody. There never was anything spiritual about consciousness. Spiritual and religious posers pretend it to be, for posterity or a fee. Prophets of profits. They lure veiled Seekers to believe illusion to be reality. Know thyself. Know your true nature and real self to be what you already are. Me, myself and 'I' represent the knowing that you are or consciousness. Both are the same. Thou art that. Consciousness is just another name for 'you'. Spirituality is illusion. Reality is simply being. Reality is at once being and consciousness. To know the Self. Be yourself. That is where the true Self has always been present all along. You already are what you Seek. The Secret is that consciousness is not spiritual but natural. All the holy beings pretending to be spiritual are in fact posers and con artists. Someone can pray, meditate and worship illusion until they turn blue. Nothing will ever happen. The Reality is already here! It is not to be achieved. Realize that simply being oneself is being the Self.

Present awareness or awareness of being present as oneself is 'I' am. That is the Self. Consciousness or wakefulness is sentience, cognizance and the natural state of being common to all. Call off the Search. There are no spiritual or religious states to be reached. There never were. The Search for a holy Self or spiritual presence is in fact only a Trap. Remove ignorance. There is no holy or spiritual Self. Consciousness is simply that 'I' am you know. Consciousness is the nature of Life and therefore everyone's true nature. No one can deny one's own existence. Everyone knows consciousness present as 'I' am. One's own self, being or existence is that living-ness. When consciousness is present Life is present. That is the Open Secret. It is Life itself. Beating your heart and shining through your eyes this very moment. Nothing was ever lost or missing. Only overlooked. We are the Self which is Life. Consciousness present is synonymous with Life. That is all there is to realize. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Know the Truth! There is no Christ consciousness or Buddha consciousness. There is no higher consciousness or lower consciousness. It is all B.S. The Reality is plain, boring ordinary everyday awareness or consciousness itself. Spirituality and all religions have nothing to do with the Reality. That is the funny paradox. Spirituality and all religions are only into cultivating fiction, superstition and illusion. Spiritual and religious people are doomed!They want the false to be true. They believe, worship and cultivate wrong knowledge or illusion. Spiritual and religious leaders have been using a false notion, concept and belief in a fictitious God that does not exist to take advantage of the ignorant, some financially and others physically, sexually etc.

So much deception and lies camouflaged as truth are found through spirituality and all religions. All are bogus. All are a pack a lies. A holy Guru or religious Teacher is truly a piece of crap pretending to be holy A pure S.o.B. Religion is another name for superstition. Why do people mystify the natural into super-natural? To sell water by the River to the ignorant of course. What else! The fact is that there is no God and there is nothing holy about the Reality. All the promises of spiritual salvation, spiritual liberation, Mukti or Freedom etc, are false. Spiritual people are foolishly conditioned with false acquired knowledge and sold ignorance as truth. There never was any relationship between the Reality and spirituality. That is a fact. Ignorant people are falsely told that there is. But the fact is that there is none whatsoever. Spiritual and religious people cannot know the simple Truth because they are chasing illusion. What they are striving to reach, to attain or to become does not exist at all. It never did. All spiritual and religious concepts are in fact lies. Not true. The Reality is not and never was or will be spiritual or religious. Prove it to yourself. Did you find the Beloved Spiritual Self or God you are looking for? It does not exist! Made up spiritual and religious crap or carrots used to entice the veiled and the ignorant to Seek and worship the false or illusion. There is no God of Love, of Peace and Happiness, it is all bullshit! Wake up and smell the coffee! See the false as false and it will no longer fool you. All spiritual Gurus, Teachers, Saints and Sages etc, are truly ordinary people that are only pretending to be holy beings in order to be worshipped and taken care of financially by a bunch of blind fools. Spirituality and all organized religions are in fact businesses. Just this and nothing else. All spirituality and all religions are false knowledge. All are wrong. You can take that statement to the bank. They are paradoxically the Trap.

Freedom is not found inside spirituality or any religion. Understanding is all. Consciousness is present right here and right now as Life itself. You are He, That etc, this very moment. The Self is consciousness. Non-conceptual self-shining unchanging awareness AKA wakeful-ness. Consciousness is the cognitive natural state of wakefulness. Everyone awake from sleep is aware of being. Wakefulness is 'I' amness. That alone is the Self. The Sought-after Truth is that being-ness or 'I' am-ness. Simple. Being alive and aware of oneself or wakeful is itself abiding as one's true nature. The Reality is nothing new or spiritual but ordinary and natural. It is at once being and consciousness. There are no spiritual or religious goals. There never were any spiritual goals to be reached. Spiritual and religious people, teachers and leaders are liars. Someone can foolishly spend their whole life striving to become enlightened or liberated, when in fact there is no such thing as spiritual enlightenment or spiritual bondage. One only imagines that there is. Freedom is to simply remove the idea or false notion of being bound, which is spiritual garbage. There is no spiritual bondage and no spiritual liberation. It is all crap for idiots to believe. Spiritual and religious people are not very bright. They believe illusion to be real. If you ever see a spiritual Being, Guru or Buddha on the Road, you are in fact seeing a poser and spiritual con artist. Someone that will take advantage and screw you by exploiting your ignorance. There are no spiritual or special holy Beings. It is all religious crap, spiritual carrots and non-sense. Religious and spiritual phonies have been using simple, weak and ignorant people to serve them, worship them and of course paid them for millennia. Ignorance is a trend. All that spirituality and all religions have to offer is falsehood. What you are looking for, you already are naturally this very moment. There never was any spiritual or religious goals to be reached or attained.

There is no mystical spiritual presence, there is no God or Higher Self. That is the Secret. It is all false concepts, false beliefs and erroneous ideologies. All are in fact deception and illusion. The Reality is nothing new or special.Common to all. It is the simple fact of one's own being. It is what we are and have always been naturally. It is consciousness or Life itself. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Here and now you are that. Look at yourself. Are you alive? Are you conscious? Are you aware of being? Being alive and conscious naturally everyday is this true or real presence of consciousness itself. That natural and ordinary alive-ness is one's true nature. We call this living-ness the Reality. That is it. Self-shining naturally as one's own undeniable existence. The experience is always here and now. Reality is not fiction. It is pure being. It is not something to 'believe' in, it is what we are. There is no higher Self. No spiritual Self. No religious Self and all that crap. The real or true Self is one's true nature which is consciousness, the nature of Life. One's own existence is that. Once it is understood that the Sought-after Truth is simply Life itself. The Search for the Self that was never lost is over. Because you are that this very moment. Consciousness, the cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself. Knowing that you are present or present awareness. No one is ever apart from their own affectionate existence. Who is not aware of himself? Awareness of being oneself is 'I' am. 'I' am is always with you as the knowing that you are. I am not talking about some bogus spiritual or religious 'I' am, but plain common to all ordinary everyday awareness of being oneself 'I' am, that knowing that you are alone is the true Self. Present here and now. Being oneself ordinarily is the experience itself. The Truth is so simple. The fact that consciousness is simply plain ordinary everyday existence and awareness of being.

No one will ever find the simple answer to who am 'I' inside spiritual or religious books. Spirituality and all religions are made up B.S. They are all false knowledge. Consciousness is ordinary existence. It is always experienced directly by everyone alive as simple changeless awareness of being. Only idiots want to be special beings or strive to become some holy being with spiritual faculties. Some invented past and future lives, others happy imaginary places to go after they die etc, etc, etc. One must offer a special, mystical or magical spiritual carrot to entice the simple, the weak and the dumb. Yet, there has always been a few people that have seen through the veil of ignorance or spiritual crap and understood what is simply being pointed to as the Reality. Know that 'I' am is that presence of consciousness itself. When have you ever lost you? Here and now you are that! The Self (consciousness) you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Me, myself and 'I' AKA the Self. Consciousness is pure awareness of being. Consciousness present is that 'I' or 'I' am-ness or being-ness you know so well as 'you'. Gee yoU aRe yoU. You are the Self or consciousness because you are aware of being present. It (consciousness) is pure awareness of being. It (consciousness) is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Look it up in the dictionary. Consciousness definition is the cognizant state in which you are aware of yourself. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self (consciousness). A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Present awareness.

Everybody knows and says 'I' am. You are the knowing that you are present or 'I' am that 'I' am. Aware of being yourself is being the Self which is just another name for 'you'. Look that up in the dictionary also and know that the word Self is pointing to 'you'. You are that. What else did you expect the Infinite Self to be? That is it. Common to all and ordinary everyday awareness. Nothing new or different. Being aware is the natural state. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To be conscious is consciousness. To be aware is awareness. So simple. To know the Infinite Self is so easy! Are you aware right now? See! Awareness is indeed present because you know that you are. "Being aware", that is what the fuss is simply all about. Consciousness. What else are you looking for? Here and now you are that without trying to be. Consciousness is your very nature and natural state of being. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Everyone is always the Self. There is no 'ego' to kill, overcome or some imaginary 'mind' to go beyond. That garbage is only for idiots to swallow. Religious crap feed to the veiled and the ignorant. Religions and spirituality will keep veiled Seekers bound to false imagination and illusion. Perpetuating a false notion of bondage and separation which is solely what they are good for. There is no Freedom to be found in spirituality or any religions. They are all fiction. Simply get rid of ignorance and voila! That is what knowing oneself is all about. You won't find yourself hiding within a spiritual or any religious books. Look at your own self. Look at your own being, at that 'I' am you know.

Know yourself. Present awareness is simply being awake from sleep. Awareness is just another name for 'you'. The 'I' and awareness are one. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To the stupid religious and spiritual 'believer' the 'I' is believed to be a finite self or 'ego'. To the wise the 'I' is the Lord, He, the Infinite Self etc, which is consciousness. Awareness present or present awareness is me, myself and 'I'. You do not have to kick start or cultivate awareness. Being aware is the present awareness itself that is simply being pointed to. That is IT! There is nothing mystical about it. Only the ignorant made it up to be. They do not know themselves. To the ignorant consciousness is mystical, to the wise it is pure being. There is no higher consciousness or lower consciousness. That religious or spiritual crap is total B.S. To the wise to simply be conscious is the omni-presence and consciousness itself. So simple. It is laughable. Religious or spiritual crap will get you nowhere simply because all they are cultivating is false, lies and illusion. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Is the Reality Love? Nope! Grace? Nope! Bliss or happiness? Nope! The Reality is that there is no God to love and no God to love you back. All there is present that is Real is consciousness or pure being or existence. Neti, neti. No one can ever deny consciousness because 'I' am is always certain. If it can be denied, that is not it. Reality is that which is present and remains present. Don't foolishly take it on faith. Find out for yourself what is present, real or unchanging. Some people are believers in a fictitious God and others do not believe in a God at all, yet no one alive can ever deny the simple fact of their own being or undeniable existence. To be or not to be. Everyone alive is aware of being. Everyone alive knows and says 'I' am.

Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness present is at once existence and the knowing that you are. It is 'I' am. Have a look at your true nature that is present here and now. Get to know your real self. Are you conscious or unconscious? If you answer yes of course, there you go sport. You are that. Sentience, cognizance, awareness are all different names for being conscious, being awake or aware. The natural state of being aware is called aware-ness that is all the Self is. To be conscious or sentient is abiding as one's true nature or unchanging reality. I am no Guru, no Teacher and especially no Enlightened Mother Fu#$er! If you are Seeking spiritual Enlightenment, religious Freedom or any kind of salvation you surely won't find it here. So if you are a spiritual being or religious person GET THE FUCK OUT! Go bug someone else who wants to feed you crap. Find someone to make you feel better about yourself and that wants to hear your whining. If you are Seeking Love, Compassion, Peace, Happiness, God's Grace and all that religious garbage, adopt a religion and go worship, meditate and pray to some God, Deity, Buddha, Guru, Saint or Jnani etc. Once it is realized that spirituality and all religions are false. You know the Truth. Why look for Reality in the wrong direction? Obviously one cannot know Freedom from all bondage when acquired spiritual and all religious concepts and adopted beliefs are a trap and bondage itself. One 'believes' that there is bondage.Just a false notion, an adopted 'belief' that can only be acquired from spiritual books and from religious people.

Believers 'believe' anything you throw at them. That is why they are called 'believers'.Swallowing whole spiritual crap and religious stories without ever questioning and investigating what is Real. Blind Sheepos. You could say it makes them feel special and spiritual to worship illusion and false imagination. See the false as false. Spirituality is garbage and all religions are crap. They are not welcome here. Reality is the opposite of all that B.S. Plain, boring and ordinary is one's true nature. Nothing new, spiritual or holy. Existence is being IT. Being alive and conscious is abiding as this undeniable Reality itself. Consciousness is at once the natural intelligence and living energy we call Life. Same presence in a tree, in a cat, a dog, a bird and everybody. Nothing more or less. Omni-present as existence. There is nothing special about it. Being alive naturally is being it. Life or consciousness does not know death. Spiritual Liberation from what and for whom? Everyone alive is already abiding as the eternal Self. After all, why Seek Freedom when there is no bondage to begin with? Isn't the Search for Freedom AKA spiritual liberation blind stupidity and foolishness? You are Free. Have a look. What binds you? Look for your chains and they will not be found. Who told you that you are bound and why do you believe it? Spiritual bondage and liberation are both crap.They do not exist. Ignorant people are told lies and they accept them to be true. Oops. How foolish! Freedom is to realize that there is no bondage. So simple. If you ever see a Guru, a Buddha, or a Saint that has reached or acquired Freedom. They are lying. There is no God to begin with. False imagination and superstition. There is nobody holy, Godly, spiritual or special. Only the simple and the weak who are blind believe that there are. Worshippers of illusion. Life is what is truly happening here and now.Effortlessly and naturally. That is IT.Life itself.

That alone is the absolute Reality. The fact of one's own being or existence presently is 'I' am. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

One 'believes' there is bondage and therefore seeks liberation. The Search is itself the Trap. Who is to become liberated when there is no bondage? One only 'imagines' that there is. Fools are susceptible to fall for the 'imaginary' trap of spiritual bondage and liberation. Some people exploit ignorance by using a spiritual or religious carrot of 'Freedom' to entice the veiled and the ignorant to foolishly 'believe' illusion to be reality. If you ever meet people that pretend to have reached or attained spiritual liberation, realize that they are only pretending to be, for nothing other than gratification or a fee. Wisdom is to realize that spiritual bondage and liberation never existed. Illusory. The only difference between the wise and the ignorant is the understanding that being alive and awake form sleep is to abide as one's true nature. In other words the natural state of being cognizant or aware of being oneself is abiding as one's true nature. That is all there is to realize. The veiled and the ignorant foolishly believe that they are spiritual beings having a human experience. That is ignorance, stupidity and idiocy of course. To the wise he is Life living itself naturally. Nothing new, spiritual or holy. Life is the Oneness naturally present in all, as all. Life is the presence of consciousness being pointed to as one's true nature.

The Reality is within your own dwelling. Look at your own existence. Here and now you are. That is IT. 'I' am is awareness of being. Life is the 'Diamond' or precious inside your own pocket'. So near and so dear. How can it be overlooked? It is the substratum. Life is the very core of one's being. Being alive is being the true Self. So simple. Life is the living energy or unseen power and intelligence present within the body. Therefore everyone alive is already the Self. Thou art that. Nothing new to be acquired. There is nothing to be cultivated. What effort do you have to make to be? Being is natural. Being alive is the natural state of being or existence itself that is so common to everybody. Life is always what is happening while people are busy looking for something else to acquire. It is the undeniable fact and absolute Reality that is present and selfshining here and now. Living-ness, alive-ness, being-ness, 'I' am-ness is always presently. Life is Now only. What about all the innumerable written and spoken spiritual and religious concepts about the Oneness or Reality? Easy. They are all CRAP! Not true. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Know the simple Truth about true consciousness. Consciousness cannot be experienced because it is the experience. Being alive and being aware and remaining aware all day long is that. There is only unchanging awareness naturally present as one's own self. As the 'I'. Consciousness is stateless, it is pure changeless being. Sentience is pure cognizing emptiness. Present awareness. Reality is not Love, not Peace, not Happiness, only unchanging awareness is that. Why Seek the impermanent? Realize that 'being aware' is this present awareness itself. There is nothing more effortless and more natural than simply being oneself. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

Understanding the Oneness. Life is everyone's true nature. Are you alive? You are that! In other words the living presence or intelligence we call Life is the natural presence of consciousness. Being conscious is being the Self, He, the Lord, God, the Reality, the Atman or whatever name turns you on. Understanding what is simply being pointed to as one's true natureis all that is required to recognize this plain and ordinary conscious-ness, living-ness, beingness or 'I' am-ness. The only obstacle to be removed is ignorance. Not knowing that being alive naturally is being the Infinite Self or God is the only trouble. Nothing new, spiritual or religious about this true God, He is Life itself. Know the Truth! Spirituality and all religions are only in the business of selling illusion and false information. There is no such thing as a spiritual presence or a religious God. It is all B.S. Not real but illusion. Self-appointed Gurus and all spiritual leaders only pretend to be spiritual, religious and holy for fee. Camouflaging their love for money and power as donations, Freedom or salvation. It is only a hoax and a trap. Spirituality and all religions are in fact a scam. Just this and nothing else. When you are sick and tired of looking for what is real or the Reality in the wrong direction, then you simply take an intelligent look at your own boring ordinary self. That is the true Self you are looking for. The Self that was never lost is you. Funny no! The Self (consciousness) you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Being oneself is being the Real-'I'-ty. Thou art that naturally. Nothing new or holy.

All acquired spiritual and religious knowledge is crap. Acquire knowledge cannot help you. All are bondage and ignorance. The removal of ignorance is not to be achieved through acquired spiritual or religious knowledge but with simple basic common sense and understanding. Understanding is Realizing. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Here is a hint! If you are conscious you are the Self. That simple. Sentience, aware-ness or wakeful-ness. Being conscious is being the Self. Consciousness present is the natural state in which you are aware of yourself. Another name for consciousness is ordinary everyday wakeful-ness or sentience. No one is ever apart from consciousness. Life is itself this presence of consciousness. So near and so dear. One's own affectionate existence is the so called 'Divine'. If you are alive you are the Self. Full stop. That is the Secret. You are Life itself. That simple understanding is the end of all paths. What else are you looking for? Know thyself. That is all there is to understand or realize. Life is the Self. Understanding this consciousness to be one's own existence is selfrealization. How much time and effort does it take to know that you are? Is there anyone alive who is not aware of himself? Being or existing cannot be denied. Look at yourself. You know that you are and you like it. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

Freedom is always here. There are no spiritual goals to be reached or to be attained. There is no such thing as spiritual liberation, spiritual enlightenment, nirvana or going to some happy place after you die, there is no heaven and no hell to get to. Everybody that is born, dwells around for a while and then dies. That is the nature of life. What is born must die.That is just the way it is. Your body becomes food for maggots and eventually the body which is a crap factory is returned to the five elements. The eternal Self. That which never dies is paradoxically the nature of Life itself. Paradoxically Life itself does not know death. Consciousness is the eternal or imperishable Self. Everyone is in essence this consciousness expressing itself naturally as changing patterns or dying bodies. Do not foolishly believe that there is spiritual life after death or some religious concept of reincarnation. That is only wishful thinking. Consciousness remains the same eternally as no-thing or pure existence. When death kisses you, you do not keep your body or any thoughts, feelings, memories or ideology etc. Everything you know right now and have collected over the years that is so important to you in your beloved human existence, will dissolve right back to emptiness. All that remains eternally present is pure consciousness which the true power or intelligence and energy within the body. Just like if a light bulb brakes, the electricity or pure intelligence energy which is consciousness always remains the same and untouched. What happens to electricity when a light bulb brakes? Nothing. Who are you really? Are you the dying body or are you the living-ness or consciousness present within the body? Find out for yourself through self-inquiry. Question your own existence or being-ness and discover in your lifetime your unchanging true nature and real identity. Who am 'I' or Self-discovery.

Do not look toward spirituality or any religion for they all are illusion. Look at yourself. Remove the veil of ignorance with questioning, investigating and understanding. That is all there is to be done. Ignorance is the only obstacle or camouflage. There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained. You are the Self (consciousness). You exist always. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

The Oneness. What is the common undeniable presence that is present within everybody? Life! Life is God if you like to give this natural presence of intelligence present in all, a fancy name. Freedom is to understand that there is no spiritual salvation or liberation, simply because there is no bondage. The ones who are veiled only 'imagine' it, because of their acquired false spiritual and religious knowledge. Do you 'believe' in God? What God? Religious conditioning and spiritual programming is the only bondage. Can you show me God? God is only a religious 'belief'.There is no God. You can take that to the bank. God is only a religious concept that is used to control and milk the veiled and the ignorant. Spiritual and religious people will follow crazy rules or religious laws that are made by man. Many will foolishly spend their life striving to reach or attain spiritual goals that do not even exist If you desire to know your true nature, realize that you must forget all about that spiritual non-sense. You cannot turn toward a God of religion which is illusion and know the Reality which is consciousness. Only the ones that are ignorant or veiled and do not understand consciousness, will mystify this unseen natural presence of intelligence by giving it a fancy name. Life is the natural presence we call, the Oneness. Is this presence of existence or Life some mystical spiritual Power? Nope!

Plain, common and ordinary, it is the the natural presence of existence we all like to be. Is the Infinite Self silence or space? Of course not! The Oneness or the Infinite Self is Life, existence or consciousness. The natural presence of intelligence we all experience directly as pure being. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Only idiots are told to cultivate silence so that they remain veiled and ignorant and do not question their false acquired 'beliefs' about their true nature and what is real. If you tell a fool to keep quiet or to cultivate silence, he or she will die ignorant of the simple Truth, guaranteed. That is how spirituality and all religions which are scams truly work. Using ignorance as a veil. They are always pointing away from the Reality. Realize that the Reality cannot be found in fantasy or as something imaginary to be reached or attained tomorrow,because it is always present here and now as the simple fact of one's own being. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Reality. Naturally present as existence. You do not have to cultivate consciousness. If you are alive and conscious you are aware of being. Consciousness is indeed present because 'I' am is certain. Being alive and aware of being oneself is 'I' am or existence. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be conscious or awake is to always abide as the Infinite Self. Like a Fish in the water foolishly crying that he is thirsty. Who waits dies. There is no waiting for anything new or spiritual to show up. Life is the experience. In other words when you come to the realization that there is nothing new to get, you finally got it.

Realize that consciousness is the true nature of Life. And therefore everyone that is alive true nature as well. You are that. Present here and now. No one can give anything new. Life or consciousness is the natural presence of intelligence and power within the body. Alive-ness or Living-ness is consciousness. Ignorant fools will foolishly strive to become it, when in fact they are it already naturally. Someone appearing spiritual or holy gave them spiritual crap and they swallowed it. You, being the Self (consciousness), want to know how to attain the Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Here and now you are that. Consciousness is the nature of Life and one's true nature. You are the Self. The Self is Life or existence or consciousness. Consciousness present is plain common to all ordinary existence or Life. No one denies ones own existence any more than one denies ones eyes, although one cannot see them. The trouble lies with your desire to objectify the Self (consciousness), in the same way as you objectify your eyes when you place a mirror before them. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ No one can deny one's own existence. 'I' am is always first hand and needs no proof Only an idiot or a fool would 'believe' that there is no one present or that they do not exist. Existence is itself the Reality. Being is the Reality. Existence is the undeniable fact of being alive. There is nothing mystical or spiritual about it, but only natural. The Self is that undeniable plain ordinary presence of consciousness that is effortlessly self-shining naturally as the knowing that you are. One's own existence is the Infinite Self. Being alive and aware of being is at once abiding as the Infinite Self and as one's own self.Thou art that. You are Life. You are that. Realize that all spiritual retreats, satsangs and all religious practices or techniques are truly B.S. They are simply made up concepts used to sell water by the River to the veiled and the ignorant.

After all, who told you that you are bound and why did you believe it? There is no spiritual bondage. Be wise and Free yourself from a false notion of being bound. That is all. Freedom is so simple. Remove ignorance only, that is all that is required for Freedom. Bondage is only psychological. Just a false 'belief' that has never been investigated. Look for your chains and they will not be found. There is no spiritual bondage and there is no spiritual liberation. It is only religious and spiritual crap. Why be a blind fool and remain ignorant when you are already Free? What are you waiting for? Understanding what this ordinary presence of consciousness simply is, is what we call Self-Realization. Self is just another name for consciousness and Realization is just another name for understanding. Life, existence, consciousness is the natural state of being that is common to everybody. The Reality is simply being alive and conscious or awareness of being. Consciousness is always undeniably present as one's own being As that 'I' am you know so well already. It is nothing new. You are aware of being because consciousness is present. Present awareness is consciousness. Self-awareness. Life or consciousness is the Infinite Self. The Self is Life itself. One's own being or existence. What else did you 'imagine' or 'expect' the Infinite Self to be? There never was a spiritual Self to be found. It is all B.S. and only a Trap. One's true nature is nothing new, special, spiritual or holy, but boring and ordinary. Plain and ordinary living-ness, being-ness, 'I' am-ness. That is abiding as true consciousness. Present closer than close. One's own existence is the 'Diamond in your pocket'. Life is the most precious to all sentient beings. Existence is happiness. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Call off the Search. There is nothing new to get. One's own existence is the Self. That ordinary and that simple. That is

IT. Seeking something new, special, spiritual or holy is the trap and only bondage. Look at your own being. You are alive. Being is the experience. Existence is being the Self. So near and so dear is the true Beloved. Everybody likes to be. Consciousness is undeniably present with everybody as the natural living intelligencethat we all experience directly and call Life. The Oneness is Life itself. Life is naturally growing your hair, beating your heart, feeding every individual cells of your body, replacing each one of them when they die and self-shining effortlessly through your eyes as awareness. If you are awake or aware, that is unchanging awareness. That is abiding as one's unchanging true nature. It is all so simple, so natural, so ordinary and most of all, easy. Thou art that. You already are what you Seek. Consciousness is always present here and now. It cannot be denied. It is life, existence, being. No one alive can deny one's own existence or negate one's own self or affectionate being. The natural state of being alive and aware of being oneself is this consciousness itself. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Don't you know the simple Truth? Being conscious is existing. Here and now you are that. All the screwed up, stupid, erroneous spiritual concepts about the Infinite Self are only 'imaginary'. Illusion or fiction. A spiritual Self is nothing other than a spiritual carrot for delusional people to chase after. What is naturally and effortlessly present right here and now? Life of course! One's own existence is the Reality. What else is undeniably present that cannot be denied. No one can deny being or existing. 'I' am is certain. Only the simple, the dumb and bunch idiots foolishly assume or believe that the Self is something else.

They do not know themselves and turn to spirituality for the Reality. Oops. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ When have you ever been apart from your own existence? 'I' am is always with you as the knowing that you are. Present awareness. Spirituality and religions are all illusion. There is not Truth there. Spirituality and religions are only cultivating ignorance and false imagination. The Sought-after Truth is what we all are naturally. Call off the Search. It is being yourself just as you are. There never was a spiritual Self to be found whatsoever. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ Life is consciousness. Self means you. Gee you are you. Consciousness is what we are naturally. Look at your own being. You know that you are. To exist here and now is 'I' am. Existence is the true Beloved. Another name for this presence of consciousness is existence or Life. To Seek consciousness in any spiritual or religious way is only to acquire the way and to always overlook the natural, the plain, the obvious and the dearest. Life itself. The Infinite Self which is consciousness or the natural living intelligence that is present in all and that we all experience directly as pure awareness of being, is one's true nature. Consciousness is the true nature of Life and therefore everyone alive is consciousness itself. If you are alive, conscious and therefore aware of being, you are undeniably abiding as Life. To know one's true nature is very easy. Seekers are only bound to wrong acquired knowledge. Paradoxically spirituality and all religions are the only obstacle to be removed. Because it is all B.S.

To be alive and conscious is to be the Self AKA consciousness or present awareness. Sentience. Being awake or aware of being oneself naturally is 'I' am. Awareness of being oneself is that. Who is not aware of being oneself naturally everyday? Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self (consciousness). A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be awake or aware is being conscious and knowing that you are. So near and so dear. It is laughable. Even closer to you then your own breath . Being alive and being aware of oneself everyday is what this consciousness simply is. In other words if you are conscious you are abiding as your true nature or consciousness. The true Self is true consciousness which is not spiritual or religious but natural. If you look for a spiritual Self or a mystical religious presence to worship, it does not exist. The spiritual and religious Seeker is only cultivating illusion and ignorance. Just this and nothing else. Remove ignorance and voila! To be alive and awake from sleep is the experience. Naturally present with everyone as Life itself. Consciousness is selfshining naturally with all sentient beingsas simply being awake or being and remaining aware all day long. Isn't that funny? Being aware! Wakefulness is awareness. That natural state of being is simply the Sought-after Truth AKA present awareness, the Self, He, the Lord, the Reality etc. That is all there is to realize to know one's true nature. Being aware or wakeful or sentient or cognizant is always abiding as the Infinite Self which is simply ordinary consciousness or the natural intelligence and energy or power within the body. Know thyself. Understanding that being aware is unchanging awareness and that activity is at once abiding as the true Self and oneself is all there is to know. It is not difficult to know one's true nature. In fact it is so easy one can only laugh at the simplicity.

Being aware of being. We all know that presence of existence or consciousness and always experience it directly as 'I' am or pure awareness of being. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Are you aware right now? If you are awake and not in deep sleep, you are not un-conscious because you are indeed awake which is the true Self being pointed to or present awareness itself. So simple. Spiritual and religions have no clue to the simple Truth. All they do is brainwash ignorant people to believe the false to be true. Me, myself and 'I' is consciousness or the Self. Not the body but the undeniable living-ness functioning, governing and expressing itself a human body or homo-sapien. Being oneself is always abiding as this presence of consciousness itself. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ All spiritual concepts and ideologies of bondage and liberation, of 'ego' and separation etc, are all false.Made up crap used to push a religious agenda on veiled and ignorant Seekers. What is being oneself? Me, myself and 'I'. That is abiding as the Self. Being oneself naturally has always been the Real-'I'-ty. Thou art that. It is like a Fish in the Ocean searching everywhere for the Ocean. Look at yourself. That is IT. All there is ever present with oneself as oneself is consciousness. Just this and nothing else. To be oneself is the experience. There is nothing to change, alter or modify about oneself. Remove ignorance. The Self is being oneself. Full stop. Being oneself is abiding as that. What about all the spiritual books and religious scriptures out there that are pointing to something beautiful and mystical? Simple, it is all B.S and crap. Consciousness is not something special, spiritual or mystical but paradoxically natural. Spiritual and religious people are un-happy people that are always seeking a way out to escape reality or life into an imaginary world or flying angels, monkeys and tooth fairies.

Clueless to the simple Truth. These people are only Seeking to fell better about themselves. Spirituality and religions are illusion or fiction. All that they are preaching and talking about is false. There is no 'ego' to kill or imaginary 'mind' to go beyond. Spiritual and all religious people are only cultivating illusion. All spiritual and religious concepts and ideology are only imaginary. Spirituality and any religion are only for blind believers and worshippers. The Reality is not fiction AKA spiritual or religious in anyway but simply natural. Life, consciousness or existence present is the simple fact of one's own being. It is 'I' am. Anyone alive is aware of being. Everyone knows and says 'I' am. It is nothing lost or apart. While spiritual and religious Gurus and Teachers will entice, confuse and keep ignorant or veiled people worshipping illusion and believing the false to be true. The Reality is nothing new to anybody. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. Are you alive? Are you aware of being? Is 'I' am here and now certain? You know that you are? Voila! Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Can anyone alive deny their own being or existence and say 'I' am not or 'I' do not exist? Only idiots do! Knowing that you are alive and kicking presently is the Infinite Self or consciousness itself. Life is the presence of consciousness and being alive and aware is the experience. Who is not aware of himself? Knowing that you are alive and kicking presently is 'I' am. That awareness of being oneself is to abide as one's true nature effortlessly. Consciousness is the Living-ness self-shining naturally within your own dwelling. Just like a precious 'Diamond' shining inside your pocket all along. Nothing is lost or missing. Most people do not ever bother to have an intelligent look at themselves. Therefore they will spend their whole life seeking and chasing after

fantasy while the Reality is not lost or missing at all, but present within their own body. Life or consciousness is the Reality, it is not fantasy and that is one's true nature. Understanding that being alive and awake from sleep is to abide as one's true nature is the end of the search for the Self that was never lost. The Seeker is the Sought. Gee you are you. The Self (consciousness) you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Call off the Search. There has never been a special or spiritual Self to be found? That is the funny joke. The Self you Seek to know is simply your very own plain boring ordinary self. Voila! Plain boring ordinary everyday wakeful-ness is present awareness.What else would it be? To be conscious is consciousness. To be aware is awareness. If you know that you arenot dead or un-conscious then you are indeed undeniably awake, aware of yourself or naturally conscious. That simple. That is present awareness. The natural state of being. To be conscious is the presence of awareness or this consciousness itself what we call the Infinite Self, He, the Reality, the Lord or the Oneness, etc. Nothing spiritual or holy. Understanding that being conscious is abiding as one's real nature is what Self-Realization is all about. What else would you expected it be? Get to know your true nature to be consciousness. Know thyself. The Reality is here and now.Why should anyone endlessly chase after illusory spiritual and imaginary religious carrots, when being alive and aware of being oneself is itself the Reality? True consciousness is not some imaginary spiritual state or religious presence but Life itself. Existence.

Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Realize that plain boring ordinary everyday being-ness or alive-ness or living-ness is this consciousness AKA the Infinite Self which is your own affectionate self, it is what you already naturally and have always been. To know the Self be yourself. Stop 'imagining' that the Infinite Self is something new, special, spiritual or holy. It is paradoxically the complete opposite, it is plain common to all and so ordinary. Nothing at all as what con artists AKA spiritual and religious people will camouflage it to be. Nothing new, spiritual or holy. Plain common to all and ordinary. A funny paradox. Everything else you have been told about consciousness to be special or mystical is illusion and a lie. There are plenty of con artists pretending to be spiritual and holy, but in fact they are all liars. If you ever wondered what is your real nature and what is always undeniably present right here and now now? You are. The Seeker is the Sought. Thou art that. Consciousness is 'I' am. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ All spiritual books and all ancient religious scriptures that are taught and preached by spiritual and religious people are all B.S. Take it for granted. There is no Truth in it, simply because the Truth is what you are. Due to religious conditioning or spiritual programming, spiritual and religious people will believe the false or illusion to be true and reject the simple Truth about themselves as being false. When ignorant people hear the words you are He, you are the Self, you are that, they falsely assume that theses words are pointing toward something special, spiritual or mystical. That is a mistake The words He, That, Self or God are simply pointing to consciousness. What is consciousness? The nature of Life itself. Being alive and aware of being is to abide as

consciousness itself. Another name for consciousness is Life or existence. Nothing new to anybody. Understanding the nature of Life. Consciousness is the substratum of all existence. It is that which undeniably is and cannot in any circumstance be denied. If you are alive and aware of being yourselfthat is at once 'I' am and consciousness. Consciousness present is the knowing that you are present or 'I' am. That is all there is to realize. Closer than close is one's own existence. So plain, so common and so ordinary is one's true nature, who ever told you that consciousness was anyway something new, special or extra-ordinary lied to you. Consciousness is simply the natural activity of knowing that you are. It is pure awareness of being. It is 'I' am. Paradoxically the ultimate Truth about oneself is so simple. It is the difficulty. There are no spiritual goals or anything new or special to be attained. Only ignorance is to be removed with understanding. Take a look at your own being. You are alive. You know that you are and you like it. Consciousness is indeed present because you undeniably know that you are. Awareness of being oneself is at once 'I' am and consciousness. Look at yourself. Thou art that. Call off the Search. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What can be easier than that? That is all there is to understand or realize to know one's true nature. Realize that to be conscious is consciousness. That is what the words He, the Self, That, the Lord or God truly represent. 'I' am is that. Did you foolishly 'imagine' the Infinite Self to be something else? Oops! Consciousness or one's true nature is nothing new or special but natural. Present awareness or awareness present is being awake, being conscious or sentient. Consciousness present is the natural state of being and remaining

aware. Wakeful-ness is that present-awareness or consciousness itself. Do not look for the Self or the Reality as something new, spiritual or special or you will keep on missing it. Because you are only looking away from true consciousness. Consciousness present is pure being. Consciousness is what we are naturally. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Call off the Search. Remove ignorance only. There are no spiritual or religious goals to be reached. Consciousness is what we are naturally. We call it Life or existence. Know the simple Truth! If you 'believe' in a spiritual Self or religious God that is found inside spiritual books and holy scriptures, you have been lied to. A spiritual Self or religious God never existed. Fiction, superstitions and illusion. Present here and now. The Reality is simply the natural expression of Life itself. Alive-ness, living-ness, conscious-ness, 'I' am-ness. Being oneself naturally is the experience. Indeed no one alive ever fails to experience the Reality, the Self or this consciousness itself present directly as simply being conscious. Sentient, cognizant, being awake and aware. Consciousness is not something special that is yet to be reached, attained or acquired. The natural state of being is nothing new, spiritual, religious or holy. That is the joke of it all. The Reality is nothing spiritual but natural. Realize that to be alive and awake from sleep is to abide as consciousness or the Self. That is what the fuss is all about. Wakefulness is present-awareness. It is so funny to hear that ignorant Seekers will put their faith blindly into some spiritual con artists. It is like asking a thief disguised as a policeman to catch a thief. These spiritual and religious people have their own hidden agendas.

Usually nowadays they find a way to extra money camouflaged as a 'donation' for the dumbest of their followers and have them do this practice or do that ritualwith a false promise that in the end if they follow them, they will become 'Enlightened' some day. Any self-appointed Guru or Teacher needs a bunch of idiots to follow them so that they can survive. Many have commercialized a false notion of spiritual bondage which is only ignorance with something spiritual to sell to Seekers called Freedom. Silence, books, CD's, Retreats etc. It is all part of an enticing scam used to perpetuate a false notion or illusion of bondage. Spirituality and all religions are in fact businesses of selling ignorance, nothing else. Spiritual and religious people are blind ignorant fools that are only chasing afterillusory concepts or 'imaginary spiritual carrots' used to entice them to foolishly believe that spirituality and religions are real when in fact there are nothing but false. They are all lies. See the false as false. It is all B.S. Any God of religion and spirituality never existed. Life or consciousness is the natural presence of existence that we all like to be naturally. Being or existence is Life or consciousness. The experience is being alive and conscious. Being oneself naturally. That alone is the Reality. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What else did you foolishly expect the Reality to be?Something new, spiritual or holy? Perhaps a new experience, a headache or migraine, diarrhea or a flash of light? Veiled and ignorant people believe a spiritual Guru is someone special that has attained spiritual Freedom. The Secret to spiritual Freedom is that there is no spiritual bondage. Spirituality and all religions are fiction. They are the poison, not the cure. Are you a blind follower, a spiritual believer or religious faithful? If you are, then you must accept that you cannot understand the Reality.

The Reality is not something new, spiritual or religious to be acquired from others but recognized naturally present as your true nature which is consciousness or Life itself. What is born must also die. But you are not the body. You are the Life essence within the body. Consciousness is the nature of Life. Life is the natural expression of consciousness. In other words, Life is one's true nature and everyone's true nature is Life.The Oneness. That alone is the 'diamond in your pocket'. The beloved and soughtafter Truth or Reality. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Life or consciousness is the natural living-ness present within the body. That is the Reality. Anyone else that tells you otherwise is selling water by the River to the ignorant and the veiled. There is no special, spiritual or mystical Self. Spirituality and all religions are only mental creations. Consciousness is the natural presence of Life or existence we all like to be. Nothing new to anybody. What is real? Is the Reality what spiritual and religious people 'imagine' it to be or is it the simple fact of one's own being? Question, inquire, investigate and find out for yourself. That is the 'Birds way' or the fastest way to know yourself. One can only point to consciousness as being one's true nature. Take a look and see. It is up to you to recognize your real identity. Who am 'I'? Only you alone must investigate yourself and find out for yourself what is your real or true nature. Know thyself. True consciousness is not some mystical spiritual power and presence but simply the natural state of being common to everybody alive? Life itself. Plain and ordinary. So near and so dear. Not knowing the simple Truth about one's real nature is seemingly the only bondage. Ignorance is the only obstacle to be removed with understanding. Nothing else is necessary.

If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Remove ignorance. That is all that is necessary. There is no spiritual bondage and there is no spiritual liberation. Know the Truth. If you ever meet anyone appearing spiritual, holy or pretending to have reached spiritual Enlightenment or attained spiritual liberation,these people are phonies. They will confuse Seekers to falsely believe that they cannot understand what this consciousness truly is. But it is all a lie of course. They are only using confusion to camouflage their very own ignorance. That is all. In fact they do not know what this consciousness truly is and therefore they cannot clearly point it out to others. Beware of spiritual and religious people because they will entice Seekers and confuse them for they own self-benefit. Be even more skeptical of Guru lovers and spiritual followers for they are so in love with illusion, they became blind. Believers are like the blind leading the blind. They are always looking for other people to think like them and drift on the same boat they are on, deeper toward ignorance. That is what spirituality and all religions create. A bunch of Sheepos. Groups of people believing they are special and spiritual beings. All they do is worship, follow and suck up to the false and ignorance. They have brainwashed themselves to foolishly believe illusion to be Reality. It does not matter how convinced these veiled believers and followers are and how much they will try to convince you that their beloved spiritual Guru is so great and is the real deal, it is not true, but paradoxically the greatest illusion. After all, there is no spiritual bondage. The ignorant only foolishly 'believes' that there is. Of course they will also 'believe' that there is some illusory spiritual liberation to be attained. Both are false. There is no bondage and there is no liberation. All stories about spiritual 'Enlightenment'

are just made up B.S. that are only used to entice Seekers to believe, worship and follow con artists. As the old saying goes, if you see a Buddha on the Road kill him, because He is only a fraud. If you ever meet people that wear white robes or that adopt religious or spiritual names and stare into people eyes pretending to transmit a fictitious grace from an illusory concept of God. They are only putting on a show to entice the ignorant to believe the false to be true. The spiritual and religious person cannot know the simple Truth. Why? Simply because true consciousness is nothing spiritual or religions but NATURAL. To look toward any religion or spirituality for the Reality is to look in the wrong direction. The Reality which is simply Life or consciousness itself has absolutely nothing to do with what spiritual and religious people 'imagine' it to be. It is paradoxically common to all and very ordinary. In fact no one alive ever fails to experience this presence of consciousness itself directly as one's own being. Once you understand what is truly and simply being pointed to you will laugh at yourself. Remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. The Reality is not something new, special or spiritual to be freshly acquired from others but in fact it is what you are already naturally. To know one's true nature is very easy. No time or effort is required. Only understanding. After all, how much time does it take to know that you are present here and now, that you exist, that 'I' am is certain? That is what this consciousness simply is, it is the knowing that you are present or present awareness which is 'I' am. Who is not aware of himself?Consciousness present is 'I' am present. The 'I' and consciousness are one and the presence of existence. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self (consciousness). A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness shines naturally as wakefulness or unchanging awareness.

Consciousness present is the cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself. Everyone abides as this consciousness itself naturally everyday without realizing it. That is what the Infinite Self, He, the Reality, the Lord, the One without a second etc, simply is. Paradoxically true consciousness is not at all what spiritual and religious people camouflage it to be. One's true nature has always been natural. Spirituality and all religions are cultivating ignorance and pointing Seekers toward illusion and fiction. Consciousness present is awareness of being present as oneself.Plain and ordinary. Consciousness present is the knowing that you present as yourself. That 'I' exist is certain. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Understanding is all that needs to be done. Consciousness is the nature of Life or existence. Common to all. To be alive and conscious or sentient is to abide as He, the Self, That or the Reality. Does not matter what name you want to call consciousness. He, That, Self or God it is irrelevant. Realize that consciousness is the natural state of being or existence that everyone without exception always experience directly as being alive and aware. Nothing new or different. Being is the experience. Seekers are only bound to wrong knowledge. Religious and spiritual conditioning camouflage this simple Truth about one's true nature. That is the only veil covering up the obvious. Consciousness is nothing spiritual or holy but natural. That is the Secret. It is the natural state of being. Freedom is very easy. Who said it was hard or difficult?

If you want to be Free get to know your real nature. Then you will realize or understand that you were never bound. First thing first. A God of spirituality and all religions does not exist. Fantasy. So you cannot know the simple Truth and Reality is you are busy looking for it, in the wrong direction. Spirituality and all religions are in fact only illusion. All are false, B.S., lies, deception and finally crap. They do not point to the simple Truth and absolute Reality but paradoxically always toward fiction and illusion. See the false as false. That is called Wisdom. Understand that Life is consciousness expressing itself not in anyway spirituality but NATURALLY. Consciousness is the nature of Nature. Consciousness is the nature of Life. It is pure existence. When a sperm goes toward a female egg to merge and create the necessary cells for a fetus the sperm is naturally guided and governed to know exactly what to do by this consciousness itself. Consciousness is the natural activity of knowing. Pure intelligence. We always see its expression as Life itself. Consciousness is the intelligent design and living-ness behind creation. Present as pure intelligence and energy. The natural living intelligence behind all patterns. The body is created and governed by consciousness. It is breathing you, beating your heart and self-shining through your eyes as natural intelligence. As with water and ice. Consciousness is Life and Life is consciousness. You are being lived. Consciousness is the 'Doer'. You are formless egoless consciousness. You are this consciousness expressing itself naturally.Everything you do, consciousness is the doer. In other words Life is living itself as yourself NATURALLY. Nothing spiritual or magical but only natural. The unseen undeniable natural intelligence, power or energy behind the creation and expression of Life. Consciousness exists in Nature and within your own dwelling or body as Life itself. One's true nature. All matter that exist is energy. Broken down to pure energy or consciousness. The unseen power and intelligence that governs all there is or that exist naturally.

Just like the wind, you cannot see consciousness but you surely can see its expression. Open up your eyes. Everywhere you look it is there. The whole Universe is governed by it. Look at your body, look at a tree, look at seasons, look at Life and creation. It is running the show. What makes a Sun Flower turn toward the Sun? A monarch butterfly go to Mexico? Intelligence of course. People call this natural intelligence Nature. Consciousness is the natural activity of knowing. Pure natural intelligence we witness present in and as Life. The Self (consciousness) is not something to be acquired from others. All that is necessary is to know its existence in you. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ No one is ever apart from consciousness. To be or not to be. Everybody knows and says 'I' am. Call off the Search. Consciousness is already here. You are alive aren't you? Get to know your true nature which is consciousness.It is so easy. That is the joke of it all. Where can you find it? Present within your own dwelling. One's own existence is this consciousness itself.That's it. You already are that. Being or existing is the experience itself. Aren't you conscious and aware of being? Everyone knows consciousness so well already as pure awareness of being. As 'I' am. While spiritual and religious people brainwash idiots to believe in a fictitious 'God' sitting somewhere in the sky. The Reality is that Life itself is this consciousness. Therefore one's own being is the Real-'I'-ty itself. Nothing else. Know yourself to be Life itself. Thou art that. So simple. Consciousness is nothing new or fancy. Being alive is the experience. No one alive can deny one's own being. Everyone alive undeniably knows 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Awareness of being. To be or not to be. 'I' am or 'I' am not. No one can deny one's own being. 'I' exist here and now is certain. "Wake up and smell the coffee". 'I' am is consciousness. Knowing that you are. There is no holy or spiritual 'I am.'

Just awareness of being oneself 'I' am is the Reality. The simple fact of one's own being. The 'I' present in 'I' am and consciousness are one and the same presence of natural existence. After all, can anyone deny one's own self and say 'I' am not? It is impossible to negate one's own being. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ One's own affectionate plain ordinary self is the Infinite Self.You are the presence of existence itself. For some stupid reason spiritual people spend their whole life trying to get rid of or change themselves. They are the Self already but they insist in striving to become something new and illusory. A strange paradox. Spiritual and religious people only 'imagine' that they are bound. Some get together and cultivate that false notion. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What you Seek to find is what you already are and have always been naturally. It is nothing new. Remove ignorance only. Understand that to be conscious is this consciousness itself. That is IT. The natural state of being. There is no spiritual, religious or holy Self. There never was. False imagination only. God is only a product of spiritual fantasy. It is not the Reality. One's own undeniable existence is the Reality and this consciousness. Nothing spiritual but natural. Obviously one cannot cultivate spiritual ignorance or spiritual knowledge and know the Truth and Reality. After all, look at yourself. How many spiritual books have you read? Did you find it yet? You cannot find it there. Why? Because you are IT. The Seeker is paradoxically the Sought. The Self you seek to know its yourself. Nothing new, different, spiritual or special but plain common and ordinary as your own being.

You, being the Self (consciousness), want to know how to attain the Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Don't you get it. You are what you Seek. You are always the Self. It is nothing spiritual but natural. Being yourself is the experience. You are IT. You are plain, common ordinary consciousness. You are Life. You are that. You are nothing else. Consciousness is what we all are naturally. That is the Oneness or everyone's true nature. It is Life itself. Didn't anyone tell you? There is no separation from consciousness, no two selves or duality. Existence is consciousness. There is no illusory 'ego' to get rid of .There is only consciousness present and you are that. That is IT. Only spiritual mambo-jambo which is wrong knowledge perpetuates the illusion of separation and duality. There is no small self, big Self, any higher Self or spiritual selves present anywhere. Being oneself is the experience. All there is Omni-present is consciousness and right here and now you are that consciousness itself naturally. There is no bondage or liberation whatsoever. You are the Self or consciousness itself and are already Free. What binds you? Only a false notion of bondage and of liberation is to be removed with understanding. That is all what so called Freedom is simply all about. You gain nothing new because you lost nothing. Understanding is Realizing. Realize that to be conscious is to be aware of being yourself. It is 'I' am. Then you laugh at yourself. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no spiritual bondage or any kind of spiritual liberation. It is all B.S. There is only understanding. Nothing is missing. Consciousness is simply overlooked. The Self, one's true nature or consciousness is self-revealed with the removal of ignorance. Realize that consciousness present is simply the knowing that you are present. Awareness of being oneself is abiding as consciousness itself. It is 'I' am. The knowing that you are.

Present as awareness of being present. 'I' am is to simply be conscious. That simple. Wakeful-ness is present-awareness. There is nothing special or spiritual about being. It is natural. Spirituality and all religions are truly camouflaged businesses. They are only selling illusion and fiction. 'I' am is the Reality. Consciousness present is pure awareness of being. Consciousness or 'I' am is nothing new to anybody. Everybody knows 'I' am. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ 'I' am and consciousness are synonymous. That is abiding as one's true nature. Pure awareness of being. If you are alive and aware of being alive you are the Self. You are abiding as this consciousness itself. Say 'I' am. See! You undeniably know that you are. 'I' am is always first hand and certain. That is IT. Being, existence or consciousness are synonymous with being ALIVE. Alive-ness, living-ness. conscious-ness, being-ness, 'I' am-ness. It is all so simple that one can only laugh at the joke of it all. What have you to wait for? You are. Look at yourself. You are alive and undeniably aware of being. That alone is abiding as the Infinite Self, He, the Reality AKA consciousness itself. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Being, existence, Life is consciousness. So simple. Who said Freedom was hard or difficult? Are you alive? There you go sport. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ When you are sick and tired of looking for the Self as something new or spiritual. Stop Seeking and simply have a closer look at yourself. Look at your own being. Because that is IT.

Thinking, hearing, seeing, feeling, knowing etc, is always abiding as that Self. Just this and nothing else. Spirituality and all religions are false. You do not have to stop thinking or strive to keep quiet. That is all B.S. There is absolutely nothing to change, alter or modify about oneself, when all there is ever-present is consciousness. There is nothing to practice, to meditate upon, to pray to or cultivate. Consciousness is always undeniably present. It is pure awareness of being. Being alive and aware of being oneself is being IT. Awareness of being is 'I' am. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ So simple isn't it? That is paradoxically the only difficulty. The Reality is simply being alive and aware of being. Consciousness is not a spiritual state but the natural state of existence. Ignorant spiritual and religious Seekers foolishly believe the false to be true and reject the Reality as being false. Too bad for them. They are blindly and foolishly spending years acquiring wrong knowledge about the Reality. Cultivating ignorance and chasing after illusion. That is the very core of spirituality and all religions. False promises, deception and lies. You will never find anything real out of spirituality or any religions. For all that non-sense. The Reality is paradoxically very simple. It is what we are. Being is the Reality. No time or effort is required to know that you are. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Being alive is the Reality. The Open Secret to Freedom is that consciousness is simply being oneself naturally. That is what 'I' am simply represent. So simple. 'I' am represent at once being and consciousness. Everyone alive is already the Self. Everyone alive is the expression of consciousness itself AKA Life. There is no spiritual bondage or any spiritual liberation. There never was. One only 'believes' that there is. Therefore the so called enlightened Master, Teacher, Guru or Buddha you see on the Road is only Fraud.

Consciousness or the Self is always here. There is no becoming or attaining anything. If you are told to become 'Self-Realized' by a spiritual or religious being. Realize that you have only been conned by the greatest illusion. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness or the Self is not the acquisition of anything new. To be alive is to be the Self. That is all there is to realize. That is the Open Secret. One's own existence is consciousness. There is absolutely nothing spiritual about it. It is simply natural. The natural state of existence. There are no spiritual concepts to overcome. No 'ego' to kill or imaginary 'mind' to go beyond. What you Seek is what you are literally. No one is to become anything new or different. Being or existing or alive-ness is the experience itself. That is all. Superduper simple. After all, what effort do you have to make to be? No one can deny one's own being. All stories about spiritual Enlightenment or spiritual liberation are all Bull Shit. You can take it to the bank. Anyone you come across that pretends to have become or attained the Self is a lying bastard and a scammer. Have a look. There is no shortage of stinking A-holes that are only pretending to be spiritual or holy. Saints, Sages, Gurus, Yogis, Priests and Jnanis are only camouflaged scammers that are joyfully preying on others desperation and ignorance. What else would they be? When bondage and liberation does not exist. You are already the Reality. Spiritual and religious people will confuse you. They do not want you to know the simple Truth. Why? Because for spiritual and religious people ignorance is a milk Cow. Spiritual Seekers are only imaginary bound or slaved to ignorance. Nothing else. Seekers are veiled. After all, why would anyone want to love, worship and take care of an imposter?

Like a coucou bird. Ignorance is the only culprit. Wake up! See the false as false. Spirituality is illusory. Brainwashed by swallowing false spiritual knowledge, eventually becoming a false reference point to Reality. Spiritual and religious Seekers are convinced themselves to foolishly believe that the Reality is something spiritual. Consciousness is not something spiritual to be achieved. If you want to find consciousness. Stop Seeking. Take a look at your own being instead. Your own existence this very moment is that. It is nothing new. Consciousness is undeniably present as one's own existence. No one can deny being. Life itself is the Reality. Consciousness is not some blazing light, spiritual event or experience. It is the natural state of being. Forget spiritual and religious crap. Understand what this presence of consciousness simply is. Knowing that you are. Sentience, wakefulness is consciousness. Being aware is awareness. Being conscious is consciousness. What can be easier than this? Childlike simplicity. Spiritual and religious concepts are the only cloud or veil of ignorance to get rid of. After all, if you ever tell someone to keep quiet or to stop thinking, they will surely go crazy. Nothing new or spiritual whatsoever about one's changeless true nature but simply effortless and natural. Are you aware right now? If you are aware you are therefore abiding as this unchanging awareness itself. You and awareness are One. Being aware is itself abiding as unchanging awareness. Awareness is not some flash of light or a spiritual experience. It is pure changeless being. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Present-awareness. If you are awake from sleep, you are undeniably aware of being. They is no becoming or attaining awareness. Just realize that 'being aware' is awareness itself. Forget everything and there you are. Naturally abiding as pure awareness of being. As consciousness itself.

Consciousness AKA the Self is the natural state of being and remaining aware. The natural activity of knowing. The natural state of being. Life, existence, consciousness is what you are right now. It is natural and undeniable. No one can deny being. No one sane can claim that they do not exist. Existence is all there is. All Natural. There never was anything whatsoever spiritual or religious about the Self. Didn't anyone tell you? You are alive. You are the Self. That is IT. Are you laughing at yourself yet? There are no spiritual or religious goals to be reached. No heaven or hell to go to. No spiritual liberation or salvation. Alive-ness is the experience. That is IT. So near and so dear is consciousness. Here and now you exist. The experience is being alive and aware of being. 'I' am is that. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Look at yourself. If you are conscious. You are aware of being. You are therefore undeniably abiding as that. 'I' am is certain. You know that you are. Life is the undeniable presence of consciousness itself. It is nothing new or apart from anybody. Consciousness is Life. Both are One and the same. To be alive is the experience itself. So simple. Nothing new or special. All there is naturally present is existence AKA consciousness. The Living-ness and being-ness we all like to be. It is that 'I' am you know. Only an idiot or a fool strive to become a spiritual or religious being. Oops! The Fool. The fool strongly believes that there is spiritual bondage. The Secret is that neither spiritual bondage or spiritual liberation exist. Both are illusion. The spiritual or religious fool only 'believes' that there is. Anyone that pretends to have attain Freedom is only pretending. Just for show.

Who is to ever become liberated when bondage does not even exist? No one of course. It is like pretending to tight down a Camel or an Ass to a peg with an imaginary rope. Bondage is only psychological and illusory.Just a false notion or wrong 'belief'.Imagine that. Spending year after year striving to become Free when all along there is no bondage. How foolish. Did you know that spirituality and all religions are the poison, not the cure? That is a funny paradox. Their job is in fact to perpetuate a false notion of bondage with the purpose to entice and confuse the fool. Take a look for example at a Christian doctrine that teaches their followers that the Earth is only 6000 years old . How true is that? Yet strangely people foolishly 'believe'what they are told without ever questioning. The false cannot stand up to investigation. After all, what binds you? Have a look at your chains. Are you really bound to anything? Or is it all in your head? Did someone else make you 'believe' that you were not already Free? Spiritual and religious people tell others that they are bound and they believe it. When in Reality the false notion of bondage is the only bondage. There is no bondage. 'Imagining' that there is bondage, the fool looks frantically to attain 'imaginary' Freedom. Meeting along the way other people that are also delusional and that pretend or 'imagine' to have attained 'imaginary' Freedom which is what we call spiritual liberation to guide them. The blind guiding the blind. Fools turn toward spirituality and religions for 'imaginary' liberation. If you were told to pray to God, to worship a Guru, to practice yoga, meditation, repeat a mantra or sing a bhajan etc, in order to become Free or spiritually liberated realize that you have been lied to. Question all your spiritual and religious beliefs, because they alone are your only bondage. They are the Trap. Freedom from all bondage is to simply remove the false idea of being bound. Just this and nothing else.

Who told you that you are bound and why did you foolishly believe them? Because it is simply wrong knowledge. In reality there is neither spiritual bondage or spiritual liberation. Both are false. One only 'believes' that there is. Spiritual liberation is only an illusory religious concept or carrot used to entice a fool. Call off the Search. Seeking Freedom is only perpetuating an erroneous notion, illusion or false 'imagination' of being bound. Seeking is itself a Trap, because there is no bondage. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Just like bondage is only 'imaginary', Freedom is also 'imaginary'. Both do not exist at all.They are illusion. Therefore realize that if you strongly 'believe' that you have met a great spiritual Guru that has attained or reached 'imaginary' Freedom or so called spiritual liberation you have in fact been conned. If you ever adopt a spiritual Guru, a spiritual teacher or any religion you will only become slave to illusion. See the false as false. To foolishly believe that someone has attained 'imaginary' Freedom or Mukti is in fact to cultivate and worship the greatest illusion. Realize that a spiritual Guru is not your friend but a con artist. As the old saying goes, if you ever see a spiritual or holy buddha on the road kill him because he is a truly fraud. Just like a juicy carrot is used to entice an Ass. It is all and only for show to entice the ignorant fool, nothing else. When bondage does not exist, spiritual or religious leaders only pretend to have acquired 'imaginary' Freedom. It is only a self-serving 'concept'. They only pretend to have for deception and the exploitation of ignorance. After all, one only 'imagines' that they are bound. That is all bondage truly is, false imagination or false notion. Bondage and liberation do not exist. Illusion and ignorance is what is being sold as spirituality and religions. Spirituality and all religions are just the art or business of 'making the fool believe' in false 'imagination'.

If you ever take a look at your chains they will not be found because they never were there to begin with. What binds you? Question, investigate and find out for yourself what is Real. Nothing else is required. Blind Faith in some spiritual Guru or a religious Teacher because he or she looks the part is a trap. It is not because someone appearing holy tells you something they have read a book, that it makes it true. For example if you were told by a holy Guru to go beyond the 'mind' or to kill the 'ego' to reach Freedom, realize the simple Truth. That you are already beyond the so called 'mind' and that 'ego' does not exist. If you seek the ego you will find, it does not exist. That is the way to get rid of it. Look for it and it will not be found. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Why does a fool strive to kill an 'ego' that does not even exist? Eastern religions are based of the concept of an 'ego' to be destroyed that does not even exist. How do you ever get rid of what is not even there? All religions and their spiritual denominations are in reality illusion and fiction. Just like with the concept of the 'ego' that does not even exist, spirituality and all religions are only a bunch of non-sense. Spiritual bondage and liberation is fiction or imaginary. Only a false notion of spiritual bondage is to be removed. Bound to a false notion only. The fool that believes himself to be bound, is simply bound to his belief. Just this and nothing else. 'Liberation' is our very nature. We are that...It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ When ever you hear or read about beautiful enticing stories of so called 'Enlightenment', spiritual liberation or self-realization, with great Gurus staring into people's eyes or bathing in their Enlightened presence realize that it is only a hoax. It is all B.S. used to entice the simple, the weak and the dumb. A spiritual state of Enlightenment or self-Realization does not exist. There is no such thing.

All the books you have ever read about spiritual bondage and liberation are false. Stop believing the false to be true. Wake up. Realize that spirituality and all religions are just cons. How can anyone ever become Free when there is no bondage? All the Gurus that sell spiritual Freedom, are paradoxically truly selling crap that is sugar coated to entice foolish and ignorant people to believe the false to be true. Realize that bondage does not exist and that Freedom does not exist also. Both are illusion. No one can become anything new, spiritual or holy. How can it be, when it is only 'imaginary'? To strive for liberation is to try in vain to drink a mirage. Can the water in a mirage ever make you wet? There is no bondage. Remove ignorance only. Just like the water in the mirage, spiritual liberation does not exist. Usually caught from other Seekers, followers, disciples or devotees. The veil of ignorance is just like a virus that spreads and that is easily cached. Spiritual ideologies are only attachments to the false, to wrong knowledge and concepts. Love for illusion if you like. Some people have spend many years of their lives foolishly loving, worshipping and cultivating ignorance. Seeking liberation when in fact they were never bound. Spiritual liberation is fantasy. It is only a religious concept. Paradoxically the Reality is not something like ignorance that can be caught, transmitted or acquired from others. Reality is here and now. To know the simple Truth about oneself, one must paradoxically forget all about spirituality and all religions. Because one's true nature is only natural, it is not spiritual and never will be. There is no waiting for anything spiritual or religious. Nothing was ever lost and nothing new is to be freshly acquired. Call off the Search.The search itself is the Trap. It is like chasing a mirage. There never was any spiritual or religious goals to be reached. That is the Open Secret. Just like a fish always in the Ocean searching frantically everywhere for the Ocean that was never lost.

The Sought-after Truth is no found by Seeking it. Only by understanding that it is self-revealed. Paradoxically it is very easy to understand one's true nature simply because it is present and self-shining naturally as one's own undeniable being. The A,B,Consciousness. To understand the true nature of Life or existence is to understand the Oneness. Due to the simple fact that consciousness cannot be objectified because it is no-thing, veiled and ignorant people mystified consciousness as being something spiritual and holy. That is a mistake. Consciousness is nothing spiritual or holy but plain, natural and ordinary. Just like a light bulb cannot shine of itself without the unseen power or electricity. Consciousness is the unseen power, presence or intelligence we call Life. Consciousness is nothing new but what we all already are and have always been naturally. So near and so dear. Consciousness present is everyone's natural state of being. Closer to you than even your own breath. Consciousness is what you are. You do not have to look for true consciousness somewhere far away. Look at your own undeniable existence right here and now. You know that you are and you like it. That is IT. The Living presence or power within the body. Natural living-ness is conscious-ness. Self-shining naturally as pure changeless awareness of being. Everyone knows and experience consciousness directly as one's own affectionate self, as one's own being, as 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Call off the Search simply because to be alive and aware of being oneself is to abide as one's true nature. Consciousness is already here. It is undeniably present as that 'I' am you know. The Search for anything else is a trap. Look at yourself. You find it the moment you stop Seeking. Not by becoming or attaining anything but by understanding.

Realize that any spiritual or religious state of consciousness never existed. Believers will blindly believe anything you throw at them. Existence is the Reality. Spirituality and all religions are only cultivating wrong knowledge. All are truly ignorance camouflaged as wisdom. Life itself is the only Reality. One's own existence is consciousness. One's true nature or Reality is only Natural. It is nothing new to anybody. The Reality is nothing spiritual. Spirituality and all religions are only illusion. Wisdom is to see the false as false. Understanding is all that is necessary to remove the veil of ignorance. Then the simple Truth about one's true nature is naturally and effortlessly self-revealed. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness Definition: Alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your surroundings. The natural state of being and remaining aware or conscious known to all as wakeful-ness is conscious-ness. Consciousness. Being aware of yourself.Knowing that you are. To be conscious is the natural state and activity of being aware or knowing. In other words the natural state and effortless activity of cognizing is abiding as the Self. To be conscious is to be the Self. Consciousness is everyone's true nature. If you turn toward spirituality or any religions to know the Truth, you paradoxically will never find it. Simply because spirituality and all religions are only the art of deception. Spiritual and religious people are con artists selling and perpetuating ignorance. Life, existence is consciousness and everyone's true nature. You are Life. Life is living itself as yourself. Consciousness is the natural state of being. Everyone alive experience this presence of consciousness itself directly as the natural state of pure being. The natural state of pure being is the state of being aware or awake or

conscious. That is abiding as the Self, He, the Reality or one's true nature. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no God. Spirituality and all religions are false. To be alive and awake from sleep is to be the Self. Life is the Self and that is one's true nature. Understanding that to be conscious is consciousness is all that is required to know oneself. That simple. The experience is here and now. It is being aware of being. If you are not asleep or in a coma, you are awake and aware of being. Pure awareness of being or knowing that you are present translates in English as 'I' am. The natural state of wakeful-ness or aware-ness we all experience directly as the natural state of pure being is the state we call Realized or being Enlightened. Being aware and remaining aware is to be a so called 'buddha'. A spiritual state of 'Enlightenment' that you read about in holy books is a hoax, it is false. It never existed. The Reality or natural state of being awake from sleep is always abiding as one's true nature. That is the Open Secret to Self-Realization. Wakeful-ness is awareness. Are you aware? Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Being awake or being conscious is being the Self. There is no spiritual holy Self to be discovered. Being alive and aware is the experience itself. All sentient beings are already 'buddhas'. Ordinary natural existence is the experience. Spirituality and religions are just wrong knowledge about the Self, He, the Reality. A mistake. All spiritual and religious people are truly ignorant people that believe the false to be true. They do not know any better other than what they have been conditioned to believe. The state we call Enlightenment or Realization is simply being oneself naturally.

Call off the Search. The Reality is already here. Aren't you aware of being? That is being a 'buddha'. Remove the veil of wrong acquired knowledge.Spirituality and religions are the only camouflage. Being aware is being the Self. That simple. Awareness present is the natural state of being. There is no attaining or reaching or cultivating awareness.Being aware is awareness. To be awake or aware is the presence of awareness itself. Nothing else. All spiritual and religious beliefs are the only trouble. Because they are false. The experience is always here and now. Awareness is another name for you. Look at yourself. What you Seek is what you are right now naturally. Everyone alive and awake from sleep is already a living 'buddha'. That is all. Life, existence is the experience. Being is the experience. Awareness is the expression of Life. As with water and ice. There is no ice without water. No awareness without Life. Only the ignorant does not know that being or existing is being that. Life and consciousness are synonymous. Remove ignorance and voila! Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The natural state. Once you get that there never was anything new, spiritual or holy to get, you finally got it. The only obstacle to Self-Realization is paradoxically spirituality and all religions. All spiritual crap and religious garbage keep Seekers on a Seeking path. After all, you do not have to cultivate being alive and aware of being. Look at yourself. You know that you are. That is the experience. It is 'I' am. Consciousness is the effortless ordinary state in which you are aware of yourself. The Reality is not anything special or spiritual but natural.That is the funny paradox. One's true nature is the exact same nature present in nature. Same living presence and intelligence. There is nothing you have to do for the Reality to be. It is the natural state. Living-ness is conscious-ness.

It is super duper easy to know the Self, He, the Reality. Anyone wise will tell you that no time or effort is required. Understanding is all. Awareness. Does it take ten, twenty or forty years of Seeking to come to the realization that here and now you are and remain aware. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ If you are a proud spiritual Seeker that has been striving for years to become, reach or attain 'awareness'. Wow, you are paradoxically very ignorant of your true nature. Ignorance is to foolishly believe in attaining a spiritual state of 'Enlightenment'. That belief is only for the ignorant. For dumb people that believe the false to be true. Just like Santa Claus or the Tooth fairy, a spiritual state of 'Enlightenment' never existed. Why cultivate ignorance? The simple Truth about one's true nature is not something different or special that can be mystified.It is paradoxically the natural state of being. Realize that what spirituality and all religions have to offer is crap. It is all false. They are only selling fiction to exploit the ignorant. just this and nothing else. Sentience or unchanging awareness is one's true nature. Awareness present is simply being awake, aware or conscious AKA wakeful-ness or sentience is abiding as the Self, He, the Reality. Wisdom is knowing that simply 'being conscious' or 'being aware' is effortlessly abiding one's true nature. Conscious-ness is 'I' am-ness. Awareness of being: To be conscious or wakeful is to be aware of yourself. Consciousness present is the knowing that you are. Present awareness. Consciousness is being aware of yourself or 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Everybody knows consciousness as 'I' am.'I' am is that.Being aware of being. Consciousness is nothing new or fancy. Plain common to all and natural.

It (consciousness) is pure awareness of being. It (consciousness) is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Are you conscious? Are you aware of being? 'I' am is certain? Voila! You are so called 'Enlightened'. You are the Self AKA consciousness itself. Common to all and always experienced directly by everybody as the natural state of being cognizant, aware or awake. That is all there is to realize. Look at yourself here and now. You know that you are. You are conscious and therefore aware of being. Consciousness is indeed present. That is the Self, He, the Reality and one's true nature. Who said it was hard or difficult to know the Self. Look at yourself. Voila! To be conscious is the natural state of sentience or cognizance we all like to be. If you have been brainwashed to foolishly believe that consciousness is yet to be attained, cultivated or transmitted by some scammer looking holy, you are an idiot. Only the fictitious veil or cloud or camouflage of spiritual and religious garbage mystify this natural presence and expression of existence as being something new, spiritual and holy. The Reality: The fact is that paradoxically it is nothing new, spiritual or holy but natural and ordinary. Spiritual and religious people are only selling water by the River. Exploitation of ignorance is another name for spirituality and religions. They are the poison, not the cure. Know Thyself. Who am 'I'? 'I' am is the answer to the question. Awareness of being oneself is this consciousness itself. Understanding what the Self or the Reality simply is, is all that is required to know oneself. Who am 'I'? After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. 'I' am is certain. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ 'I' am, 'I' am, 'I' am.Awareness of being oneself is 'I' am. To know the Self or one's true nature that some people call God is so simple that it is laughable.Be still and know that 'I' am is that. Know not become. Understanding is all.

Consciousness present is being aware of yourself. It is that 'I' am you know. That is what the fuss is all about. All about being oneself. Nothing spiritual or holy. Plain and ordinary. Simple changeless being is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ One's true nature is natural. Spirituality is only for the ignorant. To be or not to be? Who is not aware of being oneself? Everyone conscious is aware of being. Everybody knows and says 'I' am. To be conscious is consciousness. To be aware is awareness. That is one's true nature. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ It is all so laughable. It is like a big Joke. Bunch of idiots made up an imaginary concept they call God. And followers believed in their crap and started to worship illusion. Consciousness is nothing spiritual, religious or holy. It never was It is the natural presence and effortless expression of Life itself. Consciousness is being oneself naturally. The precious presence of existence. Natural and ordinary to everybody. In other words, simply being yourself naturally is being the Self. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You are the experience itself. Here and now you are conscious. Here and now you are that. Consciousness is being awake from sleep. Wakefulness is pure awareness of being. The waking state is the natural state of being and remaining aware. Aware-ness is wakeful-ness. The knowing that you are. Simplicity itself. The best description for consciousness is to be conscious and aware of being oneself. Consciousness present is sentience. To naturally be conscious is to be aware of yourself. It is 'I' am. Being aware of being oneself naturally is sentience or cognizance.That is abiding as the Self. That is alone the consciousness that has been pointed to by the wise for millennia.

One's true nature is ordinary common to all consciousness. It is simply being conscious. Experienced directly as awareness of being. No one ever fails to experience consciousness directly. It is the knowing that you are. Consciousness is the alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself. How can you kiss this Beauty? Can you kiss yourself on your own lips?Of course not. Consciousness is no-thing. It cannot be objectified or denied. It is the natural state of being. The Reality is not spiritual or holy but paradoxically natural and ordinary. Consciousness, cognizance is the natural activity of knowing. Everybody knows and says 'I' am all day long. Consciousness is that 'I' am you know. So plain and so ordinary. Nothing new, special or far away. To be conscious is that consciousness itself. Consciousness is pure being. It is 'I' am. Consciousness is you are. The Self is you are. So near and so dear. Closer than close to oneself. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Forget all about the spiritual and religious crap you have been swallowing for years. That is a must if you want to know the real Self. Illusion or Reality? Choose wisely. Spirituality and all religions do not point to this simple truth. They only camouflage it will false ideology, wrong knowledge and beliefs. Used to entice and confuse Seekers to exploit them for either gratification, sex or money. All the Buddhas you will ever see on the Road are just scammers or frauds pretending to be holy. The 'diamond' in your pocket is simply plain ordinary wakefulness or common awareness. Only the search for a Godly or spiritual Self is a trap. It is just made up mambo, jambo. So easy. That is the fun part of knowing the simple Truth. You are consciousness. Here and now you are that. Being aware of yourself is that. Call off the Search.

When have you ever lost yourself? You are undeniably aware of being. 'I' am is always with you. 'I' am represent pure awareness of being. 'I' am represent the knowing that you are. The Self (consciousness) you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Only the veiled or the ignorant who does not know himself believes that the Self is something new or spiritual that is yet to be acquired. These people are idiots that have accepted self-appointed Gurus and religious leaders to be speaking and sharing the Truth. When in fact they have been lying and conning them. Remove ignorance only. Consciousness is awareness of being. You gain nothing because you lost nothing. To know the simple Truth, understanding is realizing. You are conscious because you know that you are.Present awareness. You know that you are because you are conscious. One cannot negate one's own self. The cognizing activity of knowing that you are present is abiding as the Self. One cannot say 'I' am not or 'I' do not exist and negate one's own being. Everybody knows that they are. Everybody knows and says 'I' am. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The ultimate truth is so simple. Remove ignorance with understanding. The paradox. The Reality is ordinary. Thou art that already. All sentient beings are always abiding as consciousness. Natural and effortless. It is everyone's true nature. We call it the Oneness simply because it is the same presence of Life or existence everywhere. Consciousness is the natural presence of intelligence that is expressing and governing all things.

Present here and now.Understanding that being conscious is itself abiding as one's true nature is all that is required. There is nothing new to reach, attain or become. What you are looking for is what you already are naturally. You do no have to kick start or cultivate awareness or being aware. If know for certain that you are not asleep or un-conscious right now realize thatyou are therefore undeniably effortlessly abiding as that.Because you are aware. Present awareness. Consciousness is the knowing that you are present. Natural state of being.Consciousness present is always first hand. The Self, He, the Reality is being and remaining aware or being conscious. There is no goals to be reached. Nothing to be attained. There is no spiritual bondage and there is no spiritual liberation. The experience is being alive and aware. Everything else is made up crap. Here and now you are that. When you Seek it, you are only turning away from it. Spirituality and all religions have nothing to do with the Reality. Being, existence or consciousness is knowing that you are. It is 'I' am. Abiding as one's true nature is simply being conscious and aware of being oneself. There is nothing new, mystical, magical or special about consciousness. It is natural. The experience is always here and now. Look at yourself. Being oneself is the experience. The spiritual and religious stigma that consciousness is in anyway spiritual or holy is a trap. Consciousness present is the natural activity of being cognizant or aware i.e aware-ness. As with water and ice.Consciousness present is the natural expression of existence. Awareness of being. The knowing that you are alive. Here and now you are that. To be alive and aware of being oneself is this consciousness present. It is 'I' am. Closer to you than your own breath. Life is consciousness and the Precious.

What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Remove ignorance only. There is no waiting for anything. Being is the experience. Knowing that you are. The Reality is at once being and consciousness. It is 'I' am. Are you aware of being alive? Are you aware of being yourself? To know the Self or consciousness.Look at yourself. You know that you are. Undeniably present as pure awareness of being. Consciousness is synonymous with 'I' am. Consciousness AKA the Self, He, the Reality is the cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self (consciousness). A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Call off the Search. Look at yourself.You are already that. You already are the Self. Aren't you conscious? Wisdom alone is Freedom. While the Spiritual Seeker is Seeking the 'Light' or 'Enlightenment'. All self-appointed Gurus and religious leaders or teachers will paradoxically keep their followers, their devotees, their students, their disciples and Seekers unto a path of Darkness. So called Enlightenment or Self-Realization is to simply remove the veil or camouflage of ignorance. Understanding is the best medicine to remove all ignorance. Nothing else is necessary. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Of course most Seekers are kept in the Dark and are told not to understand consciousness but to keep quiet.

That way they are kept on a endless Seeking path to remain veiled with ignorance. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Spirituality and all religions are businesses and organizations design to exploit the ignorant. Spirituality and all religions are simply the exploitation of ignorance.All are self-serving scams. All the Wise have understood only. Wisdom is understanding. Spiritual Freedom are only businesses of selling water by the River to the ignorant. There is no becoming or achieving anything. There never was. All are only hoaxes and scams. There is no such thing as either spiritual bondage and of course spiritual liberation.It is simply imaginary. One only foolishly 'believes' that there is bondage, because they have read it in a book somewhere. After all, who told you that you are bound, and why did you believe them? Look for your chains. Find out what binds you and you will good laugh at yourself. That is all Freedom is. The removal of a false notion of being bound.Nothing else. Not knowing that there is no spiritual bondage is in fact the only bondage. It is ignorance. Spiritual and religious people do not know that ignorance is what they have been cultivating for years. The only people that foolishly strive to become Free, are clueless people that are ignorant of the simple Truth. Call off the Search. Get rid of ignorance only. Remove ignorance with understanding. The obstruction is ignorance. Once you understand, ignorance dissolves instantly. To the ones that are wise and wish to understand. It is very simple. All that we need do is to remove the obstruction. That which is eternal is not known to be so because of ignorance. Ignorance is the obstruction. Get over this ignorance and all will be well. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

The false cannot stand up to investigation. Have a look. That is the easiest way to get rid of a false notion of being bound. Psychological only. Anyone that believes is bound, is only bound to that 'belief'. The funny paradox! Ignorant people will foolishly spend their whole life Seeking spiritual liberation when paradoxically there is no bondage whatsoever. Imaginary only. They only 'believe' that there is. That is all. It is like being hypnotized or brainwashed to 'believe' the false to be true. To 'wake up' is to realize that spiritual bondage and liberation does not exist. Wrong acquired knowledge or religious conditioning is the cause of all mischief. Being oneself naturally is always abiding as one's true nature. That alone is the experience. Just this and nothing else. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There are no spiritual goals to be reached. There is nothing new or holy to be attained. Freedom is simply the removal of ignorance. Understanding is Realizing. Only the Search for spiritual liberation is a Trap. Understanding is the best medicine. Removing ignorance is all that is required to know one's true nature. Understanding is Realizing. What is one's true nature?Describing the Self. Life, consciousness, existence, being aware and 'I' am is itself abiding as one's true nature. Lively and buoyant. The Self is an activity. The natural activity of being sentient, cognizant or aware as well as the knowing that you are. Being and consciousness is abiding as one's true nature. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness is indeed always undeniably present as unchanging awareness.

After all, 'I' am is always with you as the constant knowing that you are. As present awareness. Everyone alive or all sentient beings never fail to experience the Self directly as being alive and aware of being. Consciousness is the natural state of being awake from sleep. That is all. Consciousness is awareness. Aware-ness is the natural state of being and remaining aware all day long common to all. Realize that you are conscious, awake and therefore aware of being and that is IT. Wakeful-ness is 'I' am-ness. That is alone is abiding as one's true nature. What can be easier than that? What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ You are awareness. Awareness is the natural state of being aware. Being aware, that is one's true nature. Awareness is one's true nature. That is all there is to understand to know thyself. If you foolishly believe that the Self or your true nature is anything else, that is only because you have read too many books and sat with too many spiritual people. Spiritual and religious people will camouflage this simple Truth. They do not want you to know that the natural state of being aware just as you are here and now and have always been naturally is your true nature. Would you suck up and buy Freedom from some religious or spiritual Ahole if you knew that you are and have always been abiding as your true self or real nature all along? Some ignorant people only falsely 'imagine' that awareness is something else. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Forget everything and you are there. After all, prove it to yourself. If you pause thoughts for a few moments, realize that what remain effortlessly present and self-revealed is sentience, cognizance or unchanging awareness. Just like all clouds come and go on the unchanging Sky.Pause thoughts and surely they will

instantly disappear but 'you' undeniably remain present as unchanging awareness itself. Pause thoughts and voila! You are and remain aware. That is the awareness itself. So near and so dear. Awareness or one's true nature is nothing new. Subtle and unchanging, awareness is simply overlooked until clearly pointed to. Awareness is what we all are naturally. It is nothing new. It is the natural state of being. Being aware is awareness. That is the best kept Secret. Thou art That already. Not knowing or ignorance is the only obstacle to be removed for anyone to know oneself. For example, if you are a long time spiritual Seeker and have been meditating or practicing spiritual rituals and exercise, you got screwed. You have been kept on Seeking path of darkness or ignorance. No time, practice or effort is ever required to know one's true nature. Awareness is common to all. Being aware is awareness. That is everyone's true nature. You gain nothing because you lost nothing. That is the Funny paradox! Whatever you have ever read or have been told to be spiritual or a religious presence or power is illusion. Didn't anyone tell you this simple Truth about your real Self or your true nature? Wakeful-ness or plain ordinary aware-ness is synonymous with abiding as the real Self, He, the Reality. The Self, awareness or one's true nature has never been anything new, spiritual or holy, but ordinary. Unchanging awareness or simply being aware or awake from sleep is common to everybody. That is the Secret shining in plain sight. Thou art that. Awareness is another name for you. Awareness is the most obvious, plain and ordinary. It is the natural state of being. Being aware is the state of pure being common to everybody. So simple. Present here and now. Look at yourself. Are you aware right now? That is the experience itself. It is simply being aware. It is very easy to know the Reality. Just be aware that you are and remain aware.

You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

See the false as false. Discerning between fiction and Reality. Did you know that the false notion or illusion of separation, duality and bondage that is falsely perpetuated by spiritual and religious people is in fact the only bondage? That is right! If you 'believe' you are bound, realize that you are only bound to that 'belief'. There is no bondage. Ignorant people only 'believe' that there is. That is all bondage truly is, just a false notion or illusion. Look for your chains and they will not be found. If you were told that you are bound and you believe it. Oops. Too bad for you. You fell into a trap of ignorance. The fact is that there is no bondage. Yet spiritual and religious people spend their whole life striving to become Free. How stupid is that? It is just like a fish in the water who is crying that he is thirsty. Realize that to be alive, to exist, to be aware of being naturally is the Reality. Wisdom is understanding or realizing that there is no bondage. Wisdom is Freedom. The concept of spiritual or religious liberation is a hoax and a myth, it is false and made up. Spiritual and religious people are only selling water by the River to the veiled and the ignorant. God only Loves you for your money. Everything else God does not care. The Religious concept of God is only a spiritual carrot that is used to confuse and entice Seekers to open up their wallets. What else would it be when God, Heaven and Hell, past lives and reincarnations, bondage and liberation are only imaginary? Religious crap only found inside many books. All Religions are only the exploitation of fictitious or imaginary concepts and false beliefs. That is all.

Love for illusion. Spiritual and religious people are only doomed to their strong attachments to the false. Paradoxically Freedom from all bondage is simply Freedom from all that is spiritual or religious, because it is false. The Reality is always present here and now as Life itself. Existence is the Divine. The Truth about spirituality and all religions. The exploitation of ignorance. Do you ever wonder why nowadays so many self-appointed spiritual Gurus that claim to have the Secret to enlightenment, salvation or Freedom, always ends up having something to do with a book to be bought? Even though all have web sites to Freely share their Secret to Freedom. I find it funny that Freedom becomes a product to sell and a business. Perhaps their 'Secret' is only a camouflage scheme to sell a book? Be wise and find out. Ask them. After all, does a Tree charge anyone for his shade. Freedom is Free, how can the simple Truth ever be monetary? No one wise has ever charged others for Freedom.Only scammers. Just like a Gift. Freedom is not something to be sold but shared Freely. After all, Freedom is not to be freshly acquired. It is what we all are already. Know the Truth! All religions and spirituality are the exploitation of ignorance. There is no one more veiled and more foolish than a spiritual or religious person. They have been hypnotized or conditioned to foolishly believe the false to be true. Bondage is only psychological. Spiritual bondage and liberation does not exist. Only fools 'believe' in that crap. The 'belief' alone is the only bondage. Question, investigate and find out for yourself what is Real. Reality surely isn't spiritual or religious. That is the best kept Secret. Human beings foolishly believe that they are special beings. But that is false. The false notion or ignorant religious concept that God created man as his own image is idiocy. The Reality is that man is only a 'monkey in suit' or a great Ape, just this and nothing else. Homo Sapiens.

Only part of the animal Kingdom. Human beings are just another specie of sentient beings. All sentient beings are a product of consciousness which is the natural expression of Life and evolution. Life creates Life. Life lives on Life. Life is living itself naturally. That is the Reality that is undeniably present within your own dwelling. Everywhere you look you see its expression. Some call it nature and others God. Realize that there is no religious God of man's creation. It is a product of fiction and superstition. It is only an ignorant ideology that man has cultivated for millennia to feel superior and better of himself. Everyone's true nature is consciousness. The creator and livingness expressing naturally as all sentient beings is the exact same natural presence of intelligence, existence or Life. Life is the Precious. Life itself is the 'Diamond in your pocket' so to speak. That alone is the Oneness. Everything else is Bullshit. There is nobody special or spiritual. There is only Life. Consciousness is the true nature of Life itself. Life is the Oneness. Take for example different patterns like a ring, a bangle or a chain that are made of Gold. Gold itself remains the real nature of each pattern appearing different. The shape is different but the essence is the same. The essence does not change. Here and now you and everyone else are that.Consciousness is the true nature of all that exists. Everyone alive naturally abides as this consciousness itself. It is the natural state of being common to all. The experience is here and now. Beating your heart and shining through your eyes. Life is Now only. The experience is being or existing presently. Consciousness present is 'I' am. Knowing that you are. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness present is the simple fact of one's own being. Existence is the Reality. So near and so dear. Here and now 'I' am needs no proof.

Reality is not to be achieved. Call off the Search. The experience is always here and now. Everyone alive and aware of being oneself is undeniably abiding as that Living-ness naturally. Pure awareness of being. That is what 'I' am represents. Consciousness present is being alive and aware. Simple, subtle, common and ordinary. Consciousness is not anything new, special, spiritual or extra-ordinary. Subtler than space. Pure existence or consciousness is no-thing. It cannot either be objectified or be denied. Great intellectuals, philosophers and scientists alike cannot know the simple Truth.It is impossible. Spiritual, intellectual, philosophers and scientists always point away from this simple Truth. After all, prove it to yourself. Keep on reading spiritual and scientific books if you desire to remain veiled and ignorant. There is no end to it. Because it works in reverse. The paradox is that all acquired knowledge is paradoxically the greatest ignorance. Consciousness or one's true nature which is natural intelligence or sentience is not to be confused with the intellect which is nothing other than acquired and cultivated knowledge. All the wise beings that have known the simple Truth about existence and have walked the Earth have never claimed to be great intellectuals or scientists, but simple people. All have pointed to the ordinary and the very simple. To Life itself. Paradoxically the ultimate Truth and absolute Reality is very simple and ordinary. It is nothing new. Consciousness is common to all and always experienced directly by everyone alive. The experience is simply being oneself. It is pure awareness of being. Consciousness or existence present is 'I' am. That is all there is to realize. The Secret and mystery of Life is undeniably present here and now. You are Life. The sought-after truth is found by not Seeking it but by being it. Ignorant people believe that they are so important and so special. Extra-ordinary.

If you want to know your real nature, you just have to take your head out of your ass. Forget spirituality and know that Life alone is the real Oneness and the real Precious. Nothing else. There is nobody holy, spiritual or extra-ordinary. Everyone alive is the same essence of existence. Understanding is all. The Reality is being. Being alive is abiding as that. Everyone alive knows that existence itself is present because 'I' am is certain. If you believe that consciousness is anyway special or spiritual, you are a blind fool. Life, existence or consciousness which is everyone's true nature or natural state is natural. That is the Secret self-shining naturally in plain sight as one's own being. Call off the Search. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

The natural state of being. Consciousness is everyone's true nature. Being alive and aware is abiding as that. To know the Self, realize that your own existence is the experience itself. The Secret to Spiritual Enlightenment is that there is no such thing. Spiritual liberation is only a made up Religious concept. As the old wisdom and saying goes; if you see a buddha on the Road kill him. He is only a fraud. In other words, the loving compassionate beloved spiritual Guru, Saint, Teacher, Jnani or Buddha etc, that you will ever come across on your life journey is truly a stinking lying scammer that is only disguised as a holy spiritual being. Nothing else. Why do ignorant religious and spiritual people meditate? Simple. They foolishly believe they have to go somewhere beyond a so called 'mind' to achieve

enlightenment or spiritual Freedom. Of course that is only wrong acquired religious knowledge or B.S.. What mind? Can you show it to me?If you look for it, you will not find it because it does not exist.It is a myth. It is a phantom or an illusion. It is only an imaginary un-investigated concept of separation and duality. See the false as false. Understand the Oneness or Non-duality. All there is ever-present as oneself is consciousness itself. Everyone is already beyond the so called 'mind'. After all, what remains present when you pause thoughts? Unchanging awareness or this pure consciousness itself. What people call 'mind' is truly consciousness itself or the Self. Thoughts appear and disappear on consciousness. Pause thoughts and consciousness alone remains self-revealed as one's thoughtless true nature and reality. Thoughts are exactly just like passing clouds that naturally come and go on the unchanging Sky. Make no effort, your effort is the bondage. All that is required to realize the Self (consciousness) is to be still. What can be easier than that? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ If you pause thoughts for a few moments you remain present and aware as your real self. Present awareness. Who is always present and aware when there are thoughts present and of course when there are no thoughts present? 'I' am. Consciousness is that 'I' am. Realize that being aware or conscious is abiding as the Self or the Reality. Be still and only thoughts disappear but the real 'you' always remains present as unchanging awareness which is this consciousness itself. There is nothing new to be acquired or special to discover.There never was. Recognizing that simply being and remaining aware is effortlessly always abiding as the Self and that alone is one's thoughtless true nature is the so called Self-Realization. Thoughts come and thoughts go but awareness does not come or go anywhere. Unchanging awareness is simply being conscious or sentient. That is all. Being aware is the witnessing, cognizing or knowing presence itself.

What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Be still and voila! Realize that you are and remain aware. The activity of 'being aware'. Awareness remains unchanging all day long, this unchanging awareness is wakefulness. One and the same. Being aware is being the Self or one's thoughtless unchanging Reality. So called Freedom from all bondage is that simple. Who said it was hard or difficult? Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The Self or one's thoughtless true nature is what everyone already is abiding naturally. To be aware is this unchanging presence of awareness. If you were told or mislead to foolishly believe that 'unchanging awareness' is anything else. Realize that you have been lied to and keep on a so called Seeking spiritual path to nowhere. Unchanging awareness is not something new, spiritual or religious but natural and ordinary. The natural activity of consciousness itself is Life and awareness. All sentient beings abide as that. If you are aware you are awareness. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Discern between Reality and fiction. Spirituality and all religions are only the art of make 'believe'. There is no such a thing as a religious spiritual presence some people call God or an enlightened person. You can pray until you turn blue, no one will answer you. There is nobody there. A God of religion is fiction. The funny paradox is that spirituality and all religions are only a band wagon for scam artists and liars. All spiritual and religious people you will ever come across are not what they are pretending to be. Selling water by the River. Do not be fooled, spirituality is a business. Nothing else. Didn't anyone tell you?Spirituality is crap and fantasy.It is simply

illusion. There is no one to pray to and there is nothing to meditate upon. Any concept of a soul in need of Freedom or salvation is just a fictitious religious concept.There is no such thing. The Reality is Life. Life is nothing spiritual but natural. The true nature of Life is consciousness. Therefore to be alive and aware of being is to abide as that presence of consciousness itself. It is 'I' am. So simple. Self-appointed spiritual Gurus may want to trick you in foolishly believing that there is a before and an after.But that is all B.S. They are just trying to sell you something imaginary. Spiritual people are scammers. Enlightenment is a hoax. Spiritual Freedom, liberation or enlightenment does not exist. It is just an imaginary spiritual carrot that is used to entice and confuse the veiled, the simple, the weak and the ignorant in believing the false to be true. Freedom is always here. Reality is always here. There is no becoming, achieving or attaining anything. Here and now you are that. The natural state. Being alive and awake from sleep or being aware is abiding as that. That is IT. Not knowing that being alive and aware is abiding as one's true nature or this consciousness itself is the ignorance that needs to be removed. Understand that the Reality is being alive which is consciousness. That is what Life is. You gain nothing because you lost nothing. Everyone alive is already and always abiding as that. Consciousness is everyone's true nature. It is always here. Present here and now. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. You know that you are. 'I' am is certain. That is IT. Awareness of being. Consciousness present is pure awareness of being. Everyone alive knows 'I' am. The fact of one's own being is not fiction but the undeniable Reality. Reality is 'I' am. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

Freedom from spirituality and religion is Freedomfrom all bondage. After all, who told you that you were bound and why did you believe them? Spiritual and religious people are like blind sheep that are told not to question, but to believe. They will believe anything and follow anyone. They believe the false to be true. It is called ignorance. Freedom is only removing a false notion of being bound. That is all there is to be done. Just this. Bondage is psychological only. Bondage is just a belief. One believes that there is bondage. Spiritual and religious people believe that they are bound when in fact there is no bondage. Just like hypnotism or brainwashing. These people only falsely imagine that they are. The ones who adopt a religion or spirituality only fall into a trap of ignorance. All organized religions and their denominations are truly B.S. that only catered to delusional people. If for example you take look at organized Eastern religion. They are simply based on the delusional or illusory concept of duality or 'ego'. But if you investigate you will come to the conclusion that 'ego' or duality never existed. Ego is just a false notion of duality or false belief foolishly accepted by ignorant followers to be true. Another funny one is if you are one of these foolish people that truly believe a 'blue man' really existed and created a religion after it. Then realize that you are either stupid or delusional or both. It is not true. When some nut case pretending to be spiritual or holy comes to you with the great wisdom of a 'blue man' that never existed, that tells you a lot about what you are truly shoving down your throat. People are conditioned to believe the false or illusion to be true from childhood, without questioning what is real. All religions are just like that. All are simply pointing to the false or illusion only. Not to the Reality. Paradoxically to know the Reality is to stop believing in religious and spiritual crap and start 'knowing' the Truth.

How to know the Truth? By having an intelligent look at yourself. Find out who am 'I', by getting to know your real nature. If you investigate yourself, you will realize that there is no 'ego', no duality and no separation. There is no bondage and no liberation. Only delusional or spiritual people believe the false to be true. To know one's true nature is very easy. Realize that to be conscious is consciousness itself. Consciousness is one's thoughtless true nature and Reality. Present here and now as one's own being. No one has to meditate, pray or try to cultivate consciousness in anyway. Spiritual concepts and their stupid practices are only for the veiled and the ignorant. All are B.S. Sentience or awareness is the natural activity of being awake from sleep. It is consciousness. Consciousness or wakefulness is simply pure awareness of being or the knowing that you are. That is all. Being awake from sleep is being aware or awareness. That alone is abiding as the Self. That is what this consciousness simply is. It is the knowing that you are. When you are un-conscious there is no 'I' am. Awareness of being oneself is wakeful-ness or aware-ness. 'I' am or knowing that you are, is synonymous with wakefulness or awareness of being.Nothing else. Realize that simply being aware and remaining aware or wakefulness is abiding as one's true nature. One's true nature is nothing special or spiritual. Only the veiled and the ignorant foolishly believe that the Self or one's true nature is anything other than simply being alive and aware of being. To know the Self or one's true nature is so easy. Forget everything spiritual or religious and there you are. Consciousness or wakefulness is pure awareness of being. Knowing that you are.It is being yourself. That is what 'I' am truly represents. Consciousness present is pure awareness of being. If you are aware of being present as yourself right here and right now or simply are awake from sleep, realize that this wakeful-ness or aware-ness alone is this presence of consciousness itself AKA the Self.

The natural state of being common to all. Sentience, cognizance, awareness is an activity. The natural activity of being and remaining aware or unchanging awareness. That is all is simply is. All the spiritual and religious people that are selling illusion, will never tell you that,but only entice and confuse ignorant Seekers with false theories, stories and imaginary concepts. Idiots will sell Seekers silence and others even more phony will sell them science fiction. It is all sugar coated crap to sell them a book or a teaching. It is all ignorance camouflaged as wisdom. It all works in reverse. The more popular a spiritual concept is acquired from books and others about the Infinite Self or the Realitythe more ignorance it truly is. It is all a paradox. Call off the Search. You already are at the destination you have never left.There is nothing new to get. Only removing the veil or camouflage of ignorance with understanding is all that is necessary. Consciousness is just another name for being you. You are that Livingness. Present here and now Look at yourself. Look at your own being. Life is the consciousness that is being pointed to. Existence. The natural activity of being alive and aware or sentience is this consciousness itself. Consciousness is nothing new, special or spiritual but the most common, plain and ordinary. Consciousness is what we all are naturally already. We call it sentience or Life. It is present in everyone. Just like water and ice. There could not be ice present without water present. Consciousness is the essence of Life. The nature of Life is consciousness, therefore all that exist is consciousness in essence.It is the Oneness. Consciousness is the living-ness that is beating your heart and shining through your eyes naturally. If you were told that consciousness is something spiritual,you have been lied to. Consciousness is natural. It is one's true nature. Only spiritual and religious freaks will camouflage this natural presence of consciousness as being

something special, spiritual and holy,only because they are ignorant of the simple Truth. We call this crap spirituality or mythology. Reality is the actually of being. Consciousness is always present. No one alive is ever apart from consciousness. Being is the experience. Everyone alive is already the Self or this consciousness itself. 'I' am is at once being and consciousness. Awareness of being is 'I' am. It is the natural state. Consciousness is not something to be discovered tomorrow. The experience is always here and now. Being alive and aware is the experience itself we call Life, existence and consciousness. The ignorant calls consciousness God. The wise calls this presence of consciousness Life. Consciousness is the Living-ness and presence of awareness that is naturally shining as everybody. Consciousness present is the natural state of being or existence that is common to everyone alive. Forget looking for something spiritual and have a look at the natural.That is where the answer is. You do not objectify or gain consciousness.It is impossible. You do not raise or cultivate consciousness. You are consciousness. Self-shining in plain sight all along as one's own being. The answer to who am 'I', is consciousness and you are that. One's true nature is natural. No one ever fails to experience the presence of this consciousness itself directly as one's own existence, as one's own being. Always present closer to you than your own breath. Consciousness is Life, existence, being. Sentience is the experience. Being alive and aware of being. Consciousness is 'I' am. No one can deny that consciousness is present. No one can say 'I' do not exist or 'I' am not. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Reality is at once being and consciousness. To be alive and conscious is to know that you are. It is 'I' am. Consciousness present is pure awareness of being. Everyone knows 'I' am.

Knowing that you are not dead but in fact alive and kicking here and now is 'I' am. 'I' am that 'I' am. 'I' am is what is being pointed as the Real-'I'-ty. Being is consciousness. 'I' am is that Reality.It is very simple and ordinary. After all, can anyone sane negate one's own self and claim that there is no one present? One cannot deny one's own self. One's own plain ordinary self is the Self AKA consciousness. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no spiritual bondage or of course there is no spiritual liberation either. There is only removing ignorance with common sense and understanding. Understanding is the best medicine. Spirituality is the poison not the cure. It is wrong and false knowledge that are only pointing to illusion. Reality is not spiritual but the actually of being. Life is what is happening here and now presently while people are chasing after theories, spiritual carrots and ideology. That is why they miss it. The only obstacle to be removed is not knowing that being alive and aware of being oneself is abiding as one's true nature. Realize that what you Seek is not something new or spiritual. It is what you are already. Consciousness is existence. One cannot deny one's own existence. 'I' am is certain. That is what consciousness is. Instead of looking for the spiritual, simply have a look at the natural and you will effortlessly understand this Oneness. Consciousness is simply the natural state of being common to everybody. Only the search for a spiritual Self perpetuates a false notion of separation and duality. Forget spirituality and get to know the Reality. Because it is not fictitious or spiritual but natural. Present here and now. Look at yourself. Look at your own being Are you conscious right now?Are you aware of being?

That undeniable awareness of being or knowing that you are is the presence of consciousness we call the Self. It is nothing new. To be conscious is this consciousness itself. That alone is the absolute Reality. To be conscious is the experience. That is abiding as one's true nature. What can be more ordinary and simple than this? The ultimate Truth is so simple. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Understanding what consciousness simply is, is what we call Freedom from all bondage. It is the removal of ignorance. Spiritual and religious people do not want Seekers to know this simple Truth about the Reality. I laugh when I hear self-appointed Gurus and spiritual Teachers tell ignorant Seekersinside their self-help books, retreats and workshops to all people desperately Seeking spiritual enlightenment that the Lord, the Infinite Self, He, the Oneness, the Reality or this pure consciousness cannot be understood. When in fact all that anyone can ever do is understand only. There is no becoming or attaining anything. Obviously the one who plays the spiritual Guru does not know the simple Truth, just selling ignorance. What spiritual and religious people are preaching as Truth to others is paradoxically false. All self-appointed Gurus and spiritual Teachers out there are just like parrots. Mining through other people books to make up a Teaching to sell to others. They do not know anything. They just pretend to know to attract Seekers. Many of them pick up wrong knowledge from others and therefore perpetuate a false notion of bondage and liberation. Keeping an illusion, a hoax and a myth alive. Why do they do what they do? Spiritual Gurus or Teachers will always have the need of blind sheep. They do not sell Freedom. Cultivating and selling ignorance is their business.Spurting book after book is what they do.

Know the simple Truth. Understanding is Realizing and that alone is what true Freedom is. After all, spiritual bondage and liberation is only psychological. One only 'believes' in it. There is no spiritual liberation. There is no spiritual enlightenment. Only the veiled and the ignorant believe that they are bound. It is like an optical illusion, a false assumption. Just like a rope on a road is falsely believed to be a snake. Upon closer investigation the snake is revealed to simply be a rope. False imagination. Just like being bound to an imaginary rope. There is no bondage and of course there is no liberation either. Due to wrong acquired knowledge, ignorant people only 'imagine' that they are bound. Therefore all that needs to be done for Freedom from all bondage is to remove the false idea, false belief or false notion of being bound. See the false as false.The very first step for so called 'Freedom' is to question everything. Unless you do that, you will never know the Truth. One must discern between illusion and the Reality. Question all your acquired spiritual and religious beliefs. Question your beloved Guru, deity or priest, but most of all, question yourself. Who am 'I'? Know thyself. It is very easy.That is the funny paradox. No time or effort of any kind is required to know one's true nature. Only common sense. Question or investigate what is Real. That is all that is necessary. First realize that all religions and all spiritual Gurus are wrong. Unless you realize that, you cannot move forward. The false cannot stand up to investigation.Inquire and see. If you have a look, you will realize that spirituality and religions are all B.S. First thing first. Realize that there is no higher consciousness or multiple levels of consciousness. There is no quantum consciousness or any individualized consciousness and all that non-sense. Consciousness always remains the same. It does not change, come or go anywhere. That is why true consciousness is called the Reality or the eternal. True consciousness is not something that is hidden in space or can be found tomorrow by looking for it somewhere far away.

One's own existence is the Reality. Know that the 'I' present in 'I' am is not different from the Infinite Self but represents the imperishable Self. You are that presence of consciousness itself. Nothing else. Prove it to yourself. Have a look and and see. To know one's true nature is NOT an experience. It is a realization, a recognition, an understanding only. Understanding is all that is necessaryto remove the veil of ignorance camouflaging one's true nature. The ones that do not understand what this affectionate presence of consciousness simply is, will unfortunately remain bound to an endless Seeking path to nowhere. There is no end to spiritual and religious concepts and ideology. Know thyself. Consciousness can only be pointed to as simply being oneself. As pure awareness of being. One own self is the Self. The 'I' is you and the Real-'I'-ty. No finite, individual or separate independent self ever existed. Consciousness is the unseen living-ness that is expressing itself as you. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The experience is here and now only. To look for consciousness away from oneself is to always look toward the transient, the impermanent, the illusion or a living dream. Consciousness is not lost or to be found or acquired from some person, place or thing. Consciousness is living-ness. One's own undeniable plain ordinary existence is the experience. Freedom is always here. It is not to be freshly acquired.Consciousness is nothing new to anyone. Consciousness is always present here and now as one's own self, as one's own being or existence. Know thyself. Remove the veil of ignorance that is camouflaging this simple Truth about yourself. Consciousness is not something new or different that is yet to be freshly acquired or experienced. Consciousness cannot be objectified because it is no-thing but paradoxically can easily be recognized as the natural state of being and remaining aware or unchanging awareness AKA wakeful-ness.

To be conscious is this presence of consciousness itself. Being conscious is the experience. Consciousness is the living-ness and aware-ness self-shining naturally with everybody. Secrecy sells. But consciousness is not some hidden religious holy grail or spiritual secret to be discovered. Understand that I am not a self-help Guru.I am not spiritual or religious. I have nothing to sell either. Just sharing what I have found out to be true for myself. Have a look and see if it is true for you. True consciousness is NOT what self-appointed spiritual and religious people make it out to be. Consciousness is very common and so ordinary to everybody. One can only laugh at the joke of it all. No one can give you anything new but only point to that which you already are and have always been. Another name for consciousness is Life. True consciousness is nothing spiritual but natural. Consciousness present is the simple fact of one's own being. Being alive is effortlessly abiding as that living-ness or conscious-ness. True consciousness is not something that was ever lost or something missingyet to be found. So near and so dear, shining in plain sight all along. True consciousness is simply being oneself. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Striving foolishly to 'become' Free. Someone can go a long strenuous endless way or the fast and easy 'birds way'. The end result is going be the same.Understanding or realizing that one's real nature is simply consciousness. Consciousness present is Life present. Consciousness present is pure awareness of being. It is 'I' am. Just like you cannot kiss yourself on your own lips. Consciousness can never be experienced as something new or spiritual. It is impossible. Being is the experience. That is the only difference between Wisdom and ignorance. Understanding that Life is the Self. Being alive is being the Self. Consciousness is the natural state of existence common to everyone alive.

Consciousness is nothing new, special or spiritual. It is what we are naturally. The foolish mistake is to look for the real Self or this consciousness as anything new. Get to know your thoughtless true nature. Understand this consciousness we call the real Self. What is real? The thought I see cannot see. The thought I hear cannot hear. The thought I am aware is not the awareness itself. Consciousness is the real seer. The real hearer. The real knower. The Real you. Pause thoughts and all thoughts will disappear but consciousness itself or unchanging awareness remains self-revealed as the plain ordinary affectionate 'you'. You do not come or go anywhere or disappear because you are not a thought but pure awareness itself. One's true nature or true consciousness is very subtle. Being aware is the natural and stateless or unchanging state of being. Who is always present to be aware of this and that? 'I' am. Consciousness is 'I' am. Once you understand that being aware is awareness. Full stop. You know the Truth, you know the Self. You will not become anything new or different. You won't become enlightened, walk on water, raise the dead or reach an eternal state of happiness. All the spiritual and religious stories and false promises of salvation, liberation or enlightenment are revealed as simply nothing other than spiritual carrots and hoaxes. You simply realize that here and now you are that. Awareness is another name for being yourself naturally. Self or consciousness is another name for you. Gee you are you. That is all true consciousness simply is. Closer to you than your own breath. Forget everything and there you are. Present and aware of being yourself. That is IT. Consciousness is pure awareness of being. Consciousness is that 'I' am that you know so well. There is no mind to go beyond or some ego to kill or get rid of for the Reality or consciousness to be. That is eastern spiritual ignorance and garbage. All there is present with oneself is solely consciousness.

The Search for some mystical fictitious and spiritual consciousness is the only trap. Nothing is missing. Being alive is the presence of this consciousness self-shining naturally. Consciousness or Life present expresses itself naturally as pure awareness of being. As 'I' am. The Secret to Freedom is that there is no bondage. Wisdom is Freedom. Bondage is only ignorance. There is no God or alternate Reality but only Life or existence present here and now as the only Reality. That what the fuss is all about. All about being alive and aware of being. That is what 'I' am represents. Existence. Life is the Reality. There is no acquiring or becoming anything new. Of course if you are Seeking spiritual Cures or Secrets for selfimprovement. You will always have a bunch of self-appointed spiritual and religious people offering the Secret for this and the Secret for that. All are just illusory concepts used to entice ignorant Seekers. After all, how long does it take to know that you are? 'I' am that 'I' am.You are the knowing that you are. 'I' am is primary consciousness. It is the undeniable knowing that you are. Pure awareness of being. Sentience, cognizance, awareness. One's true nature is the natural state of being conscious. That is what this true consciousness simply is. It is not something apart from you but what you are. Call off the Search. The experience is always here and now. Being is the Reality. One's own existence here and now is the undeniable Reality. 'I' am is the Reality. Consciousness present is at once existence and the knowing that you are. Consciousness present cannot be denied.It is impossible to negate one's true nature. The Self is existence and being alive is being it. That which is undeniable is what one's true nature is. Remove the veil or camouflage of ignorance with understanding. Understanding what is being pointed to as one's true nature is all that is required.

Consciousness is not something special or spiritual that is yet to be reached, acquired or attained. Understanding that consciousness or being and remaining aware naturally is abiding as the Infinite Self, is all that is required to know oneself and therefore one's true nature. Again one's true nature is all natural, it is not spiritual or mystical in anyway. Call off the search. To be conscious is what this consciousness truly is. So simple. What is the Infinite Self? Consciousness. What is consciousness? The natural state of being conscious. What else? The natural state of being. The Search for consciousness to be something special or spiritual is the only trouble. Consciousness present is the natural state of being awake or aware common to everyone. Consciousness is the natural presence and effortless expression of Life, cognizance and awareness. One's true nature is undeniably present with oneself naturally. It is awareness. To be aware is aware-ness. What else did you expect the Reality to be, a blazing light? If you meet holy Gurus and spiritual Teachers that want you to foolishly believe that awareness is anything other than common to all cognizance, sentience or simply being aware you are being lied to. Realize that to naturally be conscious is consciousness. To be aware is awareness. You do not have to strive or meditate to know the Self. Are you aware? Are you conscious? That is what the Self simply is. To be conscious or to be aware is consciousness or awareness itself. Investigate what is the true Self or the Reality and voila! You will come to the exact same conclusion. Consciousness is effortlessly self-revealed as what you already are and have always been all along. The Reality is at once being and consciousness. Existence is the natural expression of consciousness itself. One's own plain ordinary undeniable existence is abiding as that. The Self or God is Life itself. Naturally expressing itself as yourself. You are Life or consciousness itself.

To be oneself is to be the Oneself. To be alive and aware of being oneself is abiding as one's true nature. Do not be confused with concepts of self-improvement which focus on the dying body and true consciousness which is the imperishable Self or Living-ness within the body. Life itself does not know death. Life or consciousness is the eternal Self. Consciousness is the Infinite or imperishable Self but not in the ways spiritual and religious people imagine it to be. Spirituality is fiction. Consciousness present is the absolute Reality. It cannot be denied. Again and again, not some holy or spiritual imaginary presence of consciousness that you may have heard about from so many self-appointed Gurus and spiritual Teachers out there but simply the undeniable fact of one's own being. 'I' am is that consciousness. All there is to be done is to realize that to be conscious is consciousness. To be aware of being is consciousness. 'I' am is consciousness. That is all that is necessary to know one's true nature. Consciousness is not something new, mystical or apart from you. Consciousness is just another name for you. Here and now you are that. For Self-Realization you do not gain anything new which you do not have already. But only recognize what you already are and have always been your whole Life naturally. After all, no one can deny their own existence. 'I' am is always with you as the fact of your own being. The veiled and the ignorant believe the false to be true and reject the simple Truth as being false. While to the wise being conscious is this consciousness itself. Reality is simply being and consciousness. To know the Self, stop Seeking and have a look at yourself because the Seeker is the sought. Thou art that. That is the funny paradox. What you Seek is what you already are. Therefore the Search alone is a trap. There has never been something spiritual to be reached, attained or acquired to become whole. All you will ever find outside yourself are always going to be spiritual carrots that are only used to entice desperate people to foolishly believe the false to be true.

The Reality is the unseen presence of consciousness that governs the entire universe, look at this world and you always see its expression. Creation and evolution is the expression of consciousness. Paradoxically it is not spiritual but natural. You are it. Everyone alive is the expression of Life itself. The Oneness present in all, as all is consciousness. Consciousness is the nature of Life. Consciousness is everyone's true nature. You are the Oneness. Being alive and aware of being oneself is at once 'I' am and consciousness. Simply recognize that the natural state of being conscious, awake or aware is abiding as that and voila! Consciousness is not mystical or spiritual in anyway but paradoxically common to all, simple and ordinary. The ones who go from Guru to Guru and read book after book get to be so confused, they cannot accept Reality. Obviously to know the Reality one must be empty from all acquired spiritual and religious concepts. After all, to look toward any religion or spirituality for the Reality is to foolishly cultivate illusion. Self-appointed spiritual and religious people pretending to be holy are like snake oil sellers. There is no miracle cure for Freedom. Understanding is the only medicine. Only a false notion of being bound is bondage. Nothing else. Because people believe the spiritual and religious crap they have been fed since childhood. They have falsely accepted a false notion of separation, duality and bondage. Someone told them that they are bound and they believed them. Any so called spiritual or religious person is simply someone that is delusional and therefore will foolishly believe the false to be true. A follower or devotee of illusion chasing after false imagination. The Reality is always here and now. The camouflage or 'cloud' covering up this ever present consciousness self-shining naturally as Life itself, is all the spiritual and religious garbage that people have acquired from so called spiritual and religious people and there holy books. The Reality is not spiritual or holy, but natural and ordinary.

Most people will never question their acquired spiritual or religious beliefs. In fact they go up in arms when their spiritual or religious beliefs are being pinched. Attachments to any acquired spiritual or religious concepts about consciousness is the mistake. Spirituality and religions are the poison, not the cure. The Reality is not spiritual or religious. That is the funny paradox. Consciousness present is everyone's natural state of being or existence. Therefore to Seek consciousness, the Self or God in any spiritual or religious ways is to simply become blind or veiled by B.S. A spiritual or religious believer is only blind fool. A spiritual or religious believer cannot know the Self or God, but only believe in false and imaginary concepts. Simply because the absolute Reality is natural, the Self or God is nothing spiritual or religious in anyway. Life is the Reality. Life is the Oneness we all experience directly as being and consciousness. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ All the spiritual and religious crap out there does not point to the Reality but only to illusion. Paradoxically the Self or this consciousness which is the Reality is the complete opposite of all spiritual and religious acquired beliefs. There never was a spiritual or religious presence or power that the ignorant call God. The Real God or the Reality is always present here and now as Life itself. That is where it is. Existence is what is being pointed to as the Infinite Self or the Oneness. One's own plain boring ordinary existence is the Reality. So simple. 'I' am means 'I' exist. It is the knowing that you are. Awareness of being present is consciousness present. 'I' am is that. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Life is just another name for consciousness. Consciousness is another name for God. Therefore 'I' am is God. Being awake from sleep is to be the Self. Consciousness is awareness.

You do not need to cultivate, attain or kick start awareness. Being aware is awareness. Being awake or aware naturally is always abiding as one's true nature. So simple. There is no spiritual state of awareness. Only the natural state of being aware or awareness is the Reality. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ There never was some holy, spiritual or mystical presence of consciousness or awareness. As with water and ice. Dead people are not aware. Awareness present is sentience. The natural effortless activity of being alive and aware. Being aware is the natural activity of Life or consciousness. Being aware is the natural state of being. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Being awake and aware of being oneself naturally is present awareness.Awareness is sentience. Wakeful-ness is the natural state of pure awareness or pure being common to all. In other words, everyone awake from sleep effortlessly is already a 'buddha', they simply do not know it. After all what else did you expect the Self to be? You are awareness. You are the Self. You are God. All sentient beings are essentially 'buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ Call off the Search. There is no becoming a Buddha or some holy God that is yet to be discovered. There is no spiritual or religious state of Freedom, liberation, mukti, Enlightenment etc. The Reality is simply being oneself naturally. So simple. The striving to become anything new or spiritual is the only bondage.

The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Only the spiritual or religious con artist will mystify the Reality has being something that it is not. Spirituality and religions are always pointing to illusion. Spiritual and religious people do not want Seekers, worshippers, devotees and followers to know this. After all, only ignorance can be sold or acquired from others appearing holy. Stupid spiritual and religious people camouflage this simple Truth with all kinds of erroneous and fictions concepts and beliefs. No one can give you anything which you do not have already. Spiritual and religious people sell water by the river. The true pointer has nothing to sell. He knows you need nothing. Freedom is Free. Self-appointed Gurus that are selling retreats, books, CD's and tapes are only doing it for a business. For making money. If you have been a long time spiritual Seeker and looked everywhere for what is already naturally present here and now, you must come to the realization that you have been looking in the wrong direction all this time.Someone has given you wrong knowledge and you believed them. Any spiritual Teacher or Guru is not your friend. Veiled Seekers fall for a trap or illusion of liberation. Don't you know that the Truth or Reality is always here and now? Life is Now only. What else is undeniably present this very moment but Life itself. You are Life. You are consciousness. You are God. Nothing new, spiritual or holy about being. Being yourself naturally just as you are is abiding as that natural consciousness or living-ness. Instead of being as they are naturally, spiritual Seekers seek to become something holy. Some people foolishly believe that to know the Self is to acquire a special faculty. But it is not.

The Self is Life itself. Being alive is abiding as this consciousness itself, it is the very nature of Life. Realisation is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Get rid of the camouflage of ignorance. Just this and nothing else is the Realization. Understanding that Life is consciousness is to remove ignorance. That is all that is necessary to know the Self and Reality. That is what so called Self-Realization is. No time or effort is required. Understanding alone is realizing. There is no becoming, attaining or achieving anything new. There never was. Bondage and liberation do not exist. You are ever-Free. What binds you? If you look for your chains they will not be found. It is all imaginary. Forget all about spirituality and all organized religions if you want to know the simple Truth for they cannot help you but only entice you and confuse you with lies and false promises. It all works in reverse. A paradox. There is no becoming or attaining anything. Only understanding what this consciousness simply is, is all that is required to know oneself and the Infinite Self. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Understanding is all. That is the Open Secret. To know the ultimate Truth about oneself and the Infinite Self AKA consciousness has always been very simple. Who said it was hard or difficult? Paradoxically the simplicity is the only difficulty. It is only difficult for the brainwashed spiritual or religious believer. In fact believers are people that have spend their whole life believing the false to be true. To know the Reality.Forget everything spiritual and religious you have ever acquired from others and there you are.

All acquired spiritual and religious knowledge are paradoxically the greatest ignorance. The greatest illusion is religion. Spirituality and all religions are only the art of deception and illusion. It is all and only the art of make 'believe'. The nature of one's true nature is natural, not spiritual. Illusion is spiritual. Even thou an ordinary person is already a so called 'buddha' and of course a 'buddha' is simply an ordinary person. Just this and nothing else. Some people want to play the spiritual Guru or Master of illusion by having a bunch of idiots blindly worshipping them and taking care of them financially. These are people that want to create a sect, cult or religion by enticing veiled and ignorant Seekers to chase after fictitious spiritual carrots. Beware of the holy Buddha you see on the road. It is only a fraud. A finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. To hold on to the finger is to miss the moon completely. Realize that a spiritual or holy Guru is the greatest illusion.Therefore to fall in love with any spiritual Guru is to fall in love with the false or illusion. See the false as false.There is nobody special, spiritual or holy. Some people only pretend to be for recognition, to be worshipped or a fee. Know the simple Truth about the Reality. The Reality is nothing special, spiritual or holy. It never was. Ignorant people only assume or believe that it is, when in fact it is not and never will be. The Reality is already here. There is no waiting for anything new. Life or existence is consciousness.So simple. That alone is the Reality. Nothing new or extra-ordinary. Being alive. Who is not aware of himself and does not like to be? The answer to who am 'I' is not found in the graveyard of the past or somewhere in the future but always undeniably present right here and right now as one's own being. 'I' am is the Reality.

Understand that being alive naturally and aware of being oneself is this presence of consciousness we call 'the Infinite Self' and you have done all that needed to be done. You will realize that consciousness is what you already are this very moment and have always been all along. You simply did not know it. Ignorance is the only obstacle. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness. The natural state of being awake or aware. Did you know that the Self or the Reality is consciousness? Did you know that to be awake from sleep is abiding as this consciousness itself? What is consciousness? Life. Consciousness and existence are synonymous with being alive. Consciousness is the natural intelligence and the living power or energy functioning the entire body. If you are Seeking spiritual enlightenment or spiritual liberation. Call off the Search. There is no such thing. Enlightenment is only a made up religions hoax that is used to entice the simple, the weak and the dumb. That is all it is and will ever be. Consciousness is not something spiritual or religious. It is Life or existence. Awareness of being present here and now or present awareness is that. There is no reaching the Self. Only the veiled and the ignorant will foolishly believe that the Self is yet to be attained. These concepts are only for blind Sheepos. Believers and worshippers of illusion will believe that crap. It is all non-sense. Being alive is the presence of consciousness. Life is Now only. The experience is always here and now. Being alive and awake from sleep is abiding as one's true nature. Life is living itself as you. You are Life which is the natural presence of consciousness. So near and so dear is the Reality or this consciousness. It is alive-ness or being alive.

Of course if you are the spiritual or religious type, well then this simple Truth is not for you. After all, how can anyone realize this simple Truth when they have spend many years cultivating the false. The so called Guru lovers and God worshippers will never the simple Truth about the Infinite Self. They became attached and stuck to their acquired spiritual and religious ways. Nothing can help this people. Paradoxically to know the Infinite Self or one's true nature is in fact very easy for anyone that is simply open to the common, the boring and the ordinary, to know no-thing. Every-thing is this no-thing. All there is ever present is always consciousness in essence. Consciousness is the very core or substratum to all that is present or all that exists. Just like someone cannot see the wind but only it's expression.Consciousness is the unseen power. Consciousness cannot be objectified or denied. It just undeniably is. As it always is naturally. We all directly and undeniably experience this presence of consciousness as Life itself. To know the Infinite Self is so easy. Look at yourself. You know that you are alive because Life is undeniably present. Being alive and knowing that you are. You are because consciousness is present. Just like water and ice. There is no ice present without water present. Without this consciousness present there is no 'I' am. Consciousness present is 'I' am. Everyone alive is always abiding as the Self, they simply do not realize it because Life, existence or consciousness is so ordinary and so natural to everybody. How can you kiss this beauty that we call Life?Life is the precious, it is the beloved. You are Life or this consciousness itself this very moment. It is pure being. Everyone alive always experience the Self or consciousness directly as one's own affectionate self, as one's own being. Look are yourself. Are you are alive and aware of being? You know that you are? 'I' am is certain.

That is IT. Full stop. You know that you are alive and you like it. Knowing that you are, that you exist here and now is 'I' am. Being alive and aware of being oneself is at once the Self and 'I' am. One's true nature is the presence of consciousness or Life. It is pure existence itself. Life or existence is the Self and yourself.Thou art that. Your body is Life's temple if you like. The natural presence of intelligence which is the unseen living energy within your own dwelling is this consciousness itself. The Reality is at once being alive and aware or being and consciousness. Awareness of being is 'I' am. Consciousness present is 'I' am.One's own existence is that. Knowing that you are present or present awareness is this consciousness itself. Life is everyone's true nature and the undeniable Oneness present in all. One Life that some call the One God. Nothing mystical about Life. Consciousness is the undeniable natural intelligence we call Life and the Reality. Consciousness is the Spirit of Life. "The kingdom is in you". Life is the Oneness that is being pointed to. Everyone is already that Life essence itself. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ Can Life be any closer to oneself? Of course not! It is closer to you than your own breath. Dead people do not breathe. Existence, alive-ness, living-ness is the natural presence of consciousness, so near and so dear. It is beating your heart, breathing you and shining through your eyes this very moment. You cannot objectify consciousness because you are that consciousness itself AKA the One without a second. Seeing is being the Self or consciousness. Hearing is being the Self or consciousness. Thinking, feeling, knowing etc are only the natural activity of consciousness or Life.

There has never been a God and you. You are God or the Self this very moment by simply being just as you are. Not some mystical God of religion, but the Reality which is existence and consciousness. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ How simple can the ultimate Truth be?To be or not to be.Who is not aware of being? Being alive presently, here and now, this very moment alone is being the Self. That it IT. Just this is the Reality. Common to all and always undeniably experienced directly by everyone alive naturally. The Self or consciousness present is that 'I' am you know so well already as your own affectionate being. Consciousness is being and being is consciousness. One's own existence needs no proof. 'I' am is always certain as pure awareness being. Existence or Life here and now is the presence of consciousness and that is the Infinite Self. So simple. No one is ever apart from their true nature. Being alive naturally is everyone's true nature.Alive-ness is the Self. Call consciousness either Life or God. All are only pointing to the same presence of existence we all like to be. There is no spiritual goal to be reached or anything new, anything different or special to be attained. Ignorant and foolish 'believers' will adopt a Guru or a religion and brainwashed themselves to falsely 'believe' that they are bound. Bondage is only psychological. One only 'believes' that there is bondage. Bondage only exists inside someone's head as spiritual or religious brainwashing. Seekers are people that are told they are bound and must become Free and they obviously believe it. Not knowing how close and ordinary the Reality truly is. The Search for spiritual liberation becomes a trap. Paradoxically one cannot cultivate illusion or spirituality and know the absolute Reality. Forget spirituality because it is all illusion or crap. Garbage feed to the veiled and ignorant for a fee. Consciousness is the unseen power, presence and intelligence we all like to be.

Call off the Search. Consciousness is Life itself.You are it this very moment. Everyone is that. Consciousness or Life is the Oneness. Being alive is being the Self. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ You never lost it. Simply overlooked the most precious. The 'diamond' in your pocket is Life itself. You are Life. You are that. There is nothing spiritual whatsoever about it. Existence here and now is the Reality. Nothing spiritual, but all natural. The Infinite Self, God or the Oneness is paradoxicallythe most common, the most plain, boring and super duper ordinary. It is one's own ordinary existence. That is the funny paradox. Thou art that already. Seeking it is always missing it. What you Seek is paradoxically what you have always been and are. Once you know the simple Truth about Life and yourself, all the religious and spiritual books you have ever come across are no longer valid. Including all the Gurus, cults, sects etc. All the spiritual and religions concepts people have accepted to be true about the Self or some God are paradoxically false imagination or illusion. There has never been any Reality in spirituality. But only Reality in actuality. The Reality is the undeniable fact of one's own being. 'I' am is that presence of consciousness. There has never been any holy presence or spiritual consciousness. Life is the Oneness present in all and that alone is the Reality. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To be or not to be.Can anyone be without existence? What is the power breathing you and expressing itself as you but Life itself. Life alone is consciousness and that is what existence is, being or existence is the Reality.

Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Spiritual Seekers foolishly waste their time chasing after fantasy while the Reality is always here and now, present as Life itself. Life, one cannot be without it. Being alive is the experience itself. Nothing special or spiritual. Being alive is natural. Consciousness is the natural state of being or existence itself. What effort do you have to make to be? Alive-ness, living-ness, being-ness, 'I' am-ness and consciousness are the same presence of existence. Call off the Search.Nothing is missing. One cannot deny that consciousness is indeed present because everyone knows that they are. Everybody knows and says 'I' am. Life present is 'I' am.Therefore know that 'I' am is Life, consciousness or God. Nothing new under the Sun. The Reality, the Infinite Self or God is simply 'I' am or the knowing that you are alive and kicking this very moment. Presently is the absolute Reality. So simple. Knowing that you are alive presently is pure awareness of being, it is 'I' am. You do not have to repeat 'I' am, 'I' am, 'I' am all day long to know that you are. 'I' am is first hand and needs no proof. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ 'I' am is always with you so to speak as pure awareness of being. Everyone knows 'I' am. One cannot negate one's own self, being or existence. 'I' am is certain. Spirituality is crap and only for fools. While the Reality is common sense. The absolute Reality and sought after Truth is the simple fact of one's own being. What can be easier than that? Like a precious 'Diamond' hidden within your pocket all along. Nothing was ever lost or needed to be discovered hidden far away. The Self is one's own existence itself. Know yourself. Know that 'I' am is that. Awareness of being alive or existence here and now is at once 'I' am

and the undeniable presence of Life or consciousness. That is all the Reality simply is. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being... The best definition is 'I' am that 'I' am. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Understanding is all. Life is everyone's true nature. There is no need to strive to cultivate being alive. Life is living itself naturally as yourself. The Self is consciousness. Consciousness is the natural state of being aware. The Open Secret to Self-Realization is simply understanding that the natural state of being conscious or consciousness is the Self. To be awake from sleep is to abide as that consciousness itself. There is no reaching, there is no attaining or becoming anything new. Why should anyone strive to become consciousness when being conscious is consciousness itself? To be conscious is to abide as one's true nature. Nothing special or extra-ordinary. That presence of cognizance or sentience alone is what has been pointed to as pure unchanging awareness or the Infinite Self for millennia. Look at yourself here and now. Are you conscious? Are you aware?That is it. Consciousness is indeed present because you know that you are. Consciousness present is 'I' am. It is all very simple, common and ordinary. That is what the Self is all about. Conscious-ness. No one wise ever said that the Self or consciousness is anything new, spiritual or holy,but paradoxically natural, common to all and very ordinary. That is the only difference between the wise and the ignorant. To the ignorant the Self is something special or holy. To the wise it is natural and ordinary. Just like water and ice.Consciousness and Life are synonymous. Therefore one's own existence is that presence of consciousness itself. Nothing new or hidden far away but paradoxically closer than close. It is 'I' am.

Who is not aware of being oneself and does not say 'I' am all day long? Everyone alive and awake from sleep knows 'I' am. Everyone knows that they are. Consciousness cannot be denied. One's own existence or being-ness needs no proof. You are the knowing that you are present or aware of being. That is what 'I' am simply represents. Pure awareness of being. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The only illusion of separation and bondage is wrong acquired knowledge or the false notion that the Self is something new, special or spiritual. When in fact the Self or consciousness is that 'I' am you know so well. What are you looking for, when here and now you are that? Call off the Search. There is no reaching the Self. Understanding alone is Realizing. That is the 'Precious' or Sought-after Truth that one cannot find outside oneself but simply recognize by understanding that consciousness is Life itself. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ There has never been any spiritual or holy Self present anywhere has it is promised by so many self-appointed Gurus and spiritual Teachers. These people are only selling water by the River to the veiled and the ignorant. Life is the Sought after Truth. It is what is truly happening here and now. One's own self, being or affectionate existence here and now is the Self. The natural state of being alive and aware of being is abiding as that. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Call off the Search. Being alive is being the Self. You already are at the destination you have paradoxically never left. Nothing holy or spiritual about being. Existence is the natural state of being.

Once you understand that being alive is being the Self, you have done all that needed to be done. Consciousness is the natural state of being. The ultimate Truth is so simple. Thou art that. While the Reality is always naturally and effortlessly present closer than close to oneself, the only difficulty for veiled spiritual Seekers is to come to the realization that they have been conned and enticed to chase after illusion all this time, by foolishly believing the false to be true. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What you Seek is paradoxically what you already are. Consciousness is nothing new. The experience is here and now. Consciousness or the Self present is being alive and abiding as yourself. The Reality is always here and now. No one can ever be apart from their own existence. The Reality is not some fictitious spiritual or religious state of false imagination. The Reality is being or existence.Life, consciousness, awareness are synonymous with being it. Who is not aware of being oneself and does not know or say 'I' am? One cannot deny one's own self, being or existence. 'I' am is the Real-'I'ty. To be or not to be. Who is not aware of being alive or existing? Can anyone sane say 'I' am not or 'I' do not exist here and now and foolishly negate their own being or undeniable existence? Of course not! Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self is consciousness. The state of being conscious that we call wakefulness orunchanging awareness is this plain ordinary presence of consciousness known as the Self, He, the Reality.

That is what the Self, He, the Reality truly is. Consciousness is simply being aware. One's true nature is aware-ness or the natural state of being aware common to everyone. There never was some holy or spiritual Self. A holy or spiritual Self is only found in cults and organized religions. Reality is simply the presence of Life itself which is nothing other than the natural expression of consciousness. Everyone alive is the Self. Being alive is abiding as this consciousness itself. Being awake from sleep and aware of being is consciousness. It is 'I' am. The Self is that 'I' am you know so well already as your own being. Everyone alive effortlessly experience this presence of consciousness directly as the natural state of being aware and remaining aware or wakeful-ness. That is all it is. In other words if you are awake from sleep you already are so called 'Enlightened' or a living 'Buddha'. Only ignorant and foolish people strive to attain, become or achieve what they already are naturally. The state we call 'Realization' or 'Enlightenment' is simply being oneself. There is no becoming or attaining anything special, spiritual or new. Only the veiled and the ignorant falsely believe that there is. Anyone that understood what this consciousness simply is, will only say what I am saying now. Call off the Search. Consciousness is not something new, spiritual or hidden far away. It is the natural state of being. Why seek illusion or false imagination when being alive naturally and effortlessly is always abiding as one's true nature which is consciousness or Life itself? Awareness of being or existence is 'I' am. You know that you are present because consciousness is present as pure awareness of being, as 'I' am. Not some holy or spiritual 'I' am, but the knowing that you are present here and now 'I' am. Spiritual people are foolishly busy Seeking illusion while the Reality is existence itself. Being alive and aware of being oneself is the only Reality being pointed as 'I' am. That is all there is to realize. Then you laugh at yourself for being so foolish. The Self you Seek to know is truly yourself. Plain and ordinary.

Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self (consciousness). A strange paradox!.... Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ I laugh when I hear that ignorant spiritual Seekers from all sorts of religious denominations are Seeking Freedom. After all, what binds you other than a false belief of being bound? Spiritual and religious people are the same thing. Believers in the false. Bondage is only a false idea or belief. It is only psychological There is no bondage. The honest pointer will say what I am saying now. The people that Seek Freedom have only convinced themselves that they are bound. Stop imagining and start knowing. To know the Truth is the key. Knowing is NOT believing. That is the Joke of it all. Find out what binds you. Find out what is Real. Look for your chains and they will not be found. In fact there is no spiritual bondage and there is no spiritual liberation. Ignorant and veiled spiritual and religious people only imagine that there is. They have brainwashed themselves to foolishly believe the false or illusion to be true. Trapped to a endless search of some fictitious spiritual salvation, liberation or Enlightenment. They were told by some holy Guru or a spiritual teacher or religious leader that they must do something spiritual or religious in order someday to become Free. That is all B.S. of course. Freedom is only understanding that there is no bondage. Just this and nothing else. That is the Secret. That is all Freedom truly is. There is no becoming or attaining anything new, different or special. In fact if you have a closer look at spirituality and all religions they are all crap. Spirituality and religions are paradoxically the poison, not the cure. The Reality is not spiritual or religious. Anyone that tells you otherwise is ignorant or lying to you.

Question, investigate all your acquired spiritual and religious beliefs. That is what must go. Forget all that non-sense and have look at your own being. Understanding alone is Freedom. Ignorance is the cause of all mischief. To be bound is to foolishly believe in God. Freedom is to know yourself, by realizing that here and now you are that. What God is there? Have a look and see. There never was one because it is only a mental creation. Spirituality is only for delusional people also known as Seekers. Reality is nothing spiritual or illusory but the simple fact of one's own being. Awareness of being present right here and right now is at once the Reality and 'I' am. Be wise and see through the veil of ignorance and leave all the spiritual crap to blind and ignorant fools. The spiritual Seeker is only bound to a false notion of separation. Bondage is only psychological. Nothing else. There is no bondage and there is no liberation. So called Self-Realization is only understanding that being alive and aware naturally is abiding as that. What is that? Plain common to all ordinary consciousness. What else would the Self, He or the Reality truly be? A blazing light? In other words to be alive, conscious or sentient is abiding as the Self, He, the Reality. Being alive and aware is plain ordinary existence and that alone is the absolute Reality. It is not some spiritual state or religious experience. It is pure being. It is the state of pure being common to all. Nothing new, spiritual or special. Only the veiled and the ignorant foolishly believes that it is. To the wise it is simply Life itself. So simple. You have never left it or lost it or ever been apart from it but always have been it your entire Life. You are it this very moment. Life is what is truly happening. The experience is always here and now Being alive is the experience itself. That is what being the Self is all about. Life is living itself as you. You are Life or consciousness itself.

Life is everyone's true nature. Nothing special or spiritual but natural. Here and now you are that consciousness itself. Call off the Search. The Search for a spiritual Self is a trap. Understanding that Life itself is consciousness and that being conscious is always abiding as that pure consciousness itself is all that is required. To be alive is living-ness, to be conscious is conscious-ness. To be aware is aware-ness. Like water and ice. Life and consciousness are One. Why foolishly Seek spirituality which is illusion when the Reality is always here and now? Being alive and aware of being oneself is being it. Everyone alive knows this consciousness so well already as 'I' am. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Existence, consciousness, being. Being the Self is simply the natural experience we call Life. Being alive is abiding as one's true nature. That alone is the Reality. When you Seek it. You are looking away from it. Being alive is being it. Nothing new, different or special. 'I' am is nothing new or spiritual. 'I' am is pure awareness of being. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The so called "Diamond in your pocket" is Life itself. That is the Reality self-shining within your own dwelling. Consciousness is nothing spiritual or holy but natural and ordinary. Paradoxically to turn toward spirituality is to always look away from the Reality. Just understand that being conscious is consciousness and right here and now you are that. If you ever wondered what has pointed to for millennia as everyone's true nature. That is it. Consciousness is not some spiritual state that is yet to be reached or to be attained but the natural state. That is the funny paradox. Sought after Truth is found by not Seeking it. Only by understanding. Wisdom is Freedom.

Ignorance is the only illusion of separation and duality.Get rid of ignorance with understanding. There is no becoming Self. Being oneself is being the Self. That is all there is to realize. What is Life or existence? The natural expression of consciousness. Therefore being alive or existing right here and right now is effortlessly abiding as that. Being alive and aware of being is abiding as one's true nature naturally which is consciousness. Know thyself. Have a look at your real self or true nature. Are you alive, are you conscious and aware of being? Voila! You are the knowing that you are. Consciousness present is pure awareness of being. It is 'I' am. Whenever you hear the words you are He, you are the Self, you are That, etc, what is really means is that you are Life. Just this and nothing else. Consciousness and Life are One and the same. The experience is always here and now. Life is Now only. Breathing is happening presently, the heart is beating presently. Being or existing is always presently or Now. One's own affectionate natural effortless existence right here and right now or 'I' am-ness needs no proof.Here and now you are that. Consciousness is pure being. Being alive and awake from sleep naturally isat once this presence of consciousness and 'I' am. Everyone knows that Life is indeed present simply because no one alive can deny being. Only a self-appointed Guru, a spiritual Teacher and religious leader will camouflage this simple Truth with fiction, superstition and made up fantasy. The Self, He, the Reality or God etc, never was some holy or spiritual presence,

but simply the natural presence of consciousness itself that is always experienced directly by everyone alive as Life itself. That is the Secret. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ The Paradox. Don't you know that all acquired spiritual knowledge is paradoxically the greatest ignorance? Forget everything spiritual and voila! You are there! Being yourself just as you are. That alone is the Reality. Everything else is illusion. Only the Search for a spiritual Self is a carrot and a trap. Call off the Search. Look at yourself. You know that you are. If you are not dead or un-conscious you are aware of being. Consciousness is indeed present. Awareness of being is abiding as one's true nature. Knowing that you are present or present awareness. Being the Self. Being aware and remaining aware naturally is this presence of consciousness. The Self is nothing new, spiritual or special. It is 'I' am. Being aware is awareness of being and that is at once being the Self, being oneself and this consciousness itself.The Self is just another name for you. For the ones who are willing to understand, ending the Search for consciousness or the Self that was never lost is very easy. No time, practice or effort of any kind is required to know one's true nature. There never was any reaching, attaining or becoming consciousness or the Self. Understanding is Realizing. There is only understanding that being conscious naturally is abiding as this consciousness itself AKA the Self. If you are alive and conscious you are aware. Being aware is the unchanging awareness we call the Infinite Self. Being aware is abiding as that. The Reality is being conscious or consciousness. In other words if you are aware of being, you are not dead, un-conscious or asleep, you are aware. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

Aware-ness is the natural state of being aware common to everyone alive. So simple. Look at yourself here and now. Aren't you aware? That is being aware and thus the presence of awareness. Everyone alive and awake from sleep every day is always the Self or effortlessly abiding as this unchanging awareness itself. Some people simply do not realize it. Awareness cannot be objectified, it is no-thing. Awareness is very subtle and therefore it is simply overlooked until it is clearly pointed to and effortlessly recognized as one's affectionate true nature and natural state of being. It is nothing new. Realizing that simply being aware naturally is this presence of awareness itselfdoes not take any time or any effort. Just some common sense. Understanding this, is realizing the Self. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Once you get that there is nothing lost or spiritual whatsoever about the Self, you finally got it. Being aware is simply being conscious or being awake from sleep. That alone is what the Self truly is. Life, consciousness, awareness, being is 'I' am. Everyone alive knows that they are, 'I' am is first hand. Aware-ness present is knowing that you are present. You are that. You are the knowing that you are. Present awareness is 'I' am that 'I' am. The Search for a spiritual Self is trap. Awareness is nothing to be freshly acquired. Spiritual Seekers cannot accept that they have been looking in the wrong direction when all along they already are the Self but so busy seeking the Self as something new, spiritual or holy. To Seek awareness is to always look away from awareness. To be aware is what you are. Awareness was never spiritual or religious in anyway but simply natural.That is the funny paradox. To Seek this presence of awareness in any spiritual ways is only to acquire ignorance and wrong knowledge.

The natural state of being. Awareness is not spiritual but simply natural. Another name for being aware or aware-ness is wakeful-ness or sentience. Being conscious is nothing new but what we all are naturally when we are awake. Wakeful-ness, aware-ness, conscious-ness are synonymous with being the Infinite Self and oneself. That is all. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Who foolishly needs to cultivate and strive to attain or acquire awareness when simply being aware, is already abiding as this awareness itself? Get to know your real nature. One only has to have a look and see. Remove ignorance. That is all that is necessary. Being aware is being the Self. The Infinite Self, He, the Reality or true consciousness which is everyone's true nature is already here, it is very ordinary and natural. It is the natural state of being common to all and always experienced directly by everyone alive. The wrong knowledge that the Infinite Self is something spiritual or religious is a trap. That wrong knowledge must go. What you Seek is nothing new, spiritual or apart. It is yourself. See the false as false. Any spiritual state of awareness do not exist. There is only the natural state of being. Being aware is the absolute Reality. Being aware is what is truly being pointed as one's true nature.That is the Open Secret. The Self is not something new, spiritual or far away. It is what you are naturally. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Just be, that is being the Self. Nothing was lost. Remove ignorance only, that is all that is required. Remove the false notion or wrong idea that you are not the Infinite Self already and voila!

That alone is the so called Self-Real-'I'-zation. Thou art that.Call off the Search. After all, how much time does it take to know that you are? Everyone knows and says 'I' am. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To the veiled and the ignorant consciousness is foolishly believed to be something spiritual. To the wise that knows the Truth, consciousness is simply natural. To a fool consciousness is believed to be God. To the wise consciousness is simply Life or existence itself. What is Real? Get to know the Truth! There is no spiritual state of consciousness. Enlightenment is a hoax used to entice ignorant seekers. The experience is here and now. Being alive is being the Reality. Spirituality is illusion or false imaginationwhile the Reality is simply Life itself. Being alive or alive-ness is abiding as one's true nature. No one can deny one's own existence. Everyone alive is aware of being. Awareness of being is the Reality. The Reality here and now is 'I' am. Just like Gold can take many shapes or forms and yet the essence will always remain Gold. Life will take many shapes or many forms but the essence always remains Life. No one alive lives Life. Life is living itself naturally as everyone. One Life or the One without the second present as all sentient beings. Just like water and ice. Life which is pure consciousness is everyone's true nature. Nothing new or spiritual whatsoever about being alive, but natural. We are Life living itself naturally. That is all. The natural state of being. Forget everything spiritual and you are there. Be still and know that 'I' am or 'I' exist is the absolute Real-'I'-ty. The Infinite Self is nothing new or spiritual but that 'I' am you know so well.

It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self is me, my self and 'I'. The Self is just another name for 'you'. What else did you expect it to be? The Infinite Self or consciousness is just another name for the good ol' ordinary everyday 'you'. Consciousness is not imaginary. It is the simple fact of one's own being. No one alive can deny the Self or consciousness is present. Life, existence, consciousness are synonymous. If you were told that the Infinite Self was in anyway spiritual or religious. Oops. You only have been sold water by the River all this time. You foolishly believe the false to be true. The Infinite Self is existence itself. Consciousness is nothing new, spiritual or apart. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. That is IT. One's own ordinary self, being or natural effortless existence is this presence of consciousness itself AKA the Infinite Self, God or Life. The Self is not silence, space or anything spiritual or religious. It never was. Some idiots made it up to be. Being alive is the Reality. Existence is consciousness expressing itself naturally as one's own being. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Common to all and experienced directly by everyone alive naturally as Life itself. So natural and so simple is the ultimate Truth. One's own existence is the Self. Consciousness is that 'I' am you know. Nothing new. You are that. Consciousness is what you have always been and are. It is yourself. What about spiritual and holy beings? Simple! Scammers and con artists that are preying on the ignorant. Anyone pretending to be spiritual orholy are only after fame, recognition and money. Just this and nothing else. There is no bondage and there is no liberation. Spirituality and religions are only businesses of make believe. There is no such thing as a spiritual Self or religious God.It is all false ideology and illusion.

Just fiction or spiritual carrots used to entice the veiled, the simple and the weak. If you want to be bound to illusion. Adopt a Guru, a religion and spirituality. Then you will spend years striving to Free yourself from false imagination. Existence. Being alive naturally is the experience. That is abiding as one's true nature. There is no bondage and there is no liberation. Spiritual people only imagine that there is. Question. Investigate. Find out what is real. Know the Truth. If it is not present here and now and can be denied it is only illusion. Once you come to recognize the most obvious and undeniable, that is it. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Can anyone deny one's own existence and claim 'I' do not exist or 'I' am not? Only a delusional fool would negate one's own being or denied one's own existence. Common sense is all that is required to know the Infinite Self. Simply because He is Life itself. So near and so dear is one's own affectionate existence. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Like a diamond hidden in your pocket all along. Life is the Precious and true Beloved. Nothing was ever lost. Simply overlooked. Life is what is truly naturally happening here and now. So plain, so familiar and so ordinary is the Self. Nothing new. That is why people miss it. They are so busy looking for something else. After all Life is nothing spiritual to be cultivated or practiced, it is the natural state. Call off the Search. Existence is the Reality. 'I' am is at once being alive and aware. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

Existence is not to be attained or to be cultivated. What effort do you have to make to be alive? Reality is natural, not spiritual or fiction. That is the funny paradox. Sought-after Truth is foundby not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ Wisdom alone is Freedom. Understanding is all. Call off the Search. The Truth is you. You are that. Consciousness is everyone's nature. It is not something apart or hidden far away. The Reality is being alive, conscious and aware of being. But hey, if this simple Truth about this consciousness is too simple, too plain and too ordinary for you, well keep on Seeking. As they say, one can only bring a horse to the water but cannot make him drink. When you are sick and tired of looking for the Self that was never lost. Then you will finally look at your own self. Because that is IT. The Self or consciousness is just another name for you. Not some ficticious spiritual or religious 'you', but the plain, ordinary everyday 'you'. The Self (consciousness) you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Here and now you are that consciousness itself naturally. Without ever trying to be. Being is the Reality. Here and now you are that. What is Life and what is death? Life is consciousness. Consciousness is the natural Living presence or governing intelligence that we call Life that is undeniably self-shining naturally within the body. The Power if you like. What happens when we die? Nothing happens to consciousness or the Power. Death is just a change from expressing as a pattern or a form to formless.

Life itself does not know death. Only the body or pattern that is created out of the five elements from the food ingested by the mother return to the five elements. Only the five elements are borrowed to create the body or a pattern for Life to express itself. What is Real or eternal does not come or go anywhere. The eternal is consciousness and that consciousness is no-thing. Every-thing that exists is paradoxically no-thing in nature. A funny paradox. One's true nature or consciousness is not the changing body but the unseen power undeniably present within the body or pure consciousness that we call Life. Know your true nature to be the Living presence or consciousness naturally present within the body. Growing your hair, beating your heart, feeding every cell and shining through your eyes. The Self is nothing new. Life is the Reality everyone likes to be. Life is Natural. Life is. It just is. Life is living itself Naturally. There never was anything spiritual about being. Existence is only Natural. Plain, common and ordinary everyday being-ness is abiding as one's true nature. Like a light bulb has power to shine of its own. The body has no power. Life is the power and the Reality. You are alive, you are the Self. You are the power within the body. Understanding this, is realizing that one's true nature is formless pure consciousness. Consciousness cannot be objectified or denied. It is pure being. Pure existence. To be alive and aware of being is the experience itself. Pure being. No one can deny the Self, consciousness or Life to be present. It is impossible to say 'I' do not exist or 'I' am not. One's own existence cannot be denied. To be, to exist is to be the Self. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Say 'I' am. See! Before you can say 'I' am you must be present and aware of being. Dead people do not say 'I' am. They are dead. Life is no longer present and shining within their own body. Remove the power or consciousness from the body and you have a dead corps. Still and silent. It will still have eyes but will not be able to see. Have ears but will not be able to hear. Consciousness is lively and buoyant. It is cognizant living-ness or awareness. Knowing that you are alive is the proof that consciousness is indeed present. It is 'I' am. Awareness of being.Look at your own being. You are alive and aware of being. You know that you are and you like it. That is IT. Awareness of being. The Self or consciousness is nothing new, special or spiritual but what you already are and have always been naturally. Living-ness, being-ness, 'I' am-ness. Of course if you want to be religious or spiritual and keep quiet or silent the rest of your natural life, then realize that you are only pretending to be dead before your time. Why be like a Zombie? Stillness and silence is for the dead. Consciousness is the natural activity of being alive. It just is. Pure existence. You cannot stop being. Life present is 'I' am present. Consciousness is therefore that 'I' am you know so well as your own being. Consciousness has nothing to do with spirituality, religions, silence or space. Consciousness or the Self is pure existence. Being alive is abiding as this consciousness. Existence present is 'I' am. Awareness of being.There is no waiting for anything new. The experience is always here and now. Being alive naturally is the experience itself. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

If you were told by some A-hole that if you believed and cultivated this or practiced that you will eventually become something new, spiritual or holy. You have been lied to. Life is Now only. That is IT. Here and now 'I' am is the Reality. That is all there is to realize. Existence is the Self. Existence is so simple and so natural. No effort is required to be. Common to all and always experienced directly by all. The Self is life itself. If you are alive, you are the Self. Knowing that you are alive is being the Self. Knowing that you exist here and now is this consciousness itself. That is all there is to realize. Consciousness is the natural essence of Life itself and the immortal Self. Consciousness always remains the same eternally.It is the imperishable Self. Not as a human pattern or any patterns but as pure unchanging consciousness itself.As no-thing. Do not foolishly believe that you will eventually reunite with some loved ones somewhere in heaven. That is only some religious creation and fantasy. It makes un-happy people feel better about their lives to foolishly believe that they will be a lot happier when they are dead. How foolish is that non-sense?. All the spiritual ideologies people foolishly believe about some life after death are false. No one goes anywhere but simply remains the exact same essence of existence but form-less. What is born must surely die.It is just the way life is. Patterns come. Patterns go. Yet, what happens to a wave that rises, moves and collapses back into the Ocean?Nothing. It remains Ocean and never was apart from the Ocean or anything other in Nature than Ocean. Of course without a pattern to express through, there are no thoughts or feelings present about being either human or a any thing. No-thing remains present and unchanging. So that is all. Life is the presence of consciousness present in all sentient beings.

Life is Now only. You lost nothing and you gain nothing. Only fools cultivate spiritual concepts or a before and an after. Attachments or Love for the dying body is very strong for some people. Yet, this is IT! Right here and right now is the only moment of existence. There is no coming or going anywhere. There is only here and now. No happy place, no heaven or hell. When the Dream of life ends. Only pure consciousness remains present as no-thing. Realize that only the body is born to die. The body has no future so don't get too caught up with it. Simply realize that you are not the dying body, but the affectionate living-ness or conscious-ness itself that is selfshining naturally within the body. That realization does not make someone become a Saint or holy being with spiritual faculties and all that non-sense. Simple Self-Realization or understanding is all that is required to remove ignorance. You gain nothing out of it. Only ignorance about one's true nature is removed. We call this understanding Wisdom. It is just fun to know oneself. After all, life is a only a journey of selfdiscovery. You are Life. You are consciousness. You are the Self. It is only Natural. There is nothing whatsoever spiritual about the Infinite Self. Only the ignorant foolishly 'believes' that there is. Life is living itself as you. Therefore you cannot acquire or become what you already are. Realize that you are Life. Life is everyone's true nature. The Infinite Self is Life itself. The experience is always here and now. Call off the Search. You are that. You are the Self this very moment. Just being yourself naturally. To be alive is the experience. So near and so dear. The Self is 'I' am. To know that you are alive presently is 'I' am. Existence present translates as awareness of being, as 'I' am. There is no one that does not say 'I' am. The wrong knowledge of 'I' am the body is the cause of all mischief. This wrong knowledge must go. That is the Realization. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Understanding is all. Consciousness present is the knowing that you are. Dead people do not say 'I' am. Consciousness is present as Life itself.

No one alive can deny being. No one alive can deny one's own existence and say 'I' am not. There is no reaching, becoming, achieving or attaining anything new, spiritual or special.There never was. Know the simple Truth! All acquired spiritual knowledge is paradoxically wrong or false acquired knowledge. There is no spiritual God to bless you, no one to turn to or pray to. Being is the experience. That is all. Reality is simply being alive and aware of being oneself. 'I' am is not spiritual but natural. To be or not to be. There isn't anyone alive who does not know and does not say 'I' am. Know that 'I' am is consciousness itself. Consciousness is the knowing that you are. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ It is all very simple. What is spiritual about being? Nothing at all. One's true nature is Natural. That is the Secret. It is Life itself. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Have you been swallowing spiritual crap and buying water by the River all this time? Foolishly believing you can buy yourself a happy place in heaven by sucking up to others pretending to be holy? How funny. You are wasting your time. There is no such thing. Spirituality is only fiction. Life is the experience and the only Reality. Existence just is. Know yourself to be Life itself and you know the imperishable Self. Instead of wasting your time striving to become something new, special or spiritual. Get to know you. Know yourself. Who are you? Are you what you appear to be? Are you your body? Find out! Who am 'I'? Freedom is not the acquisition of anything new, special or spiritual, but realizing that you are consciousness in nature. You are that. Consciousness is nothing spiritual but natural. That is the Secret to Life. Realize that you are Life itself.

Consciousness is the Sought-after Truth. It is nothing new, spiritual or apart. He is simply Life itself. Life or consciousness is indeed present because right here and right now you are alive. Being alive and awake. That alone is abiding as one's true nature. That alone is consciousness or the Self. Present awareness or being conscious is awareness of being. Consciousness present is 'I' am. The Self is 'I' am. There is no before or any after. The experience is always here and now. Being alive is always being the Self. Nobody lost the Self or becomes anything new or special. To be alive and conscious everyday naturally is to abide as He, the Self or the Reality.Nothing special. Nothing new or spiritual whatsoever. A paradox. Being the Infinite Self is simply being oneself naturally. What else do you want? Simply being alive is naturally abiding as one's true nature. That is the Open Secret. Being. There is no bondage or liberation. Just being oneself naturally. That is what this consciousness or the Self is. Life itself. Awareness present is being. Nothing new. 'I' am is common to all, plain, boring, ordinary awareness of being oneself and the One Self. That is all. Spirituality are just a made up illusory carrots used to entice the simple, the weak and the dumb. None of this crap has anything to do with the Reality. That the Secret. Life is God or He. The Reality is the simple fact of one's own being. It is 'I' am. Say 'I' am to yourself. Consciousness is indeed present because you know that you are. If you are un-conscious. Can you say 'I' am? Of course not! Being awake or aware is this consciousness. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Free yourself from ignorance only.

Freedom is not the acquisition of anything new, spiritual or special. Freedom is only the removal of ignorance. Understanding is all that is required. Bondage and liberation is only psychological. They both do not exist.Just false imagination. Meaning, if you believe that you are bound. You are only bound to that belief. Just this and nothing else. Consciousness is the nature of all. Just like water and ice. All there is present is always this consciousness only appearing in different forms or patterns. Simply overlooked. The Self is so common to everyone alive and awakeas plain, boring ordinary everyday 'I' am or pure awareness of being. One's own being is the most plain and the most ordinary to anyone. Everyone knows and says 'I' am. Everyone alive is always the Self. They simply do not realize it. Consciousness or the Self is not something to be freshly acquired or to be achieved. Like brainwashing or conditioning. Spirituality and religions are the opposite of the Reality. The ones who Seeks the Self as something spiritual will gain a spiritual way only. Nothing else. Spiritual Seekers are always looking away from the Reality by striving to become, acquire or experience illusion. Call off the Search. Like a 'Diamond' hidden in your pocket. The Self is always here. Consciousness is always present as your own being. As that 'I' am you know. You are what you Seek to know. Being conscious is being the Self or conscious-ness. The Self is not some spiritual presence or experience. The Self is just ordinary consciousness. Consciousness shines effortlessly as the natural state of being awake or aware all day long. That is all. We call this Living-ness or conscious-ness Life. That is what it is.Existence. So near and so dear. It is shining naturally within your own dwelling as your own existence. One's own being. Never lost but paradoxically present closer than close all along. The Self is 'I' am. You never lost it. You are it this very moment. Being alive and awake from sleep is abiding as that.

The Self (consciousness) you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The only trouble for the veiled and the ignorant Seeker is to foolishly believe that the Infinite Self is spiritual, when in fact it is simply Natural. One's own natural existence is the Self. We call this natural state of existence, being. That alone is the Real experience AKA the Reality. Everyone alive is Life or the Self living and expressing itself Naturally. Nothing spiritual about being the Self. It is simply Natural. What effort do you have to make to be? 'I' am needs no proof. The Natural State. Did you know that the Reality is nothing spiritual? So called God is just another name for Life or existence. Therefore being alive is being God. That is all. Right here. Right now. You are the Self. The experience is here and now. The experience is being alive. There is nowhere to go. Nothing new or different to become. You do not become the Self. Here and now you are that. Being alive and aware of being is 'I' am. You know that you are. Have a look and see.Who is not aware of being oneself? Are you alive? Are you aware of being? 'I' am is certain. There you go sport! That is IT. Full stop. That is what the fuss is truly all about. No-thing. That is everyone's true nature. Life or the Self is the unseen power, presence or energy self-shining naturally within the body. Life is an activity. Lively and buoyant. Life or consciousness is a natural presence of intelligence that is governing your entire body, beating heart and shining through your eyes. You are the 'host' within your own dwelling. Consciousness is everyone's true or real nature.Simply overlooked it is nothing new or special to anyone.

Know thyself. Realize that 'I' am does not represent the changing body but the Life essence within the body. Just like a light bulb cannot shine without electricity. No body can shine or exist without this living-ness or living presence and power which is consciousness. After all, if you are un-conscious or dead, are you aware of being?Of course not. Being alive and conscious is pure awareness of being. Being alive and conscious is 'I' am. The Self, He, the Reality is always self-shining as pure awareness of being. As that 'I' am you know. That simply means that everyone's true nature is Life itself. Life is the Lord, He, the Self or the Reality. It is naturally present inside everybody as pure consciousness or simply unchanging awareness. Therefore one's true nature is Natural. That is the Open Secret. The Self or the Lord is nothing new, spiritual or special. So simple. You cannot become Life. You are Life itself this very moment. How can you kiss yourself? Being is the experience. The experience is 'I' am. The experience is simply being alive. Full stop! You can only be what you always are naturally. Being alive and aware of being is the experience itself. That is what the Self or this consciousness simply is. In other words to be conscious is to be the Self. To be aware is to be the Self. Call this living-ness or Life, awareness or consciousness. Both are simply synonymous with being. It is so easy that it is laughable. So near and so dear. Closer than close is the Self to oneself. He is oneself. Instead of being oneself. Veiled Seekers strive their whole life to become something else. How foolish. Call off the Search. What you are looking for is what you already are naturally this very moment. You are that. That is what the wise have been pointing to for millennia. One Life or One presence of consciousness present in all. Life which is consciousness or pure existence is the undeniable presence being pointed to as the Reality. While the veiled and the ignorant is busy Seeking the Self as something new, spiritual or special.

The wise knows that that the Infinite Self or consciousness is nothing spiritual but natural. One's true nature is Natural. Not spiritual. What can be simpler than this? It is being. Spirituality is illusion. Existence here and now is the Reality.That is all. Spirituality and religions are only used to entice the ignorant. It is all a bunch of crap. What you Seek is what you already are this very moment by simply being yourself naturally. Why should anyone wait to know one's true nature, when being alive is being the Self? A stranger paradox! What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Awareness of being. 'I' exist here and now is 'I' am. God or the Infinite Self and 'I' am are One if you like. He is Life itself. Being alive and awake or aware is being the Self. The Self is the natural state of being. What is special or spiritual about being? Nothing. Therefore why are self-appointed Gurus and spiritual teachers selling water by the River to the ignorant? Simple. Same as always. Only to make money and milk the ignorant by selling them stories and fantasy. Whenever monetary donations are lovingly requested by self-appointed spiritual Gurus, teachers or some Eastern or Western religious organization for Freedom. Realize that it is simply a scam. There is nothing to sell. The Reality is not something that can be bought or acquired from others. Being alive is being the Reality. Consciousness is what we all are naturally already. So near and so dear. Understanding that being alive is being the Self is all that is necessary. Freedom is not striving to become Free.But only to realize that there is no bondage. The one who knows the Truth, knows that one needs nothing. Being alive is abiding as the Reality.

Understanding is all. Who said Freedom is yet to be reached or attained? Sold water by the River. Only the ignorant Seeker is told to become Free. Question your beliefs. The ones who believe are bound, are paradoxically only bound to that 'belief'. After all, what binds you? Look for your chains and they will not be found. That is all there is to be done. The false cannot stand up to investigation. Don't you know that Seeking spiritual liberation is paradoxically the only bondage? Spirituality and all religions only point toward the false or illusion. It is the poison not the cure. Know the Truth!There is no spiritual Awakening or spiritual Liberation, Enlightenment etc. That is all B.S. Spirituality is only false imagination and superstition. Not the Reality at all, but always going to be illusion. All the holy Buddhas and holy beings you will ever see on your path or on the Road are in fact frauds. That is the Secret to Freedom. There never was anything new or spiritual to be freshly acquired. No spiritual experience or religious state will ever be the Reality. Therefore why Seek the transient or spiritual experiences? Why Seek the impermanent or illusion? Isn't it foolish? Understand what this consciousness simply is. It is nothing spiritual or religious to be found or acquired outside oneself or through any spiritual denomination or meditation, but undeniably present within one's own dwelling or body as the most obvious and ordinary. Life itself. So near and so dear. The Self or consciousness is present as Life or existence. One does not have to pray or make any kind of effort for this consciousness to be. One cannot deny one's own existence. That is IT. One's own undeniable affectionate existence is the Infinite Self. Life is the absolute Reality. That which is. Existence, consciousness, being. Being or existing is the experience itself that some call being the Self, He, the Reality. Life, consciousness, existence which is everyone's natural state of being is in fact one's true nature. To be or not to be. Everybody alive knows that they are. 'I' am is certain. Being or existence cannot be denied.

That is all consciousness simply is. It is that 'I' am you know so well already as the simple fact of your own being. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Only a fool waits for Freedom. There is no waiting! Being alive is the experience. So simple. Life or consciousness is already here. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. Who is not aware of being oneself? Consciousness present is the knowing that you are. Consciousness is not some fictitious spiritual or religious state. Consciousness or Life is what we are. That is all there is to realize or understand. No blazing light or spiritual carrots to chase after. Awareness of being is 'I' exist or 'I' am. The Self is being oneself. Being alive and aware or awake from sleep is this consciousness itself self-shining naturally with everyone as one's own being. Nothing new, spiritual or holy. Seeking the Self as something new, spiritual or holy is a trap. Call off the Search. Nothing is missing or lost. Look at yourself. You are that. See the false as false. The Reality is the opposite of spirituality. A funny paradox. Spirituality is nothing but crap given to foolish people to swallow. All spiritual and religious concepts about the Infinite Self or the Reality are false. Total crap. After all, being alive is abiding as the Infinite Self. He is Life itself. Being alive is the experience. That is the Open Secret. Who ever told you you are not the Real Self or the Real-'I'-ty already? How much time does it take to know that you are? What effort do you make to be? Who is not aware of being oneself and doesn't know and say 'I' am? Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self (consciousness). A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be or not to be. Everyone knows that they are alive. The experience is being alive. Can anyone deny one's own existence and say 'I' am not?

To be alive or to exist is itself abiding as the Reality. That is all folks! Everyone knows that they exist. 'I' am is always certain. 'I' exist needs no proof. What is so special or spiritual about being? Nothing whatsoever. Who told you that there was anything spiritual about 'being' lied to you. The Self is Life itself. There is nothing spiritual about the Reality but simply natural. Some spiritual or religious scammer looking the part and pretending to be a holy being sold you water by the River. All the spiritual and religious knowledge that is offered in books or others as spiritual and religious salvation is crap. There is no spiritual bondage and there is no spiritual liberation either. Just wrong acquired knowledge. Spiritual and religious knowledge is wrong knowledge. That is all lies, fiction, false imagination Prove it to yourself. If you are a so called spiritual Seeker. What are you looking for? What are you Seeking? To become whole and complete of course. Well, you are already at the destination you have never left. Being yourself naturally is being the Infinite Self. Your own existence or being-ness or 'I' am-ness is the Divine. Life is the true God, the only Reality, the Oneness or the Infinite Self being pointed to by the wise. No biggy. You are Life living itself naturally. Nothing new, spiritual or holy about being. Existence is the natural state of being common to all that is undeniably experienced directly by everyone alive. Dead people do not say 'I' am. Awareness of being oneself is the Reality. 'I' am is the Self. When you are sick and tired of Seeking for something new to add on to yourself. Look at yourself. That is IT. You are that. The Self is another name for 'you'. Nothing new. Just like someone overlooking a pair of glasses on the top of their head. Nothing was ever lost. Being alive and aware of being is the experience itself. Life is the precious and beloved so called 'diamond in your pocket'. One's own existence is the Precious. Life is the True Beloved. Existence, being is the Sought-after truth and the Reality. 'I' am alive is the Bliss of the Self. To be alive is to be the Self.Plain and ordinary is the Reality.

'I' exist here and now is being the Self. 'I' am is the Lord or God. One's own self is God. Just this and nothing else. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it?..... The Self is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Say 'I' am to yourself. That is IT. Being yourself. What else did you expect the Self to be? Know that 'I' am is pure awareness of being. It is pure awareness of being. It (God) is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ There is no flash of light or some fictitious tale of a spiritual experience for the Reality to be. Why Seek illusion? To know the Self, He, the Reality is very easy. Stop Seeking and look at yourself. That is the Self you Seek to know. You are God. Just like that. Without doing a thing. Without any effort or striving to become anything new, spiritual or special. Rejoice! Life is the Real God. The Reality present within your own dwelling. Being alive is the experience. For example. If you seek awareness. Look at yourself. Aren't you conscious, awake or aware? That is it. Aware-ness. Being and remaining aware is the awareness that is Sought-after. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Are you aware? Undeniably aware of being present?'I' am is certain? Awareness is present as the presence of awareness itself which is the knowing that you are. How else would you be aware of being present or knowing that you are aware, if you are unconscious? To be aware is the experience.Being aware is awareness. What could be more simple, effortless and easier than that? So simple is the Truth about one's true nature that it is laughable. The ultimate Truth is so simple...At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is nothing special or spiritual whatsoever about this present awareness. It is pure being. You are present because you are aware. You are aware because you are present. Present awareness.

Spiritual and religious Seekers eat sugar coated crap but that does not make it true. Even sweetened crap is still crap. Who ever said to know the Self was either hard, difficult, the acquisition of something new, special or spiritual? No one wise of course? Only the veiled and the ignorant will cultivate erroneous spiritual ideology. Being alive and aware of being oneself is the Infinite Self or pure consciousness. Life expressing itself naturally. That is all the Self simply is. Nothing else. God is just pure ordinary everyday existence. Know the Truth! A spiritual or religious God never existed. Just a bunch of B.S. used by organized Religions to entice imbeciles. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The 'I' present in 'I' am. Who am 'I'? The answer cannot be found in a book or can ever be acquired from others. Stories and tales of some mystical spiritual transmissions from Guru or God to disciples are crap. Just made up spiritual carrots used to entice and confuse the weak and the ignorant. The Self is the core of one's own being. The Self is Life itself. The unseen Living power or energy within the body that we call Life. Life is living itself naturally as yourself, because you are Life itself. Life is just another name for consciousness or the Self and you. You are Life or you are consciousness or you are the Self. Being alive and aware is itself the experience. That's it. Just this and nothing else is the Self or the Reality. Call off the Search. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Spirituality and all religions are false. Existence is the Reality. That is all there to realize. There is nothing new, special or extra-ordinary about the Reality. Find out what is Real. If you believe yourself to be a spiritual or religious person, then realize that you are only chasing after false imagination, fiction or illusion,

while the Reality is already undeniably present within your own dwelling. The experience is always here and now. Life is Now only. Consciousness is already and ever-present with everyone alive. Someone sane cannot negate one's own being and state 'I' do not exist. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ 'I' exist or 'I' am is certain. One's own self, being or existence cannot be denied.'I' am is always with you. That is what 'I' am represents. Existence and consciousness are like water and ice. One and the same. To be alive and aware of being is abiding as that consciousness itself. That is all. Life is the Self. Life is the Lord. One cannot negate one's own existence. Being oneself is being the Self. The Self or this consciousness is that 'I' am you know as your own being. Who am 'I'? After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. 'I' am is certain. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Know yourself to be the Self. Thou art that.Being or existing just as you are. Know Thyself and you know the One without a second to be your own affectionate ordinary self. The Seeker is the Sought. Gee you are you. Thou art that. If you don't understand this simple Truth by now, well then no one can help end the Search for the Self that was never lost. You are what you Seek. Being alive, being oneself naturally is itself being the Self. Alive-ness. The natural state of being. That is what being is all about. One's own existence needs no proof. Full stop. There is nothing more to be realized. Being oneself is being the Self. You, being the Self want to know how to attain the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self is present closer than close. When did you lose 'you'? Aren't you aware of being yourself right here and right now? You are the Self.

That is all that the Real-'I'-ty is all about. Being oneself is being the Self. The Sought-after Truth. Being alive and awake from sleep is the experience itself. So simple. You gain nothing new or different because you lost nothing to begin with. Only wrong and stupid knowledge AKA spiritual and religious crap is removed. The Self is Life and Life is the Self. Call it God or the Lord. Life is the Reality. Consciousness is the natural presence of existence we all like to be. No past life existed or future life will ever exist. False imagination. Plain, boring and ordinary. Life is Now only. That is why people overlook the Reality. Life is what is truly happening presently. Here and now. The ones who Seek the Self as something new, special or spiritual only gain spiritual ways, practices and false knowledge about the Reality. Understanding that bondage and liberation do not exist is all that is required. Who told you that you were bound? Look for your chains and they will not be found. All spiritual crap that is found in spiritual and religious books is the cause of all mischief. In truth there is no bondage and there is no liberation whatsoever. Bondage is only psychological. People sell water by the river to the veil, the weak and the ignorant. Perpetuating a false notion of separation. If you want to be bound to a false notion of bondage, simply turn toward spirituality and religions. To adopt any spiritual or religious beliefs is to be bound to false imagination or illusion. There is no bondage and there is no liberation. Seeking to become, reach or attain liberation is bondage. Understanding what the Self, He, the Reality or this presence of consciousness is truly about is all that is necessary. Removing ignorance is all that is required. The Sought-after Truth is not found as a spiritual or religious presence or experience but simply as the true beloved, the precious we all like to be, existence or Life itself.

Ignorant of this simple truth, innumerable methods under different denominations, such as yoga, bhakti, karma, each again with many modifications, are being taught with great skill and in intricate detail only to entice the seekers and confuse their minds. So also are the religions and sects and dogmas. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Spiritual and religious people only entice Seekers for their own benefits. That is all Sages, Gurus, Buddhas, Yogis and Jnanis are good for. Only to keep Seekers veiled and on a endless Seeking path. It is a paradox! It all works in reverse. When will you find it? The very moment you stop Seeking. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ You are already there! Being alive is abiding as the Reality. Awareness of being alive here and now is 'I' exist or 'I' am. Any meditation, practice, yoga etc, are only taking the Seeker deeper into ignorance. There is no end to spiritual Seeking, simply because there is no such thing as a spiritual or religious Self, holy presence or entity. There never was a spiritual goal to be reached. The Search for a spiritual Self, spiritual liberation or Enlightenment is a Trap! There is no bondage nor is there a liberation. There is no heaven and there is no hell. There is no life after death with some happy place waiting for you to go after you die. Some people only imagine that there is.Like inventing an imaginary friend. Some will invent all sort of imaginary crap to make themselves feel better. That is the simple Truth that you will never find inside a spiritual or religious book. Paradoxically Seekers will believe the false to be true and reject the simple Truth as being false. Would you buy any book that tells you the simple Truth? Truth hurts. Spiritual and religious people on sell fiction and cultivate illusion. They only tell people what they want to hear. They will love you for your money.

See the false as false. Spirituality and religions are the problem not the solution. To create a religion, a cult or a sect one must acquire followers. Spiritual carrots are therefore used to entice and confuse Seekers. There is all kind of crap out there to entice the veiled and the ignorant. After all, who are spiritual Seekers? Whiners of course. Unhappy people that are always complaining that nothing is right or happening and going the direction they want it to be in there lives. Always seeking, crying and complaining. Wanting to find love, peace and happiness. Of course seeking all these transient states will never bring Freedom. Therefore for anyone to make money. All that is required is to sell promises of acquiring love, peace and happiness. Simple isn't it. Like the promise of a miracle cure. That is all spirituality and religions are all about. There are no shortage of self-appointed Gurus and spiritual books out there on so called self-improvement. There is always a new one that is popping up every week with new spiritual techniques, concepts, practices and beliefs. Yet why should anyone seek the impermanent? Life is living itself naturally. To know the Reality. Do not look far. Forget everything spiritual and religious and there you are. The Self is not something spiritual or religious. It is simply being oneself. Here and now you are that. Being yourself just as you are. Don't you know? Being alive is the Sought-after Truth and that is abiding as the Reality. Nothing new, whatsoever spiritual or holy. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Here and now you are That, you are He, you are the Self. But what does that mean, you are He, That or Self? Simple, it means that you are awareness.

What is awareness or the Self? The natural state of being conscious or aware. What else would 'awareness' be? Could awareness be something new, spiritual or holy? Of course not. Life or consciousness present as one's own existence, expresses itself as sentience or awareness. When Life is present or consciousness, awareness is the natural state of being conscious common to everybody. In other words, "you are Life" is what the word God or the Self truly represent. Consciousness is Life itself. After all can any light bulb shine without electricity?Consciousness is the living presence, unseen power or energy that is self-shining within the body as Life itself and you are that. Can you be or exist without consciousness? Consciousness must be present for you to be. Consciousness is the very substratum, the very core of one's own being. If you remove this life essence, consciousness or living energyfrom the body, you end up with a still, cold, quiet and definitely silent corps. In other words dead. Discriminate between what is Real and what is illusion. Ignorant spiritual and religious people alike will cultivate silence or stillness in order to reach, to attain, to experience or even become the Reality. That is all ignorance and non-sense. Do not try to keep quiet or cultivate silence. The effort is a waste of time and bondage. Beware of spirituality and all religions. All are fiction and only pointing toward illusion. The Reality is neither space nor is it silence. The Reality is Life. So near and so dear. That is the Reality present within your own dwelling. Lively and buoyant. What you need is to be awareof "being aware". ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Realizing or understanding that the natural ordinary state of being conscious or being aware or sentient or awake is being the Self is the so called SelfRealization.

That is what this presence of awareness or consciousness or the Self simply is. Just this. There is no becoming or achieving anything. There never was. Removing ignorance is all. Look at yourself. Are you aware right now?Yes? That is the Self AKA the aware-ness itself. The Self or awareness is nothing new but what you already are and have always been naturally. Awareness is not something new, special, spiritual or holy but simply the natural state of "being aware" or wakeful-ness common to everyone alive. Wakeful-ness, sentience, consciousness, awareness are all synonymous with one's true nature. Wakeful-ness or aware-ness is what the words you are That, He, the Reality or the Self truly represent. Being aware is abiding as one's true nature. The Self is common to everyone as everyday wakeful-ness. That is the Open Secret. To know oneself to be present as awareness itself is to know the simple Truth about one's true nature. Awareness is nothing new or apart. Being awake or aware is abiding as that. Just like a cloud that is camouflaging the ever-present self-shining Sun. Remove the B.S. spiritual and religious people claim that their God is and you are left with the most plain, common, ordinary, boring natural state of being. So near and so dear. That is what God is. 'I' am is God. Being oneself is the Reality. No one can deny one's own being. Existence is the Self or consciousness itself. 'I' am means 'I' is or 'I' exist. The 'I' is one's own self and the Self.No dual-'I'-ty. One's own plain ordinary everyday existence or being-ness or 'I' am-ness is the Divine. To know thyself simply means who is 'I' real identity. Who are 'you'? Only the veiled and ignorant will imply and falsely believe the false,that the 'I' is a finite separate self, ego or an independent entity. When the complete opposite is true.

Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Spiritual and religious people alike will make weak, simple and ignorant people and Seekers falsely believe that they are a finite self or that there some ego to get rid of in order to reach, attain or become the Self, but that is all a lie. It is all false knowledge. Just scam artists pretending to be spiritual and holy that are cultivating and perpetuating a false notion of separation, duality and bondage. By telling them spiritual lies they have them bound to illusion. Yet no one is ever bound or apart from their own being. To know the Real Self.Turn within not outside. Within your body is where this consciousness is abiding. Look at your own ordinary self. Look at your own being. It is 'I' am. The Self or consciousness is so plain, common and ordinary to everyone alive that it is simply overlooked. Awareness of being is nothing new. It is plain ordinary everyday being-ness. Being is the experience. Be content with your own existence. Be content with being yourself or 'I' am. There is nothing spiritual to be reached or attained. Remove ignorance. That is all. The Self is just another name for 'you'. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Just like water and ice is the same essence appearing differently. Everyone alive is the expression of Life or consciousness. All there is present or that exist is consciousness. The experience is here and now. Everyone knows that they are. Everyone knows and says 'I' am. Alive-ness, being-ness, 'I' am-ness is the experience itself. Being alive and aware of being. That is being the Self. There is no bondage and there is no liberation. Everyone alive is already this pure consciousness itself. There is no 'you' and consciousness.There is no separation or duality. There is only 'you' present as this consciousness itself. Here and now you are that. The ones who believe that there is God and them or consciousness and them do not know themselves.

Know yourself and you know the so called 'Kingdom of God' or the Oneness to simply be consciousness. After all, if you are conscious and therefore aware of being yourself, you are the Self. God is that 'I' am you know. Nothing new. Everyone knows that they are. 'I' am is nothing new or apart, just the simple fact of one's own being. Remove the veil or camouflage that spirituality and religions cast over the simple Truth. The Self is nothing new, apart or spiritual. But the most plain, common and ordinary presence you have always known yourself to be. There are no spiritual states to achieve or any spiritual Self or presence to be experienced as something new or holy. Realize that Life or consciousness is the Oneness.There is nothing special or spiritual about one's true nature. Only the veiled and the ignorant created some imaginary spiritual and religious concepts to entice others. Veiled people want to suck up and worship others believing them to be holy. Making up stories of special faculties. Just like misery likes company. Ignorant people like the company of others that are also ignorant. Praying to a God that does not exist and cultivating separation, duality and illusion. These are called believers, worshippers, spiritual and religious people. The Reality is 'I' am. That is what has being pointed to for millennia as the Real Self or Real-'I'-ty. 'I' am is nothing spiritual. It is the common to all affectionate knowing that you are. Who is not aware of himself? Who does not know and say 'I' am? Knowing that you are is the simple fact of your own being. Awareness of being is 'I' am. The Self is yourself. 'I' am alone is the Self, He, That or this consciousness itself that some people call God. Everyone knows 'I' am because no one alive can claim 'I' am not or that they do not exist. Being is the Reality. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Can anyone negate or deny the Infinite Self and say 'I' do not exist? One's own existence is the Self.

What else did you expected it to be? That is all there is to Realize. Realize that you are or 'I' am is that presence of consciousness itself AKA the Self is yourself. If you are alive and aware of being yourself, you are the Self. That is all. Call off the Search. Why would the fish in the water cries that he is thirsty when nothing is lacking or missing? The experience is here and now. Being alive is the experience itself. Nothing new or apart. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. To be conscious is consciousness. That is IT. Consciousness present is pure awareness of being. The knowing that you are present or present awareness is 'I' am. 'I' am is He, the Self or That. You are what you Seek. Your own ordinary self is the Self. Only the Search for an imaginary spiritual Self or religious God is a trap. There never was one. Superstitious people made it all up. Life or existence is consciousness or the Infinite Self. The One. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Don't you know that spirituality and all religions are false? The Sought-after Truth or the Reality is being alive. That is what it is. Being is the experience. Life itself is the Self. Alive-ness is abiding as one's true nature. Existence is being the Self. Simple as that. The Sought-after Truth is one's own existence. One's own self. One's own being. That is all there is to realize. No one has ever been apart from their own being and therefore separated from their true nature. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. You know that you are alive and you like it. Awareness of being is bliss. Life or one's own existence is the Beloved, the Precious, the Self or "the Diamond in your pocket". The ones who Seek the Self as something new or spiritual will die ignorant. Look at yourself. Thou art that.

Nothing was ever lost. What are you looking for? Don't you know that you yourself are the Self already? The Self (consciousness) you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no holy Self or spiritual Self to be found. That is only fiction found in spiritual books and religious tales. Understand that existence or consciousness present is simply being alive and aware. The natural state of being. The state of being conscious, cognizant or sentient that ignorant people call 'mind' is in fact the Self. Being conscious, cognizant, wakeful, aware or sentient is abiding as pure consciousness itself AKA the Self. Therefore what binds you? Nothing of course. Just a belief of being separated or apart from one's true nature is the cause of all mischief. You He, you are That, you are the Self or consciousness itself, being just as you are. After all, prove it to yourself. Have a look at your true nature or real self. Be still, just pause thoughts for a few moment and realize that you are the very present unchanging awareness or consciousness or cognizance or sentience that remains present when they are no thoughts. You are not a thought. You are that which is present and aware of them, thus aware-ness itself. What can be easier than that to recognize one's true nature or thoughtless Reality? Don't look for unchanging awareness as something new to be freshly discovered to call the Reality but simply recognize that which always is present and unchanging is nothing new but simply 'you'. Gee you are you. Awareness is just another name for 'you'. What else would it be? You are that. All Wisdom about Self-Realization is simply pointing to have a look at your own self. Know thyself or who am 'I' is the common Wisdom pointed to for millennia.

Awareness present is me, myself and 'I'. Being aware is aware-ness of being. Being aware is 'I' am. Nothing new under the Sun. It is so easy, in fact it is funny how simple it really is. No time or effort is required. Just common sense and self investigation is self-Realization. You are awareness. Being aware is this awareness itself. Who ever told you the Self was anything else anyhow? Anyone can effortlessly end the Search for the Self that was never lost. Not by foolishly cultivating any kind of spiritual practice, meditation, becoming a Buddhistor adopting any Religion, but simply by understanding or realizing that "being aware" is being the real Self, present as unchanging awareness itself and that natural state of being and remaining aware naturally all day long is in fact effortlessly abiding as one's thoughtless true nature. To become so called spiritual or religious in anyway cannot bring anyone closer to Reality but paradoxically deeper into ignorance. Spirituality and religions are the poison, not the cure. That is the only veil to be removed. After all, a religion is just like any other sect or cult with a spiritual Guru or Teacher that is either dead or alive, worshipped blindly like a special being, usually mystified as someone with siddhis camouflaged as spiritual faculties. Someone that can touch, breathe, fart, or stare into someone's eyes and transmit the loving, healing and liberating Grace of God and all that garbage. Some people will 'believe' or swallow anything. They even call themselves 'believers'. What a pity. Only the veiled and the ignorant created Religions with a Guru or Teacher at the center and a God to believe in. For the wise knows the Truth. That all Religions are just stories, myths and superstitions. Fantasy. The God of spirituality and religions you find in books does not exist. Spirituality and religions are all false or ignorance. The Reality is here and now. The answer to Life, existence or who am 'I' is not to be found in the graveyard of the dead past or in story books.

The Reality is the undeniable presence of Life or consciousness itself that is self-shining naturally within the body. Consciousness present is 'I' am. You are the Self already. There never was a God and you. Awareness is the effortless natural state of being and remaining aware. To know the Self is so easy. No spiritual B.S. is required. Just be still and voila! That simple. What remains present without thoughts present is always the real Self AKA unchanging awareness. Instead of foolishly believing that you are not there yet, realize that you have paradoxically never lost it or left it. Awareness is nothing new, special or apart. Especially not something spiritual. Didn't anyone tell you? The experience is here and now. Aren't you aware? That is it. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Paradoxically only spiritual and religious people will make up the Self to be something new, special or spiritual. When in fact it is not that at all. If you are a self-proclaim spiritual person and you have been Seeking the Self that was never lost for a long time, perhaps you will wizen up and realize that you have in fact been looking for the Reality in the wrong direction. Spirituality is the opposite of Reality. One is fiction or imaginary and the other is the fact of one's own being. Ask any of these spiritual fools what the Self truly is and they cannot answer you. They have no clue. Most of these people or self-appointed Gurus will hide their ignorance behind spiritual concepts, religious beliefs, made up spiritual experiences, countless stories and of course their favorite, by selling silence to other idiots. One's true nature is awareness. Being and remaining aware, conscious or wakeful all day long is at once being the One Self and one's own self. The 'I' and awareness are One. There is no separation. Understanding is all. The natural state of being conscious or aware common to everyone is the natural state of being pointed to by the wise as the Reality. That is IT.

There is no separation, duality or liberation. Only ignorance is the obstacle. Remove ignorance. There are no two selves, ego, finite self or dual-'I'-ty. There never was.Only spiritual people AKA ignorant Seekers believe that there is. All that garbage or false imagination only exist within spirituality which is illusion or fiction. Awareness is not to be raised, to be gained, to be acquired or cultivated. Awareness is what you are right now. Being aware is the experience. That alone is the Self. Like a fish in the water crying that he is thirsty. No one can ever become awareness. Realize that being aware is itself abiding as that. Awareness is not some lost holy grail that is yet to be found. Awareness is simply overlooked. Awareness is so plain, awareness is so common and always experienced directly by everyone alive. All the spiritual crap written in spiritual books wrapped around awareness is simply just that. B.S. Awareness is nothing new, spiritual or special. Awareness is being what you are right now naturally. That is the Secret to Freedom.You are already that present awareness. Being awake from sleep, being conscious or aware all day long is being that. What else did you expect the Infinite Self or God to be? That is it. Here and now you are that. Present as awareness itself. To be aware is to be the Self AKA awareness. There is nothing more to realize. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self is nothing spiritual but simply the natural presence of conscious-ness, alive-ness or living-ness within the body that we call Life. Spirituality is crap, from A to Z. Flush all that crap down the toilet for there is no Truth to be found there.Reality is the undeniable present awareness known to all as existence, being or 'I' am. Present closer than close.

In other words the natural state of being common to everyone alive is one's true nature. No one can deny the Self or negate one's own existence. Know that 'I' am is at once the Self and your self. Thou art that. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Spirituality is all fiction and all religions are simply based on fear, superstitions and false imagination only. None of this non-sense is the Reality. All religions are in fact laughable. Spiritual Enlightenment is hoax. The state some people call 'Enlightenment' does not exist. Just some bull crap made by some idiots for others to swallow. Being or existence is the experience. 'I' exist is that or 'I' am is that. Life is the so called Lord, God, Self and that is the Sought-after Truth. One's own affectionate existence is the so called 'Divine'. Nothing new, spiritual or special about being. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self (consciousness). A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Awareness of being oneself is consciousness. It is 'I' am. Being alive and aware is what has been pointed to for millennia as one's true nature. Nothing new, spiritual or apart but present so near and so dear as one's own self, existence or being. Here and now 'I' exist or 'I' am is that. That is what the fuss is all about. The Self, consciousness or the Reality is awareness of being. Just this and nothing else. The Self is being oneself naturally. Now you know the Truth.You are that. Make no effort. What effort do you have to make to be?Being yourself is abiding as that consciousness itself. Call off the Search. The Search for spiritual Enlightenment or Freedom is a TRAP! Consciousness is nothing new, nothing spiritual or different. Look at yourself. That is the Self. It is that 'I' am you know so well. To be or not to be. If you know that you are.Consciousness or the Self or God is indeed present. 'I' am, being and consciousness are One. The Self is nothing new but simply the presence of existence or Life.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Paradoxically spiritual and religious people cannot handle this simple Truth.Too simple. It is like blowing up a fuse. Programmed since childhood to believe the false to be true. One cannot pray to, worship and cultivate illusion and know the Reality. Forget everything spiritual and religious and you are there. Being alive naturally is the experience. That is it. No promises of Nirvana, Heaven or Hell. Just simple changeless being. Simple changeless being is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no becoming.Being is the experience. That is all. So plain, so ordinary and natural. Shining in plain sight all along. If you know that you are not unconscious or dead, you are aware of being. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Just like a finger pointing at the moon is not the moon, so don't go beg, worship or suck up to the pointer. All that anyone can truly do for you is to simply point to your own ordinary self, existence or being. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. Consciousness is that 'I' am you know so well. Present awareness or awareness of being present as oneself is 'I' is or 'I' am. You know that you arepresent and 'I' am is that consciousness itself.Thou art that. The Self is your self. Nothing new or apart from you but your own self or being. 'I' am is always with you as the undeniable knowing that you are.Everyone knows 'I' am. Understanding that you always are the true consciousness you seek to know is all that is required. The Self is just another name for simply being alive, being conscious and therefore aware of being. Consciousness present is 'I' am. Awareness of being oneself is abiding as the Self. No becoming, no reaching or attaining anything. The Self present is 'you'.

You are Life. Life, existence or consciousness is the Reality. To be alive is to abide as the Lord, He, the Self or God which is nothing new, spiritual or far away but naturally present as Life itself. Life is living itself naturally. That is all there is to understand. Life is the Oneness. Self-Realization is realizing or understanding that being alive and aware of being oneself naturally everydayis itself abiding as one's true nature AKA the Infinite Self, the Oneness or God. What else did you believe the Self would be? Some spiritual presence, power or energy? A blazing light toward Nirvana? That is only religious ignorance or B.S. The Self is yourself. So near so dear. It is you. The Self is Life itself. Therefore being alive is the experience itself. Life is living itself as you. What effort do you have to make to be? Breathing you, growing your hair and finger nails. Beating your heart and shining through your eyes this very moment. Sentience, cognizance, awareness are all different words that are synonymous with naturally abiding as that consciousness, Life or existence that we call the Self. To be aware is aware-ness. To be conscious is this conscious-ness. The Self, existence or Life is the natural activity of being sentient. What you Seek is what you already are naturally. Nothing new but you. The Self is yourself. How can you kiss yourself on your own lips? Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi To be or not to be. The Self or consciousness is existence. Existence is being. The Self or consciousness is the knowing that you are. Awareness of being is the Self and you know it so well as your own self, being or 'I' am. What are you looking for? One's true nature is nothing new or apart. How far are you from your own being? You are that.

Look at yourself. Look at your own being. You know that you are. That is the Self.Awareness of being is 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed present. You are Life, you are consciousness, you are the Self. You are already at the destination you have never left at any time. Being yourself naturally, just as you are here and now is the experience itself. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Of course to turn toward any spiritual or religious person to tell you the Truth, is exactly like turning toward a thief disguised as a policeman to catch a thief. After all, how long have you been Seeking for the Self that was never lost? All these people will ever do for you is to keep you on a Seeking path to nowhere. Simply because spirituality and religions have absolutely nothing to do with the Reality. That is the funny paradox. The Self (consciousness) you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Here are a few B.S. that religions and their stupid excrement or Gurus brainwashes ignorant Seekers and veiled worshippers to foolishly believe.Gurus and religions claim that there is an 'ego' to be killed or overcome through spiritual practice and discipline.Wrong! There is no ego or finite self to get rid of. Gurus and religions claim there is a mind to go beyond to discover Freedom, the Self or consciousness. Wrong! Everyone is already so called 'beyond the mind'. Mind is a only myth. Mind does not exist at all. Self-appointed Gurus from some religions will claim that there is no one present and that one's self does not exist. Wrong! Everyone is the One Self and existence itself. So much of what

spiritual and religious Seekers have acquired from books and others as spiritual and religious knowledge is in fact wrong knowledge. Are self-appointed Spiritual Gurus, Sages, Masters, Buddhas and Jnanis with their Teachings that are aligned with Eastern and Western religions right and am 'I' wrong? Find out! The false cannot stand up to investigation. Don't you get it by now? All that is spiritual and religious knowledge is false. Spiritual and religious knowledge is the only bondage. Take the concept of 'ego'. What ego? Religions, Gurus and Teachers always talk about an 'ego'. I say there is no 'ego'. Ego never existed. Ego is only a false concept of duality that people have acquired from religious books and others. If you seek the ego you will find, it does not exist. That is the way to get rid of it. Look for it and it will not be found. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Yet believers will foolishly spend their whole life trying to get rid of or kill an illusion. How foolish is that? They believe the false to be true and act accordingly. Yet there is no bondage. Never realizing that they are only bound to a false 'belief' or wrong acquired spiritual or religious knowledge. Spiritual and religious people only 'believe' that what they are told is true. They do not investigate what is real. It is all non-sense. Spirituality and religions are not your Friend. Neither are so called Buddhas, Sages, Saints, Gurus, Teachers and Jnanis. They all are the greatest illusion or the biggest lie. Like a fish always in the water crying that he is thirsty. Foolish spiritual and religious people cry over nothing. How funny. Only remove ignorance and you will have done all that needed to be done. The belief in any spiritual Enlightenment, Realization or Freedom is a Trap! It is all a hoax or a myth. The wise have understood this. The ignorant is like a fish in the Ocean searching everywhere for the Ocean.

You, being the Self (consciousness), want to know how to attain the Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The only Wisdom necessary for Freedom is to realize that you have never been apart or separated from your true nature at any time. But that being alive and aware or wakeful everyday is abiding as that. Hidden in plain sight all along. Like a 'Diamond' hidden in your pocket. The only trouble for Freedom is paradoxically the acquired veil of spiritual and religious knowledge which is wrong knowledge. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ The Self AKA present awareness or this consciousness itself is nothing spiritual but simply natural. The Reality is Life itself. Most people overlook the most obvious.Life itself. Like water and ice. One cannot 'be' without it. What is the most obvious presence within the body? Life. One's own life, being or existence is the Self. That is the Open Secret. You do not have to strive to become alive. Being alive is the experience itself. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Unless you understand that this consciousness some call God or the Infinite Self is simply Life itself. How can there be any Freedom from a false notion of separation and bondage? Omni-present. Present in Nature and within your own dwelling. Life is this consciousness itself, Life is the Infinite Self. The Precious and the true Beloved. Are you alive? Are you aware of being? You cannot say 'I' am not or 'I' do not exist. Your own existence here and now or the knowing that you are present is certain. It is 'I' am. The Self, He, the Reality or consciousness present is that being-ness or 'I' am-ness that you are. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being.

You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The one who knows the simple Truth about Freedom will only say what I am saying know. Freedom from all bondage is the simplest thing in the world. Child-like simplicity. Simply because there is nothing you have to do to become Free. Only understand that there is no bondage. That is all Freedom is truly about.A funny paradox. Ignorant people want to believe that the Self is something spiritual but it is not! Spirituality is a lie. Don't you know that the Self or consciousness is natural not spiritual? To look for the Self or consciousness as something spiritual is to always miss it. To be conscious is consciousness or the Self. What is so special or spiritual about that? Nothing. One's true nature is self-shining naturally as Life itself.That is the Open Secret. Once you understand this, then you know the Truth and that alone sets you Free. Wisdom is Freedom. Ignorance is the only veil that is to be removed with understanding. Understanding alone is Freedom. Just this and nothing else. Freedom is very easy. Super duper simplicity. There is nothing more easy. All that is required is to remove the false notion of being bound. Liberation is our very nature. We are that... It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The ones who Seek desperately liberation, only foolishly 'believe' that there is bondage. Oops. Oh well! What to do! Seekers never stop for a moment to have a look at their so called 'chains'. If you look for your chains, paradoxically they will not be found. Then what binds you? Spiritual and religious people have picked up stupid words of ignorance that became strong 'beliefs'

and paradoxically their very own imaginary cage or prison. Bondage is all and only psychological. Nothing else. You are ever-Free already. Nothing new is to be freshly acquired. Ignorance is the only obstacle to be removed. That is all. You are already Free! What can be more easy? There is no bondage and of course no liberation either. Why piss your life away? No one can give you Freedom, especially a spiritual or religious person. Freedom is not to be gained or acquired from books, retreats or others. Freedom is only understanding that there is no bondage. Veiled by ignorance and wrong habitual knowledge. The ignorant falsely believes that there is a 'mind'. What 'mind'? Can you show me your 'mind'? Look for a mind and it will not be found. Just like a mirage of water in the desert is only an illusion. The concept of a 'mind' present anywhere is also illusion. Just this and nothing else. Of course self-appointed Gurus will preached to ignorant fools that they should strive to go beyond the mind. When in fact neither a mind or an ego ever existed. Everyone is already so called home, they simply do not realize it. Self-appointed Gurus and spiritual Teachers that talk about 'mind' and 'ego' are simply ignorant people that do not know the Reality. They are only cultivating the false, illusion or false imagination. Only veiled and ignorant people that do not know themselves will cultivate false erroneous arrogant notions of separation and duality. After all, bondage and liberation are in fact all and only psychological. That is all. People that believe are bound are paradoxically only bound to their acquired 'beliefs'. Everyone is already behind the mind and ego is not. That is the Secret to Oneness. You are the One without a second or two already. Remove ignorance only. The Self, He, the Reality is already here. Freedom is already here! Why chase after spiritual carrots when it is all crap? The Secret to spiritual Enlightenment is that it does not exist.

Spiritual Enlightenment is only a hoax, a myth or a scam that is used by self-appointed spiritual Gurus or so called Buddhas to entice veiled and ignorant people to foolishly believe the false or illusion to be true. There is no spiritual power, presence or energy of any kind. Some stupid people made it all up. The Reality is consciousness. Consciousness is nothing new, special or spiritual, but simply Life itself. Seeking spirituality or religion is to cultivate illusion. The Reality is nothing new, spiritual or religious to be reached, attained or acquired. Closer than close. It is what you are and have always been your whole life naturally. The experience is here and now. Being is the experience. There is nothing special or spiritual whatsoever about being. Life is Now only. Life or existence is what is happening while Seekers are foolishly looking for something new. Being alive is abiding as that. Consciousness and Life are synonymous with being.One's own existence is that. The Self, He, God or the Oneness is simply Life itself. Life is everyone's true nature. Nothing new. Alive-ness. Living-ness. Conscious-ness. Life is the true beloved. Life is the Reality. Consciousness is the true power present within the body. So plain and so ordinary. Consciousness is the natural presence that we call Life that is undeniably beating your heart this very moment and self-shining through your eyes. Consciousness is the seer, the knower, the thinker, the Reality present as your ordinary everyday self. To know the Self simply look at your own self. The Self or Life or consciousness are just different names for 'you'. Gee! you are you, the Self is you. Just as you are this very moment naturally. The Self is nothing new. The 'I' or the plain boring ordinary everyday 'you'is not different from the Self. You are that. That is the so called Self-Real-'I'zation is about. There is nothing spiritual or special about the Self. Consciousness is Life, existence or being.

Remove ignorance. Any concept of spiritual Enlightenment is only for stupid people. There is no such thing. It is just like any other crap that is given to a pig to swallow. There are no spiritual or religious goals to be reached. That is what self-appointed spiritual Gurus and religious teachers will never reveal to their followers. Liars and scammers disguised as holy beings have made up some story and experience they call Enlightenment, Realization or liberation. I laugh when I meet stupid Guru lovers and worshippers of spiritual or religious leadersthat have convinced themselves and of course will also try to convince others with all sorts or tales and stories, even writing books of how great their spiritual Guru or Master is to them, that their beloved Guru, Teacher or Masteris a special being orGod among men withgreat powers and spiritual faculties. Chasing after spiritual carrots, believing false promises of salvation, spiritual Enlightenment and Freedom. Fearing karma and all sorts of stupid religious B.S. they have acquired from these people, spiritual books and others that are also veiled and ignorant of the simple Truth. These idiots have not yet realized that a so called Buddha is just an ordinary person and an ordinary person is already a Buddha. There are no special beings or even a loving God present anywhere for that matter. Why pray and worshipping illusion? Isn't that foolish? There are no God or Gods out there. Ignorant fools only imagine that there is, they just 'believe' in a God and in some holy beingsand are therefore called 'Believers', Worshippers or Sheepos. Never questioning what is Real. There has never been any spiritual or holy beings with great powers and faculties. Freedom is not acquired. Freedom is understanding that there is no bondage. One only 'believes' there is a God and there is bondage, but there is not. The concept of a spiritual God or religious entity is only fiction. Spirituality is born out ignorance, superstition and fear.

God is you are. The Reality is present within your own dwelling as Life itself. Life is the Self. That is all Self-Realization is about. Existence is the Divine. The Guru cannot give you anything new, which you dont have already. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Only crap can be acquired from a spiritual Guru.Take it for granted. Why Seek to acquire crap and B.S. from others? Isn't it foolish? Know the truth! There are no spiritual or holy transmissions. The Self is not something that can ever be acquired from others. The Self is you are or 'I' am. What is 'I' am? Is 'I' am the name of God? Of course not, that is stupid B.S. To be or not to be. 'I' am is the knowing that you are. Present awareness. 'I' am is awareness of being. 'I' am represents the Self or consciousness present as yourself. You are that. Consciousness present is 'I' am. Everyone knows and says 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ How far is the Self from yourself? You are the Self. Here and now you are that. What you Seek is what you are right this very moment. There is no 'mind' to go beyond or any 'ego' to get rid of. Only the veiled and ignorant believe that there is. Foolishly striving to become what they already are. Spiritual and religious Seekers believe that the Self is yet to be reached or attained. But that is all false. The Self is not anything new or spiritual to be attained. It is what we are. To be alive and aware, to be sentient, cognizant or wakeful is to be the Self, He, the Reality or God. The Self or consciousness present is the natural state of being and remaining aware all day long. Awareness is nothing new, special or spiritual. Aren't you aware? That is the Self. Forget all about spirituality and religions. The Self or God never was and never will be some fictitious spiritual or religious presence. That is the paradox!

The rule of thumb is that if it is spiritual or religious in any way it is pure crap. To go see Guru after Guru, going to satsang and spiritual retreats waiting for a holy transmission or spiritual experience etc, is only for imbeciles. It is all pure stupidity and ignorance. It is all a hoax from scammers pretending to be holy. Nothing new, special or different is to happen. Only ignorance is to be removed with understanding. That is all that needs to be done. Who told you that you were bound? There is no bondage and there is no liberation. After all, find out what binds you and your chains will not be found. Have a look and see. False imagination causes psychological suffering due to ignorance only. Freedom is not and never will be the acquisition of anything new, spiritual or holy. Why Seek B.S.? Realize that Freedom is only removing the false notion of separation, duality and bondage. That is why one only 'believes' that there is bondage and will Seek liberation. Only imagining that there is. When in fact there is no bondage at all. It is only a false notion. The Search for Spiritual Enlightenment, Realization and Freedom is a trap. It does not exist! Did anyone tell you? To be the Self is to be oneself. And to be oneself is to be the Self. That is all. The Self is nothing new. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You gain nothing or become nothing. Just be just as you are. Be yourself.That is abiding as the Infinite Self.Simple no! Spiritual people sell false imagination to the ignorant. People that like the smell of their own farts using spiritual carrots to entice others so that they are worshipped and can milk a fee out their desperate and veiled followers. Know the simple Truth! The Self is simply Life itself. Being oneself naturally is being IT.

What you Seek is nothing new, spiritual or special but what you are naturally. Everything spiritual and religious people talk about is false. God, the Self is Life itself. What is real is nothing new, spiritual or special but what you are here and now. Are you alive? Are you aware of being yourself? 'I' am is certain? Voila! Consciousness is present because you are aware of being. The Self is just another name for awareness of being. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Being alive and aware of being oneself is being the Infinite Self, He, God, the Lord, the Atman etc. So near and so dear. Can anyone deny one's own being? Negate Life or consciousness is present? Are you laughing at the joke of it all? Like a fish in the Ocean searching everywhere for the Ocean. What you are looking for is nothing new or far away. It is what you already are naturally. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self.... Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Know the Secret! There is nothing new, spiritual or holy about the Reality.There never was. Therefore the ones who Seek something new, spiritual or holy are only chasing fantasy. You find the Self and the absolute Reality the very moment you stop Seeking it. Look at yourself. At your own plain ordinary being and you have found it. Life, existence is that consciousness itself that we call the Infinite Self or God. That is all there is to realize.That we are Life. Freedom is no flash of light or spiritual revelation. Just understanding this simple Truth. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

I hear of people spending an entire lifetime Seeking the Self, how stupid is that?It is just plain dumb of course. The easiest and simplest way to recognize one's thoughtless true nature or the Self is to pause thoughts.That simple. Just be still for a moment. What happens if you pause thoughts? Thoughts disappear! So obvious isn't it. Know thyself. Have a look at your real self. The you that does not come or go. Pause thoughts and the Real or unchanging thoughtless 'you' remains self-revealed. Just like when they are no clouds present the unchanging Sky is effortlessly self-revealed. When thoughts disappear, consciousness alone remains self-revealed as the thoughtless Reality or you. After all, Self means you. Look it up in a dictionary. Unchanging awareness is just another name for you. That is all it takes to know thyself. Be still and realize that when no thoughts are present in that very moment the self, the 'I' or the you that remains undeniably present and unchanging naturally as present awareness itself is that which you Seek to know. In other words you are that or simply 'you' are Seeking 'you'. The Self is nothing new. It requires no time, no practice or effort of any kind to know the Self or one's true nature or true consciousness. To spend years striving to realize the Self or to become enlightened or Realized is only for idiots. Forget about all that spiritual Mambo Jambo and use your head. Understand how simple the Reality really is. Notice or realize that you are the consciousness itself or the presence of unchanging awareness that remains undeniably, effortlessly and naturally present when they are no thoughts present. That is all. There you go sport. Just be still and voila! You are that. That is all that is required to so called "realize the Self". Who ever said Self-Realization was either hard, difficult or for the rare few was a stupid babbling idiot. Self-appointed spiritual Gurus and religious Teachers always lie to veiled and ignorant Seekers about the simple Truth. In fact the ones who can do Teach crap. Take the spiritual carrot some call Satsang.

Beware of all these so called holy Buddhas, spiritual Gurus, Sages, Saints and religious Teachers for they are liars. Have a good look for yourself, investigate and see the false as false, for the false cannot stand up to investigation. There is no becoming anything. Consciousness is always present as one's own everyday self. There is no reaching or attaining anything new, special or especially spiritual. Didn't anyone tell you? It is so easy. It is the easiest thing in the world to realize the Self. All anyone has to do is to be still. How much time and effort does it take? Be still, then all that remains present is you. Simply because thou art that. 'I' am that 'I' am. You are the consciousness that always remains present as your very own affectionate plain ordinary everyday boring self. As that 'I' am you know. The Self is just another name for you. Be still and know that 'I' am is that consciousness itself. Nothing new or different but what you already are and have always been. Make no effort, your effort is the bondage. All that is required to realize the Self (consciousness) is to be still. What can be easier than that? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Once you understand that the Self is not some spiritual, religious or holy presence like blind fools believe it is, then you know the Truth. Consciousness is simply Life itself. One's own being or existence is abiding as that. The Self or consciousness is the natural state of being common to everybody. That is the Open Secret. Forget all spiritual and religious garbage. To be conscious is this consciousness itself. Full stop. That is what the wise realizes about his or her true nature. To be conscious is consciousness. To be aware is awareness. That is the Self. Realize that all the spiritual and religious garbage that self-appointed Gurus and spiritual Teachers write in books, share in talks, satsangs etc are all wrong knowledge that is only used to entice the simple,

the weak, the dumb and imbeciles to believe the false or illusion to be true. Usually for a fee AKA donation. Selling water by the River if you like. It is all spiritual crap or religious carrots used to entice only.All B.S. Paradoxically whatever spiritual and religious people have come to believe to be true is all false. Funny no! The Infinite Self, He, the Reality or God is always undeniably present closer than close to oneself, it is so near and so dear. Ordinary and common to everybody. What is the Infinite Self or this consciousness itself? Sentience. To be awake or aware everyday is this consciousness itself. That is IT. Awareness of being is consciousness self-shining as the knowing that you are. What else do you want? There is no special or spiritual Self to be discovered. Spiritual and religious weirdo only believe in spiritual and religious crap. Like being hypnotized or brainwashed by acquired spiritual garbage. To look for the Self is to always look away from the Self. Know thyself. Know that 'I' am represent being oneself and being the Self. That is all what consciousness truly is. Being or the 'I'. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The experience is always here and now. Being is the experience. Knowing that you are alive and kicking is being the Self. That is all. The Self is nothing new. Life, existence or consciousness are synonymous with simply being alive and aware. Self, He, the Lord, the Oneness, God or the Reality etc, are different names for consciousness which is 'I' am or being. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self is not gain or found. You lost nothing and gain nothing whatsoever. To know the Self is very easy. Consciousness is only to be understood. There is no becoming or acheiving anything new, special, different or spiritual. In fact there never was any spiritual presence, power or holy Self. Only ignorance is removed with understanding. Understanding is

Realizing. That is all what 'Self-Realization' is truly all about. Understand and nothing else. Life common to all is everyone's true nature. That is the Reality shining in plain sight. The natural state of being alive or alive-ness or living-ness which is conscious-ness is one's true nature. To be or not to be. 'I' exist or 'I' is or awareness of being oneself naturally everyday is simply 'I' am or you are. That is the Self present as you are. What else did you expect the Self or this consciousness to be? A flash of Light! Oops. Wrong. If you have met holy Gurus and spiritual Teachers that pretend to have acquired or become something new, special or spiritual in any way, realize that they are only lying to you. Just scammers that crave attention, recognition and so many are after sex, power and money. Playing the Guru is good business for spiritual and religious con artists. It is all B.S. of course but you must investigate for yourself and see if what I am saying is true. Once you see the false as false, illusion will no longer fool you. Gurus are not the Reality. Just like a finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. Consciousness or Life is the Reality. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Can you separate yourself from your own being? Can you deny your own existence and say 'I' do not exist or 'I' am not? Just like clouds are not attached to the Sky. Guest come and go but the 'host' remains present and unchanging. Consciousness is the 'host' present within your own dwelling. Your own self is the Self AKA consciousness. After all, who is always present and aware of this and that? 'I' am of course. Consciousness is 'I' am. It is pure awareness of being. It (consciousness) is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Who does not say 'I' am all day long? People cry like if they have lost the Self, when everyday 'I' am is the Self. They have never lost the Self, they only believe that they have lost something

which paradoxically they already are and have always been all along, no one told them. 'I' am is the Self. The Self is the plain good ol' boring everyday you. 'I' am represent awareness of being 'you' and the Self. Thou art that. That simple. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self (consciousness). A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Reality is simply the natural presence of Life itself or consciousness or natural intelligence and existence that is undeniably present, effortlessly governing and functioning your body. The state of pure being. Consciousness is the Self and the Self is simply Life itself. Remove ignorance. Understand what this consciousness is. To be aware and remaining aware or wakefulness is consciousness or the Self. That is what this plain ordinary affectionate presence of awareness or consciousness simply is. The Self is simply being alive and aware of being oneself naturally. Nothing new, mystical or holy. You are Life itself. Life is living itself as you. Everyone's undeniable existence is that. The Self, He, the Reality is very common, plain and ordinary. Spirituality and all religions are paradoxically crap, B.S. and lies. Find out what is Real! Then it will dawn on you that you have only been looking away from it all this time and you will have a good laugh at yourself for being so foolish at crying over nothing at all. After all, when did you lose yourself? 'I' am is always with you as you. The Self (consciousness) you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Spiritual Seekers go from forest to forest, Guru to Guru, temple to temple while the Reality is always present

within their own body or dwelling as simply the most obvious and ordinary, as Life or one's own existence itself. The Self, He, the Reality or consciousness is simply what we all are naturally.It is nothing new or special. We call this undeniable presence of consciousness or existence, Life, sentience, awareness, being. Here and now we are alive and therefore consciousness is indeed present because 'I' am is certain. Awareness of being is 'I' am and the Self. No one can deny the Self because no one can say 'I' am not. The Self is 'I' am. Not some spiritual or holy name of God 'I' am and all that B.S. but simply me, myself and 'I', is that 'I' am-ness, being-ness or consciousness that I am talking about. One's own affectionate self is the Self. Everybody knows and says 'I' am. The Self or consciousness is synonymous with one's own being-ness or 'I' am-ness. Consciousness is synonymous with the knowing that you are. Present awareness is 'I' am. 'I' am or 'I' exist is the Self. Same, same. Full stop! So simple. Life, consciousness, existence and one's own being are One. Life is That. Know the simple Truth that spiritual and religious people do not want you to know. There is no God and there is no bondage or liberation either. That is the joke of it all. People pretending to be spiritual or religious entities will entice veiled and ignorant Seekers with false imagination, fantasy and illusion. All for money, gratification and recognition. For example the false notion that there is a higher consciousness that is yet to be reached or attainedthrough either spiritual or religious practices like meditations, mantras, devotion, renunciation, yogas etc, etc, is the biggest bunch of crap out there that is used by scammers and con artists as a spiritual carrot to entice the veiled and the ignorant Seekers into sucking up and cultivating illusion. Any concepts of a higher consciousness are just made up spiritual crap. There is no such thing. There is no higher or lower consciousness. There are no higher or lower Self either.

There is only the One Self or One consciousness present and we all are that. The Reality or true consciousness does not change. It does not go up or go down. There is no higher or lower in Omni-presence. Consciousness always remains the exact same. It is pure changeless being. Simple changeless being is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ No one alive ever fails to experience the Self directly as Life itself. It is the natural state of being common to everyone. Consciousness is not some new, special or spiritual state to be reached. That false notion is just a bunch of B.S. To know one's true nature is very easy. It is laughable how simple the Truth about oneself really is.Know thyself. To be conscious is this consciousness itself. That is all what the fuss is simply about. Just this and nothing else. Leave the Seeking for a higher state of consciousness to ignorant fools. Because it is only illusion. Life itself is the presence of consciousness. Being alive is abiding as the Self, He, God, the Reality, the Atman, etc. Remove the camouflage of ignorance. Understand what is being pointed to as your true nature. The Self or consciousness are just different names for Life itself or existence.Simple. That is what the Self simply is, consciousness is Life or existence itself. Realize that the Search for a spiritual Self, higher Self or higher consciousness is a trap. If you are alive and aware of being. You are abiding as that. Full stop. That is the experience. You are abiding as the Self by being yourself just as you are here and now. Call off the Search. What you Seek is what you are. Alive-ness, Living-ness, being-ness, 'I' am-ness. Nothing new, spiritual, special or fancy. Paradoxically consciousness is so plain, so common and so ordinary to everybody, it is plain ordinary everyday being-ness. To be or not to be. Who is not aware of being oneself? Everyone knows that they are. No one can deny one's own being. Consciousness present is 'I' am and me myself and 'I'.

The only obstacle to be removed is the false notion that the Self is something new, spiritual or special. That is all. You do not to strive to become the Self. Being alive is being the Self. What can be easier than that? No time or effort is required. How much time does it take to know that you are? All that is required to know one's true nature is to remove ignorance and simply understand or realize that being alive is the experience. Life or existence itself is abiding as that. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ That is what being the Self is all about. Just this and nothing else. After all, what else did you believe it was all about? It is all and only about being. The wise understood this. While the ignorant only imagines that the Self, He, the Reality or God is something else. Oops! Don't you know that the words God, Self, He, the Reality, the Atman, the Lord, the Oneness, consciousness, pure intelligence energy, being, existence etc are simply pointing to plain ordinary Life itself? That is what everyone's true nature simply is. Life is the Oneness present in all that we call consciousness. Consciousness present is simply being. No one is ever apart from their own being-ness or 'I' am-ness. Anyone Seeking the Self, He, the Lord, God or consciousness as something new, spiritual, religious or special will only die ignorant of the simple Truth. All along not realizing that being alive is abiding as the absolute Reality. After all, what is always present here and now that no one can ever deny? One's own being-ness, 'I' am-ness or existence. Life or consciousness present is 'I' am. So simple is the ultimate Truth. That is the Open Secret to Freedom. Thou art that. There are no special state of consciousness. No spiritual Self or God.

Just existence itself is God. Life is God. To be alive is to be God. Life and God are synonymous. No time or effort is required to know the Self or God. Who is not aware of being? Look at yourself here and now. God is 'I' am. You know that you are and you like it. That is IT. Nothing new, special or spiritual about being. Just 'I' am or knowing that you are. Awareness of being is God or 'I' am. Life is the undeniable presence that people call God. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Like a fish in the water foolishly crying that he is thirsty. It is all so super-duper simple that it is laughable. I guess it is so easy to know the Self that most people reject the simple Truth believing it to be false and turn toward the false believing it to be true. A strange paradox. After all, what else did you expect the words Self, He, the Atman, the Reality, God or consciousness are pointing to? Life itself. That is IT. Nothing new or spiritual. Just what we are and always have naturally. That is all. That is the fun part of self-discovery. You have never lost or ever been apart from your own affectionate existence. Closer than close. Existence is the "Diamond in your pocket" so to speak. Life is the Precious and the Beloved. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Ignorance is a bitch, not bliss. Ignorant spiritual and religious Seekers look away from the Reality and foolishly will spend their whole life looking up, worshipping and praying to some imaginary God hidden somewhere in the sky. Oops. God is not something apart from you or hidden far away. Life is the Kingdom of God. Life is the Oneness. Consciousness is the Lord. Everywhere you look you see it's expression. We also call this presence of consciousness Nature. Consciousness is nothing new to anybody. It is the living presence, intelligence and power in the body.

The living-ness effortlessly beating your heart and self-shining through your eyes. Therefore realize that whenever you look for it you are only looking away from it. Seeing is being it. Forget all about the spiritual and religious crap out there and have a look at your true nature. It is nothing new. Spiritual and religious people are enticed by self-appointed Gurus and Teachers for fame, recognition and money. All acquired spiritual and religious knowledge from books and others is the greatest ignorance because it is all false. Not true. That is the funny paradox. Forget everything spiritual and religious and voila! You are there. Being oneself is being the Self. Present here and now. To the wise Life is God. One's own existence is the Divine. Consciousness is pure being. You already are what you Seek. Life is the Self. There is no becoming, attaining or achieving anything. The wise understands that being alive and aware of being oneself naturally everydayis being the Self, He, the Reality. That is what 'I' am represents. Pure awareness of being is existence itself. Being alive is being the Self. Being alive is the experience itself. That is the Joke of it all. Once you get that there is absolutely nothing new, nothing spiritual, religious or special to get, you finally got it.Then you laugh at the joke of it all. Everything sold as spirituality and religions is illusion. The Reality is always here and now. Life itself is the Reality or the Self. So simple isn't it! Being alive and aware of being oneself or wakeful-ness is abiding as that. Life is THAT.What else do you want? That is all there is to understand or realize. To know this simple Truth is to remove the veil of ignorance. Being alive is the Reality itself. There never was some spiritual Self, any God or Divine presence to discover. What you Seek is what you are. Like a fish in the Ocean searching for the Ocean. You are already the Self. That is what the fuss is all about. Everyone Seeking the Self are always missing the Self. If you are alive and sure that you are not dead then you are THAT. Life, consciousness, existence is being oneself naturally and that livingness is abiding as THAT.

No one can deny being. The Self is undeniably present here and now. 'I' exist needs no proof. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ All that is required for so called Freedom from all bondage is to simply remove the false idea that we are bound. Bondage is only a false notion. What binds you other than the false belief of being bound? Look for your chains and they will not be found. Bondage is only psychological. That is all it is. There is no bondage and there is no liberation either. One only 'believes' that there is bondage. Question your beliefs. Like a fish in the water crying that he is thirsty. Separation and bondage are just imaginary or illusion. Spiritual Freedom or spiritual liberation or spiritual Enlightenment etc, are all nothing but fictitious concepts or beliefs. Spiritual carrots if you like. By acquiring wrong spiritual and religious knowledge people have invented a false notion of separation and bondage. That false notion must go and that alone is so called Liberation. Freedom is so easy. Remove ignorance only. That is all that is necessary. Understanding is all. No time, practice or effort is required. Didn't anyone tell you? Child-like simplicity. Wisdom is Freedom. After all, no one becomes Free. Only the false notion or wrong idea of being bound is removed with understanding. That is all what Freedom is simply about. Nothing else. The wise will only say what I am saying now. Find out if what I share is true or false. That is up to you. Only you can prove it to yourself. No one else can drink for you. Drink if you are thirsty. Understanding is the short cut or bird's way. The fastest way to remove the camouflage of ignorance. Of course one cannot have both.

You cannot pray and worship illusion and therefore cultivate ignorance and at the same time know the Truth and the Reality. You must pick one! Love for illusion or attachment to the false has to go. First one must realize the Truth, that spiritual and religious concepts about the Oneness or God are all false. In fact to look toward spirituality or any religion for Freedom is paradoxically bondage. It all works in reverse. What ignorant spiritual or religious Seekers do not understand is that being alive is itself abiding as one's true nature which is simply Life itself or consciousness. To be alive is to be a so called 'Buddha' if you want a stupid spiritual or religious concept. Being alive is abiding as that, He, the Self, God or the Reality. Nothing new to anybody. After all, what effort do you have to make to be. To exist? Life is the Oneness. Life is the Omni-presence present in all. What spiritual or religious about that? Nothing. Either stupid, dishonest or ignorant people camouflage it to be. If you believe in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy than you believe in spirituality. That is called false imagination or illusion. Believing the false to be true. Spirituality and all religions only point toward illusion. The Reality is nothing new, spiritual or religious. The Reality is what you are naturally. God is Life. Being alive is being God. That is the experience. The experience is being. Therefore realize that here and now you are that. Being just as you are. Spirituality and religions will screw you to believe the false to be true while understanding will instantly Free you from a false notion of being separated from your true nature. Life itself is the Oneness. One's own affectionate undeniable existence is the Infinite Self, He, God or the Reality. So simple. What else did you expect this Reality to be? Did some self-appointed Guru, Teacher or 'Buddha' sell you water by the River? Life is one's true nature. That is all. Nothing lost, spiritual or new to be achieved. What is Life? Natural intelligence or consciousness. Life is the unseen Power within the body. You are Life.

Understanding is all. Remove ignorance. Nothing else is required. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Did you know that spiritual and religious people that Seek Freedom are only bound to their acquired spiritual and religious beliefs? That is the paradox. There is neither bondage nor is there any liberation. Bondage and liberation are only psychological. Ignorant Seekers are only foolishly chasing after spiritual carrots like an Ass foolishly chasing after a carrot on a stick. They simply do not realize it. Some people want to strongly believe that they are bound and therefore they will foolishly spend their whole life Seeking for some fictitious state or experience to call liberation. Some even want to talk about fictitious spiritual and religious concepts like past lives or future lives, others about heaven or hell, others about nirvana and spiritual enlightenment, but of course that is all bogus. All that is required for Freedom is to paradoxically flush all that spiritual and religious crap down the toilet. That is all that is necessary. Freedom from spirituality and religions is itself Freedom from all bondage. Spirituality and all religions are paradoxically the poison, not the cure.That is the Joke of it all. That is the simple Secret spiritual and religious people do not want you to know. Turning toward any spiritual or religious leader or person for Freedom is just like turning toward a thief disguised as a policeman to catch a thief. The Realization is that spirituality and religions are all lies. That is the Open Secret. There is no bondage and there is no liberation, you already are that Living-ness naturally. The religious or spiritual concepts of Freedom, Enlightenment, SelfRealization etc, are all false and bondage. There is no such thing as spiritual or religious liberation. Just some lies or made up ideology for ignorant people

to worship the false or illusion. See the false as false. That is the simple Secret to Freedom, find out who is bound. Who told you that you were bound? Forget about Freedom and you are Free. Simple as that. Spiritual Seekers are foolishly only bound to a false idea of being bound. Just this and nothing else. Remove ignorance only. Understanding what the Reality is truly about is all that is required. It is very simple. No spiritual God or religious power ever existed. Spiritual and religious people only believe and worship fantasy. Forget all that spiritual and religious nonsense. It is all B.S. Spirituality and all religions are a trap. The Reality is self-shining in plain sight as the most common and obvious to all. As one's own being. Life is God. Life is the absolute Reality that is happening this very moment. Being is the experience. One's own existence is the natural expression of Life itself or consciousness that some people call God. There are no spiritual goals to be reached. Nothing new, special or spiritual to be attained. The experience is always here and now. Are you alive? Are you aware of being present? That is it. Present awareness is 'I' am.You know that you are alive and you like it. When you are sick and tired of all the B.S. and looking in vain for something new, special or spiritual, then you are ready to understand what the Reality is simply all about. It is nothing new, spiritual or special. Paradoxically it is not what spiritual and religious people want you to believe butonly an effortless recognition of one's true nature to simply be what we all are naturally, right here and now. No blazing light, nothing new to be discovered or freshly experienced whatsoever. The Reality is Life itself. To be alive and aware of being oneself naturally is the experience. Everybody knows the Reality so well already as 'I' am. Know Thyself. The natural state of being.

Understanding what consciousness is, is itself Freedom. Ignorance is the only false notion of bondage. Ignorant Seekers will always ask if the Infinite Self is either silence or if it is space. It is neither. Silence only appears on consciousness and consciousness is subtler than space. Consciousness or the Self is existence, awareness, being. Life itself. The Nature of Life is consciousness. Therefore to be alive is to abide as that. Just like water and ice. No one alive is ever apart from their true nature. Consciousness is the core of one's being. If anyone associates Freedom from all bondage with any religion from East and West, that is bondage. Freedom has nothing to do with Buddhism, Hindu, Christianity, Judaism, Islam etc. To turn toward any religion is to turn away from the simple Truth and ending up foolishly looking toward illusion, the false and ignorance for the Reality. When everything the spiritual Seeker believes to be true is false.Spiritual and religious people will never know the simple Truth about Freedom from all bondage and the Infinite Self. That is the funny paradox! Freedom is to simply remove the false notion of being bound only. That is the Secret to Freedom. Find out who is bound? What is the Self or one's true nature? Awareness. Is awareness beyond description?Nope! Consciousness, sentience, cognizance, wakefulness just some different names for this presence of awareness. "Being aware" is the presence of unchanging awareness itself. Like a fish in the water crying that he is thirsty. Who ever said that to know one's true nature was hard or difficult? Paradoxically it is so easy. All sentient beings are abiding as awareness itself. There is nothing you have to do, nothing to become, to attain or achieve for awareness to be. Awareness or the Self is not something new or spiritual to be discovered but simply what you are.

Understanding that simply "being aware" naturallyis this present awareness AKA the Self is very easy. It is nothing new. Awareness is everyone's true nature. Therefore how foreign can it be? Present here and now. Look at yourself here and now. Aren't you aware? That is the presence of awareness itself being pointed to as one's thoughtless true nature, He, the Self, the Reality. Common to all. The natural state of being and remaining aware all day long is awareness and that is what the fuss about one's thoughtless true nature is all about. After all, what remains present if you pause thoughts? Awareness of course! You are that. Ignorant and dishonest people like to camouflage this present awareness as being something new, special or spiritual when in fact it is all Natural. The natural state of being aware is the true Self and one's true nature. Realize that right here and now you aware anyhow. You need not try to be. Being aware is being the Self. So simple. You are awareness. One's true nature is always there. It would not be one's true nature if it wasn't. Simply notice or realize that you are aware. That alone is the awareness some call the Self. What spiritual and religious people have been selling as Truth for millennia are in fact all lies. One's true nature is nothing new or spiritual, that false notion is ignorance and bondage but only Natural. That is the Secret to Freedom. What you Seek is paradoxically what you already are and have always been naturally. Aren't you aware anyhow? Realize that the Self or awareness is what you are this very moment without trying to be. If you are not dead, asleep or un-conscious, you are aware. Awareness present is being present as oneself. Ignorant Seekers foolishly believe that awareness is something special or spiritual that can be transmitted or acquired from others. when in fact simply being aware, wakeful, sentient or conscious is always abiding as the Self AKA awareness itself. Being oneself and awareness are One. Discern between illusion and Reality.

Life, consciousness or awareness is nothing spiritual but the natural state of being. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ See the false as false. Did you know that a spiritual state of 'Enlightenment' does not exist? Just made up religious B.S. only used to entice veiled and ignorant Seekers. Paradoxically the fictitious concept of spiritual 'Enlightenment' is a trap and bondage. Obviously self-appointed spiritual Gurus will not tell Seekers that simple fact about the false concept of spiritual 'Enlightenment'for they need to cultivate illusion to sell water by the River. The truth is that spiritual 'Enlightenment' is nothing but a spiritual carrot for dummies to chase after. In fact to turn toward any religion or spirituality for Freedom is to remain bound to illusion. There is no bondage and of course there is no liberation either.Both are imaginary. Bondage and liberation do not exist. Everyone alive is always abiding as the Reality. The Nature of Life. Life is the Self or God if you like. The nature of Life is one's true nature. Consciousness is the nature of Life. Consciousness is the substratum of all that exist. To know the Self, He, God, the Reality etc, is so easy. Don't look far. Have a look at yourself. Look at your own being. Consciousness is being. Didn't anyone tell you? It is 'I' am. Here and now you are that. Call off the Search. The Seeker is the Sought. Your own self, your own being or the 'I' is at once yourself and the Infinite Self. There is no becoming, there is no reaching or attaining anything. There never was. Simply being alive and aware of being oneself everyday naturally is the experience itself. Consciousness is naturally self-shining everyday as pure awareness of being. As 'I' am. Consciousness present is the knowing that you are present or present awareness.

There isn't anyone who does not say 'I' am. That is what 'I' am represents. The Infinite Self is 'you' are or 'I' am. Just this and nothing else. Here and now you are that. Only the Search for a spiritual Self or holy presence is a trap. The ultimate Truth about the Infinite Self, He, the Reality or this consciousness itself is so simple. One can only laugh at the joke of it all. After all, what else did anyone Seeking it expected the infinite Self to be? At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Life is the Self. Consciousness is indeed present. To be alive and aware is 'I' am. Life or consciousness is everyone's true nature and the Oneness. You already are what you Seek. Gee you are you. Nothing new under the Sun. Thou art that. Tat Tvam Asi. Of course if you have spent year after year foolishly striving to become 'Enlightened' or 'Realized', you are going be very disappointed. There is no such thing. To be alive is to abiding as this consciousness or existence that everyone knows so well as 'I' am. One's own existence is the Divine. The Self, He, the Reality is not something special or spiritual but natural. That is the Open Secret to Freedom. Paradoxically veiled spiritual Seekers will spend years looking for something new, some spiritual presence or state to be reached, to be attained or acquired. Always foolishly looking away from the Reality. You are Life. Here and now you are. Being alive and aware of being is the experience itself. Alive-ness, living-ness, being-ness is this presence of consciousness selfshining in plain sight. That is what the Infinite Self, He, the Reality or so called God simply is. Just this and nothing else. Who am 'I'? What is 'I'? Self-Realization. Know thyself. Realize that the 'I' or 'you' are that. Nothing was ever lost therefore you gain nothing new. When have you ever lost yourself? Hellooo! 'I' am is always with you. 'I' am represents at once being oneself and that presence of consciousness.

The 'I' is that or Self. Know that 'I' exist or 'I' am alive is that presence of consciousness. After all, 'I' am is certain. No one denies being. It is one's own affectionate being or existence. What you Seek is what you are. Our true nature is Life, existence, consciousness. Nothing or special. The Search for something new, spiritual or special is a trap. The Reality is you are Life. "'I' am that" means 'I' am Life or the 'I' or one's own self is this consciousness itself. So simple. To be alive and wakeful, sentient or aware naturally everyday is the experience. That is what being the Self is all about. All about the natural state of being. That is the Secret. Remove ignorance. Freedom is not the acquisition of anything new, special or spiritual. All that is required for Freedom from all bondage is to simply get to know one's true nature. Obviously one's true nature is nothing new or far away but present closer than close to oneself. What is one's true nature? Life. The natural state of being. Being alive is always abiding as one's true nature. You are what you are right now. Life itself. Your true nature or Life is expressing itself naturally as yourself. Just like a finger that points at the moon. Life or existence is the Reality. What effort do you have to make to be? No time or effort is required. There are no rewards at the end of the stick. There is no spiritual goal to be reached. Only spiritual and religious people made some up to feel better about themselves. Forget all that non-sense. Consciousness or existence is the Reality or Self that is being pointed as one's true nature. Existence is being. Nothing new to anyone. Another name for existence or consciousness is Life itself. Life is the natural presence of intelligence and power self-shining as all sentient beings. Life is the Oneness. Therefore to be alive is to be this Oneness, Livingness or consciousness. Obviously to recognize one's true nature present is very easy. After all, what is more obvious to oneself than one's own existence?

To recognize one's true nature present with simple pointers is paradoxically child-like simplicity. Nothing new is to be acquired.Nothing spiritual or special is to be discovered or experienced. There is no becoming anything new or different. There is no blazing light, no end of suffering or nirvana etc. To recognize one's true nature is to simply realize or understand consciousness itself to simply be existence. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ No one is ever apart from one's true nature. Consciousness is the core of one's being. One's own existence is this presence of consciousness that we call Life. To be alive is to abide as that. Here and now you are that. Consciousness is the natural presence of awareness that is experienced directly by everyone alive as pure changeless being. As with water and ice, you know that you are because you are aware of being. Consciousness present or Life present is 'I' am. It is pure awareness of being. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The Infinite Self is one's own self. One's own being. To be aware of being is the knowing that you are alive or 'I' am. Awareness is synonymous with being. The 'I' and awareness are One. When I am talking about the Infinite Self, I am not talking about some fictitious spiritual presence. I am simply talking about the natural presence of Life or existence present within everybody. Again and again. Common to all, the Lord or God is simply Life itself. Nothing new, special, religious or spiritual. It is pure being. No separation or duality. One's own self is the Self. Know yourself. Awareness is another name for 'you'. The Search for wholeness is simply the Search for oneself. Self-discovery is when you realize that being oneself is being awareness. You, always being the Self or awareness itselfcannot become or attain the Self or awareness. You are already that. Look at yourself. Thou art that.

To be aware is to be oneself. To be oneself is to be aware. Both are one and the same presence. Being aware is the knowing that you are. To understand this, is to remove the veil of ignorance camouflaging one's true nature. The Sought-after Truth is not acquired from some person, some place or some thing outside oneself believing it to be holy, but naturally selfshining as Life itself. Some people point to a God hidden in the Sky or some presence from above, but that is not true. Ouch! Truth hurts! Life, existence, sentience, awareness is simply being oneself or 'I' am. To know God is easy. Know yourself. Here and now you are that. Look at your own being. Look at your own existence. 'I' am that 'I' am. You are the knowing that you are. One cannot deny one's own self. 'I' am needs no proof. Your body is Life's Temple. Life is God. That is what God truly is, Life itself. The Reality within your own dwelling is present as consciousness or existence. It is 'I' am. That is the Open Secret to Freedom or so called Self-Realization Shining in plain Sight! Who is not aware of himself? One cannot deny being and say there is no one or 'I' am not. Being alive and aware of being. Awareness of being is abiding as one's true nature. You are ego-less, form-less, conscious-ness. Meaning that there is no ego or anything else present as oneself other than the Self. You already are at the destination you have paradoxically never left. The Self or the One-ness is 'you'. Who speaks? Consciousness speaks. Who sees? Consciousness sees. Who hears? Consciousness hears. Who thinks? Consciousness thinks. Consciousness is being oneself, being aware is abiding as one's true nature. Self-Realization is simply realizing that there is no separation whatsoever from one's true nature at any time. It is realizing, understanding or recognizing that being oneself is being the One Self. Thou art that. Rejoice! Any concept of being a separate individual self is only fiction or illusory. You are the One without two.

No one can become Free because no one was ever bound. One's own affectionate everyday self is already the Self. Spiritual Seekers are kept on a path when they are told to go behind a mind or to kill an ego. After all, why would anyone strive to kill a so called ego that never existed in the first place? Isn't it foolish? You are already behind the so called mind as well. What mind is there? look for it and it will not be found anywhere. Paradoxically ignorant people will label consciousness as 'mind' and therefore will create a false notion of duality that is only due to ignorance. Investigate for yourself what is Real. Fiction, myths or Truth and Reality. The false cannot stand up to investigation. Remove the veil of ignorance that is camouflaging this simple Truth about your own self. You are pure consciousness itself. You are what you Seek without trying to be. There is no separation from one's true nature. There never was anything else present with oneself as oneself, but consciousness itself. Call off the Search. There are no spiritual rewards, no happy place to get to, special faculties or anything new to be freshly acquired or cultivated. Life, existence or consciousness is the Reality. Not some spiritual or religious fantasy. Who is bound? If you want to be Free from a false notion of separation and duality. Remove ignorance. Understand that which is being pointed to as your true nature is present as awareness. What is awareness? You! Gee! yoU aRe yoU. The Search starts and ends with you. Seeing is being aware. Hearing is being aware. Knowing is being aware etc. Being aware is awareness and the Self. Cognizance is awareness. Sentience is awareness and that is what the Self is. One's real nature is always undeniably present with oneself as awareness itself. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for simply being you. Awareness is what you are right now. Being aware is awareness or the Self.

The Self is not some special or spiritual presence but pure changeless being. Awareness is nothing new. Thou art that. The state we call 'Realization' is simply being oneself. No one becomes or attains some special or spiritual presence of awareness. Being awake from sleep is being aware and the present awareness itself we call the Self. People have made up stories and created religions simply to entice Seekers by making them foolishly believe the false to be true. Self-appointed Gurus are only selling water by the River. There has never been any new, special, spiritual or extra-ordinary Self or presence to become. Just plain ordinary everyday present awareness is abiding as one's true nature. A funny paradox. Here and now 'you' are that. Being just as you are. You and awareness are One. Awareness is 'you'. Awareness is synonymous with one's own affectionate self, being or existence. No separation, no duality. One's own self is the Self or this awareness itself. Awareness is the most ordinary presence or being-ness common to everyone. Here and now you are aware. You do not have to kick start awareness. Take a look at your real self. Aren't you aware right here and now? That is IT. The Self that was never lost is what you already are and have always been naturally. Everyone alive and awake from sleep always abides as unchanging awareness. No one is ever apart from their true nature or the Self which is awareness. They are always looking away from it, they simply do not realize it. Realize that being aware is being yourself and the Infinite Self. Awareness is sentience and that is everyone's true nature. If you ever wondered what is the Self or this present awareness that is always pointed to as one's true nature by the wise. That is it. Being aware is the Self. Just this and nothing else. Awareness is nothing new or apart from you. What you Seek is what you are this very moment.

Realize that you are aware. Being aware is abiding as that. You are awareness. You are that. The One without two is you. Consciousness is one's true nature. Always experienced directly by everyone alive as ordinary existence, as sentience or awareness. Consciousness cannot be objectified simply because being oneself is abiding as this consciousness itself. There are no two selves. Being oneself is abiding as that. Consciousness is you are. Therefore it is impossible to see consciousness when consciousness is the Seer. In other words how can you kiss yourself on your own lips? To Seek consciousness as anything new or different is to always look away from it. To know consciousness do not look far. Have a look at your own self. Consciousness is the natural state of being common to everybody. Get to know your real nature to be consciousness.Nothing new. It is nothing new to anyone alive but paradoxically what we always are and have been been. Here and now you are that. Consciousness present is the natural activity of Life. No-thing. Consciousness is not a thing or an object to be seen. It is very important to realize that no-thing does not mean nothing. Consciousness is the natural and effortless activity of being conscious. Consciousness is sentience, cognizance, awareness, being-ness and existence. It is 'I' am. Because consciousness is always primary. It cannot be objectified but also cannot be denied. True consciousness is not an object or a thing but the subject. It is not what you can see but the Seer. Not what you can hear but the hearer. Not what you can know but the knower etc. The witness of all things. Consciousness is the seeing, perceiving, cognizing or knowing presence that is present with all sentient beings. The activity of knowing. Sentience, cognizance or awareness are synonymous with abiding as one's true nature. So familiar to all.

Everyone knows this pure consciousness so well already as their own affectionate being, as 'I' am. You are that. The Self or consciousness is 'I' am. Nothing new or apart from you but truly yourself. After all, who is always present with oneself to be aware of this and that? 'I' am of course! Who else could 'I' am be and truly represent in Omni-presence but this Oneness or consciousness itself. All there is ever present with oneself has always been consciousness. Just this and nothing else. Know Thyself. Know the simple Truth! That the 'I' is not a finite self or independent separate entity. Due to ignorance some people falsely believe that the 'I' represents a finite self limited to the body, but that is not true. That wrong knowledge must go and that is the so called SelfRealization. Know that the 'I' is that. All there is to realize is that in Omni-presence or Oneness there is no room for anything else to exist but consciousness itself. Therefore everyone is already that. Consciousness is everyone's true nature. Paradoxically the Search for something new, something special or different to call the Reality is a trap. Consciousness is very easily recognized to be present as awareness. Realize that you are and remain aware. Being awake or aware is the natural activity of consciousness. Sentience is another name for one's true nature. Awareness is nothing new. Nobody can become, reach or attain what they already are. It is impossible. The effort alone is foolishness and bondage. Being aware is awareness itself and what you are right now. You are aware. Since you are already aware or present as awareness itself this very moment, there is no need to try to become awareness, practice awareness or cultivate it. Just realize that being aware is in fact what you always are naturally. Remove all the spiritual and religious concepts falsely attached to this consciousness, the Self or awareness,and what you are left with is simply the natural state of being. I am no Guru, no Teacher or Buddha. I am not an Enlightened being or Master. I am just an ordinary guy that understood that simply being oneself is

being the Self. The final conclusion comes with the realization that the Seeker is paradoxically the Sought. The recognition of one's unchanging true nature is not a spiritual experience or a flash of light. Just an ordinary recognition to what is already present and have always been naturally our whole life. To know one's thoughtless true nature is very easy. All that is required is to pause thoughts for a few moments. What remains present and shining naturally if you pause thoughts?Awareness itself. Seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. Isn't there an undeniable awareness of being present as oneself? Being and remaining aware is awareness. One's true nature is just that, present as unchanging awareness itself. So near and so dear. It is at once the activity of cognizing and knowing that you are. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well as your own self. You and awareness are One and the same presence. Awareness is just another name for 'you'. Like a Fish in the Ocean Searching for the Ocean. Why should anyone meditate and strive to reach, to become or attain what they already are naturally everyday?Isn't it foolish! A strange paradox. Everyone alive is always abiding as their true nature, Seekers simply do not know it. Ignorant people foolishly believe that consciousness or one's true nature cannot be described, pointed to or understood. But that is all wrong acquired knowledge. The best description and definition for consciousness AKA the Self or one's true nature is the natural state. The natural state. The misleading conception that consciousness is a spiritual state or a religious state that is yet to be reached or attained with time, practice and effort is only a myth, pure fiction and itself bondage. Consciousness is already undeniably present with oneself as oneself. It is not something to be reached or attained. There is no reaching, no attaining or becoming anything new, spiritual or special for the Reality to be.

Some people will wait for something spiritual to happen and call that experience the Reality. That is all wrong knowledge acquired from books and self-appointed Gurus. Bound to believe the impermanent, the transient or the false to be true. No experience will ever be the Reality. Simply because whatever can be gained will also be lost. Being oneself is already being the Self or this consciousness itself. No spiritual or religious Self ever existed. Bondage and liberation do not exist. What is Real? Spirituality and all religions are the poison, not the cure. What spirituality and religions are pointing to is not true. People Seeking the Self are bound to ignorance only or false acquired spiritual and religious knowledge. Being oneself. Many have no idea that simply being alive and aware of being oneself everyday is always abiding as one's true nature AKA the Self or consciousness. All along self-shining in plain sight as one's own self, as 'I' am. 'I' am that 'I' am. Everybody knows 'I' am. Can anyone alive deny or negate one's own self, one's own existence, one's own being? While some ignorant people believe there is no one present the wise will point to oneself as being the One Self. Know that 'I' exist or 'I' am is at once awareness of being common to all and this self-shining consciousness itself. 'I' exist or 'I' am is that. You gain nothing because you lost nothing. Nothing new is to be acquired. Be content with being alive and aware of being. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ * Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To simply be alive, to exist naturally is the Reality. That is what this consciousness truly is, it is Life itself. No one sane can deny one's own existence and claim 'I' am not or 'I' do

not exist. One's own self, being or existence is that consciousness or the Self. To be or not to be. 'I' am or 'I' am not? The only fact you are absolutely sure of, is that you are. In no circumstance can this consciousness be denied. One cannot deny one's own self. Consciousness is 'I' am. One's existence is always certain. Consciousness is therefore present. Know thyself. That is what so called Self-Realization is about. Knowing that the 'I' or one's own self is that consciousness itself. Call this consciousness God or Life. Both are one and the same. Realize that is the Oneness. All sentient beings are the Self or this natural presence of consciousness that we call Life. Living-ness is consciousness. Consciousness is not some mystical presence but the natural undeniable presence of existence that we all like to be. The Self, Reality or this consciousness is not something new, special or spiritual to become, it is simply what we truly are. Our true nature is Life. Consciousness is just another name for Life. Realize that being alive is being the Self. That is the Secret. Everyone is Life in nature living itself naturally. No one lives Life. Life is living itself as every one. Everyone is being lived by Life which is one's true nature. Living itself naturally. Life or consciousness is the real doer or the Reality. Consciousness is the Reality present within your own dwelling that we call Life. It is beating your heart right now, digesting your food, growing your hair and finger nails. Life is this natural presence of consciousness itself and you are that. It is nothing new to anybody. Understand that simply being alive and aware of being oneself naturally is being the Self. One's true nature is always present with oneself as Life itself and selfshining naturally. That is what 'I' am represent. 'I' am represent being oneself and this consciousness. Who ever told you that you are not the Self, He, the Reality and Free already lied to you. Many self-appointed Gurus will entice and confuse Seekers to believe

that they are bound. Many Seekers are told to do something to become Free, but that wrong knowledge is bondage. Realize that there is no bondage, there is no separation, there is no liberation. Being is the experience itself. Consciousness is nothing new or something apart from you. Consciousness is always undeniably present with oneself as oneself,because it is so near and so dear or present as pure changeless being it is simply overlooked.So common, so plain and so ordinary is everyone's true nature. Know the Truth! The Self or one's true nature is nothing special or spiritual.It never was. That is the Secret camouflaging the simple Truth about one's true nature. Consciousness or the Self is what we all are naturally. The fact is that consciousness is simply the natural state of being. Nothing new. Being conscious is at once being this consciousness and being oneself. Consciousness is being or existence. We call that undeniable living-ness or consciousness Life. Seeking any spiritual, religious or special Self is a trap. There is no spiritual presence to call the Reality or the Self. Understanding what is pointed to as one's true nature is all that is required to end the Search for wholeness. During the waking state one's true nature or consciousness shines effortlessly as unchanging awareness. To be awake, sentient, cognizant and aware of being oneself is the Reality or this consciousness itself. To know one's true nature is very easy. Consciousness is the knowing that you are Consciousness is that 'I' exist or that 'I' am you know so well. You are the knowing that you are. One cannot deny one's own self. 'I' exist or 'I' am is certain. Present awareness or awareness of being present. No one can say there is no one present or 'I' am not. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ One's own existence is this consciousness itself. There is nothing more to realize. Existence is being the Self.

If you have been Seeking this consciousness we call the Self for a long time when wisdom points that consciousness is present here and now, then you have been looking for something else but that. Consciousness is not found because it was never lost. Aren't aware right now? That is what the Self simply is. There is nothing to practice. Nothing to worship or pray to. There are no spiritual goals to be reached. You are that which you Seek to know. The Search for a spiritual Self or presence is a trap. Thou art that.Consciousness is just another name for the plain ordinary 'you'. Being oneself naturally is abiding as this consciousness itself. There is no consciousness and you. You are IT. Being oneself is being IT. You cannot become what you already are. It is impossible. To look for some fantasy or some spiritual presence to call the Reality alone is bondage. The Self is simply being one's own self. It is what you already and have always been naturally your whole Life. Look at yourself. You know that you are. You know that you exist and you like it. No one can deny being or existing because that alone is the absolute Reality. One's own existence is this presence of consciousness itself we call Life. No one can deny being or 'I' am. One's own existence needs no proof. That is what He, the Self or the Reality truly is, Life itself. The natural state of being alive is abiding as that. Call off the Search. Here and now you are that. To be is the Self. To be alive and aware of being oneself is the natural state of being common to all. There never has been a spiritual or religious Self or any special states to be reached or attained. Life is what is truly happening here and now. The true Beloved. You know that you are. That is the Reality. Being is the Self. What are you waiting for when it is here and now? Look at yourself and you have found it. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

Look for your chains. Striving to become liberated is paradoxically bondage. Will the so called Realization bring up true Love, Peace, happiness and the end of suffering? Nope! That is all wrong acquired knowledge only used by self-appointed Gurus as spiritual carrots. Before Enlightenment I suffer. After Enlightenment I suffer. Same all, same all. Nothing changes. If you are mislead to believe that to recognize one's true nature will take away suffering, that is a lie. Life is just as it is. As long as there is a body present then one must feel pain. Unless you want to rent a gun and buy a bullet there is no escape from that. What about psychological suffering? Same. The all range of emotion is expressed and experienced the same. The only difference is that it is understood to simply be a movement of consciousness on consciousness, that is all. Omni-presence. When all there is present is always consciousness itself, nothing is wrong anymore. Remove ignorance. Forget about spiritual and religious beliefs or carrots used to entice Seekers. Before chop wood and carry water. After chop wood and carry water. Same, same. Nothing changes. Only ignorance is removed. That is all Freedom is simply all about. Understanding what this consciousness simply is, is all that is required. Of course spiritual Seekers and religious believers do not want no-thing. They expect a reward at the end of their endless Seeking. But the fact is that there is no reward. Zip, zero. Just like they imagine there is bondage, they only imagine that there is. Seekers have been brainwashed to foolishly believe that they will reached, attain or become something special or spiritual if they meditate or do that practice or worship this dude or that Guru etc. Oops. All one will truly gain for Freedom is understanding. That is all. Wisdom is Freedom. Only the veil of ignorance is removed.

You are the One. Some people are falsely told that there is no one or that they do not exist when in fact they are the One and existence itself. Thou art that. While ignorant people falsely believe that there is no one. The wise will only say what I am saying now. You are the One. 'I' am is at once one's own existence and the Infinite Self. 'I' am is that. The 'I' is not different from the one-ness. One's own self is the Infinite Self or the One Self. Being oneself is being the Self or the Real-'I'-ty. You are the One without two. How can you kiss yourself. One cannot deny one's own self. The 'I' cannot see itself nor can it be denied. One's own self and plain ordinary existence is itself the Divine. Being alive and aware of being oneself is at once being oneself and the One Self. What does one get from that realization? Nothing. Just ending the Search for the Self that was never lost. You already are at the destination you have never left, you simply did not know it. Ignorance is the only culprit. Instead of looking for something new, simply get to know you! Only because you already are what you Seek to know. That is the Open Secret. Like a fish in the water foolishly crying that he is thirsty. Nothing was ever lost or missing. You are already whole. You simply do not realize it. Only a false notion of separation is bondage. Understanding what this consciousness some call the Self simply is, is the end of the Search for wholeness and Freedom from all bondage. When you understand what this consciousness truly is, the false notion of bondage and that of liberation dissolves.Freedom is simply when you finally get that there is nothing new to get. Consciousness or the Infinite Self is paradoxically nothing new or spiritual but the natural state of being. That is what the Oneness truly is, Life, existence, consciousness, being. It is that 'I' am you know so well already. Know the Truth about 'you' and that alone sets your Free. Ignorance is the only obstacle to be removed with understanding. That is all that needs to be done. After all, this consciousness is not a mystical spiritual state to be reached or something new

to be freshly acquired but simply the natural state of being common to everybody. Everyone alive is always the Self. He or that consciousness is simply Life itself. Get to know your real self. Forget the dying body and recognize that you are the living-ness or conscious-ness shining within the body. Just like a finger pointing at the moon or a sign on the road that is pointing toward a final destination, all I can do for anyone earnest to know their true nature or real self is simply point to sentience or ordinary consciousness to be one's true nature. That is what was simply pointed out to me as my true nature and now I am pointing it out to you. I am just a pointer. That is all. Nothing else. I cannot give you anything which you do not have already. The false notion and wrong knowledge that the Self or this presence of consciousness is in anyway something new, something special or spiritual is the only obstacle. That false notion is called ignorance. Acquired spiritual and religious knowledge is paradoxically the greatest ignorance. The wise will only say what I am saying now. Any spiritual or religious concepts acquired from spiritual and religious people and books about the Self or God are all false. Consciousness is God. Life is God. Being alive is abiding as that. What spiritual and religious people 'believe' to be true is in fact illusion.A paradox. The Reality or God is you are. Consciousness is one's true nature and this consciousness is nothing different but simple changeless being. Simple changeless being is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ So common to everyone alive. Consciousness is the natural state of being. It is 'I' am. To be conscious, to be aware, to be sentient is to be the Self.That is IT. Consciousness is at once the cognizing presence and the knowing that you are.

You are that. You are He. You are the Self. Realize that there is no you and consciousness. You are consciousness itself. It is your real nature. There is no separation from one's true nature. How can you kiss yourself on your own lips? You cannot become consciousness or the Self because you are already it this very moment. People overlook the most plain and ordinary while they are busing looking for the fresh and new. Consciousness is always present. Waking, sleeping, dreaming and after the death of the body, consciousness remains the same eternally. It is the imperishable Self, ever-present. Consciousness is the Creator and governor of all things that exist. Just like a light bulb cannot shine of itself or without the Power. Consciousness is the undeniable Living-ness or Power that is present within the body that we call Life. That is the Open Secret. Spiritual and religious people will talk and write books about some concept of God. Yet they paradoxically have no clue whatsoever what God or the Reality truly is. What is the Reality the word 'God' truly represent? Consciousness, Life, existence. Life is this presence of consciousness itself that we call God or the Infinite Self. Therefore to realize that being alive is abiding as this consciousness itself is knowing the Truth. Understanding that Life or consciousness is in fact one's true nature is all that is necessary to remove ignorance. That which is eternal is not known to be so because of ignorance. Ignorance is the obstruction. Get over this ignorance and all will be well. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no becoming the Self. Being oneself naturally is always being the Self.That is all. Life is just another name for consciousness. The Self is just another name for Life. Ignorance is the only obstacle. That is all there is to be removed with understanding for Freedom.

Ignorant people do not realize that being alive is being the Self.That is what the Self is. What you Seek to find is paradoxically what you already are. Nothing is lost or missing. There is no becoming some spiritual presence or achieving some religious state of consciousness. Simply understanding what this consciousness truly is, is all that is required for Freedom from all bondage. Hidden in plain Sight! Consciousness is Life. Paradoxically Life itself is the eternal Self. Nothing new or spiritual. Life or consciousness does not know death. Just like a mirror it is never touched by appearances. The essence of Life remains the same. Patterns will form and must eventually disappear but pure consciousness itself always remains untouched. Just like all waves rise, move and collapse back into the Ocean, the essence of the wave is never touched. That is basically what Freedom from all bondage is all about. Knowing that Life or consciousness is the immortal self. Knowing this only. All that so called Self-Realization brings up to light is that simple understanding. That is all. You lost nothing and you gain nothing new or spiritual. You simply remove ignorance with Wisdom. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness is what we all are naturally. It is our very nature. It is not to be reached, attained or cultivated. We can only recognize our true nature present during the waking state or sentient state or aware state. That it is recognized or not, we are always abiding as that consciousness itself no matter what. To look for consciousness as something new or special is foolishness and ignorance. Paradoxically it is wise to recognize that which always is present with oneself naturally as being one's true natureinstead of wasting one's life foolishly Seeking to acquire something new. Whatever can be freshly acquired will eventually be lost. Therefore why should anyone Seek the impermanent?

So near and so dear. Consciousness is already here. Call off the Search. It is not something new to be freshly acquired or achieved. It is just overlooked until it is pointed to directly. To be or not to be. Everyone alive always abides as consciousness. No one can ever be apart from their own existence. Being and consciousness are synonymous with the Reality. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Remove the veil of ignorance camouflaging that plain, common and ordinary affectionate presence of consciousness some call the Self, He or the Reality and that others call God. It is surprisingly very easy to understand what is being pointed to. After all, consciousness is one's true nature. What is consciousness? Simply the presence of awareness that we all experience directly as ordinary wakeful-ness. To be wakeful, conscious or aware is to abide as one's true nature. Awareness is the natural activity of Life or the undeniably presence of consciousness itself. 'I' am is that presence of consciousness and being. The natural state of being. One's true nature is in fact very ordinary and natural. No one alive is ever apart from consciousness. No one alive can deny being. Self-awareness is consciousness itself. Awareness of being oneself is at once consciousness and the 'I'. Being oneself is always abiding as this consciousness itself. There is nothing more to be realized. The Secret to Freedom is that to be alive and conscious or aware of being is to abide as the Self, He, the Reality. To understand this simple Truth is to know oneself to be this present awareness or consciousness that we call Life. Like water and ice. There is no Life without consciousness present. Consciousness is the core of one's being or one's existence. Existence and consciousness are One and the same. While some will call this consciousness God, Self or that. I like to call it what it simply is, it is Life itself. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is...

He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ Why Seek the special and the extra-ordinary when the Reality is the most plain, common and ordinary? It is all a contradiction or a paradox. When you look for it you are only looking away from it. So called Self-Realization is to recognize that being oneself is being the Self. Consciousness is the very nature of Life or existence. The substratum or the un-manifest. To understand what this consciousness is, is very easy. Yet most Seekers do not want it to be easy. It is just another strange paradox. If you are open to simplicity, you will be surprised to discover that the Self or the Reality is nothing new, but in fact simply what you already are and have always been your whole life naturally. No one wise ever said that Freedom was the acquisition of anything new or special. Freedom is simply removing the veil of ignorance with understanding. That is what so called Realization is truly all about. Just this. Understanding is Realizing.

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The ultimate Truth is so simple that it is laughable.Have a look at your own existence. Look at your own being.You are alive right now. You are aware of being. That is IT. It is awareness of being. 'I' exist right here and now is the Sought-after Truth.

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One 'believes' that there is bondage and therefore seeks liberation. But the fact is that there is no bondagebut only liberation. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Reality or illusion. Is the Self something special, spiritual, religious or holy or is the Self simplythe natural state of being alive and awake from sleep that we call consciousness or awareness? The natural state of being common to everybody. The simplest definition for Self, consciousness or awareness is ordinary everyday wakeful-ness or sentience. That is all there is to know, understand or realize. Being conscious or awake or aware is the natural state of being. Being awake, aware or conscious naturally everyday is always abiding as one's true nature. that is all. Just this. The Self will never be what ignorant spiritual and religious people have

been expecting it to be. Living-ness, conscious-ness, being-ness, 'I' am-ness is the Reality. If you are aware of being alive, aware of being present as yourself, you are undeniably abiding as that present awareness or the Self. It is that 'I' am you know so well as your own plain ordinary everyday being. Know that 'I' am represent at once being and consciousness. Awareness of being is 'I' exist or 'I' am. Nothing new. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Say 'I' am to yourself. See! That is IT. You know that you are. Congratulation, you are so called 'Enlightened'. You can laugh at yourself now. Don't you know that the false notion that the Infinite Self, He or the Reality that some call God is something in anyway spiritual or holy is bondage? Because it is not, never was and never will be. Ignorant spiritual and religious Seekers only 'imagine' that it is. But in fact it is not. That is the Secret. Just like striving to become Free is the only bondage. It is all a contradiction or a paradox. Spiritual and religious people do not know this simple Truth. Self-appointed Gurus and spiritual Teachers will in fact point Seekers away from this. Why you may ask? Simple, would you suck up and worship the false or illusion if you know this simple Truth? Ignorant of this simple truth, innumerable methods under different denominations, such as yoga, bhakti, karma, each again with many modifications, are being taught with great skill and in intricate detail only to entice the seekers and confuse their minds. So also are the religions and sects and dogmas. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Cultivating ignorance and pointing to the false or illusion. Gurus, Teachers, Yogis and Jnanis do not want Seekers to know the simple Truth. They need ignorance to prevail and entice ignorant suckers to be at their service physically and monetarily. All that spirituality and religions are good for, it to brainwash weak people to believe the false or illusion to be true.

Just like parasites. Realize that any spiritual and religious establishment, Sect, Cult and any self-appointed Gurus and religion are only after what is good for them to survive. They need veiled and ignorant people to believe and follow the false or made up lies so that they are foolishly convinced to accept illusion to be reality. Of course to turn toward any spiritual Guru or religious Teacher, Saint, Sage, Yogi, Jnani, etc to know this simple Truth about one's true nature, about what this present awareness or the Self simply is, is like turning toward a thief disguised as a policeman and ask them to catch the thief. Good luck. It won't happen. They would be shooting themselves on the foot. The simple Truth is that there is no spiritual Power, Presence or any God. Being alive is being the Self, He, the Reality or God. That is what the fuss is truly about. Life itself. People speaking or parading themselves as holy beings or special spiritual people are only ignorant people. Who is right and who is wrong. Am I right or am I wrong? Find out for yourself if what I am saying is true. After all, what do you have to lose? Only ignorance of course. Whatever is gained or acquired will also be lost. Only remove ignorance and voila! Life is the Reality. Life is the "Diamond in your pocket" so to speak. Existence is the Self or this presence of consciousness itself. Forget about illusion. Spiritual liberation is a hoax. Self-appointed Gurus and spiritual Teachers are liars and scammers. There is no spiritual goal or any spiritual state to be reached or to be attained. There never was. Spiritual liberation is only a spiritual carrot used to entice the veiled and the ignorant. Spiritual Freedom or religious Enlightenment etc, is just a religious myth, it is all crap, pure B.S. and garbage. A made up spiritual hoax that has been used for millennia to entice and confuse Seekers. That is all it truly is. There never was and there never will be any spiritual state or presence to be reached or discovered. Bondage is only a false notion of being bound or separated from one's true nature. One only 'believes' in bondage. Bondage is only psychological.

Question your beliefs. Freedom is only for the wise. The ones would do not question will only remain bound to ignorance. The false cannot stand up to investigation. Find out what is real and what is illusion. Is the Self or Sought-after Truth simply the natural state of being and remaining aware AKA aware-ness? Wouldn't that be a funny joke, if you finally realized that being yourself naturally is abiding as the Self all along? Like a Fish in the Ocean Searching for the Ocean. Understand the paradox. The Seeker is the Sought. Thou art that already. Nothing is missing. Simply understand that me, myself and 'I' does not represent a finite self or ego like stupid spiritual people brainwashed ignorant Seekers to believe but in fact the Infinite Self itself. That is all there is to know about oneself. Spiritual and religious people admit of ego or two selves, perpetuating a false notion of separation and bondage. Telling their disciples to kill an imaginary concept of duality or a false belief that is born of their own ignorance. The false notion of the existence of an ego is wrong knowledge. To be oneself is to be the One Self. Nothing else. No dual-'I'-ty. Thou art that literally, consciousness or Life is what we all are naturally. There is no ego. Ignorant spiritual and religious people only imagine that there is, but it does not exist. The false notion of duality or two selves is wrong acquired knowledge. Oops. Ego is not! Otherwise do you admit of two selves?... If you seek the ego you will find, it does not exist. That is the way to get rid of it. Look for it and it will not be found. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The very core of non-duality is that there is no personal finite self or ego present as oneself but only the Infinite Self present as oneself. Thou art that. Not some holy spiritual presence but simply Life living itself naturally and expressing itself as all sentient beings. The Self or consciousness are just other names for Life or existence. That is all what God truly is. Consciousness is the natural intelligence and energy or growing power that we call Life.

The unseen power present that is naturally governing all living organisms. That is what so call God truly is, Life itself. Look at your own affectionate self. Look at your own being. So near and so dear. This consciousness, Self or Reality is not something spiritual or religious that is hidden somewhere far away in the Sky but naturally self-shining within your own dwelling. Life is what we all are. You are Life. Know Thyself. Know yourself to be Life itself AKA consciousness. There is no separation or duality. The 'I' is not different from the One Self but only that. Only ignorant stupid spiritual and religious Teachers and Gurus will talk about a false notion of ego. These are self-appointed Gurus that have no clue what this Oneness or Omni-presence is truly all about. Know the Truth! There is no ego, ego is not. Period end. Forget the ego. Ego only exist in someone's ignorance and false imagination. The Self or consciousness is the 'I' everyone knows so well as oneself. That is the Open Secret. The 'I' is the Lord or the Infinite Self itself. Everyone alive abides as that consciousness itself. The 'I' is at once you and consciousness. Thou art that. You are consciousness. Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Self-Realization is simply that. Understanding that the 'I' is at once your own self and the Infinite Self. Realize that here and now you are already that.The word Self means you. Nothing new. So easy isn't it!Paradoxically the Self you Seek to know is simply your plain ordinary everyday boring self. There is no spiritual or extra-ordinary Self or presence to become, reach or attain, only ignorant Seekers believe that. The Self is me, myself and 'I'.Gee! yoU aRe yoU. There is no bondage, there is no ego or separation. You are that. Therefore who is bound? If you follow a spiritual Teacher, that is your problem, he or she will screw you to believe the false to be true. You are ever-free and that already.

On enquiry 'who' is bound? The notion of bondage vanishes and so does that of Liberation. The one eternally free alone remains self-revealed. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ If you 'believe' that you are bound, that is your only bondage.A false notion. Whoever told you that you yourself being as you are, are not the Self already and ever-Free? There is no bondage. There is no spiritual presence or Self to become or some happy place to get to. Because of ignorance and wrong acquired knowledge from books and others, one only 'believes' there is bondage. There is no bondage and there is no spiritual liberation either. Forget about spirituality and religions and you have made progress. After all, spiritual and religious people are the most ignorant of all, they only 'believe' that they are bound and therefore they will for years or even an entire lifetime foolishly strive to become free, how funny. All Guru lovers or God worshippers will never know this simple Truth about the Reality. Ignorant spiritual and religious people 'believe' the false to be true. Believers are bound to their spiritual 'beliefs' only. Forget everything spiritual and religious you have acquired from books and others and you are there. You have always been there. Being yourself is the Self. One's own existence is the Divine. Life, existence or consciousness is present and naturally shining as one's own being. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To know the Self, simply have a look at yourself. You are that.That is IT. Me, myself and 'I' is the Infinite Self AKA you. You are the One without two. The Infinite Self is not something spiritual or special. Only con artists pretend that it is. Again and again, forget spirituality and all religions, they cannot help you. They can only keep you on a Seeking path to nowhere. They are the poison, not the cure.

Instead realize that you are consciousness. Consciousness present is simply ordinary wakeful-ness. In other words, plain ordinary everyday wakeful-ness is the Self itself. That is what unchanging awareness is. What is special or spiritual about that? Nothing! Simply being and remaining aware is being the Self and wakeful-ness. Being awake or wakeful-ness. The state of being conscious, awake or aware is one's true nature. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Did you foolishly believe that the Infinite Self, the absolute Reality or God was something other than simply being conscious or awake from sleep? Well then you have been taken on a ride toward illusion and fantasy. The ultimate Truth is so simple.It is laughable. Awareness is simply the natural state of being aware. Look it up in the dictionary if you do not understand.That is what the Self or present aware-ness truly is. Shining in plain sight. The Reality is present and self-shining as common to all plain ordinary everyday awareness. The natural state of being awake from sleep and remaining aware of being oneself all day long is the so called 'Realized' state. That is IT. That is what self-appointed Gurus and Teachers do not want Seekers to know. After all, would you pay or suck up to others pretending to be holy if you know that you were never bound? Ignorance alone is the obstacle to be removed with understanding and the only false notion of bondage. The fastest and easiest way to Freedom is to simply remove the false notion of being bound. Bondage and liberation are only psychological. Bondage is only found in one's own head. Remove ignorance and you have done all that needed to be done for Freedom. There is no bondage. One only 'believes' that there is. That is all. Liberation is our very nature... It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Again and again, there is absolutely nothing new, nothing specialor spiritual whatsoever about one's true nature. There never was. One only 'believes' that there is. Only veiled and ignorant spiritual people made it up to be. God as a spiritual presence is only fiction or illusion. Any spiritual concepts of God are just myths and ideologies born out of fear, ignorance and superstitions. People that 'believe' in a spiritual or religious God are only bound to their own 'beliefs'. There is no Freedom to ever be found through spirituality or any religions. The Sought-after Truth is what you have always been and are. That is the funny paradox. Here and now you are already that. Aren't you aware or conscious right here and now? Voila! You are that present awareness itself. Being aware is being the Self. Who ever told you that the Self or present awareness was anything other than the plain ordinary everyday state of wakeful-ness or the natural state of being and remaining aware lied to you. One's true nature is the natural state of sentience or awareness we know as wakeful-ness. After all, what is awareness but the state of being awake or conscious. That is the present awareness simply being pointed to, just this and nothing else. Veiled and ignorant people will buy the water sold by the River by self-appointed Gurus and all kind of spiritual Teachers, Yogis, Sages, Buddhas and Jnanis foolishly believing it is something special or holy when in fact it is nothing other than pure B.S. and crap. The Self is nothing other than awareness. Being and remaining aware is this presence of awareness itself. If you have been a long time Seeker, then realize that the Search is itself the only trap. Being awake from sleep everyday or being and remaining aware everyday is the Self or awareness itself. After all, if conventional wisdom will always point that the Reality is always present here and now with oneself as oneself and you have been overlooking and missing it all this time, it will perhaps eventually dawn on you

that you have in fact been looking in the wrong direction and wasting your life searching for the wrong thing. Being aware or awake or conscious everyday is always abiding as one's unchanging true nature. Call off the Search. Nothing is missing. Aren't you awake, conscious or aware already? Of course you are. Instead of wasting your life foolishly seeking for illusion, understand that simply being alive and aware or awake from sleep everyday is itself abiding as one's true nature. Anything else is redundant, all that is necessary for Freedom is to realize that being just as you are and have always been naturally is abiding as the Reality. Freedom is not at all about reaching, attaining or becoming anything new, special, spiritual or religious. That is in fact bondage. Freedom is only the removal of the false notion of not being the Self already. There is no spiritual goal to be reached and there is nothing spiritual to be attained. Bondage and liberation are only psychological. If you are wise you will question and investigate what is Reality. Is the Reality something spiritual, religious or special that is yet to be achieved or acquired or is the Reality the most plain and common to all boring ordinary everyday presence of existence that we call sentience or Life? What is the Self or the Reality? Have you ever wondered what it truly is? To know what the Self or the Reality truly is, is the end of the Search and Freedom from all bondage. Paradoxically because it is so ordinary, it is not at all what spiritual and religious people expect it to be. The Self, He, the Reality is nothing new or different but what we all are and have always been naturally. The ideology that the Self, God or the Reality is something extraordinary or spiritual, is only a false notion. Only spiritual and religious people falsely imagine that so called God is some special presence, power or entity. That wrong acquired knowledge is truly ignorance and the cause of all mischief. The Reality is in fact nothing new, spiritual or special but paradoxically very common and ordinary. That is the Open Secret about the eternal Self or the absolute Reality that is paradoxically hidden in plain Sight.

Not knowing what is the Reality is the only trouble. Removing ignorance is what we call Freedom or Mukti. Nothing new or special is to be freshly acquired. Only ignorance is removed. That is all what so called Freedom is truly all about. Only the Search for a spiritual or religious presence to call the Self or God is a trap. While the veiled and the ignorant foolishly 'believes' that the Infinite Self or God AKA consciousness is some holy spiritual or religious presence to be reached or to be attained with spiritual and religious effort. The wise understands that being alive is abiding as the Self or this consciousness itself some people call God. In other words to the wise Life itself is God. That is all. Nothing new, spiritual, special or holy. Simply plain ordinary existence is the absolute Reality. That is what the Self truly is. To know this, is know the simple Truth about 'I' am. Know that 'I' exist or 'I' am is that presence of consciousness itself that we call the Infinite Self or God. That is all. There is nothing more to realize. Understanding is realizing. Another name for this affectionate presence of consciousness or existence is Life. To be or not to be. 'I' am or 'I' am not. No one sane or wise will ever say 'I' do not exist or 'I' am not, or deny one's own self or affectionate being. One own self or being is existence itself AKA the Self. Everyone alive knows and says 'I' am. One's own affectionate existence needs no proof. The Self or consciousness is existence or being. To exist is to be the Self. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The absolute Reality is 'I' exist. One's own existence cannot be denied. Being is existence, consciousness, Life or the Self. Know Thyself. Consciousness is simply being yourself just as you are. That is all. So near and so dear. Here and now you are that. Consciousness is just another name for you.

The One without two. Consciousness present is being present as oneself or me, myself and 'I'. That is all this consciousness simply is, you can only laugh at yourself for Seeking you. There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained. You are the Self (consciousness). You exist always. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self is truly yourself or me, myself and 'I'. When have you ever lost yourself? Me, myself and 'I' is 'you'. Who is not aware of himself? Consciousness present is 'I' am present. Present awareness. Knowing that you are present is this consciousness itself. Consciousness is what me, myself and 'I' truly represent. One's own self or being. It is nothing new but you. There has never been some ego or finite self to get rid of or some spiritual Self to be reached or attained. Plain good ol' you or me myself and 'I' is this presence of consciousness itself, that is all. A big Joke. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ All the concepts and beliefs you have acquired from spiritual and religious people about a special presence, Self or God are a lie. The Self is yourself. Thou art that. The 'I' is the Infinite Self. So simple. This is Real-'I'-zation. You are what you Seek. How can 'you' get 'you'? Call off the Search and remove ignorance. You get nothing because you lost nothing. Only ignorance is removed. Scammers or self-appointed Gurus may entice ignorant Seekers to foolishly believe that they have become or reached some spiritual state of 'Enlightenment' but it is only a hoax. As the old saying goes, "kill the Buddha you see on the Road", it is only a fraud. A spiritual con artist. Get to know you. You are awareness. You are consciousness. Have a closer look at your real nature. Being aware is awareness itself. Being conscious is this consciousness itself. That is the Self. Consciousness or the Self is undeniably present simply because you are aware of being. That awareness of being present common to all is 'I' am. No one can deny being.

It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Child-Like simplicity. To know the Self or awareness or consciousness or one's true nature is so simple and so easy but the spiritual and religious Seeker does not want simplicity. A strange paradox. People want to see the Self as something new when paradoxically it is in fact always present and always remains the same. Forget all about spirituality and all religions, simply because they are all crap. They are the poison, not the cure. The Self is nothing new or spiritual but what you always are and have always been your whole Life naturally. Get to know this consciousness or present awareness. Are you aware? Are you conscious? Voila! That is what the Self is. Being aware of being oneself is being the Self. If you are sure of the fact that you are not dead, asleep or un-conscious, you are alive and aware of being. That pure awareness of being or knowing that that you are present is at once consciousness and 'I' am. Wisdom is Freedom or understanding is Realizing. The Self is yourself. Free yourself from ignorance only. That is all that is required. Know the Truth! There is no bondage and there is no liberation. There is no spiritual or any religious presence that the veiled and ignorant person will call God. If you want to worship some imaginary God, idolize a person, a place or a thing, that is your problem. That spiritual and religious non-sense has absolutely nothing to do with the Reality because it is not true. If you ever come across lovely Gurus, Buddhas or holy beings etc, realize that these people are really phonies. Spiritual and religious people are liars that are selling water by the River to the veiled and the ignorant. But the Truth is simple and easy to know if you are willing to understand this consciousness. Understanding is the only tool that is required for Freedom. It is the removal of ignorance. No understanding, no Freedom from ignorance. Ignorance is the only obstacle.

If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Being aware or being conscious everyday is abiding as this consciousness itself or the Self. Get rid of ignorance with understanding and voila! It is all so simple, that it is laughable. The one who waits for Freedom dies an ignorant fool. Why wait when you are always the Self and already ever-Free? Remove ignorance only and you have done all that needed to be done. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What we call the state of Self-Realization has absolutely nothing to do with some fictitious and imaginary state of spiritual or religious Enlightenment. Spiritual or religious Enlightenment is a Hoax. Spiritual people Seek spiritual Enlightenment which is a myth. There is no such thing as spiritual Enlightenment. It is just a spiritual carrot. Seeking any spiritual state of Enlightenment is bondage and only reserved for the foolish. Therefore whenever you see foolish people striving to become Enlightened. Laugh! It will never happen. The concept of Enlightenment is just like any other illusion. Can the water in the mirage make you wet? Try to catch it! See how long you will be foolishly chasing after illusion. When you are finally sick and tired of chasing after a mirage, then it is time to stop Seeking spirituality and understand what the Self and Freedom is truly all about. Forget about all that spiritual garbage people call Enlightenment. It is only religious ideology and fiction. Just like stinky garbage that is given to pigs. Spiritual Enlightenment is only religious crap. Spirituality and religions have nothing to do with the Reality and Freedom. Freedom is only the removal of ignorance.

Know thyself. What I am talking about is knowing oneself. Who am 'I'? What am 'I'? That is what I am talking about. Know Thyself or who am 'I' and you know the Oneness to simply be Life itself. There is nothing spiritual or religious about Self-Realization or knowing one's true nature. Realization means understanding. There is no attaining, reaching or becoming anything new whatsoever. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What you Seek is what you already are this very moment naturally. Like a Fish in the Ocean searching everywhere for the Ocean. When have you ever lost yourself? 'I' am is always with you. The Self is your own self. Consciousness is what you are. It is nothing new or different. Only the veiled, the ignorant or the dishonest will imply otherwise. The Self or consciousness is what you always are and have always been naturally. Awareness of being is the Self and you. The Self you seek to know is simply being yourself. The Search for a spiritual Self is a trap. There is no such thing. Being oneself is being the Self. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness or Life is being. Awareness of being oneself everyday is 'I' am. To be alive and aware of being oneself is to be the Self. Any religious concepts of grace, satsang, transmissions etc, are all illusion. Some ignorant people fall for the trap of believing that the Self is outside oneself and therefore they will foolishly Seek and worship a person, a place or a thing and call it God. Spiritual and religious people strongly believe spiritual and religious myths, fiction or illusion to be true and paradoxically they will reject the simple Truth about the Self or the Reality to be false. A strange paradox. The Self is your own plain ordinary everyday self. That is the Open Secret.

The Self (consciousness) you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The ones who do not know what they are looking for are only bound to ignorance. There is no spiritual or religious Self present anywhere anyhow. Life present is one's own being and the Reality. The Self or consciousness is Life itself. Being alive is being the self. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way.But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ The Secret to Life is that you are Life. Life is living itself as you. One's own existence is the Divine. Life, no one can be without it. Existence or consciousness is the same as Life or God. There is no waiting for the Self or God. Being alive is always abiding as that Living-ness or consciousness itself. The Self is not a spiritual or religious state to be reached or attained but what we are naturally. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What are you looking for? A spiritual or a holy Self? That is only illusion. Life is the Reality. Everyone alive is always the Self. Simply because Life itself is the Infinite Self. That is IT. There has never been any spiritual or religious Self. Life is the Self. That is the Secret. How can you become what you always are? If you are not dead or unconscious you are the Self. Being alive and aware of being is at once 'I' am and God or the Self. Spiritual and religious people will never tell you that Life itself is the Self or God

only because they either do not know it or they do not want you to know the simple Truth. After all, when you are already that, there is no money to be made by selling the real Truth for spiritual people. Therefore only ignorance can be bought and be freshly acquired from others. Just this and nothing else. Spiritual people are only selling water by the River to the dumb and the ignorant for a profit or fee. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You are Life. The only obstacle to be removed for Freedom is ignorance. That is all. There is no becoming, attaining or reaching anything new, spiritual or special for the Reality to be. You are alive. Consciousness is indeed present because you undeniably know that you are. 'I' am is certain. Life, existence or consciousness is synonymous with simply being oneself and that is what being the Infinite Self simply is. Just this and nothing else. Life or existence is the Oneness. One Life naturally present in all. How long have you been Seeking the Self that was never lost? To Seek it is to look away from it. Being is abiding as that. Life is the Precious or the Diamond inside your pocket. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Know 'I' am to be consciousness or Life itself AKA the Infinite Self. You are the host or the Living-ness that is present within your own dwelling. Know that 'I' am is that. That is what that 'I' am you know so well as your own affectionate plain ordinary self represents. 'I' am represents formless, egoless consciousness or the Infinite Self itself. That is all. Realize that you are or the 'I' is, the Infinite Self. No ego or finite self exists. Being oneself is being the One Self. The One without two is you. Thou art that. What can be simpler and easier than that? You are that or 'I' is that. The Self is me, myself and 'I'. No two selves exist. No dual-'I'-ty. There is no one that does not say 'I' am. The wrong knowledge of 'I' am the body is the cause of all mischief.

This wrong knowledge must go. That is the Realization. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Say 'I 'am. That is IT. That is the Lord. What else did you expected the Self to be? It is your own ordinary self. That alone is the Self or consciousness or awareness of being that is being pointed to as one's true nature. Awareness of being. No one can deny one's own self or being. Everyone knows and says 'I' am all day long. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Everyone knows 'I' am. 'I' am is at once you and God. You are Life, God, the Self, He, the Reality. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self is yourself. Here and now you are that. Nothing new or different whatsoever than what you are here and now and have always been your whole Life. There is no separation or individuality. There is only the One. One Self or one presence of existence. All there is, is consciousness and you are that. Life is God or the Infinite Self or the Oneness. Knowing that you are alive here and now is 'I' exist or 'I' am. Know that 'I' am is the Infinite Self or this presence of existence itself. You are not what you appear to be. You are not the body but the Livingness or consciousness that is self-shining naturally within the body. The Living-ness that is growing your hair and finger nails. The Living-ness that is beating your heart and effortlessly shining through your eyes as the 'Seer', as the awareness, sentience, cognizance or witnessing presence which is consciousness. Seeing is being conscious or the Self. So is hearing, thinking, feeling etc. Who is always present to be aware of this and that? 'I' am. 'I' am or the 'I' is awareness or consciousness. The natural activity of knowing or pure cognizing is at once being aware and being the Self. He (consciousness) is the unseen seer, the unheard hearer, the unthought thinker. There is no other seer but He. No other hearer but He. No other thinker but He. No other knower but He.

He is yourself. The inner controller, the immortal, the imperishable. ~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad~ The Reality is simply the natural presence of consciousness or ordinary Living-ness that is naturally and undeniably present within your own body.Sentience. 'I' am is at once awareness of being and the Real-'I'-ty. Knowing the Self is so easy. It is simply being yourself just as you are. The Self is being oneself naturally. So simple. Who told you that you are not the Self already? Why would you believe the false to be true? Call off the Search. The Search for a spiritual Self is a trap. The Self is Life and you. Only people that have a hidden agenda will disguise themselves as holy beings and camouflage the simple Truth. There is nothing spiritual or holy about the Self. Paradoxically is the most plain, common and ordinary. After all, one's true nature is nothing new or far away but in fact what you always are and have always been naturally. There is no becoming, reaching or attaining the Self. Being alive is being the Self. Consciousness is not a spiritual state to be reached or attained but the natural state of being. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Spiritual and religious people falsely believe that there is an ego or a finite self to get rid of. But there isn't. That wrong acquired knowledge is the only false notion of bondage. There is no bondage or liberation. Only understanding that simply being aware is awareness. Being conscious is consciousness. That is what one's true nature simply is.Being oneself is always being the Self. Ego is not. Everyone alive is always abiding as that. What spiritual people Seek to find is what they always are. The false notion of an ego present anywhere is only wrong acquired knowledge from spiritual and religious people.

If you seek the ego you will find, it does not exist. That is the way to get rid of it. Look for it and it will not be found. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The false notion of bondage is only imaginary and psychological. There is no ego. What binds you? You are always ever-Free. Spiritual and religious people are paradoxically the most ignorant and most veiled people you will ever come across. They foolishly believe what they read to be true and listen to other ignorant spiritual people. As long as someone turns toward spirituality and religions for Freedom, they will know the simple Truth. Throw away all the spiritual and religious books and kill the Enlightened Buddha you see on the Road. It is all false. Spiritual and religious people do not realize that so called God they foolishly Seek and others worship is simply just another name for Life, for consciousness, for existence. The Self or God or the Lord or the Infinite etc, is not to be found somewhere far and away but recognized undeniably present within one's own dwelling as 'I' am. As oneself, as one's own being. That is all. 'I' am is the Self or God which is ordinary everyday consciousness. There is no spiritual or religious power. Life is God or God is simply Life itself. That is what the fuss about the so called "Kingdom of God" is all about. Life is the Oneness. Know your own self and you know the Oneness to simply be Life itself and yourself. You are Life. Life, existence or consciousness is nothing new or apart from you but simply the natural presence of intelligence or the living power or Living energy that we call Life.That is what the Self is. Existence is consciousness itself. He or consciousness is the unseen power present within the body that we all know and call existence or Life. Being alive and being oneself is abiding as that consciousness itself. That is IT. What can be easier than this? Alive-ness, living-ness, conscious-ness, aware-ness, being-ness, 'I' amness. That is what Life or the Self is. That is one's true nature or God. Existence and consciousness are one and the same presence.

Call off the Search. The Self is one's own being. Don't you know? It is that 'I' am you know. To know the Self look at yourself, look at your own existence, look at your own being. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ It is always Now. Life is Now only. That's the Reality. The actuality of existence is always this present moment. Here and now you are. Being aware of being oneself is 'I' am. Life is the Self. Consciousness or the Self is indeed present because you know that you are alive and you like it. Consciousness or existence is pure awareness of being. One cannot negate one's own being. 'I' am or 'I' exist needs no proof. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Awareness of being is bliss. Consciousness or the Self is the knowing that you are. You gain absolutely nothing because you lost nothing. You always are what you Seek to know. So near and so dear. Life is the Infinite Self, He, the Reality. Aren't you alive and aware of being anyhow? Joie de Vivre. Being is happiness. That is the Open Secret to SelfRealization and Freedom. Mukti. It is so easy. Didn't anyone tell you? Here and now you are that. What you Seek is your own self, being or existence. To be alive is to be the Self. Being means existence. That is IT. Understanding this is Realizing the Self. Awareness of being alive presently is 'I' am. 'I' exist here and now is abiding as the Reality. Nothing was ever lost or ever missing. You are that. The 'I' is you and the Real-'I'-ty. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ 'I' am or 'I' am not. Can anyone deny one's own existence? One's own self? One's own being? Remove ignorance. Wisdom is Freedom. The false cannot stand up to

investigation. Question, investigate. Reality or illusion. What is real? One must want to know. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be alive is the Reality. Everything else religious or spiritual is only fiction. Paradoxically what the Reality, the infinite Self or what one's true nature truly is, is not at all what spiritual and religious people have been brainwashed to assume or believe. One's true nature is simply that which is always present naturally. To know one's true nature is very easy. After all, there is nothing you have do. All that is required is to remove false knowledge acquired from spiritual and religious people. What we call the Self is consciousness, existence or Life itself. That alone is what the Reality simply is. Your very existence is the so called Divine. Life is God if you like. Consciousness is the real presence of existence. That alone is what the Self or Reality is. Life, consciousness, existence are synonymous with being. The Self is one's own being. Therefore the Reality is 'I' exist or 'I' am. The 'I' is at once being oneself and consciousness. That is all there is to realize. The Self (consciousness) is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Awareness. What is awareness? The natural state of being aware. Being aware or aware-ness is the same as being-ness. Awareness is undeniably present because you are aware of being. Knowing that you are present is this present awareness itself. Same, same. Awareness present is the exact same as 'I' am.

Being aware is ordinary everyday sentience or everyday wakeful-ness. The natural state of being aware is simply being oneself. That is what the Self truly is. So plain and so ordinary is awareness itself AKA the Self that it is easily overlooked. Take space as an analogy or example to point to the subtlety and ordinariness of this plain common to all ordinary everyday present awareness. Just like space is nothing new but always present, boring and unchanging because it is no-thing. Awareness is always present first hand with oneself, boring and it remains the same and unchanging all day long. To be awake or aware is unchanging awareness. Some call it the stateless state. Empty, boring and no-thing. There is no love in it, no happiness or anything changing or happening whatsoever. It is just pure being. That is the Open Secret about the Self self-shining in plain sight all along.Closer than close. What you Seek is nothing other than what you already are naturally everyday. Awareness is the same as being. Existence is being. Being aware or consciousness is being the Self or one's true nature. Anyone that wakes up every morning is abiding as their true nature all day long. What else did you expect this unchanging present awareness to really be? That is IT. That awareness is what one's true nature simply is. Being awake or being aware is the same. That is all there is to realize about one's true nature. Realize that simply being and remaining aware or being awake from sleep everyday is to abide as unchanging awareness or pure consciousness, sentience or the Self. Who said that to know the Self AKA aware-ness was something hard or difficult? After all, look at yourself here and now. Aren't you awake or aware right now? See! It is so easy. That is what the Self simply is, this undeniable common plain ordinary present awareness is one's true nature. The Self or unchanging awareness or being aware is nothing new or special. The Self is sentience or simply being aware. That is what the fuss is all about. Being aware.

What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Know thyself. You are awareness itself. Being aware is one's true nature. Sentience. Awareness is another name for the Self or consciousness. The natural effortless activity of being conscious or being aware is this non-conceptual self-shining present awareness that we all like to be. All knowledge acquired from spiritual and religious people about the Self or God is wrong knowledge. Seekers have been mislead by self-appointed Gurus and Teachers to believe the false or illusion to be true. Only the fasle notion that the Infinite Self is either something spiritual or religious in anyway is bondage. There is no other notion of separation and bondage. This false notion must be removed for Freedom. That wrong acquired knowledge about the Self is a veil of ignorance and the only obstruction. Remove wrong acquired knowledge or misinformation about the Self AKA unchanging awareness. There is absolutely nothing new or different about awareness. It is simple changeless being. Simple changeless being is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Paradoxically for Freedom one must forget all about spiritual crap, because it is all false knowledge. Spiritual and religious people cannot know the Infinite Self. It is absolutely impossible. All a spiritual or religious person believes to know to be true is in fact false. Spirituality and religions are illusion. Why Seek illusion, the transient or the impermanent when the Reality is always undeniably present here and now? The Self is simply being oneself. That is this present awareness truly is. Being aware is awareness of being.Look at yourself here and now. Aren't you aware? There has never been anything whatsoever spiritual or religious about awareness or the Self.

Aware-ness or the natural activity of being aware and the Self are synonymous with being oneself. The Self is the natural activity of being aware. That alone is what consciousness itself simply is. Being aware is simply being oneself naturally.That is what it is. The Self or awareness is the most natural. There is nothing new about the Self. Abiding as one's true nature is the most common, effortless and natural. Awareness present is 'I' am. Knowing that you are present and aware is abiding as that unchanging awareness itself. Awareness present or present awareness is at once being and consciousness. It is the knowing that you are present. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Me, myself and 'I'. Awareness present or present awareness is the knowing that 'you' are. The 'I' present in 'I' am. The 'I' is the Infinite Self and your own self. Thou art that. You are that. Who am 'I'? After all, the only fact you are sure of is that 'you' are. 'I' am is certain. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Know thyself. The 'I' and awareness are One.You are the Self. Awareness of being oneself is at once 'I' am and the Self. That is what it is. The Self is nothing new or spiritual like some foolish ignorant people may want you to believe but in fact always present with you as your own affectionate plain ordinary everyday self. That is IT. Awareness is nothing new, mystical or special.It is one's true nature. Being aware is the natural state of being common to all. Here and now you are undeniably aware. That is IT. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The natural state of being conscious or aware we call sentience or wakeful-ness is this awareness. To be aware, awareness or the Self is not something that can be cultivated, reached or attained. Being conscious or aware is what you already are naturally this very moment.

Nothing was ever lost or missing. Spiritual people only foolishly believe so. The Search for the Self as something new or spiritual is a trap. The bottom line is that spirituality or religions cannot help you know the Truth. The Truth is what you are. It is not something to be freshly acquired from books or others. Present here and now. You do not have to kick start awareness. Have a look at your real nature. Have you noticed that you are aware? Being aware! That is your true nature. The natural state of being and remaining aware common to everyone is the Sought-after Truth and the absolute Reality. Being aware is being the Self. Who said the Self AKA awareness was anything else anyhow? Nothing new, nothing special, mystical or spiritual. Being aware is being the Self. Full stop. The natural state of being. Only con artists AKA self-appointed spiritual Gurus and religious Teachers will entice and confuse Seekers to believe that the Self or awareness was something special or spiritual that is yet to be reached or to be attained. Know the Truth! That is all just a bunch of crap. Money or gratification is their only true God. That is what these people truly worship behind the camouflage of spirituality and religions. After all, spirituality and all religions are the poison, not the cure. It is only false beliefs. Some ignorant fools will even sit in silent meditations for years, waiting for awareness to show up when all along simply being awake or conscious naturally is always abiding as that. How funny. Acquired spiritual and religious knowledge, rituals and practices are the greatest ignorance. Forget all spiritual and religious non-sense if you want to be Free. Understand what this present awareness simply is. It is you. You are awareness itself. Get to know your real nature. Awareness is another name for you. Knowing the Self is only by knowing oneself. Are you aware? You are that present awareness self-shining naturally as the knowing that you are.

How much time and effort does it take to know that you are? Awareness or the Self is the knowing that you are. Present awareness. The Self is ever present. Each one wants to know the Self. What kind of help does one require to know oneself? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Know Thyself. The Self is simply being oneself. What does 'I' am represent? Awareness itself. You are present as awareness and awareness is present as you. To be aware is to abide as awareness itself or you. Being aware is God and you. Awareness, the Self or God is nothing new, spiritual or far away but so near and so dear. Only veiled and ignorant foolish people have convinced themselves and others that so called God is something hidden far away in the Sky or Heaven as they called it in the old days. The simple Truth is that simply being alive and aware is being God. That is IT. Life is God and God is just another name for Life itself.One's own existence is the Self or God. That is Open Secret to Freedom. It (consciousness) is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ There isn't anyone alive that doesn't know or say 'I' am. So near and so dear. Consciousness shines as pure awareness of being. As 'I' am. We call that natural state of self-awareness the waking state. That is all there is to realize. Sentience, cognizance, awareness or consciousness is simply being oneself everyday naturally. After all, is there anyone who is not aware of himself? 'I' am is undeniable or 'I' exist is certain. No one can deny one's own existence. Being is the experience itself and Sought-after Truth. 'I' exist is the Reality. That is all there is to realize or understand. What can be more obvious and more undeniable than that? Know thyself. Know that 'I' am or 'I' exist here and now is God AKA Life. One's own existence is the so called Divine or God or He, or the Self or the Reality.

Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ There never was any spiritual or religious God. Veiled and ignorant people invented one. That wrong or false knowledge is the only bondage. Remove ignorance and voila. The Reality is being. Know that 'I' am or 'I' exist is the Real-'I'-ty. The natural state of being. Being alive and awake or aware is consciousness, sentience, awareness and that alone is what God is. Like being brainwashed or hypnotized.Spiritual and religious people are not very bright. Ask them what the words God or He or the Self or the Reality simply represent and they will have no clue. After all, bondage and liberation is only psychological. One only 'believes' or 'assumes' or has 'convinced' himself that there is bondage. Look for your chains! Who is bound? Bondage is only found inside one's own head. Bondage is just a false notion foolishly accepted by ignorant people to be true, just this and nothing else. On enquiry 'who' is bound? The notion of bondage vanishes and so does that of Liberation. The one eternally free alone remains self-revealed. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Like an Ass dumbly chasing after a carrot at the end of a stick There is no bondage. There is no separation and there is no liberation either. Some ignorant people will spend their whole life Seeking and chasing after illusion for nothing. There is nothing new to get. The ultimate Truth is so simple. Paradoxically that is the only difficulty. Once you get that there is absolutely nothing new, spiritual or religious to get, you finally Got IT! The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Did you know that what is called the Self, He, the Reality or God is simply consciousness? The natural state of being conscious is this consciousness itself. That is what God or the Self is. Only veiled and ignorant people will foolishly assume that the Reality or God as some people call it is either something spiritual or religious. That false notion is only programming or religious conditioning. The Reality is simply Life itself. Consciousness present is existence present.That is all that God is. As with water and ice, there is no existence present without consciousness present. Simply because they both are one and the exact same presence. Life, consciousness and existence are synonymous with being. To be or not to be. Therefore to be alive is to be God. 'I' exist or 'I' am is God. The word God, Self, He, the Reality etc, are just different names for consciousness or existence. The Self is nothing new or far away. So near and so dear. It is nothing spiritual or religious whatsoever. Ignorant and veiled Seekers only imagine that it is. That wrong knowledge is the only cause of all mischief. Consciousness present is simply being present as oneself.It is simply that 'I' am you know. There is no becoming anything.Call off the Search. Is there anyone alive who is not aware of himself? Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self (consciousness). A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness or existence present is self-shining as pure being. Existence or being alive is 'I' am. Awareness of being alive is 'I' am. That is IT. 'I' exist is the Sought-after Truth, God, He, the Reality. Consciousness or Life present is being or 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Who ever said that the Self was anything else? Being is existence or Life. Call it God, He, the Reality. Life present is the Self and that 'I' am you know. Awareness of being oneself naturally everyday is at once consciousness present and 'I' am.

Plain, common and ordinary is the Reality.God, He or the Self is simply consciousness itself. Consciousness AKA the Self is nothing new or far away, but paradoxically so familiar to everyone. Consciousness or the Self is plain ordinary sentience. That is what the Self truly is. Don't you know that to be awake or aware is to abide as consciousness itself. Self-awareness? That is right! Whenever you are awake or conscious, consciousness is present and aware of itself. 'You' as this consciousness itself is knowing that you are. That is what 'I' am represents. Self-awareness. The 'knower'. Who is knowing that you are alive? Knowing that you are conscious? Consciousness itself. To be aware is to abide as unchanging awareness. To be alive and conscious is to abide as the One without two. Consciousness, sentience or awareness are just different names for you. You are that. Nothing new or different whatsoever. Who said it was or should be? You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You are awareness. Remove the veil of ignorance camouflaging the simple Truth about yourself and true nature. Have a look and see for yourself what this presence of awareness simply is, it is so easy that it is funny. Are you aware right now? Voila! You are that presence of awareness itself. Being aware is being the Self. Closer than close. You and awareness are One. Same, same. Awareness is another name for 'you'. What 'you' Seek is what 'you' are. You yourself are the Self. Nothing is lost or missing. Call off the Search. Nothing new, different or spiritual to be freshly acquired. The Seeker is the Sought! Is that funny or what? Life or consciousness is one's true nature and the Infinite Self. Simply being alive and aware is being IT. Remove the camouflage of spiritual and religious B.S. and you are then left with the simple Truth about your real self. You are consciousness AKA the Self. Here and now you are that.

Being alive and conscious. That is alone is what the Self you Seek to know truly is. Consciousness is nothing new but what you always are naturally everyday. It is 'I' am or 'you' are. Don't you know that 'you' exist right now? The Self (consciousness) you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Freedom is not and never will be the acquisition of anything new, special or spiritual. Ignorant spiritual and religious people foolishly assume they are not already whole and will therefore spend their entire life Seeking for something new to be freshly acquired. Oops! Only veiled by wrong spiritual and religious knowledge. Not knowing that simply being alive and aware of being oneself everyday is in fact the Sought-after Truth and Reality is the trouble. Remove ignorance only. Paradoxically all acquired spiritual and religious knowledge is the greatest ignorance. Spirituality and religions only point to illusion. That is the funny paradox. All that crap must go if you ever want to know your real self. After all, what you Seek is what you always are naturally everyday. The real nature of Life is the presence of consciousness itself. After all, what is Life but the natural presence of consciousness itself. Just like the nature of a wave moving on the surface of the Ocean is nothing but Ocean. The real nature of Life is nothing but consciousness. One's true nature is this consciousness itself. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Freedom is very easy. No time or effort of any kind is required. Only cultivating illusion is difficult.

For Freedom only understanding this consciousness itself is necessary. It very simple because it is very familiar and ordinary. No one alive is ever apart from their true nature. It is impossible. Therefore what are you waiting for? Get to know your true nature. To know the Self or one's true nature is so easy. To simply be conscious is consciousness. To be aware is awareness. That is what He, the Self, the Reality, God or the Sought-after Truth simply is. The natural state of being and remaining aware common to all and always experienced directly by everyone alive as plain ordinary common effortless everyday wakeful-ness is the Self. That is IT. So simple. Not knowing how close the sought-after Truth is, people Seek it far away. The Secret is simply that there has never been anything whatsoever spiritual or religious about Freedom. The false notion that consciousness or the Infinite Self is something spiritual or religious is bondage. So near and so dear. It is simply Life itself. Life is consciousness itself. The Precious or the Diamond in your pocket is existence. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Did some holy Guru, Sage, Jnani or Buddha sell you water by the River? How long have you been foolishly Seeking for the Self that was NEVER lost? Remove ignorance. Understand what this consciousness simply is. To be conscious or awake from sleep is to be aware of being. Consciousness is the activity of knowing. Awareness. Wakeful-ness or sentience is pure awareness of being. It is the knowing that you are. It is 'I' am. Just like a finger pointing at the moon. Being alive, conscious and aware of being present is the Reality. Consciousness or awareness is what has been pointed to as one's thoughtless Reality for millennia by the wise. Everyone alive is always abiding as this consciousness itself everyday naturally. Get to know your true nature. Not by Seeking it as anything new, spiritual or far and away. But simply by knowing your own self.

For example thoughts come and go like they are supposed to naturally but the witness of all thoughts is always the same unchanging presence of consciousness.The knower is consciousness. Who is present and aware of thoughts? 'I' am. 'I' am is consciousness. Consciousness is just another name for 'you'. Gee! yoU aRe yoU. Here and now 'you' are that. Have a look at your real self. The simplest, fastest, easiest way to recognize one's true nature is to be still. All that is required to realize the Self (consciousness) is to be still. What can be easier than that? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ So basic. So fundamental and so common to everyone alive is one's true nature. How funny. Have a look and see. What remains present when they are no thoughts present? Nothing new, special or extra-ordinary. Just ordinary consciousness itself. Pause thoughts and consciousness AKA the Self remains self-revealed as pure changeless being. So simple. So easy. Be still and voila! Know that 'I' am is this unchanging presence of consciousness itself. Call it the Self, He, the Reality or whatever. That which always is present with oneself is one's true nature. Present here and now naturally with everybody, that undeniable ordinary cognizing presence is what we call consciousness or unchanging awareness. Just like the unchanging sky and the passing clouds. Being and remaining aware is unchanging awareness. Realize that when ever you pause thoughts, only thoughts will effortlessly disappear but 'you' always remain present and aware of being. You do not come or go anywhere. You are this unchanging present awareness itself. To know the Self AKA consciousness or unchanging awareness or one's thoughtless true nature is so easy. It is laughable. A cosmic joke. How much time and effort does it take to be still for a few moments? Be still and 'you' are there! Self-shining and undeniably present as pure awareness. That is IT. Remove all camouflage, there is absolutely nothing mystical about the Infinite Self.

Simply being alive and aware or awake is abiding as that consciousness itself. Nothing new, special or spiritual to reached, attained or cultivated. The Self is what we all are naturally and effortlessly by simply being aware. If you are aware, you are the Self. Being aware is being the Self. That is all there is to realize. Who ever said knowing the Self was something that was hard or difficult? Paradoxically it is so easy. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Only ignorant spiritual and religious fools want the Self to be much more than this. These are the veiled Seekers that will only die ignorant of this simple Truth. What to do. One can only take a horse to the water but cannot make him drink. Drink if you are thirsty. Nothing new, nothing special or different about the Self. The Self is just another name for 'you'. The Self is consciousness and 'you' are that. Being alive is abiding as the Self. He is life itself. Consciousness present is simply being alive and aware of being. Sentience. Are you alive? are you aware of being? There you go sport. That is IT. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ Paradoxically any spiritual or religious concepts, beliefs or ideology that the Reality is either something new, spiritual or holy is idiocy. That false knowledge is only for the ignorant. None of this non-sense is true. Life, consciousness or existence is simply being Spirituality and any religions are only pointing to illusion, not to the Reality which is present here and now. Remove ignorance only with common sense and clear understanding. That alone is all that is necessary. Understanding this consciousness is all that is necessary. There is no bondage and there is no liberation. Spiritual and religious people only 'believe' that there is. That is paradoxically their only imaginary chains.

Wisdom is Freedom. Understanding is Realizing. Ignorance is the only obstacle to be removed. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Some spiritual and religious people may pretend to be someone special, spiritual and holy and to have acquired some spiritual state of 'Enlightenment', but that is only for show used to entice and confuse Seekers for either self-gratificaton or for a fee. That is all B.S. Know the simple Truth. There is nothing new or different to be reached or to be attained. Nothing whatsoever spiritual or religious to be cultivated, practiced or acquired. Being alive is being the Self. That is the Open Secret. Understanding that Life is the natural presence of consciousness itself is very easy. There is nothing more to be realized. Consciousness is present as Life itself. That is one's true nature. Are you alive?The Self, He, God or consciousness you seek is what you are already, naturally. Alive-ness, living-ness, conscious-ness are all synonymous with simply being or existence. There is absolutely nothing new, spiritual or holy about God. That is the funny paradox. He is Life itself. Plain, common to all and ordinary. That is all there is to realize. Nothing was ever lost. What you Seek is what you are right now. Being is the experience itself. Being alive is being the Self. That is the Reality. Consciousness is Life itself. One's own undeniable existence here and nowis the natural effortless undeniable presence of consciousness AKA Life. Why should anyone Seek it? In other words to be alive and aware of being is to abide as the Self, He, the Reality or God. Existence is being. The Self, He, the Reality or God is common to all and know to all as 'I' am. Consciousness is wakeful-ness. Everyone awake is aware of being. Awareness of being oneself is consciousness itself. It is 'I' am.

It (consciousness) is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Consciousness is pure awareness of being. To be or not to be. Everybody knows 'I' am. So simple. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The natural presence of Life or consciousness which is so common to all sentient beings is the Self. Consciousness is being awake. Consciousness is being aware. Consciousness is being alive. Consciousness is being oneself. It is 'I' am. Consciousness is simply ordinary everyday wakeful-ness, aware-ness or sentience. To be awake from sleep is to abide as consciousness itself and that is to be so called 'Enlightened'. "Enlightenment' is not some fictitious spiritual or religious state or some holy place to be reached or attained. True Enlightenment is to be alive and aware of being, Sat-Chit-Ananda. Awareness of being is God and happiness. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Awareness of being oneself is at once God and 'I' am. 'I' am is God or God is 'I' am. The word 'God' is just a fancy name for consciousness AKA Life. That is all God truly is. When you hear the words 'the Kingdom of God is in you' it simply pointsto the natural presence of Life or consciousness that is self-shining naturally within your own dwelling. Beating your heart and self-shining through your eyes this very moment. Being is the Self. The Self (consciousness) is not something to be acquired from others. All that is necessary is to know its existence in you. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Just like a Fish in the water foolishly crying that is thirsty. What is missing? Nothing whatsoever! The Self is Life itself. Wisdom is to know this simple Truth.

Wisdom is Freedom. That is the only difference between the wise and the ignorant. Not knowing that Life or existence is consciousness or the Self is the only problem. Know that the Self AKA consciousness is simply Life itself. That is what the Self or God truly is. That simple realization is that all is necessary to end the Search for the Self that was never lost. The Self is nothing new or in anyway different than what you are and have always been naturally. The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something newor reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Life or consciousness is the absolute Reality that is self-shining presently within your own dwelling. In other words being alive and conscious is to be the Self or God. Nothing new, spiritual or special. That is all there is to realize or understand. Thou art that already, naturally, everyday effortlessly. To Seek consciousness AKA the Self as anything new or special, spiritual or holy is to always look away from it. Call off the Search. You are it this very moment. Understanding what this presence of consciousness simply is, is very easy. Are you aware? You know that you are not dead or un-conscious? Voila! Consciousness present is the knowing that you are present. Present awareness is at once consciousness and 'I' am. That is the Joke of it all. Just realize that you are aware and remain aware. That is what the Self, He, the Reality, God or this consciousness is. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Only an ignorant fool looks for a spiritual or religious presence to call the Self or God. To the wise the Self or God is simply ordinary everyday consciousness. To the wise the Self or God is simply Life itself. Consciousness is Life.

Where can you find it? Turn within. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. Consciousness is undeniably present. You know that you are alive and you like it. 'I' am is certain. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ I am not a spiritual person or being. I am not a religious person or a believer of anything. Just an ordinary person who understands that simply being alive is the only absolute Reality. Nothing new, spiritual or religious about being alive. Being alive is simply being oneself naturally. If you are looking for something new, spiritual or holy, you are at the wrong place. Here spirituality and all religions are crap. False and made up stories only to bound the ignorant. Wisdom is to discern between what is real and what is illusion. Fact or fiction. For example give a brainwashed religious follower a fossilized Dinosaur bone which is a solid fact, they will still strongly hold on to or religiously be attached to a false belief that man was first created on Earth. The same person also believes in some imaginary place in the clouds or in the sky they call 'Heaven'. That is illusion. People believe the false to be true and reject what is the fact and true to be false. A strange paradox. Believing is bondage. That is all. People are only bound to false beliefs. The simple Truth is just a funny paradox. While spiritual and religious people believe in a God hidden far and away,for the wise the Reality is the simple fact of one's own being. One's own undeniable existence is the Reality. That is all. These conditioned spiritual and religious people cannot see through the veil of acquired ignorance which is simply all of their acquired religious and spiritual beliefs. That is their only bondage. Ignorant spiritual and religious people falsely 'believe' that there is bondage.

The fact is that there is no bondage. Look for your chains. One only 'believes' that there is. People that are turning toward religions and spirituality for a cure, are in fact turning toward illusion and overlooking the undeniable Reality. The poison is paradoxically any acquired spiritual or religious beliefs. Another paradox. Freedom from all religions and all spirituality is Freedom from all bondage. After all, Seekers are only bound to Seeking. That is the funny paradox. Reality or illusion. What is Real?Question. Investigate. Religions and spirituality are not Real. They all are illusion. It is all spiritual carrots and non-sense. Fantasy only. It is all B.S. There has never been a God to worship present anywhere. Selling water by the River. Know the simple Truth about any spirituality, any cults, any sects and any religions. Spirituality and religions are only money scams. The Reality is nothing spiritual or religious at all. Religious and spiritual leaders only want and worship money. That is their only true God. When ever you see any spiritual or religious person selling a book, DVD or a CD, sharing a few words about their imaginary God etc, that is only for money. All are truly prophets of profits. After all, any God of spirituality or religions is only fiction. False imagination. There is no spiritual or religious power or presence or God. It is all illusion and superstition. Life is the true presence and only true power. It is the Reality present within your own dwelling. So near and so dear. Life is the only absolute Reality. Life is God so to speak. Just this and nothing else. Life is the Diamond in your pocket. Life is the Sought-after Truth.Life is our very nature. It is consciousness. Life is what is expressing itself naturally as all sentient beings. Life is being. Present here and now. No one is ever apart from one's own existence. 'I' exist here and now is the Real-'I'-ty. The 'I' and consciousness or Life are one and the same presence.

Consciousness or Life or existence present here and now is known to all as 'I' am. Common to all. The Reality is 'I' exist or 'I' am. Nothing new under the Sun. The natural state of being alive and aware is one's true nature. To know one's true nature is very easy. There is no believing anything especially something spiritual or religious. The simple fact of being alive presently or here and now is the Reality. That is all. Present here and now. Life is Now only. The only sure fact is that Life is what is happening presently. Here and now you are. Freedom is as simple as that understanding.Understanding is realizing that being alive is being the Self. What are you waiting for? What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ While the veiled and ignorant spiritual or religious person worships, cultivates, prays, meditates and talks about illusion. The wise understands that Life is the Reality. Everyone alive is the natural expression of Life itself which is therefore the Oneness present in all sentient beings. To be alive is to be the One. Living-ness is the experience itself. Life is the Oneness. Everyone alive is therefore abiding as Life itself. What does realizing that simply being alive is always abiding as one's true nature brings you? Nothing! Only the search for the Self or the Reality or the Sought-after Truth stops. What you Seek is what you are. Our very nature is Life itself. Nothing was lost. Just overlooked. So near and so dear. Life is so plain and so common to everyone alive that very few understand this. Understanding that being alive naturally is abiding as consciousness itself is all that is necessary.

It is very easy to understand but paradoxically most people Seeking the Self or the Reality are foolishly striving to become something new or different than what they already are. Life is that absolute Reality. Everyone alive is always abiding as the Infinite Self. The experience is here and now. There is no waiting or attaining anything. Being is the experience itself. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Me, myself and 'I'. Can anyone deny one's own self and say 'I' do not exist or 'I' am not? Only idiots will claim that they do not exist! The certainty of being alive and kicking needs no proof. No one sane can deny one's own self. No one sane can deny one's own existence. 'I' exist is the absolute Reality. Everyone alive is aware of being. No one alive denies one's own existence. 'I' am is certain. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ 'I' exist or 'I' am is pure awareness of being. It is the knowing that you are. One's own affectionate existence is undeniable. No one can say 'I' do not exist. One's own existence is the Reality. That is what the fuss is all about. 'I' am or 'I' exist is the Self. If you ever come across some spiritual idiot that tries to convince you and others that they do not exist. Laugh! Life present is consciousness. The natural presence of intelligence expressing itself naturally that we call life. The Self or God is in fact existence itself. To be, to exist is the experience. That is all there is to understand. To know that simply being alive is itself being the Self, He, God or the Reality is to know the Truth.

What is more common and obvious than being alive? One's own existence cannot be denied. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Being alive is being the Oneness. Spiritual and religious people will not tell you this simple Truth. After all, would you chase after illusion and false knowledge about the Reality if you knew this? Of course not! Religions and spirituality are only talking about false imagination. Over the ages some people have covered up the Reality which is Life itself with fantasy and spiritual stories only to entice and confuse Seekers. That falsehood is what is called nowadays spirituality and religions. It is all made up crap. The ignorant Seeker who is veiled does not know it. To turn to spirituality or any religions to know the simple Truth is like turning toward a thief disguised as a policeman to catch a thief. Good luck. Spirituality and religions will only screw you and not help you. They are all lies. Call Life God or the Self. Life is the Reality that is being pointed to as one's true nature. There is nothing spiritual or religious whatsoever about being. That is the funny paradox. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ It does not matter what anyone says or believe. Any spiritual or religious God is fiction. The fact of one's own being is the undeniable Reality. That is all there to realize. I laugh when I hear people meditating, keeping quiet, doing this spiritual practice or religious ritual, all for nothing but to perpetuate the false notion of separation and bondage. How funny ignorance can be. People will also worship others disguised as holy Gurus and spiritual Teachers where the ignorant foolishly believe them to be holy or special beings when in fact they are nothing other than con artists.

Forget spiritual and religious crap. Flush it all down the Loo. They cannot help you but only sink you deeper into ignorance and to foolishly chase after illusion. Believers of spirituality and religions are only bound to their false acquired 'beliefs'. That is the paradox. Bondage is like an illusory cage that is made of wrong acquired spiritual and religious knowledge. Liberation is our very nature. We are that...It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Watch one for all these veiled spiritual Guru disciples and students that are so hypnotized by spiritual B.S. that they will follow and worship anyone and anything. Some will even write books of how great their religious idol or Guru is to them, only to entice others to become veiled believers. This is nothing new. Spirituality and religions are like a disease. Most Seekers are enticed by someone or something and therefore they will worship illusion and become distracted from the simple Truth. Preaching my Guru said this, my Teacher said that etc. It all becomes a false reference point of wrong acquired knowledge which is nothing other than spiritual crap. There are no spiritual or special beings. It is all made up crap or garbage only to entice Seekers. See the false as false. Spirituality and religions are a trap. They are the poison, not the cure. There is no bondage. Due to wrong acquired knowledge. One only 'believes' that there is. There is nothing to change, alter or modify for the Reality to be. You are consciousness itself. What you Seek is what you are right now.To be alive is to abide as consciousness itself. Call it Life or consciousness, both are one and the same presence of existence. To be alive is to abide as one's true nature. That is the Open Secret. There is nothing new or different to be freshly acquired. You are the Self. Here and now you are that. The word 'Self' simply means 'you' literally. Look it up in the dictionary. You will only find the Self or the Reality the very moment you stop

Seeking. Not because you find it as anything new or different, but as what you already are. Everybody knows and says 'I' am. If you are alive and aware of being yourself, you are the Self. God is that 'I' am you know so well already as your own affectionate everyday being. There is nothing new or holy about God. It is the fact of one's own being. That alone is what 'I' am represents. Awareness of being. The Self (consciousness) is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Bondage and liberation are only psychological. Some people 'believe' that they are bound but that is only a 'belief'. Did you know that the words, He, Self, That, Reality or God are simply pointing to Life? That is what these words are simply camouflaging. Plain ordinary everyday existence is the Reality. The Self, He, the Reality or God is simply the natural Living-ness or conscious-ness that is naturally and effortlessly beating your heart and shining through your eyes. That is all there is to realize about one's true nature. Being just as you are naturally is that consciousness itself. Full stop. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Remove ignorance about consciousness with common sense and understanding. There is nothing whatsoever to attain or becoming anything new, different, special, spiritual etc. Freedom is understanding that Life itself is this presence of consciousness and that alone is the Infinite Self. Nothing new, spiritual or holy. Some people foolishly believe that the Self or God is something else, but it is not. Life itself is the Precious, the Jewel, the Beauty. That is what has been pointed to for millennia as the Reality.

Nothing new or apart from you. Consciousness is the natural presence of Life itself within the body. That is all there is to Realize. "You are that" means you are Life. Nothing is lost or missing.Present here and now. Consciousness is the Living presence and power within the body and the very core of one's own being. No consciousness present, no you. Consciousness or Life is just another name for you, for the 'I'. You do not have to pray or meditate to know that you are. 'I' am is always with you. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness and being are synonymous. It is 'I' exist or 'I' am. No one can deny one's own existence. Consciousness is the very core of your being. Your very existence is that.Thou art that. What you Seek is what you are. The Self is not a spiritual or religious presence or state but Life. To be alive is to be the Self. You are always the Self. That is the simple Truth that sets you Free from ignorance only. Like a Fish in the Ocean Searching everywhere for the Ocean. Stop Seeking because that is bondage. Not knowing that the Self is simply Life itself is the only obsctacle. Ignorance is the only obstruction to Freedom. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self, He, the Reality or God is Life.So simple is the simple Truth that it is laughable. That is the Open Secret. If you are alive and aware of being present here and now you are God. Present awareness or awareness of being present is 'I' am. Plain and ordinary. Not some holy 'I' am. Plain ordinary common to all awareness of being or existence. Knowing that you are translates as 'I' am. 'I' am represents awareness of being or the knowing that you are. That is what this consciousness we call the Self or God simply is. To be or not to be. Who is not aware of himself? Everyone alive is aware of being present, no one can deny one's own existence. 'I' exist needs no proof.

That is IT. Plain good ol' ordinary everyday awareness of being present is at once the Self and 'I' am. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Nothing new or special about God, He, the Self or the Reality.That is the Secret. So near and so dear. Consciousness AKA the Self AKA Life is the most common and affectionate presence to all. Nothing new. Some call Life itself the "diamond in your pocket". One's own existence is the Divine. There has never been anything new, special or spiritual about the Self, He, the Reality or God. People that pretend that it is, are only doing it for show. Usually for a fee or self-gratification. Some people like the smell of their own farts so much. They want to entice a bunch of imbeciles to follow them because they get off being worshipped by veiled idiots. Be wise! Remove the veil of ignorance. Simply because Wisdom alone is Freedom. After all, there is no bondage or separation from one's true nature. Some only 'believe' that there is. What you Seek is what you already are naturally. Nothing new, special or spiritual. Aren't you alive?See! You know that you are alive and kicking and you like it. That is IT. Being alive is being the Self. Call off the Search. Only the Search is a trap. That is all. Like selling water by the River. Next time you hear self-appointed Gurus or read holy books with the words He, Self, Reality, God or That etc,realize the simple Truth, that these are just vague fancy enticing and confusing words that are only pointing to Life itself. Life is the Infinite Self. Being alive is being God. That is what 'that' or He is. Who said the Reality was anything else but Life itself? No one wise. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is...

He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ The Prophets of Profits. If you are being asked for money AKA donations for Freedom, you are being taken for a ride. There are no special, spiritual or religious people. Ignorant people that want to worship illusion will follow someone else deeper into ignorance. Don't you know that freedom from all religions and any kind of spirituality is Freedom from all bondage? After all, there is no bondage and of course there is no liberation either.Ignorant people only believe that there is . Enlightenment for example is only a religious myth or spiritual carrot, that is all. Therefore what is a so called holy being, a great Saint, a Jnani or Buddha etc,? A con artist pretending to be spiritual and holy for gratification or a fee. What else would it be? A God of holy books and holy scriptures is a fraud. Wake up! Smell the Coffee. It is all B.S. There are no special, spiritual, Godly or religious entities, presence or people. Just like the water in the mirage cannot make you wet. Why Seek, why worship and chase after illusion? It is all false. Have a look for yourself and see. The false cannot stand up to investigation. The simple Truth is whatever spiritual and religious people believe to be true is all false. It is all crap. Brainwashing. Conditioning. That is all. Realize that there is no holy or religious God out there sitting in the Sky. Any God or Gods are just made up stories to entice people. Don't take my words for it. Investigate, question, inquire and see if what I say is true. Life is the only absolute Reality. Nothing new. That is what the Infinite Self is all about. Being alive and kicking is abiding as the Infinite Self, He or God. Life itself is the most plain, the most common and the most ordinary presence we all like to be. The "Diamond in your pocket" is Life itself. One's own existence is the Sought-after Truth.

Like a fish in the water crying that he is thirsty. Nothing is lost, nothing is missing or out of place. There is no ego or mind to get rid of or anything else to go beyond. Being is the experience. One's own existence and ordinary everyday being-ness is the Self. Nothing else. Being alive and conscious is being the absolute Reality. Nothing new, different or special. Thinking, feeling, smelling, hearing, seeing etc, is being the Infinite Self itself.That is what it is. There is nothing more to be realized. In other words God or the Self is simply being oneself naturally. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ So near and so dear.The "Kingdom is in you" so to speak or the Reality or the Infinite Self is present within your own dwelling. Not present as some new, special, spiritual or religious presence, power or faculties but simply as Life itself. Life or common to all plain ordinary consciousness is the Oneness or Omni-presence being pointed to as the Infinite Self. There never was any spiritual or holy Self or God. Life, plain boring ordinary is the Reality. That is the Open Secret. You are the knowing that you are. Life, existence, consciousness are synonymous with being. That is IT. Nothing new or spiritual whatsoever. Being or existence is the Reality. Beware of so called spiritual Gurus and religious Teachers, because they are all liars and scammers. Any spiritual or religious concepts of Enlightenment or Realization are only for idiots. It is all B.S. Some people never bother to question their acquired beliefs. Oops! Nobody is born spiritual or religious. It is all acquired crap. Forget everything you believe you know and voila! You are there. Spirituality and religions are all illusion.That is the Secret to Freedom. The simple Truth has absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with any of that non-sense. Spirituality and religions are simply fabricated concepts and beliefs based on superstitions and fear.

God fearing this and God fearing that. Spirit this and spirit that etc. All this B.S. is simply crap. Nothing else. The Reality is simply found as the most plain, common and ordinary presence of existence that we call Life. Life is God if you like. There is nothing spiritual or religious about being. Being means existence. One's own existence is the Reality. To be alive is to abide as that. Simple isn't it! One's own existence is the Oneness. That realization is the end of the Search.How much time and effort does it take to know 'I' am? Call off the Search. Seeking something spiritual, religious or holy is the only trap. What you Seek is what you are this very moment. Life or consciousness or the Self is not some spiritual state or spiritual presence but the natural state of being. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What you Seek is what you already are naturally. Thou art that. Life is the Sought-after Truth and Precious. God is just another name for consciousness or Life. That is all.Life is God. To be alive is to abide as consciousness, as the Self, as the Oneness or God. Any Gods or spiritual God or religious God never existed.It is an illusory fantasy only found in story books. The Reality is here and now undeniably present as existence itself. That is the real experience. To be, to exist is at once 'I' am and God or consciousness, the Oneness or Life. Be still and know that 'I' am is God. 'I' exist is the Reality. Consciousness present is 'I' am. No one can deny being. Like a precious 'Diamond' hidden within your own pocket all along. Life is the absolute Reality present within your own dwelling. That alone is the Infinite Self, He, the Reality. What else did you expected it to be? That is IT. So plain, so boring and so ordinary.That is the Beauty. Nothing new, spiritual or holy. All spiritual and religious people pretending to have reached, attained or acquired

either something new, spiritual, religious or special are only full crap. Selling fantasy and illusion to the dumb and the veiled for a fee. All that non-sense is not the Reality. Being or existence or alive-ness or Living-ness or 'I' am-ness is the Reality. That is all there is to understand about one's true nature. Life is what we all are. To be alive is to always abide as one's true nature. Consciousness present is Life. So near and so dear. No one is ever apart from one's own being. The Self is one's own self. Question, investigate, find out what is real.Illusion or Reality, choose wisely. One always appear extra-ordinary and paradoxically the other as the most plain, common and ordinary. To understand that Life itself is the Infinite Self is the end of the Search. That is what consciousness simply is.Here and now you are that. Ordinary existence is the Infinite Self, the Oneness. Existence is that presence of consciousness self-shining naturally as Life itself which is always undeniably present within all sentient beings. Life or consciousness is the Infinite Self. There is nothing new, spiritual or special to be reached, atttained or acquired. The Reality is present here and now. Being alive and aware of being is at once 'I' am and God. You are the Oneness. Life is everyone's true nature. That is what God is.It is that 'I' am you know. Is it true? Are you the Self, are you God, are you consciousness? Get to know yourself and you will find out. Know Thyself. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What is more obvious and more common to anyone alive than the Self? Can anyone say 'I' am not or 'I' do not exist? To be, to exist is to abide as the Self. Life or existence is the Self. No one is ever apart from their own existence. 'I' am is always with you. Awareness of being is the Self.

Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be alive and aware of being oneself naturally is to be the Self. There is nothing new, nothing different or special to be freshly acquired. Just to know that 'I' am is that Living-ness or consciousness is all that is required. Know that thyself is the Self already. Thou art that. Self is just another name for you. If you know and say 'I' am all day long, you are undeniably aware of being and thus abiding as the Self. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ No one can say 'I' do not exist. One's own existence is always certain. The Self is the most obvious. The only sure fact is that you are. 'I' exist here and now is this pure awareness of being. If you know and can say 'I' am, you are that. Me, myself and 'I' is the Real-'I'-ty. One's own self is the Self. That is all. If you are alive and aware of being. You exist. If you know that you are not dead but that you exist here and now. That is it. The Self is the knowing that you are alive and kicking right now. So obvious. Who am 'I'?After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. 'I' am is certain. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ 'I' exist is the absolute Reality. Self-awareness or awareness of being oneself is 'I' exist or 'I' am. Present awareness or awareness of being present as oneself is the absolute Reality. The only sure and absolute certainty you have is the fact of your own being. Being is 'I' exist or 'I' am. To be or not to be. To exist or not to exist. 'I' am or 'I' am not.Who is not aware of being? Everyone alive knows that they are. 'I' exist or 'I' am is certain and needs no proof.

To be is the Self.That is all. What effort do you have to make to be? If you are alive and awake from sleep you are 'Enlightened'. Awareness of being. Consciousness or the Self present is the knowing that you are present. The Self is awareness of being or 'I' am. There is nothing new or spiritual about being. The Self is the natural state of being common to all that we call Life or consciousness. That is all it is. In other words the Self is simply Life itself. Being alive and aware is to always abide as one's true nature. Everyone alive and awake knows that they are and says 'I' am and yet they do not know the Self. How funny. To know the Self is very easy. Understand that being conscious naturally everyday is this consciousness and you have done all that need it to be done. Freedom is only removing the camouflage of ignorance. The Self is not reached or attained. It is what you are already. If you are alive and aware of being, you are the Self. That simple. It is that 'I' am you know. You do not have to pray, to worship or meditate to know the Self.No teaching, practice or effort. If you are not un-conscious right now but undeniably alive and aware you are abiding as the Self. Nothing new or far away. The Self is the presence of Life itself. That is what the Self is. Sentience, cognizance, awareness are that undeniable presence of consciousness. There is no bondage and there is no liberation. Being alive and aware of being oneself is being the Self. That is all. To know the Self or this present awareness or consciousness is so easy.It is laughable. Aren't you undeniably consciousness or aware right now? To be conscious is to be the Self. That is IT. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Know yourself. Get to know your real nature.The Self or consciousness present is 'I' am present.

The Self present is the knowing that you are. Present awareness. It is nothing new or different. You are that Living-ness already. Consciousness present is Life or existence. Another name for the Self is existence or Life.That is the Open Secret. That is what the Self truly is. Consciousness is Life itself. You cannot be or exist without it.It is the very core of one's being. After all, can you say 'I' am if you are dead? Of course not. So obvious, so near and so dear is one's own existence. The Self is nothing new, spiritual or holy. It is what we all are naturally. Didn't anyone tell you?To be alive is to be the Self. Call off the Search. There is nothing to be found for nothing was ever lost. No one denies ones own existence any more than one denies ones eyes, although one cannot see them. The trouble lies with your desire to objectify the Self (consciousness), in the same way as you objectify your eyes when you place a mirror before them. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Seekers simply overlook the most plain, common and ordinary, the most obvious. One's own existence. Can anyone deny one's own existence and say 'I' do not exist? That is IT. What can you do with IT? Nothing, nada. Just be what you already are and a have always been all along. When have you lost yourself? If you are alive and aware of being yourself you are that already. Be yourself, just as you are naturally. No time or effort is required to be the Self. How much time does it take to know that you are alive and kicking? Awareness of being. 'I' am here is obvious, no one can deny one's own being. The Self (consciousness) you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self you Seek is yourself. Not some holy, special or spiritual Self. Any concepts of a spiritual or religious Self is fiction.

Only self-appointed spiritual Gurus and Teachers will cultivate the illusory notion of a spiritual Self for gratification or a fee. Selling water by the River if you like. There is no such thing as a spiritual Self. There never was. Just like a blue man with a flute or Santa Claus and the tooth Fairy. It is all and only illusory. It is all fiction. Not the Reality. Being alive here and now is the Reality. That is IT. The Self you Seek to know is yourself, just as you are right here and now. Nothing new or special. Being alive and aware of being is at once being oneself and the Self. Consciousness (the Self) is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Here and now you are that. Being yourself just as you are. The Self is nothing new or different. It is yourself. Life or consciousness is what you are. It is that 'I' am you know so well as your own plain ordinary everyday affectionate self. Who is not aware of being oneself? The Self is me, myself and 'I'. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self (consciousness). A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Know the simple Truth! No holy or spiritual Self ever existed. Seeking some fictitious spiritual Self is only a trap. Call off the Search. Why wander restlessly when there never was some spiritual Self to be found anyhow? Life is the only Reality that is self-shining naturally within your own dwelling. Look at your own self. Look at your own being. That is the Self.Full stop. Here and now you are that naturally. Call it being meaning existence or simply Life. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Life is the Oneness. That alone is what the Self, consciousness or God is, He is Life itself. That is the True Beloved and only Reality. The Sought-after Truth is what you already are naturally. Therefore you cannot find it by Seeking it.

You can only know it present as what you are. Are you alive? Yes! You are the knowing that you are. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Life is just another name for you. Being what you are naturally is being the Self. Life or existence is this presence of consciousness AKA the Self. So simple is the simple Truth, that it is laughable. You are what you Seek always. There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained. You are the Self (consciousness). You exist always. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There never was some holy Self or any kind of spiritual goals to be reached or attained. Ignorant people only foolishly believe that there is. But there isn't. Kill the 'Buddha' you see on the Road, it is only for show and a fraud. There never was any spiritual state of consciousness. Being alive is this consciousness itself. To be or not to be.'I' exist here and now is at once 'I' am and the imperishable Self. One's own ordinary existence is the Reality. Being alive and aware of being is the experience itself. That is all there is to realize. That is what is called Self-Realization. Not gaining, attaining or achieving anything new, spiritual or special whatsoever. Realisation is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Is God Love? Nope! Love is bondage. What is God then? Consciousness. What is consciousness or God? Life itself. God is existence. Life is God. Being alive is to be God.That is all. If you are alive and aware of being you are God. Full stop. Everybody is that. 'I' am or 'I' exist here and now is therefore abiding as God meaning 'I' am Life or consciousness living itself naturally. That is the Open Secret.

Know thyself to be Life itself. Some people know it and some don't. That is the only difference between the wise and the ignorant. Everyone alive and aware of being knows Life present as 'I' am. Everybody knows that they are.'I' exist or 'I' am is certain and the presence of consciousness itself needs no proof. No one alive can deny one's own existence. No one alive can say 'I' am not or 'I' do not exist. Know thyself to be Life itself. That is all there is to know. One cannot find consciousness as something new. Only present as what we already and always are. You are Life AKA consciousness. Nothing whatsoever spiritual or religious about existence. Some idiots only made it up to be out of ignorance. Religions are only for people that want to worship illusion. Veiled and ignorant people created many religions and denominations out of this simple Truth. Simple alive-ness or being-ness is one's true nature. That is all there is to realize. Thou art that. The nature of Life is what we all are naturally. Life is what is happening presently. This very moment is the only real moment of existence. That is what is always present here and now. Life of course is the Reality. Understanding is all.Only the camouflage of ignorance is to be removed with understanding. What you Seek is what you are right now. Not a spiritual or religious state. Being alive naturally and being aware is the experience itself. That is IT. That is what Reality is simply being pointed to. Just this. Being alive is always abiding as that. Why should anyone Seek God in any spiritual or special ways when Life is the Oneness present in all? To know the Oneness is very easy. The Living presence or Life or consciousness expressing itself naturally as your own self here and now is the exact same presence of existence or Life self-shining naturally with everyone else. One Life. No difference whatsoever. Omni-presence. No other presence exists. All there is present with everyone alive is this consciousness itself. Remove this consciousness from the body and you have a corps. To know this, is to know the Oneness present in all and the simple Truth about oneself.

He is Life itself. Present within your own dwelling.Being alive naturally is to abide as the Reality. Call off the Search. What are you looking for? Know thyself to be Life itself and voila. You already naturally are what you Seek literally. That is all there is to understand or Realize about one's true nature. Understanding this simple Truth is called Self-Realization. Understanding that consciousness present is alive-ness common to all and always experienced directly by everyone alive as pure awareness of being is all. Existence is pure being. Love got nothing to do with it.Consciousness is stateless. It always remains the same. The stateless state of pure existence and unchanging awareness is one's true nature and God. The Self, He, the Reality or God is the natural activity of being alive and aware. That is the nature of Life AKA consciousness self-shining as one's own being. Not knowing this simple Truth about one's true nature is the only trouble. Remove the veil of ignorance with clear cut understanding and voila! Who is bound? No one! You are God or the Infinite Self already. Keeping quiet is for the ignorant. Understanding is for the wise. The ones who do not understand that consciousness AKA the Infinite Self is simply the natural state of being conscious, awake or aware are bound to ignorance only. Freedom is not the acquisition of anything new whatsoever, nothing new, spiritual or special. Only the ignorant wants to see the Self AKA consciousness as something new, spiritual or special. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Only by understanding what this natural consciousness simply is, that the veil of ignorance camouflaging the simple Truth about one's true nature is removed.

There is no bondage. There is no ego. There is nothing to go beyond or to get rid of. There is no waiting or transmissions or spiritual event or flashes of light and all that non-sense. Beware of spiritual and religious Gurus and Teachers for they either do not know the Truth or they will purposely entice ignorant Seekers with spiritual and religious B.S. only to keep them on a Seeking path and bound to illusion and the false. Spirituality and all religions are illusion. All are false and fictitious. Plain common sense is the only tool necessary to understand. Understanding this consciousness is very easy. Who ever said Freedom was anything else? Understanding alone is Realizing. What else would Realization be?That is it.Same, same. Freedom is understanding only. That is all. Realizing means understanding. Understanding this presence of consciousness itself to be oneself is so simple. It is 'I' am. In other words, know that 'I' am is that. 'I' am represents at once this consciousness and yourself. Any dualistic concepts of ego or finite self or independent entity or individuality etc, are all false. Know thyself and you know the Infinite Self. Who am 'I'? Realize that the 'I' is that consciousness itself. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ If there is a will to know oneself, there is a way. Take it for granted. Understanding consciousness is all that is required. It is the only way to know the Infinite Self. After all, there is no becoming, there is no attaining or reaching anything new or different whatsoever. What someone is Seeking as the Infinite Self, He, the Reality is already there. It is not to be achieved or acquired. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Just like a cloud covering up the ever-present self-shining Sun. Remove the obstruction or camouflage. Ignorance is the obstruction. Only the removal of ignorance is Freedom from all bondage.

How to get rid of the veil of ignorance? Understanding of course! Wisdom is Freedom. Any effort, any ritual or practice of any kind is always going to be bondage. There is no achieving or acquiring anything. There never was. Remove ignorance with understanding and you have done all that needed to be done. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Freedom is so simple. So easy.That it is laughable. Paradoxically people Seeking it, do not want it to be simple and easy. A funny paradox. Just like a fish in the water foolishly crying that he is thirsty. Understand what is being pointed to as this consciousness itself AKA the Self if you want to be Free. It is fun and easy. No time or effort is required. That is the Secret. Then you will laugh at the Joke of it all.

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What is Life? Consciousness. What is consciousness? Life. Who am I? I am consciousness. Who are you? You are consciousness. As with water and ice, there is no ice present without water present.Present awareness is consciousness. All that is, all that exists is nothing other than this consciousness itself appearing as this and that. Consciousness is nothing other than being alive and awake or aware of being. Sentience is consciousness. Consciousness is nothing special, holy or spiritual. Consciousness is being. To be alive is to be consciousness. Both are One and the same presence of existence. Consciousness is not some holy or spiritual state but what we are. One's true nature is consciousness. Nothing else. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness is the core of one's own being. Life or existence is the presence of consciousness we all know so well. Therefore to be alive naturally is to undeniably abide as this consciousness itself. Your body is the dwelling where consciousness resides as Life itself. Life is the Reality. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Consciousness is just another name for Life. God is just another name for Life. Again Life is the Reality. Doesn't matter what name you give this presence of consciousness. Alive-ness, living-ness, being-ness, 'I' am-ness is this presence of conscious-ness. The kingdom is in you so to speak. God is Life. The creator or the Lord is consciousness. Life, no one can 'be' without it. Just this and nothing else is the Reality and Sought-after Truth. Consciousness present in an activity. Being alive and aware is the natural activity of Life AKA consciousness. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way.

But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ God is Life itself. What you Seek is what you are. Aren't you alive? Where can you find this Divine Beauty and Reality?Look at your own self. Look at your own existence here and now and know that 'I' am or 'I' exist is Life, God or consciousness. Nothing new under the Sun. Being alive naturally is being the Infinite Self, He, the Reality or God. Same, same. If you are an ignorant fool, you will go looking for consciousness as something new, special, spiritual and holy. If you are wise you will realize that being yourself naturally is being the Infinite Self AKA consciousness. Everyone alive knows that they are alive. That is consciousness. Being aware of being is consciousness. Knowing that you are. It is 'I' am. Who am 'I'? After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. 'I' am is certain. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Who am 'I'? Know thyself. That is the simple Wisdom shared by the wise. Not become or strive to reach or attain anything new or special. Just get to know your true nature to be what you already are naturally here and now. We call this presence of consciousness Life or present awareness. One's own existence is therefore the Divine. Here and now you are that. Call off the Search. Did you know that the only bondage is the false notion of being bound? The ones who believe in bondage are bound to their beliefs. Simple as that. Usually all are spiritual Seekers. Spiritual Seekers are truly miserable people that are psychologically and emotionally disturbed. They are looking for a way out of this World. They are not happy with what is.

The only problem is not understanding that Life is itself the Reality. That is IT. Existence here and now is the Divine. There is nowhere else to go. Not understanding what Omni-presence or Oneness simply means is the problem. It means it is all that. For example, some people want to stop thoughts because they foolishly believe they are a problem orsomething other than the Infinite Self or consciousness.But that is wrong or false knowledge. Just like all waves on the Ocean are nothing but Ocean. Thoughts are also that consciousness. There is no stopping thoughts. Striving to keep quiet or stop thoughts is the only trouble. Conflict and misery. In fact there is nothing wrong with thinking whatsoever. Just like breathing thinking is the most natural. Thinking is the natural expression of Life or consciousness itself. Do not try to keep quiet. Only spiritual and religious people want to be still or stop thinking forever. They'll be still and quiet soon enough when they are dead. Life is the complete opposite. Thinking, breathing, talking etc are always being alive and being the Self. What else would it be? So understanding alone is Freedom from ignorance and the false notion of duality and illusion of bondage. There is no changing anything. Only realizing that being oneself naturally is being the One Self is Freedom. Spiritual and religious people want to talk about karma, mind, ego, past lives etc. That is all garbage and wrong acquired knowledge. All are false and illusion. Life is living itself as oneself. Just as it is. Everyone's true nature is Life itself AKA consciousness. The Oneness or the Infinite Self present in all is simply Life itself. The 'Kingdom' is the Living-ness or consciousness self-shining naturally as your own being. Being alive is 'I' am. Being alive is at once being oneself and the One Self. Enjoy Life instead of complaining about it and voila! Simple as that. Existence is the True Beloved, the Precious, the Sought-after Truth and Reality. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being.

Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Did you know that to be alive and awake from sleep AKA being aware or conscious is being so called Enlightened? That is all there is to understand for Freedom. Being alive and aware is being a 'Buddha'. So simple. There is nothing more to realize. That is what Self-Realization is. Just this and nothing else.Realize that you are aware. Common and ordinary. Being conscious or being aware is the natural state of being common to all. That is what awareness AKA the Self is, the natural state of being aware or sentience is one's true nature. So what do you get out of this realization? The Seeking end for the Self that was never lost! Seeking it is missing. Being aware is being IT. Call off the Search. What is present awareness? Are you aware? Voila!Here and now you are that. Being aware or aware-ness is just another name for you. The best and simplest description for the Infinite Self, He, the Reality or God, realizing that the natural effortless state of being awake or being conscious or plain ordinary everyday wakeful-ness is one's true nature. Nothing new, spiritual, religious or fancy. That is what the fuss is all about. All about 'Being aware'! That is the Self or unchanging awareness that is Sought-after. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Now, is what I am saying true or fasle?Find out! Investigate, inquire, question and see for yourself what is the Reality. You will be surprise to discover that the Self or awareness is nothing new or spiritual, but simply what you already are naturally here and now and have always been. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something,

which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Am I right or am I wrong.Can anyone prove me wrong? The wise will only say what I am saying now. Being aware is being the Self or God. Find out if that aware-ness is what the wise have been pointing to for millennia as one's true nature. Like a fish in the Ocean search frantically everywhere for the Ocean, or like a fish in the water crying desperately for water. Nothing is missing or lost. In fact, once you get that there is nothing new to get, you finally got it! The Cosmic Joke. Understanding and recognizing the Self, He, God AKA awareness is very, very easy. Awareness is the ordinary expression of the natural intelligence that we call Life. What is the Self, He, the Reality or God? Being aware is being IT. That is what the fuss is all about. Being aware is the awareness. That is all. What can be simpler and more easy? Awareness is the state of being and remaining aware. So simple. Don't you know? There is no attaining, reaching, becoming or cultivating awareness. Being awake from sleep everyday is always abiding as this unchanging awareness itself AKA the Self. In other words to be conscious or awake is the present awareness some call God and others the Self. Voila! Nothing new to be reached or to be attained. That is the Joke of it all. No spiritual or religious powers or special faculties to be acquired. Just being aware is being that. Full stop! Awareness or the Infinite Self is simply being aware. Nothing new, fancy, spiritual or religious whatsoever. So plain and so ordinary. The state of being aware or awareness is simply the natural state of being common to all. Whoever said one's true nature was anything else? Liars do! The ultimate Truth is so simple. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

Just like myself, people like Nisargadatta and Ramana Maharshi to name a few other pointers were also pointing that 'being aware' is being the Infinite Self, He, the Reality or God. So simple. That is the funny paradox! There is nothing new, special or spiritual about the Self. There never was. Some foolish ignorant people that are veiled only believe that there is, but in fact there is not. Alive-ness, living-ness, aware-ness is consciousness AKA the Self. That is all. Life is at once being and consciousness. Knowing that you are alive here and now is 'I' am. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Knowing the Self is so easy. No time or effort is required to know oneself. Being alive and awake is awareness of being. Awareness of being present as oneself is 'I' am. Being aware is being and remaining awake all day long, that is what this present awareness is all about. Being and remaining aware or wakeful-ness or sentience is one's true nature AKA the Self AKA consciousness. Not some holy or spiritual Self. Plain ordinary everyday unchanging awareness is sentience or consciousness itself. That is all the Self is. Consciousness is the Self. Same presence of livingness and aware-ness common to everybody. If you are not un-conscious or dead you are alive and aware of being. That is what abiding as the Self simply is. You are awake you are aware. You need not try to be. Being aware is ordinary wakeful-ness or sentience. If you are aware of being present right now, realize that is present awareness. Knowing that you are present is 'I' am. Present awareness is 'I' am. Everybody knows and says 'I' am all day long. Wakefulness is 'I' am. Being aware is awareness of being. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Sentience, cognizance, wakefulness, awareness or consciousness is the natural state of being and remaining aware. That is the Soughtafter Truth. You will not find this simple Truth inside spiritual or religious books. It is camouflaged with illusion. Forget all about spirituality and all religions. They cannot help you. They are the poison, not the cure. People Seek everywhere for what they already are naturally all along and have always been. A strange paradox. To be awake is awareness. To be conscious is consciousness. Call off the Search. That alone is one's true nature. Everybody wakes up so called 'Enlightened' everyday, they simply do not know it. Ignorance is a bitch. When you are sick and tired of Seeking. Stop and have a look at yourself. You are that. Aren't you aware? Being aware is being that awareness. Awareness is NOT something new or apart from you. Realize that here and now you are aware. It is what you are this very moment. That is all. Simple isn't it. You gain nothing because you lost nothing. Chop wood and carry water. Chop wood and carry water. Only the camouflage of ignorance is removed. That is what SelfRealization is. Realisation is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Many Seekers ask, what is the state of 'Enlightenment'. The answer is very simple. When you are asleep you are unconscious When you are awake you are aware. That is IT. To be awake is to be aware and that is the awareness itself that is being pointed to as one's unchanging thoughtless true nature and the Self. Being awake is always abiding as unchanging awareness. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Being awake everyday or being and remaining aware is being the Self. Anyone that tells you otherwise is simply lying to you or is an ignorant

fool. Awareness is nothing new, special or far away. It is everyone's natural state of being. Consciousness, sentience, awareness is simply wakeful-ness. That is what we call the state of 'Enlightenment'. Being sentient is therefore being a 'Buddha'. That is the Open Secret. I've always had a very inquisitive nature.Always wanting to know. I questioned everything. Until one day I question my own existence. I wanted to know who am 'I'? What am 'I' really? What is my real nature? I guess I could comfortably say that asking so many questions took me home. Even though I was told by others pretending to be wise and holy to keep quiet, that consciousness could not be understood or who wants to know etc, I discarded all that non-sense and earnestly kept on pushing forward until I finally reached the destination I paradoxically had never left. Now I share with others what I discovered through inquiry and found out to be true for myself. First and foremost one must question Reality. Find out what is Real. For the false cannot stand up to investigation. That is a must. Question all your acquired beliefs as well, for they are the only problem. Question everything, that is the 'bird's way' to Self-Realization. Do not be a blind Sheepo. Open up your eyes and see for yourself the Reality. Do not take anything or anyone for granted and of course read between the lines. Questioning, investigating and understanding is the 'key' to Selfdiscovery and Freedom. For example; Did you know that religions and spirituality have nothing to do with the Reality? It is true but spiritual and religious people will never tell you that! There is no money in Freedom. It is a pity to see that even with contemporary understanding, many selfappointed Gurus

in this day and age will entice Seekers with spiritual and religious carrots to sell a book or seek a fee. The Reality is not some spiritual or religious fantasy. It is nothing new or holy. Know the Truth! The Sought-after Truth is simply Life itself. Everybody knows it so well already. The Reality is at once being alive and being conscious.Awareness of being alive is 'I' am. Being alive is consciousness present. Being conscious is this consciousness itself self-shining naturally as pure awareness of being. It (consciousness) is pure awareness of being. It (consciousness) is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Living intelligence. No consciousness present, no Life present. As with water and ice. Consciousness is the unseen presence of existence that we call Life. Just like a light bulb cannot shine without power. Consciousness is the power shining in the body. Everybody knows consciousness so well already as 'I' am. That is what the Self, He, the Reality is all about. Just this and nothing else. That is what so called God truly is, plain ordinary everyday consciousness common to all and always experienced directly by all is this undeniable affectionate presence of existence that we all like to be. The Self or consciousness AKA Life itself is the very core of all sentient beings. Therefore all sentient beings are already 'Buddhas' so to speak, they simply DO NOT KNOW IT. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ To look for it is to always look away from it. The Seeker is the Sought. Turn within. Look at your own being. That is where the Reality is found. It is 'I' am. Where is consciousness or existence to be found but undeniably present within one's own dwelling. Ignorance is the only trouble. Not knowing how near and dear is the Infinite Self.

Remove ignorance and voila! That is what so called Freedom is all about. All about knowing thyself to be the natural expression of Life itself. Life is living itself. Life is the only Infinite Self. That is the Reality. There is no spiritual or religious Self. That is only illusion. To the self-inquiry or question of who am 'I'? The answer is 'I' am. Not some spiritual, religious or holy 'I' am. But simple changeless common to all awareness of being 'I' am. Present awareness. Look at yourself here and now. Are you aware? You know that you are present? That is 'I' am. Awareness of being oneself is 'I' am. You are the knowing that you are. Consciousness present is that 'I' am you know so well already as your own plain ordinary everyday self. To realize that to be alive is to be the Self is the Self-Realization. Call Life God, the Self or consciousness. All are simply pointing to that. Present here and now. So near and so dear. The Self or consciousness is present as Life itself. Being alive and aware of being oneself is the experience itself 'I' am here and now is the Self. Being. There is nothing more to realize. Everyone knows and says 'I' am. Who is not aware of himself? Awareness of being oneself all day long is the Self or God. 'I' am is That. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ If you know that you are not dead or un-conscious, then you are therefore conscious and aware of being. Understanding consciousness alone is Freedom. Just this and nothing else. It is very easy to understand consciousness. After all, you are that consciousness itself. To be conscious is itself the experience. It is pure awareness of being. Consciousness is not some special state that is yet to be reached. To be conscious is to be the Self AKA consciousness itself. There is no becoming anything new or different. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. You know that you are. Consciousness is indeed present. Being aware or conscious is the experience itself.

You do not have to kick start or cultivate awareness. How much time does it take to know that you are present? Present awareness needs no proof. It is 'I' am. The knowing that you are. Consciousness is that 'I' am you know so well already as your own self and being. You are the Self. You are consciousness. You are That. Consciousness is your true nature. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self is that 'I' am you know.Nothing else. Call off the Search. There is nothing missing or lost. Being yourself is being the Self. You are what you Seek. You gain nothing, zero, zip for you lost nothing.Only ignorance is removed with understanding.That is all. Wisdom alone is Freedom. Ignorance is the only veil to be removed. So simple.That is the Open Secret. Some people may ask what about Enlightened Sage, Jnanis, Maters, Buddhas or Gurus? Just like with the Wizard of OZ, remove the veil and you will easily realize that there is no Wizard. All and only for show to confuse, entice or sell water by the River to the ignorant for self-gratification or a fee. In Truth you need absolutely nothing. Only ignorance is to be removed. That is all. That which is eternal is not known to be so because of ignorance. Ignorance is the obstruction. Get over this ignorance and all will be well. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What is the eternal? Life itself. People simply do not know it. The consciousness which is the real presence of existence is the immortal Self. Life doesn't know death. Life or existence is pure consciousness and that is the imperishable Self. Know your true nature or real self to be consciousness or Life itself and you know the Truth about your real nature. There is no becoming anything new, nothing to change, to alter or modify. Just know the Truth and it sets you Free. Know the Truth about your self by simply removing ignorance. Understanding is all. That is how one gets rid of all camouflage. Realisation is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Know thyself. Who am 'I'? Know that 'I' is that consciousness. The 'I' and the Lord are One. Same self. The Seeker is the Sought. The 'I' is the Infinite Self. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Everyone alive is always the Self. Life is the Self. Being alive is abiding as that consciousness itself. Consciousness is not some spiritual or mystical power or presence. Consciousness is ordinary existence or Life. Why do so many Seekers overlook the most precious and obvious? They have acquired wrong knowledge from spiritual books and others about the Reality. If you have been a long time Seeker, meditater, worshipper, practicer of this and thatdenomination or religion. desperately striving to reach, attain or become the Self. STOP everything! Be still and know that 'I' exist is God. To be or not to be. Everyone knows 'I' am. 'I' am is always certain. No one can deny one's own being. Consciousness is existence or simply Life itself. Being alive is therefore being the Self AKA God. Nothing new or different is to be freshly acquired. Only remove ignorance. That is all that needs to be done. After all, who ever said that Freedom was anything other than that? The wise simply understood. Not reached, not attained or acquired anything new. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Know the simple Truth! The Reality is already here. Being alive is being the Self. Existence is consciousness. There is no mind to go behind. No ego to kill. No void, no dimensions, no blue man or spiritual beings or deities of any kind. There is no God in the Sky. No place to go or anything spiritual to be achieved or to become. Forget all that non-sense! The experience is always here and now.

Life, God, consciousness are one and the same thing. One's own undeniable affectionate existence is therefore the Divine. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self cannot be denied. Life or existence is the Infinite Self AKA consciousness. The absolute Reality. No one denies one's own existence. 'I' am present and aware of being means 'I' exist here and now. Existence is always presently. Being alive and aware of being oneself is always abiding as That. 'I' am or you are here and now is that presence of consciousness itself. Know 'I' am. Be still and know that here and now you are that. 'I' am is that. You are what you Seek. The Self is yourself. Your own existence is that. Life is that. How can you kiss this Beauty? You can only be what you are naturally. Just be. That is all there is to do. That is abiding as the Self. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ You are awareness. Awareness is just another name for you. To know thyself is therefore very easy. Get to know you. To know the Self AKA consciousness AKA one's thoughtless true nature, all that is necessary is to simply pause thoughts for a few moments. Be still! What remains present when you pause thoughts? Unchanging awareness. That is IT. Nothing new, spiritual or special happens. Just thoughts disappear and the Self is self-revealed. What can be more simple than that? So simple, that it is laughable. All that is required to realize the Self (consciousness) is to be still. What can be easier than that? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ How much time does it take? Pause thoughts. You are there! Simple or what?

Yet some people will spend years striving to reach or attain the Self. How foolish, ignorant or stupid is that? The Self is not reached. Being aware is being the Self. That is all. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Are you aware? See! You are aware. That is being the Self. No time or effort is required to know the Self. Be still and voila! That is IT. Make no effort! Just pause thoughts.Be still. There! You are aware. You are this unchanging presence of awareness that effortlessly remains self-revealed when they are no thoughts present as pure changeless being. Be still, you are there! Be still, you are there! Be still, you are there! Isn't it fun? So easy. That is all that is required to know the Self. Super-duper simplicity. If you can hold your breath or hold a fart, you can hold a thought. Pause! Full stop! That is all it takes. Simple as that. If you wonder what is so special, spiritual or religious about the Self. Nothing. Awareness is simply the natural state of being common to all. That is all. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Who told you that the Self was anything else? And why did you believe them? There is nothing new whatsoever about the Self. Being awake or conscious is being aware. Being aware is being the Self. That is called awareness. You are that. Understanding is Realizing. Just like all images on the screen always come and go but the screen always remain. All experiences no matter what and all states always come and go but

consciousness always remain. Instead of looking for anything new or different to be experienced, simply get to know that which always is. What comes and goes is transient in nature, impermanent and therefore not real. That which always is present and unchanging is called the Reality. Illusion or Reality. Take the natural activity of seeing. Seeing is being the Self. Seeing is not a thought but pure cognizing. Consciousness is the witnessing presence. Same with hearing, feeling or thinking for example. Who is present and aware of thoughts? Who is the knower present? Same presence of course. So, that is what the Reality simply is. The 'witness' of all these things. The knower is consciousness itself. Who is undeniably present to be aware of this and that? 'I' am of course! You are that 'I' am you know. Consciousness or the Self is 'I' am. 'I' am is that. That is pretty much it.You are this consciousness itself. Nothing lost or missing. Nothing apart or far away. Being oneself is always being the Self. Simple as that. Seeing, hearing, thinking, feeling, smelling etc. All natural activities are at once cognized by consciousness. The cognizing presence of consciousness is unchanging awareness. Instead of looking to see something new or different, notice who is the Seer. Seeing is being the Self. That is one's thoughtless true nature and absolute Reality. Who is always present and aware? You are! You are that present awareness itself. It is 'I' am. The Self or consciousness is what you are naturally. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ That sums it all up! What you Seek is what you are. To know the Self.Be yourself! Here and now you are that consciousness itself. Call off the Search.

Being aliveis being the Self. Why does the fish in the water cry that he is thirsty? Many people have given Life a fancy name. Some call it God or the Self. The natural presence of consciousness which is the living power present within the body is the Infinite Self, Reality or God being pointed to as everyone's true nature or the Oneness. Being alive is the natural state of being. Awareness of being alive is 'I' am. 'I' am is 'that'. Life itself. He, the Self, the Reality or God is Life itself. The 'Kingdom' is in you. Where else would it be? Present here and now of course self-shining naturally as one's own existence. Don't go foolishly looking for it passed your nose or you will always miss it. Turn within toward that 'I' am you know. Everyone knows 'I' am. Be still and know that 'I' am is that. So simple. What you Seek is what you are naturally this very moment. Meaning that Life is the natural presence of consciousness common to all that is self-shining naturally as Life itself and as pure awareness of being. Life or consciousness present is 'I' am. No one can deny one's own being. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Who ever said that the Self was anything other than Life or consciousness? Not the wise. Only the veiled and the ignorant foolishly believe it is something else. Don't you know? The experience is here and now. Being alive is the experience. Simple isn't it? The words Self, He, the Reality, the Atman, the Lord, the Creator etc, are different names for Life. Call this presence of consciousness or living-ness the unseen Power or natural intelligence and energy or 'Spirit of Life' within the body, all these labels are simply pointing to the natural presence of Life itself.

Consciousness is the real presence of existence that we call Life. Everyone knows it so well already as 'I' am or simply abiding as one's own being. Nothing new, nothing special, spiritual or fancy. Being conscious is this consciousness itself. Now if you are the spiritual type that wants to talk about karma, higher self, void, aliens. ghosts etc, this web site is not for you. There is nothing spiritual or paranormal or special about one's true nature. In fact consciousness is no-thing. It is the most boring, stateless, emptiness, pure being-ness or existence. Here there is no ego, or two selves or finite self, no mind or anything whatsoever to go beyond or get rid of. One's true nature is all about being alive naturally. Being and consciousness is this Reality we call Life. Everybody is already the real Self or abiding as consciousness itself. They simply do not realize it. There is nothing to change, nothing to alter or modify. There is no goal to be reached and nothing to be attained. Seeking special skills or faculties like walking on water have nothing to do with this message of non-duality. Pointing to that only. Here one's thoughtless Reality is simply and directly being pointed to.That is all. The Self is common to all and always experienced directly by all sentient beings. Simple changeless being is one's true nature. Consciousness is known to all as 'I' am. Awareness of being. Being conscious is nothing to be learned or to be freshly acquired. Seeking special or spiritual skills will get you nowhere, or closer to know the Reality. Only understanding that simply being alive and aware is always effortlessly and naturally abiding as one's thoughtless true nature is the so called 'SelfRealization'. Then the Seeking stops. Didn't anyone tell you? Being conscious or being aware is the experience itself. That is all. Being conscious is the consciousness that is being pointed to as the Self, He, the Reality. Just this. Life is consciousness itself. Life is the Oneness present in all. Being alive is the experience itself.

Consciousness present is simply being alive and aware. One's own existence is the Infinite Self. Life doesn't know death. Consciousness is the imperishable Self. Rejoice! The body dies but consciousness AKA the 'Power' remains the same. There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained. You are the Self (consciousness). You exist always. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Get to know the simple Truth about your own self. You are formless pure consciousness. Present here and now. Nothing new, nothing special or spiritual. Consciousness is what we are. After all, if you are alive and aware of being, consciousness is indeed present. You know that you are. Consciousness is existence. Therefore to be, to exist is to abide as consciousness. 'I' exist is the absolute Real-'I'-ty. No one can deny one's own existence and negate being. Consciousness is the most plain, common and ordinary presence.Who is not aware of himself? One's own affectionate existence is that presence of consciousness itself. It is that 'I' am you know. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Do not fall for the so called 'Buddha on the Road' that is pretending only to have reached or attained some great or spiritual state of consciousness. That is all B.S. Many have been conned and fooled by self-appointed Gurus selling fantasy to the ignorant for a fee. If you ever hear stories from Seekers about how great this Guru is or that Teacher is truly Enlightened etc, that is all a bunch of non-sense. A so called 'Enlightened' person is the greatest illusion of all. A fraud and a liar. You are already there! Aren't you tired of endlessly chasing after spiritual carrots? The Reality is simple changeless being. Common to all. Existence is the Divine. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Call off the Search. Being alive is the experience. No one alive can deny one's own self and negate being. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Forget everything spiritual and religious for a moment and there you are. Abiding as your true nature effortlessly without trying or striving to become anything. Consciousness is indeed present here and now.You are alive! Here and now you are that. No one can deny one's own existence. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ While spiritual and religious Seekers are so busy chasing after illusion. Life is what is naturally happening here and now. It is nothing new. Life is the Self. Life is the experience itself.Call off the Search. The ultimate Truth is so simple and yet so difficult for Seekers to accept. Paradoxically Seekers want the false to be true and reject this simple Truth. Find out what is real because the Reality or the Self is nothing new, spiritual or holy. There is no waiting for the Reality. Life is Now only. What are you waiting for? Anyone who waits for Freedom only dies ignorant. That is all. Simply remove ignorance with understanding and voila! You gain nothing because you lost nothing. Just overlooked the obvious. All that is necessary is to simply understand, realize or recognize that one's own self is this presence of consciousness itself. You are that. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ If you are alive and aware of it, you are abiding as the Self. Full stop! Being alive is the so called Realized state. That is IT. Just this and nothing else. Simple. Nothing spiritual or special about that. Look at yourself. Are you alive? Are you aware of being? You are Life. Being alive is effortlessly abiding as one's true nature. Nothing is ever lost or missing. Consciousness is indeed always present.If you are alive and aware of

being alive, you are that. Consciousness present is 'I' am present. Therefore you are the knowing that you are. The ultimate Truth is so simple. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ One's true nature is nothing new or far away, nothing special or spiritual, it is simply what we already are and have always been naturally. To know the Self, be yourself. Didn't anyone tell you? The experience is here and now. You are what you Seek already. The Search is the only Trap. Call off the Search. Here and now you are that. The word 'that' represent consciousness or Life. That is all. Nothing new, holy or spiritual. Only pointing to the most plain, boring and ordinary everyday natural state of being. Surprised? That is the paradox to Freedom.Some call it the cosmic Joke. No one becomes Free, only the false notion of being bound is removed with inquiry. The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness or the Infinite Self is just another name for Life and you. In other words you are the natural Living-ness undeniably present within your own dwelling. It is true. You are Life, you are consciousness, you are the Self. Nothing new or different about being. Seeking the Self as something new, something spiritual or religious is a Trap. Being alive is abiding as one's true nature. That is all there is to realize. That is what the so called state of self-realization is all about. No spiritual or religious mambo-jambo is required. Being alive is being the Self. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Freedom is so easy! Didn't anyone tell you? There is nothing you have to do. Super duper simplicity. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being.

Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self is me, myself and 'I' . Why does everyone want to run away from themselves when one's own self is the Self? A strange paradox! Thou art that. Always unhappy. Seekers are always complaining about this or about that. Be content with being alive and stop complaining. Existence is the bliss of the Self. Life is living itself. Being yourself. Alive and enjoy. Be content with being alive, that alone is being the Self. Life is the absolute Reality, the Precious, the Sought-after Truth and true Beloved. So simple. Be just as you are. That is abiding as the Self, He, the Reality. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj If you can say 'I' am you are undeniably 'Realized'.That is IT. Have a look at yourself. Get to know 'you'. Know thyself to be Life itself. Life or consciousness is the Precious "Diamond hidden within your own pocket". So simple. It is laughable. So near and so dear is one's own existence. Only remove ignorance. Just this and nothing else is Freedom. Understanding that being alive is being the Self is the Realization. So simple. When have you ever been apart from the Self? When being alive is the Reality. When have you ever lost your own being? Understand and you will surely go WTF. Why didn't anyone tell me it was so easy? Then you laugh at yourself! The Self or consciousness is nothing new, nothing special, spiritual or holy. It is simply being yourself naturally. Being alive! That is the joke of it all. To be alive is to abide as the Reality. That is all there is to realize. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~

The people that pretend to be special, spiritual or holy are only selling water by the River. That is what is so funny. So near and so dear. Life or existence is consciousness or the Beloved. How can you kiss this Beauty? Being alive and kicking is the experience. Knowing the Self is being oneself. Being oneself naturally is being this Reality. Can anyone alive deny one's own existence and say 'I' do not exist? Of course not! Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Awareness of being is bliss. What effort do you have to make to be? So plain, common, natural and ordinary is the Reality. The natural state of being alive and conscious is the natural state of being. Common to everyone alive is Life itself that most people simply overlook their affectionate true nature. Some call being alive being the Self. One's own existence is the experience itself that some call 'Enlightenment'. Once you understand this simple Truth.Voila! You have done all that need to be done. Before Enlightenment chop wood, carry water and after Enlightenment chop wood, carry water. Nothing changes whatsoever. Why should it? Freedom is always here! Look at yourself. Look at your own being. Consciousness is already present. It is 'I' am. Just ignorance about one's true nature is removed with understanding that is what so called Freedom is all about. Know thyself and you know the Oneness to simply be Life itself. The Infinite Self or God as some people like to call this natural presence of Life AKA consciousness. After all only the false notion of bondage is bondage. Bondage is only psychological, it is nothing but a false belief. Get rid of the false notion of bondage because that is all that needs to be removed with understanding. Freedom is very easy, nothing to it really.After all, no time or effort is required

when you are already abiding as the Infinite Self AKA consciousness this very moment. Look at your own being-ness or 'I' am-ness. Aren't you alive? That is IT. Ignorance is the only obstacle to get rid of. That alone is called Freedom. Of course if you are one of these delusional spiritual or religious Seeker that wants to see the Self as something new or as a blazing light. Oops! Well then good luck and have fun on your journey to nowhere. When you are sick and tired of looking everywhere for some foolish fantasy then you are finally ready to hear what this simple Truth is simply all about. Nothing new, special, spiritual or fancy. To be alive and aware is the experience itself. That is all.That is abiding as one's true nature. Just this and nothing else. You gain nothing because you lost nothing. Only the Search for the Self that was never lost stops! Then you laugh at yourself and at the Joke of it all. That is how you know you understood. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There has never been any spiritual or special states to be reached or attained. Enlightenment as a spiritual state is crap.Spiritual Enlightenment, salvation or Freedom is only found within religious mythology to entice and confuse Seekers to become veiled believers to this religions or that religion when they are not fighting amongst each other and killing themselves in the name of a spiritual or religious God that doesn't even exist. Freedom has nothing to do with all that crap. Anyone that promises you salvation or Freedom is lying to you. There is no bondage therefore Freedom for whom? Remove ignorance only. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Just realize that being alive and aware of being is being the Self. Done! Why wait? There is nothing to wait for. Life is Now only. This very moment of existence is the Reality. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being.

You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To know the Self is so easy. Look at yourself. Are you alive? Are you aware of being present as yourself? That is what the Self or this consciousness simply is. It is self-shining naturally as the knowing that you are. It is 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ See! You are not dead therefore you are the Self. He is Life itself. That is what the fuss is all about. All about being. To be or not to be. 'I' am or 'I' am not? If you know 'I' am. If you know that you are. You know the Self. Who said Freedom was hard or difficult? It is so easy. That is paradoxically the only difficulty. Seekers always askwhat is the fastest way to Self-Realization? Is it by cultivating silence? Is it by keeping quiet? Is it by meditation? Is it by singing bhajans? Is it by repeating a mantra etc? Nope! All that non-sense is called the "ant way"or the very long way or the endless path to nowhere. All this religious and spiritual stuff only perpetuate the false notion of bondage and illusion of separation. Freedom is always here. The fact is that the Reality which is ordinary consciousness or Life is always present as one's true nature. Consciousness is not at all what anyone spiritual or religious would imagine it to be. It is simple changeless being or plain ordinary everyday existence. One doesn't have to pray or meditate or practice anything to be alive and aware. Wakeful-ness is this presence of consciousness itself or present awareness. It is the natural state of being common to everybody. Nothing new. Alive-ness is conscious-ness. Being alive and aware of being naturally everyday is

always abiding as one's true nature. The Self is nothing apart of far away. It is what we are. So common and so familiar to everyone alive or sentient is that affectionate presence of consciousness that in fact it is often compared to the undeniable familiarity, commonness and ordinariness of space. And just like space is always undeniably present and unchanging everywhere you look, and just like space is always so common and so ordinary to everyone that open their eyes. Consciousness or Life or existence is always present, so common and so ordinaryto everyone alive as pure changeless being. Being alive is Life present which is this consciousness itself. Existence is the Self. One's true nature has absolutely nothing to do with space or silence. Just the analogy of space is used to simply point to the subtlety of one's true nature only. Simple changeless being is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is nothing new, spiritual, religious or holy to be attained or to be achieved. Any spiritual states written in spiritual and holy books are all false knowledge or spiritual carrots only used to entice weak, simple and ignorant Seekers to foolishly believe the false or illusion to be true. Am I right or am I wrong? Am I speaking non-sense or am I speaking the Truth? Find out for yourself, why not! Inquire, question, investigate what is Real. The false or illusion cannot stand up to investigation. After all, all the wise will point that the Self, He, the Reality or one's true nature is always undeniably present here and now and so familiar and closer than close. The Self is consciousness. What else do you expect it to be other than simply being alive and aware? Awareness of being is that consciousness. Consciousness is that 'I' am you know as yourself. It (consciousness) is pure awareness of being. It (consciousness) is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

The only way one can know the Truth is not by sitting with some holy Guru and waiting for a transmission etc. That is only for idiots. But by investigating, questioning and discovering what the words 'I' am truly represent. Know that the 'I' am you already know so well is the Self you Seek to know. Thou art that already. That is all. The Guru cannot give you anything new, which you dont have already. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self (consciousness), only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Reality is nothing new or spiritual. It is only the natural presence of consciousness that we call Life. Just like a finger that is pointing at the moon, wanting nothing for himself, a so called 'True Guru' is simply an ordinary person that is only tirelessly pointing to the Self. Using simple words and clear understanding to point to one's true nature is what a honest pointer does. No one can give you the Reality simply because you are already that. Not knowing it is the only trouble. No holy transmissions, no spiritual faculties or great religious siddhi or powers. Just pointing to that. If you come across any holy Guru or spiritual Teacher AKA Buddha's run away from these people. They will only confuse you and keep you on a Seeking path. I speak from my own experience. I have been there I have known this first hand. Paradoxically if you want to be Free you must get rid of the holy Guru or kill the Buddha on the Road. They are not what they are telling you and pretending to be. They are scammers and con artists only. Scum that will entice ignorant Seekers to become servants and at the service of these Gurus. After all, it is very easy to take advantage of the desperate and the ignorant. The Self is consciousness and not at all what these people camouflage it to be. Remove the veil of ignorance only, understanding is all that is necessary. Know the simple Truth! The Reality is nothing new or apart from you or something special or spiritual to be acquired from others.

The Self (consciousness) is not something to be acquired from others. All that is necessary is to know its existence in you. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Investigate. Have a look for yourself and find out if what I am saying is true. The Self or consciousness is always undeniably present with you. To be conscious is abiding as one's true nature or the Self AKA conscious-ness and it is nothing new or special but the most common and ordinary natural state of being. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Are you aware? Voila! Awareness is undeniably present because you know that you are. Consciousness is sentience or being aware. That is all there is to recognize, realize or understand. Being aware and remaining aware all day long or being conscious naturally is being the Self. So simple isn't it. Anything else spiritual or religious that is camouflaging this simple consiousness as something holy is pure crap. Forget all about spiritual Gurus, they cannot give you anything new or spiritual. Transmission is B.S. and crap. Ignorant people will Seek illusion and want to call the impermanent or transient the Reality. How foolish. Have you ever been mislead to falsely believe that Silence is the teaching by self-appointed Gurus? Have you been told by self-appointed Gurus to keep quiet, not to question or who wants to know or that the Self could not be understood and leaving lost and confused by these people. You simply have been lied to by people that only want donations AKA money and are only seeking gratification and making a name for themselves. These are called self-appointed Gurus or Teachers. The 'true Guru' will not estrange you from yourself.He knows you need nothing, not even him,and is never tired of reminding you.But the self-appointed Guru is more concerned with himself than with his disciples... ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

People will entice and confuse Seekers only because the simple Truth is not enticing. It is no-thing. Everyone is already there. Not knowing it, is the only problem. There is nobody higher or lower. No one more consciousness or existence in Omni-presence. Some Seekers have brainwashed themselves to believe they have to be in the presence of a holy being. Some call it Satsang. The fact is that there is no such thing as a holy being. They are only deceiving themselves. The one who Seeks the Self in any special or spiritual ways will only gain illusion and bondage. The Truth is self-revealed to the ones who remove ignorance with understanding. Also worshipping, praying, meditating will get you absolutely nowhere. So plain, so common and ordinary. Everyone alive is already the Self. They simply do not know it. The Self is Life itself. Consciousness is the real presence of existence. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Being and conscious is Life. He is Life itself. The Reality present within your own dwelling is Life itself. So near and so dear is Life to everyone alive. It is the true Beloved. You do not have to strive to reach, attain or achieve consciousness. To be alive and aware of being oneself is abiding as this consciousness itself. Why should one Seek it far away? Look at your own being or existence here and now and voila! Where else do you believe the Reality is hiding? In the place you least expected. Within your own dwelling! Like a lost 'Diamond' present inside your own pocket all along. Life is the Precious being Sought-after, that is all. Consciousness or Life is what we all are.We are that. Life is just another name for the Self, He, the Reality or God. One's own plain ordinary everyday existence is itself the Divine. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Who said the Self was something new, special, spiritual or holy? That is all crap. Consciousness is the most plain, common, undeniable and ordinary. The Sought-after Truth is what we all are naturally. Life is the Real God or Reality being pointed to.

The "kingdom is in you" meaning God is the affectionate living-ness or conscious-ness present within the body. Consciousness is the natural living energy or living power and intelligence which is present in all that we call Life. Life is the Oneness or Omni-presence being pointed to as consciousness. Nothing hidden far away sitting in the Sky. Know that the so called state of 'Realization' is not acquiring anything new or spiritual in anyway. It never was. But all and only the removal of ignorance. That is what Freedom is truly all about. Just this and nothing else. Didn't anyone tell you? Ignorance is the only obstruction to Freedom. That is all. All that we need do is to remove the obstruction. That which is eternal is not known to be so because of ignorance. Ignorance is the obstruction. Get over this ignorance and all will be well. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Sitting in silent meditation will not get you any closer or wiser. Only delay and postpone the Realization which is simply understanding. The bottom line is that simply being alive is being the Self. Life is this presence of consciousness itself. That is IT. Consciousness or the Self is not anything new or different that is to be freshly acquired or achieved in anyway. Whoever said that everyone alive is not already the One without a second naturally was a total liar. The fastest way to Realize the Self is to simply remove ignorance with understanding only.That is all. That is called the "bird's way". Understanding is all. Understanding is the short cut to here and now. Liberation is our very nature. We are that...It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Remove ignorance only. What kind of ignorance should be removed for Freedom? Simple! Only the false notion of being separate from one's true nature is the illusion of bondage itself. Understanding what the words Self, He or the Reality etc, represent is the key. What are they pointing to? Consciousness is the real presence of existence being pointed to.

Paradoxically consciousness or the Self is not anything new, not anything whatsoever spiritual or special. But the most common, simple and ordinary presence of pure being experienced directly by everybody. After all, if you are alive here and now and aware of being, you are the Self. That is IT. That is what the Self is. Simple, common ordinary everyday unchanging awareness of being. Don't you know that the Search for a spiritual Self or holy presence of consciousness is the only trap? Know the Truth. Any spiritual Self or extra-ordinary presence or being never existed. False imagination only. One only believes that there is bondage and therefore will frantically Seek liberation. But it is just a false belief. Only the ignorant Seeker foolishly imagines that the Self or consciousness itself is something new or spiritual. In fact everyone alive and aware of being oneself everyday is already so called Realized or Enlightened. They simply do not know it. So near and so dear. The Sought-after Truth is nothing new or different but simply being oneself naturally. One's true nature is present closer than close, it is simply overlooked. There is no striving to become Free. Any spiritual or religious effort of any kind is only bondage. There is only the removal of a false notion of being bound with understanding. That is all. That is the simple Secret to Freedom from all bondage. Know thyself. To know one's true nature is very easy. No time or effort is required. You are already that. Of course not everyone wants to know who they really are. Occasionally some do. If you want to be Free and understand what this consciousness AKA the Self simply is, then this web site is for you. In fact there is no bondage and there is no liberation either.There is only understanding or ignorance. That is all. One is used to remove the other. Wisdom is what is called Freedom. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation.

Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The Real experience is always here and now. Being is the experience itself. Being is consciousness. Being is existence. Being is 'I' am-ness. Being is the absolute Reality. After all, no one can deny one's own being and say 'I' do not exist.It is impossible. Can anyone alive deny being? Consciousness present is 'I' am present. Consciousness present is pure being. The experience is always here and now present as one's own being. Awareness of being is 'I' am. Be still and know that being is that consciousness. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ If you ever had any desire to truly know what the words Self, He, the Atman, the Lord, God, the Reality etc are truly pointing to, it is very easy. Nothing new or holy. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. God or the Self or He or the Reality is that 'I' am you know. Consciousness is pure awareness of being. 'I' am is that. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Now you know the simple Truth.Thou art that. Being just as you are. Nothing lost or hidden far away.One's own existence alone is the Divine. Who is not aware of being? Are you alive? Are you aware of being? Is 'I' am certain? The Self is your own existence.The Self is your own being. Everyone knows and says 'I' am all day long. 'I' am is nothing new. Awareness of being. 'I' am is always with you as the knowing that you are. The best definition is 'I' am that 'I' am. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ 'I' am or 'I' am not? To be or not to be? Can anyone negate being?Can anyone say 'I' am not? 'I' exist here and now is 'I' am. To understand this, is to know the Truth.

Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Be as you are. The Search for the Self starts and ends with you. You already are at the destimation you have never left. Call off the Search. There is nothing new to be freshly acquired. Not knowing what the Self truly is, is the only trouble. Remove ignorance and voila! The natural state of being alive and awake from sleep or being aware and remaining aware all day long naturallyis abiding as one's true nature. That is what the Self is, consciousness present is the state of pure being common to all. That alone is what the Self and Sought-after Truth simply is. Whoever said is what anything else? What can be more plain, common and ordinary than the natural state of pure being common to everyone? The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ If you want to be Free, it is very easy. Just get a clue. Only the idea 'I' am not already the Oneness or the Infinite Self is bondage. Of course, there is nothing whatsoever spiritual or religious about one's true nature. That false notion is only found in fantasy books some call spiritual or holy books. Life is the Reality that is always present here and now. That is what the wise have been pointing to as the Self for millenia. To be alive is to be the Self. That is all. How simple is that Realization? What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Who is not alive and aware of being? Look at yourself. 'I' am alive is certain. Only a fool waits for Freedom. There is no waiting for anything.

The wise only removes the false notion of being bound. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. You know that you are alive. 'I' exist here and now or 'I' am alive this very moment is present awareness. Awareness of being present as oneself is 'I' am. Awareness of being oneself is 'I' exist. No one can deny one's own self and negate one's own being. 'I' am is certain and needs no proof. 'I' am, 'I' am, 'I' am. Who is not aware of himself? Hellooo! If you are alive and sure that you are not dead then you are the Self. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Understanding is Realizing. Wisdom alone is Freedom.After all, 'who' is bound when simply being alive is the experience itself some call being the Self? The Self or consciousness is Life itself. Freedom is not about achieving or acquiring anything. Freedom is to realize that being alive is abiding as one's true nature. That is all. The ultimate Truth is so simple. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Here is a hint!Remove the spiritual and religious crap that camouflage this simple Truth about the Self, He, the Reality or God and Tada! You know the Open Secret. Thou art that already naturally, effortleslly and He is Life itself. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ Here and now you are Life. So simple. So boring, so familiar, so near and so dear and so ordinary isn't it? To be alive and aware of beingis the experience itself. Just this and nothing else. Call off the Search. What are you looking for? Spiritual and religious ideology and concepts are all false anyhow. Like someone given a faulty address and desperately striving to get there.

The Search is a trap. Don't you get it? There is nothing new to get! Remove ignorance only because here and now you are that. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Know yourself and if you know yourself you know the Oneness to simply be Life itself. The Infinite Self is the natural presence of consciousness that is so common to all and always directly experienced by all sentient beings that we know and call Life or existence, others have given this plain ordinary everyday presence of consciousness or existence a mystical name of God. God is just another fancy name for this affectionate presence of Life or consciousness that we all like to be. Who is not aware of being alive?'I' exist here and now is 'I' am. Consciousness is present as the knowing that you are. 'I' am that 'I' am. You are the knowing that you are. Consciousness present is 'I' am or awareness of being oneself. After all, who is not aware of himself? Who doesn't know and say 'I' am all day long? Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Reality is 'I' exist. Why not wake up to this simple Truth? To realize or understand that being alive and awake from sleep or conscious is abiding as one's true nature is to end the Search for the Self or consciousness that was never lost. Thou art that this very moment. Being alive and conscious is the Reality. The Reality is at once being and consciousness. The Reality is that 'I' am you know so well as your own being. Are you alive? Are you aware of being? That is IT. Alive-ness and awareness of being is 'I' exist. It (consciousness) is pure awareness of being. It (consciousness) is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

Don't you know that being alive and aware of being oneself is always abiding as the Self, He, the Reality? If you do not know this simple Truth about yourself then remove ignorance with that understanding. That is the Open Secret to Freedom and the so called cosmic Joke of Enlightenment.Look at yourself. That is IT. To simply be alive and aware of being oneself everyday is to always abide as the Infinite Self. He is Life itself. One's own plain boring ordinary everyday existence is the absolute Reality, He, the Infinite Self and Sought-after Truth. Nothing new, special or fancy. Only illusion is full of extra-ordinary stories. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Existence. No one can deny one's own existence. No one can say 'I' am not or 'I' do not exist. That is IT. So simple isn't it. The Sought-after Truth is 'I' am.The fact of one's own being is the Real'I'-ty. In other words, if you know that you are alive right here and now you are so called 'Enlightened'. One's own existence is consciousness. One's own existence is the Divine. God is 'I' am. The Self (consciousness) is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Any spiritual or religious God is fiction. But one's own existence here and now is the Reality. The Sought-after Truth is nothing spiritual or far away. After all, how much time does it take to know that you are? Who am 'I'? To know thyself is so easy. All you know for certain is that you are. 'I' exist here and now is the absolute Reality. 'I' am is the only absolute fact one can be sure of. Consciousness is what we all are naturally without trying to be. If you are alive, you are that. Being alive is always being the Self or consciousness itself. No one ever fails to experience this consciousness directly as one's own existence or being-ness.

We all know consciousness present as 'I' am. No one can deny one's own being. You are the knowing that you are. 'I' exist is the Reality. 'I' exist is the Sought-after Truth. One's own existence is the Self. Who am 'I'? After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. 'I' am is certain. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj The answer to who am 'I' is so obvious. Shining in plain sight all along it is the 'I' present in the question. The Self is yourself. The 'I' who wants to know the Self is already the Infinite Self, He, the Reality. Being oneself is abiding as one's true nature. There is nothing new or different to be freshly acquired. What is always present right here and now? You are. You being just as you are this very moment naturally is the Self you Seek to find all along. The Reality is nothing new, lost or far away but always present naturally closer than one's own breath. Only the idea of being anything other than the Reality is the false notion of duality, separation and bondage. Being oneself is the Self, He, the Reality. The Sough-after Truth is 'you'. One's own plain ordinary everyday existence is the Reality. You are the one eternally Free already. Remove the false notion of bondage with understanding and voila! On enquiry 'who' is bound? The notion of bondage vanishes and so does that of Liberation. The one eternally free alone remains self-revealed. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What makes you foolishly believe that you are not the one eternally Free already? Did you ever question your beliefs? Did you ever question the Guru, Sage, Jnani or Buddha? There are no spiritual goals to be reached. Freedom is only the removal of ignorance. That is all it is. The Search is a trap. Being alive and aware of being is the Reality. Seekers have acquired wrong knowledge and believe the false to be true. Any concepts of ego, finite self, small I etc, are just garbage or false knowledge that is only given to veiled and ignorant people to swallow like pigs swallow crap.

Then they will cry that they are bound when in fact they have always been the real Self and ever-Free. The only mistake was to accept the false to be true. Brainwashed with lies and wrong knowledge is bondage. It is not because some people look the part or have spiritual names and speak holy that what they are telling you is in fact true for in reality it is not. Spiritual and religious people are paradoxically liars. Funny no. Ignorant of this simple truth, innumerable methods under different denominations, such as yoga, bhakti, karma, each again with many modifications, are being taught with great skill and in intricate detail only to entice the seekers and confuse their minds. So also are the religions and sects and dogmas. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is absolutely nothing to change, to alter or modify about onself for the Reality to be. Medititions, yogas, mantras, bajhans or any spiritual practice of any kind is the bondage itself. To be or not to be. There is nothing you have to do to be. The Reality is at once being and consciousness. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You already are the Lord, you are God this very moment.Being alive and aware is being God. That is all. God is me, myself and 'I'. Know the simple Truth that the 'I' you know so well as yourself is the Lord. Here and now you are that simply means that me, myself and 'I' is the absolute Reality. Being oneself naturally is the Reality. After all, everything is always attached to the 'I'. The 'I' is pure consciousness itself. It is God, the Infinite or the Lord. There is no ego or small self or any finite self and all that crap. Thou art that. You are the Self and Free already. Me, myself and 'I'. Nothing new, spiritual or holy. Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Call off the Search.

Gee! yoU aRe yoU. The word Self means you. Look it up in the dictionary. The 'I' you know so well as your own affectionate everyday self is this consciousness itself. One's own plain boring common ordinary everyday self is the Self. That is IT. There are nobody special or spiritual. That belief is all garbage. There are no spiritual goals to be reached or any holy presence to be found. Being oneself is the Reality. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ If you foolishly believe that you have seen and met a holy being or extra-ordinary Enlightened Sage, Guru or Buddha on the Road you have been conned. There is no such thing. Just a wanna be appearing to be holy to entice the veiled and the ignorant only. Didn't anyone tell you? Only the idea of bondage is bondage. That is all. Bondage is only psychological. One only believes there is bondage, bondage only exist in one's own head as nothing other than false imagination. One 'believes' that there is bondage and therefore seeks liberation. But the fact is that there is no bondagebut only liberation. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Some spiritual Seekers will wait for years at the feet of someone that is appearing to them as holy being, Sage or a Buddha for a spiritual transmission of Grace and Freedom. How laughable. See the false as false. Did someone appearing as Sage, a Jnani, a holy Guru or Enlightened Buddha sell you water by the River? Beware of these so called spiritual Gurus, Saints, Teachers and Jnanis because they are only Teaching crap. Why believe them, when all they are telling you is false anyhow? Investigate. Have a look. Find out for yourself what is real.Are you really bound? Look for your chains. Why wait? The one who waits for Freedom only dies an ignorant fool. Remove ignorance only if you truly desire to be Free. Ignorant Seekers are only chasing after illusion. Believing the false to be

true. There is no bondage and of course there is no liberation either. Being alive naturally is the Reality. There is no reaching, no attaining or becoming anything new, different or spiritual whatsoever for Freedom. Only understanding or realizing that simply being alive and aware is always abiding as one's true nature is the only so called Self-Realization. That is what the fuss is all about. How many people are being taught spiritual and religious crap? Believing the false to be true. Cultivating wrong knowledge year after year. All because of a spiritual Teacher or a holy Guru. Seekers are only misled and cheated simply because spiritual Teachers and Gurus are the poison, not the cure. Know the simple Truth. Consciousness present is the 'I' present in 'I' am. If you know that you are, then consciousness is indeed present. The Self or consciousness is nothing new or far away. It is simply one's own being. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Remove the veil of ignorance with understanding only, that is all that is required. Do yourself a favor. If you have a beloved spiritual Teacher or Guru be wise and get rid of it. He or she is screwing you. He or she is holding you back. Don't believe me, have a look for yourself and see. Life itself is the natural presence of consciousness. Common to all. Everyone alive always abide as that presence of consciousness. It is nothing new, special or holy. It is what we are naturally. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What you Seek is what you already are naturally. Being alive and aware is being the Reality. The Reality is not some mystical presence or spiritual experience but existence. It all works in reverse. A paradox! Looking for any spiritual state of consciousness to be reached or attained is only bondage.A spiritual trap.

Understanding that this consciousness itself is simply the natural state of being alive common to all is Freedom. The Reality is not far away but closer than close. Nothing spiritual or holy but so plain and so ordinary. Life is just another name for this presence of consciousness and that alone is one's true nature. There is nothing whatsoever spiritual or religious about Freedom.That is the Joke of it all. Only removing the false notion of being bound with understanding alone is Realizing. Ignorant people are only the worshippers and followers of Gurus and Teachers. These people pretending to be spiritual or religious beings are the greatest illusion. Spiritual con artists that will entice and confuse ignorant Seekers for gratification or a fee. Inquire. Question. Investigate. Find out what is Real. Enlightenment as a spiritual state is a hoax. A spiritual carrot only. There is no bondage and there is no liberation for anybody. There never was. Only remove wrong acquired spiritual and religious knowledge for it is the greatest ignorance. Understanding that there is no separation from one's true is the Realization. The 'I' or self you know so well as your own being is your true nature. You are already that. Existence is one's true nature. You are the one without two. Just this and nothing else. Who told you that you are not the Reality already? The 'I' you know so well already as 'you' is the Real Self. Closer than close. The Seeker is paradoxically the Sought. Call off the Search. The 'I' is that or Thou art that. The Self you Seek is truly your own affectionate everyday self. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Freedom from all bondage is paradoxically the simplest and easiest thing in the world. It is so easy. No Guru, no Teacher, no practice, no time or effort of any kind is whatsoever required. The state called Realization or Enlightenment is not and never will be some fictitious religious or spiritual state

but paradoxically the most plain and ordinary presence of existence we all are naturally and effortlessly. Understand what the words, Self, He, the Reality etc, truly represent and you will laugh at yourself. Like a finger that points at the moon, consciousness is the real presence of existence being pointed to. Everyone alive is always the Self. Being alive and aware of being alone is the Reality. Consciousness present is 'I' am or being oneself naturally. Nothing new. Some people foolishly believe that the Self or consciousness is something spiritual or far away. Not knowing how close the Truth is. That wrong knowledge is the only trouble and obstacle to Freedom. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Call off the Search. The Self you Seek to know is truly yourself. It is nothing new, different or in anyway spiritual, religious or holy. It is pure being. The Reality present within your own dwelling is Life. Being and consciousness is the Reality. The Sought-after Truth is not a spiritual state but the consciousness present as Life or existence itself. Present here and now. Being alive is always abiding as the Infinite Self or consciousness itself. Life is that. God or consciousness is nothing other than existence or Life itself if you like. Being alive and aware of being oneself naturally everyday is the experience itself. That is IT. Why wait? There is no waiting for anything. The experience is always here and now. Look yourself. Look at your own being-ness. You know that you are. One's own existence is the Self. That is all. So simple. Knowing the Self (God, Life, consciousness etc) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ No one can say 'I' do not exist. No one can deny one's own existence. If you know that you are alive you are there. So simple. No time or effort is required to know that you are alive. 'I' am is certain.

Awareness of being. Consciousness is the presence of Life itself. Everyone likes to be. No one can say 'I' do not exist and deny being. 'I' am is 'I' exist.One's own existence is certain. One's own existence is the Divine. One's own existence is itself abiding as He, the Self, the Reality. That is all. Who said the Self was anything other than Life itself? Remove the camouflage of ignorance. That is what the Self simply is. Life is consciousness expressing itself as yourself. The Self (consciousness) you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Why cry over nothing? Like a fish in the water crying that he is thirsty. The Reality is always here and now. Being alive is the absolute Reality. So obvious. Are you alive? Are you aware of being? Voila! You are already there. Being alive is the experience. You are so called Enlightened. Being just as you are. That IT! Thou art that Life or living-ness or consciousness itself. Life present is pure awareness of being. It is 'I' am. Life or consciousness is indeed always with you. 'I' am is always with you. No one can negate one's own being. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ So near and so dear. Life, consciousness or existence present is the knowing that you are. Present awareness is 'I' am. All you can be sure of is the knowing that you are alive. Life present is pure awareness of being. Consciousness present is 'I' am. You can call Life itself either He, the Self, the Reality or God etc, does not matter what name turns you on as long as you understand that simply being alive naturally is always abiding as that. Thou art that.

What you Seek is what you are. Call off the Search. Here and now you are that. Life is just another name for consciousness or the Infinite Self. That is all. To be alive and conscious is to be aware of being. Awareness of being oneself naturally everyday is 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Some ignorant spiritual Seekers will adopt a spiritual Guru or Teacher to sell them silence or a meditation or a mantra but for what? Only understanding is required. Any spiritual or religious person will paradoxically perpetuate the false notion of separation and bondage. Spiritual Seekers are in fact brainwashed to foolishly believe illusion or the false to be true. Spiritual and religious people strive on Seeker's ignorance only. That is their Job. Making a living by selling spiritual fantasy and false knowledge to spiritual Seekers. There is no spiritual goal or spiritual state to be reached. There never was. The spiritual Sage, Jnani, Guru or 'Buddha' you may see on the Road is only for show. Some even dressing the part only to entice simple and ignorant people to believe the false to be true. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness is our real nature. Life is this presence of consciousness itself. Self-shining naturally as one's own self and being. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to remove the false notion of being bound which is ignorance. Not knowing that being alive and awake from sleep everyday is always abiding as one's true nature is the only trouble. Being alive and conscious is this consciousness itself. That is the Open Secret. After all, what is everyday wakeful-ness but the natural state of being aware and remaining aware.

Another name for consciousness is sentience or awareness. Being awake or aware is also that. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Look at yourself here and now. Aren't you conscious, awake and therefore aware? There is no need to attain or cultivate what you already are this very moment naturally. The Self or consciousness is naturally self shining as pure existence and awareness. Being aware is this presence of consciousness self-shining as you. Awareness is another name for the Self and you. It is pure awareness of being. Consciousness present is known to all as 'I' am. Everyone knows and say 'I' am everyday. Know that 'I' am is this consciousness. No one alive can negate one's own existence. 'I' am is always certain.'I' am is the Reality. Can anyone deny his own being? Deny his own existence and say 'I' do not exist. Of course not. Hidden in plain Sight all along. What you Seek is what you always are. The Seeker is the Sought. Never lost, missing or apart from it. One's own ordinary everyday self is the Infinite Self. You, being the Self (consciousness), want to know how to attain the Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ One's own plain ordinary everyday existence is the True Beloved. How can you kiss this Beauty? You cannot kiss your own self. Realize that your own plain ordinary everyday self or the 'I' present in 'I' am is that consciousness. Thou art that literally. Consciousness is not some spiritual state that is yet to be reached or attained but simply the natural state of being that we call Life or existence. It is always with us. In other words this consciousness or the Self is simply your own plain ordinary everyday affectionate self. So near and so dear. It is nothing new or special, neither spiritual or far away. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required.

We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Search for a holy or spiritual Self is only a trap. A spiritual carrot given to others by con artists. There is no such thing. God or consciousness or the Infinite Self is simply Life itself. The only mistake for the Seeker is to foolishly believe that the Infinite Self is something new, special or spiritual. That is only false imagination. One's own plain ordinary existence is the Infinite Self AKA the presence of Life or consciousness itself. Everyone alive and awake from sleep is always abiding as the Self, they simply do not realize it. Remove the veil of ignorance with understanding only.Just this and nothing else is Freedom. Know that 'I' am is at once being oneself and the Infinite Self? You are that consciousness. Being alive is abiding at the Infinite Self, He, the Reality. That is all there is to understand or realize. He or the Self is Life itself. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. That is all what the pointers are simply pointing to. Life or consciousness is the Reality present within your own dwelling. After all, if you know that you are not dead then you know that you are. 'I' am is certain. Consciousness is simply what that 'I' am you know as your own self represents. Pure awareness of being. Awareness of being alive is 'I' am. It (consciousness) is pure awareness of being. It (consciousness) is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The ultimate Truth about the Self, He, the Reality is so simple that it is laughable. Consciousness is nothing new or apart from anyone alive but in fact it is everyone's true nature. No one alive ever fails to experience this consciousness directly as one's own affectionate self and being. The Open Secret to Freedom is that there is no bondage, there is no separation but only Oneness Omni-present naturally as consciousness itself. Consciousness is Life itself. Life is this Oneness.

Everyone alive is the One without two. Being alive and aware of being oneself is the experience. Life or consciousness is the Oneness present in all sentient beings. Understanding this consciousness is all that is necessary to remove the veil or camouflage of ignorance. After all, why should anyone strive to reach, attain or become Life? Being alive and aware of being is always abiding as that pure consciousness itself or the Infinite Self. So simple. So near and so dear.Freedom is always here. Present here and now. To Seek it far away is to always miss it. Realize that Life is the Precious Jewel. Life is the True Beloved and Sought-after Truth. Life is what some people call God and others the Self. Life is this Oneness. Life is consciousness. There is nothing new to be reached or to be achieved. Only remove ignorance with understanding. That is all it takes for Freedom. Get rid of ignorance. Ignorance is the only obstacle to Freedom. Just this and nothing else. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ Only the one who does not know this simple Truth will believe himself to be bound. Just a false notion of bondage due to ignorance and wrong acquired knowledge about the Reality. Most Seekers have absolutely no clue whatsoever that being alive and awake from sleep or being aware and remaining aware all day long naturally is abiding as the Self, He, the Reality. That is all. Obviously if they knew how close the Sought-after Truth is, they would be laughing at themselves for foolishly Seeking the Self. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ It is all a big Joke. To know that simply being alive naturally is the experience itself and that alone is abiding as one's true nature, the Reality or the Infinite Self is all that is required. No time or effort is required to be.

What you Seek is nothing new or far away but paradoxically what you already are and have always been naturally. Who said Freedom was hard or difficult? Investigate. Have a look. Could it really be that simple? The fact that Freedom is very simple and easy is nothing new under the Sun. The ultimate Truth is so simple. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Make no effort. Anyone wise will tell you that Freedom is paradoxically child-like simplicity. Know thyself by removing ignorance only. Understand. It is so easy. Who are you? You are consciousness. You are Life itself. Here and now you are that. Have a look at your real self. Don't you know that if you are not dead or un-conscious you are undeniably abiding as your true nature?To be alive and aware of being oneself is to abide as the real Self, He, the Reality, God or consciousness itself. That is what the fuss is all about. One's own undeniable existence needs no proof. No one can deny being. 'I' am is at once being and consciousness itself. Awareness of being oneself is simply being alive and aware.Everybody knows that they are. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ 'I' am is always first hand. No one can say 'I' do not exist and negate one's own existence or being. 'I' am is that presence of consciousness itself or the Self. That alone is the Sought-after Truth. Consciousness or the Self is nothing new, different or spiritual whatsoever, nothing extra-ordinary but the opposite. Consciousness is the most plain, boring, ordinary presence of existence and unchanging awareness you have always known yourself to be. So common to all and so ordinary that it is laughable. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Who ever said that consciousness or the Infinite Self or God was anything new or spiritual was only selling water by the River. Nothing new or spiritual about being alive. Just the natural state of being. That is why to Seek is to miss it. One's own existence itself is the Divine. The so called 'Realization' is understanding only.Understanding is Realizing. Self-Realization is not and never will be the acquisition of anything new, spiritual or special. It is only the removal of ignorance about one's true nature with common sense and understanding. That is all. What is always present here and now with oneself is Life itself. Some call the presence of Life or consciousness the 'Diamond' in your pocket. The natural undeniable presence of Life itself self-shining within your own dwelling. The words God, Self, He, the Reality etc, are just fancy names for plain common to all ordinary everyday Life, consciousness or everyday existence. The core of one's being that can never be denied is this presence of Life itself. Being is the Reality. To be alive is the natural state of pure being common to all. Everyone knows that they are. Existence is the experience itself. The Self AKA consciousness is Life itself. Living-ness, alive-ness, being-ness or 'I' am-ness is the Sought-after Truth and the Reality. Being or existing is the Self AKA consciousness itself. That is the experience itself. The Self is present as common awareness or pure awareness of being. Everyone knows that they are alive and that undeniable awareness of being is 'I' am. Who is not aware of himself? Everyone knows 'I' am. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self (consciousness). A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Ignorance is the only obstacle to be removed. Not knowing or realizing that simply being alive is always abiding as one's true nature is the only false notion of separation and bondage.

Consciousness is Life itself and that is one's true nature. That is all. So simple. Everyone alive always abide as consciousness AKA Life itself. Therefore one's true nature is always present as one's own being. Just like a light buld cannot shine without the Power present. The body cannot shine without the presence of Life or consciousness. In other words consciousness is the Spirit of Life itself. The unseen Power. That is the Open Secret. Knowing the Self (God, Life, consciousness etc) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ One's own being. Life is 'I' am. 'I' am is consciousness AKA the Self, He, the Reality, God etc. The Reality is nothing spiritual or special but the simple fact of one's own being. Do not be fooled with ignorant spiritual people that will tell you that there is a God and you. Because it is not true. You are God. There is no God and you.That is wrong knowledge. Being yourself is always abiding as the Infinite Self. You are the One without two. God is just another name for the presence of consciousness which Life itself. Not some fictitious spiritual or religious God, that is all crap but simply Life. Your own existence here and now is the Divine so to speak. Existence itself is the absolute Reality. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ There has never been a spiritual presence to call God. That is only B.S. used to entice veiled and ignorant people. After all, what is always undeniably present here and now? Life. Existence is being. Being alive is being the Self. Life is God and the Oneness. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way.

But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ Life is that. Here and now you are that. 'I' am that, means 'I' am Life or consciousness itself. 'I' am is 'I' exist here and now.Awareness of being. The Self is Life itself, He, the Reality or God. Consciousness shines as one's own existence. No one denies own own existence. Like Seeking a precious Jewel that is inside your own pocket all along. Life is the Sought-after Truth. Nothing lost or missing. But what you already naturally and have always been your whole life. There is no spiritual state to be reached. Enlightenment as a spiritual state never existed. That is only false beliefs that some people have acquired from books and others pretending to be holy. There is no becoming anything whatsoever. Just to be, that alone is abiding as the Self, He, the Reality. There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained. You are the Self (consciousness). You exist always. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Who told you that you are not the Self and Free already? Remove ignorance only. Know the simple Truth. You are that. Paradoxically the Sought-after Truth is nothing new but what you know so well already. So near and so dear. It is your own affectionate everyday self and being. You, being the Self (consciousness), want to know how to attain the Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What you Seek is what you are. You cannot become what you already are. You are already at the destination you have never left. To be alive naturally and aware is to be the Self, He, the Reality. Call off the Search.You are Life. So simple. So plain and so ordinary. Being the Self is being alive. Being alive is the experience itself. That is IT. There is nothing more to realized. Ignorant people only imagine that there is.

You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Many veiled Seekers read too many spiritual books or sat with too many self-appointed Gurus and foolishly cultivated false acquired knowledge about the simple Truth and the Reality. Spiritual Teachers and Gurus will screw Seekers and ignorant people with a smile on their face. Investigate for yourself and see if that is not true. They are fact no different than a used car salesman. Some will even dress the part, take on a spiritual name and offer all kind of sweet spiritual carrots disguised as stories and false promises of Freedom etc, for dummys and veiled Seekers to foolishly chase after. To know your real nature. Remove ignorance only, nothing more is necessary. Understanding is all. Not knowing that simply being alive naturally is being the Self effortlessly is the only trouble. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ There is no bondage and there is no liberation. Life is consciousness itself. Being alive and aware of being oneself or existence is being the Infinite Self, He, the Reality. Life is what people call God or the Reality and the Kingdom is in you meaning undeniably present as Life itself. Life or consciousness is the same Oneness, sentience and living power present in all sentient beings. To be alive is the True Beloved you cannot kiss. Being alive is being the Oneness itself. You are the Oneness. Being alive and aware of being oneself is being IT. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To know the Infinite Self is very very easy but most people do not want it because consciousness is too simple and too common, what to do. A

strange paradox. They will spend their whole Life foolishly Seeking what they are have always been naturally. Like a fish in the water crying that he is thirsty. Nothing is lost or missing. In fact the Sought-after Truth is so near and so dear, that is just overlooked. Closer than close. The Sought-after Truth is simply being oneself.That is IT. Full stop. Not becoming anything. Being yourself naturally just as you are without ever trying to be something spiritual or special. That is the funny paradox! Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ Freedom is very easy. Didn't anyone tell you? Super-duper simplicity. There is nothing you have to do or strive to become. Being oneself is being the Infinite Self. Not knowing or understanding that being oneself is the Self already is the only obstacle. Ignorance about one's true identity is the only veil or camouflage to be removed with understanding. Realisation is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Get rid of ignorance. How can anyone remove ignorance? Understanding is Realizing. There is no becoming, reaching or attaining anything new or different whatsoever. That is the cosmic Joke of Enlightenment is that you are already there. There is nothing more to realize. Reality is not achieving any spiritual state or Seeking something new to experience but simply being alive. Understanding this consciousness is so simple.In fact it will only make you laugh. Being alive and conscious is this presence of consciousness itself. That is the Self and Sought-after Truth. What else would this consciousness be but Life or existence itself? Another name for this presence of consciousness or the Self is Life or existence. Therefore being alive is the experience itself. No one alive can deny one's own existence.

Everyone alive is already the Self or this consciousness itself. They simply do not realize it. So near and so dear. Shining in plain sight all along. What is more obvious than one's own being? What is more Precious to oneself than one's own existence? Life or existence is itself the 'Diamond' in your pocket so to speak. Look at yourself. When have you ever been apart from your own being? 'I' am is always with you. One's own existence is the most obvious. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be or not to be. 'I' exist is the most obvious. No one can deny one's own being. Can any alive claim that they do not exist or say 'I' am not? Of course not. That is IT. That is the True Beloved. So near and so dear. He is Life itself. The Oneness or God is consciousness AKA Life or existence itself. One's own affectionate existence is nothing new or apart. 'I' am is always with you as the knowing that you are. The Sought-after Truth is simply your own being. The Self or God is that 'I' am you know. Consciousness is the real presence of existence. Life is just another name for this presence of consciousness. Therefore being alive and aware is always abiding as one's true nature. Call off the Search. You are alive, you are already that.Existence is being. Life is consciousness expressing itself naturally. Life is being. Why wait when Life is already undeniably present right here and right now? Existence is the experience. There is no becoming or reaching anything. No blazing light, no spiritual experience. No B.S. Understanding is Realizing that existence or Life alone is the Soughtafter Truth. Don't they tell you that simple Truth in spiritual and religious books? Obviously not! The Search for something new or spiritual is a trap. Spiritual and religious Seekers are looking for something new or special. Oops. It is nothing new, here and you are that. Life is this consciousness itself. You are that. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something,

which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Don't you know that what you Seek is paradoxically what you have always been and are naturally? Life or existence is the Reality. That is IT. Call it God, call it the Oneness, the Infinite Self, the Atman, the Lord etc. All these names are only pointing to plain ordinary everyday existence. Funny no! That is the Joke of it all. Not knowing this simple Truth is the only trouble. Ignorance is the only obstacle to be removed. Understanding is all that is necessary. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What is the difference between the wise and the ignorant? Simple! The wise who investigate himself comes to realize or understand that to be alive naturally is the experience itself some people called 'Enlightenment'. When ever you see some spiritual Seeker striving to become Free, Realized or Enlightened. Give them a good slap! Being alive is the so called state of 'Enlightenment'. Everyone is already that. The goal or final destination of all spiritual searches is 'I' exist here and now or 'I' am. 'I' exist or 'I' am alive and kicking is the Sought-after Truth and the natural state some call the Reality. All that is required to end the Search for the Self that was never lost is to understand only. Not strive to reach, to attain or to become anything new, different, spiritual or special. Just understanding that being conscious and alive-ness is abiding one's true nature. The Self is consciousness, therefore being conscious is abiding as the Self itself. Being alive and aware of being oneself naturally everyday is the experience itself. The consciousness some people call God or the Self is simply Life itself. Nothing new, special or apart. 'I' exist or 'I' am is that.

Realize that consciousness shines naturally and effortlessly as the knowing that you are. The presence of Life and natural activity of consciousness itself is sentience or ordinary awareness. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ What is sentience or awareness? Being aware and remaining aware all day long effortlessly. Just realize that you are not un-conscious but aware. That is IT.Awareness. Wakeful-ness is another name for abiding as one's true nature. Sentience is that. The natural state of being. If you wonder what is so special or spiritual about that? Nothing whatsoever! The Reality is nothing new, nothing special or spiritual. Life is what we all are naturally.Life or consciousness is the Oneness. Consciousness is undeniably present with everyone as one's own affectionate existence. Life or consciousness expresses itself naturally as pure awareness of being. Being alive and aware of being is 'I' am. 'I' exist is certain. Anyone that tells you that consciousness or God is anything spiritual or religious is lying. It is not that at all. Being aware and remaining aware is the bliss of the Self.That is IT. Awareness of being is bliss. That is what this consciousness is all about. One's own existence is the Self or God. Being alive is the experience itself. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Everyone likes to be. Being alive is the true Beloved and the real happiness or bliss that people have been Seeking far and away their whole Life. Funny no! It is all so simple, so plain and so ordinary that it is the only difficulty for the person that is so busy Seeking new spiritual and better experiences. Yet all new experiences will always come and go

but the Reality is that which always is present. Why seek the impermanent? Isn't it foolish! The experience is here and now. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. Consciousness present is the knowing that you are. Present awareness. It is the knowing that you exist this very moment. It is 'I' am. The Self is simply being oneself. Consciousness is 'I' am. Nothing new or different is to be freshly acquired. Only remove ignorance. That is all. Consciousness or Life is God, the Self, He, the Reality etc. Existence common to all is the absolute Reality. Being is 'I' am. That is the Open Secret. In other words you are what you Seek this very moment. Being alive and aware of being oneself is the experience itself. Existence is the Self and Sought-after Truth. Consciousness is existence. Knowing the Self (God, Life, consciousness etc) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ 'I' exist here and now is the absolute Reality.'I' am that 'I' am is the Realization. No one can deny one's own existence and say 'I' do not exist. Everyone alive knows 'I' am. Life or consciousness present is 'I' am. The fact of one's own being is the absolute Reality. So simple. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Obviously not everyone will be wise and content or satisfied that the Sought-after Truth is simply being oneself naturally. Nothing new or different whatsoever because one's own existence is paradoxically the most plain, the most common, the most affectionate and ordinary state of being. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Many cannot accept that Life itself or plain ordinary existence is the Sought-after Truth or God.

Some ignorant and foolish spiritual people will even insist that they do not exist or that there is no one present when in fact they are the one and existence itself. All this non-sense is laughable.Anyone that claims they do not exist should get their head examined. What kind of B.S. is that! Everyone alive knows and says 'I' am. Everyone alive is undeniably aware of being. 'I' exist is certain. It is impossible to deny one's own existence. Awareness of being. Existence is being. Being is 'I' exist or 'I' am. The 'I' present in 'I' am is the Infinite Self. Thou art that. The 'I' is that. Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Me, myself and 'I' is not different from the Lord but One and the same presence of existence. One's own self is the One Self. That is all. 'I' and consciousness are One. One's own self is that. Thou art that. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Here and now you are that naturally. Consciousness or Life is the natural state of being. No one wise ever said the Self or God was anything else. In other word the 'you' that you believe is bound is in fact the Real-'I'-ty. Funny paradox! Any dualistic concepts about the 'I' or one's own affectionate self to be either a finite Self or ego are just spiritual crap given to imbeciles to swallow and make them falsely believe that they are bound. What ego? Look for an ego and it will not be found. Only the ignorant and the foolish believe in two selves. Know the simple Truth! The 'I' is the One without a second. There are no two selves. Thou art that. The false notion of an ego present anywhere is in fact the only false notion of duality and bondage. It is only illusion. Ego never existed. Just spiritual garbage that people believe to be true. If you seek the ego you will find, it does not exist. That is the way to get rid of it. Look for it and it will not be found. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Some spiritual people will even spend year after year striving to kill an ego that doesn't even exist. How stupid is that? Some people read the word 'ego' in a spiritual book or someone appearing religious and holy given them wrong knowledge and foolishly they accepted the false to be true. All because a spiritual book, a Teacher or Guru told them so. Oops! There is no ego present anywhere. It is only a fictitious creation. Just a false religious belief that is only given to veiled and ignorant people to perpetuate a false notion of duality, separation and bondage. Being oneself is the One Self. There never was any ego present to get rid of, that is only a false imagination or imaginary belief. Who ever said you are not the Real Self already lied to you. Bondage is only a cage made of wrong acquired knowledge anyhow. One only believes that there is bondage when in fact there is no bondage. It is all and only psychological. As the saying goes, if you believe you are bound then you are bound to that belief. A false notion or ideology only believed to be true. Question, investigate. The false cannot stand up to investigation. That is how someone removes ignorance, with inquiry. On enquiry 'who' is bound? The notion of bondage vanishes and so does that of Liberation. The one eternally free alone remains self-revealed. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no ego. What binds you? Look for your chains and they will not be found. Only spiritual and religious people pretending to be holy use a concept of ego, as the bondage to keep their disciples, students or followers bound to wrong knowledge. Beware of so called spiritual and religious people. They will paradoxically sink Seekers deeper into ignorance. Many spiritual Gurus and Teachers will paradoxically use wrong knowledge and confusion to keep their disciples and followers on a Seeking path.

Selling water by the River. That is what so many of them only do for a living. So called spiritual and religious people will only entice and confuse Seekers. The simple Truth is that there is absolutely nothing to change, nothing to be altered or modified about oneself for this Reality to be.He is Life itself. There is no bondage and there is no liberation. Only the removal of ignorance is Freedom. The Realization or understanding is that there is no ego or anything else whatsoever present with oneself or as me, myself and 'I' but this pure consciousness itself or this Oneness. How can the 'I' see itself? Nobody can ever reach, attain or become the Self. How can you kiss yourself on your own lips? You are already that. Being oneself is being this Oneness already naturally without ever trying to be. One's own self and being is the Real-'I'-ty. The 'I' is that consciousness itself. The false notion of not being the true Self already or the One without a second as me, myself and 'I' is the only illusion of separation and bondage. Consciousness is the only real presence of existence. It is the only Reality present as one's own self and being. The Self, He, Life or consciousness is not a spiritual state to be reached or attained but the natural state of being common to everyone and known to all as 'I' am. To be alive and aware of being oneself is to abide as that consciousness. Remove ignorance only. So near and so dear. Freedom is always here. Understanding this consciousness to be Life itself is the Realization. The experience is always here and now. Existence is always presently. Life, existence, consciousness are synonymous with being alive and aware. To be aware of being alive is 'I' am. Awareness of being is that consciousness itself. Consciousness is nothing other than simply being oneself. One's own affectionate everyday self and existence is the Divine. How can anyone claim that they do not exist when existence is the Reality? A lot of weird crap out there. How can anyone negate or deny one's own

existence? 'I' am is always first hand. The only certainty of anyone alive is the certainty of being alive. So many have picked up so much garbage from holy books and others that they don't have a clue. If you tell a veiled spiritual or religious Seeker that being alive is itself being God or the Self. They will go up in arms screaming. They do not want the ultimate Truth to be that simple. Kind like they have been hypnotized or brainwashed to believe in false imagination. That is what spirituality and all religions do to people. Brainwashed from childhood to believe the false to be true all that wrong acquire knowledge sinks Seekers deeper into ignorance. Ask any spiritual or religious Seeker what are they looking for, they will have no idea. Clueless. Subtly Seeking became a habit. They have been chasing spiritual carrots for so long that when you tell them what the Self truly is, they do not want it, simply because consciousness is not what they have been expecting. Consciousness is paradoxically nothing new, special or spiritual. Tell the ignorant Seeker that the Self or God is Life itself. They will go " Oh, no, no, no the Self or God is much more than that". Tell the wise who knows the Truth the same thing and they will agree with you. Who is right and who is wrong? The only problem for the person that does not realize this simple Truth is that they do not investigate what is real. Most Seekers have blindly invested their trust or faithinto someone outside themselves they foolishly believe is either spiritual or holy and are stuck there. Some for years and others their whole Life. Attachment to the false and wrong acquired knowledge is very strong for some people. Some will never dare question their beloved Teacher or Guru simply because they have hypnotized themselves to believe the Guru is God. A holy being. But that is all false. The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. The ones who hold on to the finger pointing at the moon will only miss the moon. Too bad.

It is like someone falling in love with the road sign or pointer on the Road foolishly believing that the sign is the destination. But it is NOT. The sign only points to it, but that is not it. You are it. Gee! yoU aRe yoU. How many years does is take to get to the destination you have never left? If you have been Seeking for many years then realize that something is wrong somewhere. Perhaps it will dawn on you that all this time you may have been looking in the wrong direction. After all, how far is Here and Now? The Self is not something new or apart from you that is yet to be achieved or acquired. It is what you are naturally. If you do not understand what is this 'moon' being pointed to by the pointeror what is always present here and now that is so near and so dear, present closer than close. It is Life itself. What else! All that anyone can do is to point to others that Life itself is the Self. Consciousness is at once Life and one's true nature. It is what we all are. After all, if someone is given wrong knowledge about the Reality or the Self, how can they know the simple Truth about themselves?That they are in fact Life itself or consciousness expressing itself naturally as their own plain ordinary affectionate everyday self and being. Therefore investigation is a must. The false cannot stand up to investigation. Find out what is Real. I say being alive and awake from sleep is to abide as the Self, He, the Reality naturally. That is what I found out to be true for myself and the exact same timeless message I have been sharing freely and tirelessly over the years since then. The Sought-after Truth is what you are naturally without trying to be. The Search for a spiritual Self is itself the trap. Life is the Self. Consciousness is the only real presence of existence. Who told you that you weren't the Self already? He is Life itself. Consciousness present is ordinary existence and the natural state of being. Present as unchanging awareness during the waking state. Consciousness is being and remaining aware.

Consciousness is undeniably experienced directly by everyone as the natural state of being conscious. Consciousness is always shining during the waking state as the natural state of being aware. It is so common to everyone as plain ordinary everyday awareness of being. How else would you know that you are present if consciousness itself is not present first and foremost? Consciousness is indeed undeniably present because 'I' am present is certain. No one can deny one's own self. Consciousness is the knowing that you are. It (consciousness) is pure awareness of being. It (consciousness) is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Consciousness is the knowing that you are present.It is 'I' am. Self-shining naturally everyday as pure awareness of being. 'I' am is that. Ignorance is the only obstacle to be removed with questioning, investigating and understanding. If you are wise investigate for yourself and see for yourself if what I am saying is true. After all, what do you have to loose? Only a veil of ignorance, that is all. There is no bondage and there is no liberation either. Being alive is abiding as the Reality itself. Being alive and awake from sleep everyday is at once being God and oneself. It is 'I' am. Life is consciousness itself. That is what the wise have been pointing to for millennia. God is not some special or spiritual 'I' am but awareness of being oneself 'I' am. Nothing new or far away. The living-ness present within your own dwelling. So near and so dear. In fact naturally present closer than close we call this presence of consciousness Life or existence. The funny paradox about Freedom from all bondage is not to strive to become Free whatsoever but paradoxically to only remove the false notion of being bound with understanding. That is all. Call off the Search. Remove the camouflage of ignorance and realize or understand that what you Seek is what already are and have always been all along

naturally. Your own existence is the destination you have paradoxically never left. The state we call Realization or Enlightenment is simply being alive. So simple isn't it! That is IT. Who ever said it was anything else? Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Life or consciousness is the undeniable Reality that is always present with you. No one can ever be apart from their own existence. Life present is pure being. Consciousness present is known to all as awareness of being oneself or 'I' am. Life is always with you. You never lost it or have ever been apart from it. Life or consciousness is the Reality present within your own dwelling. To be alive is to abide as the Reality. Existence present is 'I' am. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ The ultimate Truth is very simple. Life or consciousness is also called the Self or God. No one ever fails to experience it directly as one's own being. To simply be alive and conscious is to abide as one's true nature naturally. Alive-ness, being-ness. That is what 'I' am represents. Pure awareness of being. Only the false notion that the so called state of Enlightenment is in anyway a spiritual state is a trap. That is wrong acquired knowledge from religious and spiritual books and self-appointed Gurus. Many Seekers turn to spiritual books, Teachers and Gurus where they will acquire wrong knowledge about the Reality. Sold ignorance packaged as Truth for self-gratification or a fee. Once you have seen the false as false illusion can no longer fool you. The simple Truth that Life itself is God or the Self is a close guarded Secret. To wake up is to question, to investigate and find out for yourself what is your real nature. The Guru cannot give you anything new, which you dont have already. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required.

We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The greatest scam is when spiritual people are subtly making Seekers believe that they are not there yet and need to be in the presence of a holy being for Freedom. Most spiritual Gurus and religious Teachers do not want ignorant Seekers to know the Truth. After all, spirituality and religions are truly camouflaged businesses that are selling fantasy as Truth. Self-appointed Gurus either don't know this Truth for themselves or are simply camouflaging it with spiritual myths and stories to hide the fact that the so called state of Enlightenment is simply the natural state of being common to all. That is what the fuss is about. One may also wonder what does meditations, yogas, mantras, keeping quiet, silence etc, got to do with Freedom? Absolutely nothing whatsoever. These are only religious practices that are given to very veiled and ignorant people to keep them bound to a false notion of separation, that is all. What about spiritual B.S. like a finite self, an ego or mind to get rid of, kill or go beyond? That is only false imagination! If someone questions and investigates what is real, neither a finite or independent individual self, mind or ego ever existed. You are Life or consciousness itself. You are that this very moment. You are egoless formless existence expressing itself naturally as your own plain ordinary everyday affectionate being. There is nothing to change, alter or modify about oneself. To be yourself naturally is to be the Infinite Self itself. Here and you are that. Just this and nothing else. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no bondage and there is no liberation. One's own existence is what God or the Self truly is. It is one's own being. Consciousness is the natural ordinary everyday presence of Life itself present within the body.

To be alive and conscious is this consciousness itself. The natural presence of existence some call the Self or God. Look at yourself here and now. Look at your own being. Aren't you conscious, aren't you undeniably alive and aware of being? Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ That is being the Self itself. The Self is nothing new or special. The Self is what you are naturally. The Self, He, the Reality or God is awareness of being. God is that 'I' am you know so well as your own being. If you know for certain that you are not dead or un-conscious, you are abiding as the Reality. It is 'I' am. That is all. It is all so plain, so common, so ordinary and most of all so simple that it is laughable. Consciousness present is pure awareness of being. After all, who is not aware of himself? Being alive is being the Self, He, the Reality.So simple and so ordinary is the Reality. Consciousness was never lost! Why be an ignorant fool! The Self is being oneself. To be alive and aware is to be IT. Are you laughing at the Joke of it all? At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Paradoxically all spiritual and religious concepts, beliefs and ideology are fact the only trouble. People pretending to be spiritual and holy will make ignorant Seekers foolishly believe that the Self or the Reality is somethingspecial, spiritual and extra-ordinary. But the Truth is that it is the complete opposite, a paradox. Know the Truth! Self-appointed Gurus and spiritual people pretending to be holy or Enlightened are liars but ignorant Seekers believe that they are speaking the Truth. Keeping them on a endless Seeking path. Spiritual Gurus have their own agendas of course, most are seeking recognition and gratification. Why do think so many self-appointed Gurus write spiritual book after spiritual book!Hellooo. Spiritual people only confuse and entice Seekers to believe the false to be true. If you have never been told that the Self, He, the Reality or God is Life itself.

Well there you go. There is your proof. Why don't they tell you this simple Truth? Only ignorance is available for sale because the simple Truth cannot be sold. Would you serve, pay, worship, cook, bow down to someone else if you knew this Truth? Would anyone be a Sheepo, a Servant to a Master if they knew that he or she was really a phony? Spiritual people or self-appointed Gurus are after followers or disciples, simple and weak people that areusually psychologically disturbed and that want to desperately escape this world. These are the common candidates. Believing themselves to be separate and insecure they are looking for someone to cry about their problems. To know the simple Truth, understanding that the Reality is consciousness or Life is all that is required. All that is truly required to be Free, is to simply remove the false notion of being bound. If you know that you are alive and therefore aware of being, you are the Self. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ See the false as false. There is no spiritual state or any spiritual goals to be reached or to be acquired. Anyone pretending to be a spiritual being or Enlightened Sage or Buddha is only a scammer. Only a veil of acquired spiritual knowledge AKA ignorance is camouflaging this simple Truth. Everyone's true nature is Life AKA consciousness.Existence is the most obvious and the most ordinary. Life is the unseen living presence, power and intelligence or consciousness self-shining naturally in everybody. The wise only understood this. Not become, cultivate, reach or attain anything new, spiritual or holy. Just understanding that being alive is abiding as one's true nature is the Reality. That is all. It is all so simple. The true fact is that an ordinary person is already a Buddha and a Buddha is nothing other than an ordinary person. See the false as false. Anyone pretending to be a special or spiritual

being that has reached, acquired or attained a so called state of 'Enlightenment' is a liar. Question, investigate and see this simple Truth for yourself. Any spiritual or religious person is not your friend. Why believe the false to be true? Open your eyes. There is no spiritual goal to be reached. There never was. Being alive is the experience itself. Being alive is being God, He, the Self, the Reality. Any religious concepts, beliefs or spiritual ideology about Freedom are false. All of them are illusion and not true. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Have a look for yourself and see if what I am saying is true. Ignorance is the only veil that is to be removed with understanding. There is no bondage and absolutely no spiritual goals to be reached whatsoever. Life or existence is the Reality. Existence is being alive.'I' exist is 'I' am. Understanding this is Realizing. Not knowing this simple Truth is the only trouble. To know this simple Truth sets you Free from ignorance only. You are what you Seek this very moment. Being alive is the natural state of being. Common to all and always experienced directly by everyone. So near and so dear. What else would the Self, He, the Reality or God be? That is IT. There is absolutely nothing to be freshly acquired. Only understanding that being alive is being the Self AKA Life or consciousness itself is Freedom from all bondage. What can be easier than that? Being alive and awake from sleep or sentient is the experience. Being awake or aware is knowing that you are alive. Awareness of being is 'I' exist or 'I' am. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Only spiritual and religious Seekers who have been brainwashed would go up in arms when they hear this simple Truth. Not everyone can handle the Truth. The longer the Seeker has been seeking, the thicker the cloud of wrong acquired spiritual and religious

knowledge they must look through. Acquired from holy books and self-appointed Gurus. Spiritual Seekers have acquired a reference point that is false. After all, what does someone spiritual or religious imagines the Self, He or the Reality truly is? He is Life itself. The Self is Omni-present will all sentient beings as Life itself. That is IT. Throw away all the spiritual and religious books, they are all full of crap. Life is the Oneness present in all. Nothing special, spiritual or mystical about it. Call Life God if you like, doesn't matter if you call Life God or Dog. Life itself doesn't care. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ The cosmic Joke of Enlightenment is that there is no such thing. It is only a religious myth and carrot given to veiled and ignorant Seekers to chase after. The Sought-after Truth is paradoxically what you already are naturally. Being alive is being the Reality. That is all there is to Realize. You are the Self, you are consciousness, you are Life. Being alive is abiding as one's true nature. That alone is the experience itself. The natural state of being common to all and always experienced directly by everyone. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no waiting for anything. Life is Now only. That is the experience itself. No time or effort is required to know that you are alive, that you exist. The Reality is here and now. No one can deny one's own self and say 'I' am not. One's own plain ordinary existence is the Self. After all, how much time does it take to know that you are alive? No time is required. You know for certain that you are alive and you like it.

Consciousness is indeed present because 'I' am is certain. No one can negate being. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Anyone who waits for Freedom will only die ignorant. These are the ones who miss-understood this simple Truth. You are Life. What are people waiting for? Seeking anything new or spiritual to call the Reality is only a trap. The one who waits for something new, spiritual or special to happen will surely die an ignorant fool. The understanding is that simply being alive and awake from sleep or sentience is abiding as one's true nature. All there is to realize is that plain ordinary wakeful-ness is the so called Realized state of Enlightenment. So simple. There never was anything new or special about the Self. Some only imagine that there is. Sentience, consciousness, wakefulness all are synonymous with simply being alive and aware. Being aware is simply being awake from sleep, what else! That is IT. Aware-ness is wakeful-ness. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Seekers have been an easy target for self-appointed spiritual and religious people. That is all what the Buddha, Sage or Guru you see on the Road truly is. A fraud. If you meet a Buddha give yourself a good slap. Like Santa Claus, it is false. Ignorant and veiled Seekers foolishly believe that so called Enlightened people or self-appointed Gurus are speaking truth when paradoxically they are lying to their teeth so that this simple Truth is not revealed. Being alive is being God. That is the Secret self-appointed Gurus and religious people do not want Seekers to know. Only acquired spiritual concepts and ideology are keeping Seekers on a Seeking path. They have no clue whatsoever that they always are naturally abiding as the Self. No one told them.

They foolishly believe that they have to acquire or become something new, special, spiritual or different. Seekers have no idea that spirituality and all religions are the poison, not the cure. Remove ignorance only. There is no spiritual goal to be reached, nothing special or spiritual to be acquired. Being alive is abiding as one's true nature. Life is the Self itself.Consciousness is Life and the real God. Alive-ness, living-ness, conscious-ness, aware-ness, being-ness, 'I' amness is that. Here and now you are that. He is Life itself. Call off the Search. There is no becoming Life. You are already abiding as that Life itself. It is 'I' am. Life or consciousness is the Oneness AKA the Infinite Self. Know that here and now you are God. Freedom is only understanding. Understanding is Realizing. Only remove ignorance. That is all. Nothing else needs to be done. Life, He, the Reality, the Self or God is consciousness. Being alive and conscious is undeniably abiding as this consciousness itself. That is IT. Nothing new. Have a look at yourself here and now. Aren't you alive and conscious? If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Consciousness and Life are synonymous. Consciousness and the Self, He, the Reality or God are synonymous. Consciousness or existence or Life is present and self-shining as one's own being. Can there be ice without water? Can there be Life without consciousness? Consciousness is the unseen power, presence and intelligence we all like to be. Life itself is that consciousness itself. Both are One and the same presence of existence. To be is the experience. One's own existence is the experience. No one can deny one's own being and say 'I' do not exist.

No one denies ones own existence any more than one denies ones eyes, although one cannot see them. The trouble lies with your desire to objectify the Self (Life/consciousness), in the same way as you objectify your eyes when you place a mirror before them. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ How can you kiss this beauty we call Life? 'I' am that 'I' am is the Realization. Being alive is abiding as that. You cannot kiss yourself on your own lips. To be or not to be? Are you alive? You know that you are? See! You are that. Being alive is knowing that you are. Life present is self-shining as pure awareness of being. Present awareness is existence, consciousness or Life present as one's thoughtless true nature. The wise will only say what I am saying now, but the ignorant Seeker doesn't want it to be true. The ignorant Seeker has been brainwashed or conditioned to believe the false to be true. Yet that is what the Reality is all about. Life, consciousness, existence being is 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ God or the Self is Life itself. Life AKA consciousness present is 'I' am. Understanding this, is all that is required.Being or 'I' am is the Reality. So simple. To be alive is to be the Self. The Self or Life or God is 'I' am. One's own affectionate existence is the Divine. No one becomes the Self. Only realizing that being alive naturally is abiding as consciousness itself is all that is necessary to remove the veil ignorance camouflaging one's true nature. There is no spiritual destination to be reached. Being alive is being that. That is IT. He is Life itself. Being alive is abiding as one's true nature, abiding as consciousness itself AKA Life or God. Same, same. Life or consciousness is what has been pointed to as the Reality, God or the Self for millennia.

That is everyone's true nature. Life is just another name for you. You are Life living itself as you. Thou art that. Life is nothing new or apart from you.Life is present closer than close. It is simply what we all are naturally, but Life is so ordinary that it is simply overlooked. The most dear and the most near. The Reality is the presence of Life within your own dwelling. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Know your real self to be Life itself. Then what is missing?Nothing whatsoever. Look at your own being, you know that you are and you like it and call off the Search. To be alive is the experience itself. Existence is the same as being. Life is the presence of consciousness. There is nothing new to get. What are you looking for? Being alive is the experience itself. That is IT. How can you kiss this Beauty? You cannot kiss yourself on your own lips. Only ignorance is to be removed with understanding. That is all. To be yourself is to be the Self. Alive-ness is being-ness. Be yourself. That is abiding as your true nature. 'I' am is the Reality. Life itself is the Sought-after Truth. One's own existence is the Divine. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ Now once you understand that the experience is always here and now as Life itself.That is IT. Being alive is abiding as the Self, He, the Reality naturally, then you also realize that a God of any religion or spirituality is all B.S. It is all nothing but made up religious and spiritual concepts or false imagination or illusion. That is the Open Secret. The Reality is nothing new, spiritual or far away. Closer to oneself than one's own breath. Life is the Oneness. The Precious. The True Beloved. Nothing spiritual or religious whatsoever. Being is the Reality. Being is the happiness you have been Seeking. Some spiritual or religious people disguised as holy being only keep Seekers on a Seeking path.

Would you buy a book or CD or go see someone pretending to be holy if you knew this simple Truth? That is what it is all about. All about being. Life, existence, consciousness present is 'I' am present. Everyone alive knows and says 'I' am. One's own existence needs no proof. Awareness of being is bliss or happiness. That is IT. Existence is the experience. 'I' exist here and now is abiding the Self. The so called Realized state is the natural state of being. Come on, one cannot fall for the trap of the self-appointed Gurus that claim to their disciples they have acquired something new or a new faculty. That is only crap used to entice the dumb and the ignorant to believe the false to be true. Realisation is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Don't you know that spirituality and all religions only point to fantasy and illusion? Being alive is being IT.That is IT. Existence is the Self, He, the Reality or God. So simple isn't it! That is the Beauty. Freedom is very easy. Not knowing this simple Truth is the only trouble. Only the Search for something new, something special or spiritual is the trap. Ignorant Seekers foolishly believe that the Self is something new or spiritual but it is NOT. The Self, He, the Reality or God is Life itself. That is IT.You are Life expressing itself naturally. You do not have to pray, meditate of worship anything to know that you are. 'I' am is always first hand. To be is very easy. There is nothing you have to do. Nothing you have to become, attain or achieve. 'I' exist is the experience. No one can say 'I' do not exist or 'I' am not and negate one's own self. In other words, being alive and aware of being oneself is the experience itself. So simple. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being.

Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ No one wise ever said thatthe Sought-after Truth was anything else! If they did they were paradoxically con artists, liars and scammers only pretending to be wise to entice Seekers with spiritual stories. Hidden in plain sight! It is so familiar and the most obvious. The most dear, the most near, common and ordinary is the Reality. What is this precious Jewel or Diamond that is Sought-after? Life itself. The Sought-after Truth is nothing new, different or special, it never was. It is simply what you are right now naturally and have always been. You only find it the moment you stop Seeking because you are IT. Life is the Jewel or Diamond in your pocket so to speak. What else did you expected it to be? That is IT. You can laugh now! That is the Secret. Here and now you are that. The only absolute Reality is Life itself. All you know for certain is that right here and now you are. If you ever wonder what is always being pointed to as present here and now, that is IT. Life is what is truly happening. Meaning existence is itself the experience. That alone is the Reality. Doesn't matter what God or religion one follows, what Guru or book one sat with or have read, that is always going to be the greatest illusion anyhow. None of that non-sense points to this simple Truth. There is no God or holy presence or spiritual beings and entities, that is only crap given to imbeciles to swallow. Forget all that non-sense. The only absolute Reality is Life itself. THAT IS IT. Full stop. Call off the Search. The ones who seek the Truth in any spiritual or religious ways will only acquire illusion. A spiritual or religious person will never know the Reality. It is impossible! That is the funny paradox. Any spiritual stories of so called Enlightened or spiritual Realization are all B.S. Pure crap. Forget about spiritual garbage and all these idiots pretending to be spiritual beings and about all religions from the East and West because they are all crap.

There is absolutely nothing spiritual or religious about Freedom. Only removing ignorance is Freedom. Common sense is all that is required. Anyone can easily understand that Life is consciousness and that is one's true nature. God or the Self or He or the Reality is being. Being alive and kicking is abiding as the Self, He, the Reality. Life is the true name of God. Life is God. Being alive is being God. Full stop. Same presence of consciousness or existence we call Life is what some people call God. There is no God somewhere in the sky or hidden somewhere far away. The Reality is here and now. To be alive and therefore aware of being is at once 'I' am and God. There is no bondage and no spiritual liberation. Being alive is the Reality. That is IT. Being alive and awake from sleep or being conscious or being and remaining aware naturally everyday without any effort is abiding as one's true nature. So simple. That is what the Self, He, the Reality or God simply is. Life itself. Conscious-ness, aware-ness, living-ness, existence, being. 'I' exist is obvious. No one can deny one's own being. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Can anyone alive say 'I' am not and negate one's own self? Can anyone alive declare 'I' do not exist and deny one's own existence? Only a stupid person, a fool or an idiot would do that. When you hear some idiot telling others there is no one present or that they do not exist. Laugh! No one can deny one's own existence. It is impossible. 'I' am is always certain. Existence is the Precious. Existence is the so called 'Diamond' present within your own pocket so to speak. Existence is the True Beloved. There is no attaining or becoming anything new, spiritual or special. Being alive is the Reality. Believing that some Guru has attained Enlightenment and transmitting Grace in Satsang. Some foolish people falsely believe that they are not there yet. How funny.

Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Are you alive? Are you aware of being? Who told you that you are not the Self and Free already? Of course abiding as the Reality is nothing different than simply being yourself naturally. Consciousness is Life itself. It is not some holy or spiritual state but what you are. When you hear ignorant people that claim or even brag to have sat with some holy being or a true Enlightened Master, Sage, Guru or Jnani. Laugh! That crap is for idiots only. There is no such thing as an Enlightened Master, Sage, Guru or Jnani, only wanna be. Self-appointed spiritual Gurus and religious people are nothing other than scammers that only take advantage of Seekers ignorance. What else! It is all so simple and very easy. Remove ignorance only. There is no bondage and of course there is no liberation for anybody. Everyone alive is already a so called 'Buddha'. Alive-ness or existence is the experience itself. Don't you know that there never was some holy or spiritual state of Enlightenment or Self-Realization? That spiritual and religious non-sense is only for the veiled and the ignorant Seeker to cutivate and chase after. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Nothing new, nothing different, spiritual or special is to be freshly acquired. The Reality is already present a nothing other than one's own being. Plain common ordinary everyday being-ness is the Reality. One's own being-ness, 'I' am-ness or existence is itself the Divine. To be alive is to be the Reality. That is all there is to realize. Spirituality and all religions only point to illusion.Forget about that stuff. The Reality is Life. God is Life. He or the Self is Life itself. Being alive and awake from sleep is consciousness. Being alive and aware of being is 'I' am. Consciousness is 'I' am. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Wake up to this simple Truth.Understanding this alone is Freedom. Know that to exist is to abide as the Reality.To be alive naturally is to be that. What can be more simple than that? That simple realization is called "waking up" Life is the real power, presence and intelligence we all like to be. That is all there is. Life is present within all sentient beings. Some call Life the Self, others He or the Reality. Everyone alive is already so called 'Enlightened'. Some people simply do not know it. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Realizing that alive-ness or plain ordinary everyday existence is abiding as the Self or consciousness itself is knowing the simple Truth. There is no reaching or cultivating consciousness. To be alive and aware is consciousness itself. That is what 'I' am represents. It (consciousness) is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Call off the Search. The Reality is not hidden somewhere far away. 'I' am alive here and now is the absolute Reality. God is 'I' am. Being is 'I' am. Nothing special, spiritual or religious about being. Everyone knows and says 'I' am. The Self is Life itself. That is the funny paradox. Like a fish in the water crying that he is thirsty. Nothing is missing. One's own plain boring ordinary simple existence is abiding as one's true nature. That is all there is to realize.Nothing to reach, attain or become but simply realizing that being is the undeniable actuality. No one can deny one's own being. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Reality is always here and now. What should anyone Seek it? Only the ignorant foolishly believe that it is missing. How funny. Call off the Search.

Life is consciousness. To be alive and aware is the Reality.Just this and nothing else. Plain ordinary everyday aliveness and wakeful-ness is itself one's true nature. Consciousness is indeed undeniably present. Look at your own being. Are you alive? Are you aware? Yes! Voila! Consciousness is naturally shining everyday as wakeful-ness, sentience or aware-ness. Awareness of being is wakeful-ness. The natural waking state is the so called Realized state. God or consciousness is that 'I' am you know so well already as your own plain ordinary everyday being-ness or 'I' am-ness. Being yourself naturally. That is IT. Wakeful-ness is sentience. Being alive and awake is being the Reality. What else would it be? Living-ness or alive-ness and wakeful-ness alone is what is being pointed to as the Self, He, the Reality. Call off the Search. The Search is the Trap. What you Seek is what you already naturally. Life itself. There is nothing whatsoever spiritual or religious to be reached, to be acquired or to attained. Only understanding is Realizing this simple Truth. Nothing special about the Reality. You, being the Self, want to know how to attain the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Who told you that you are not the Self already? Thou art that. You are the Self. There is no spiritual goal to be reached and there is nothing to be attained. You are already naturally abiding as the Reality or the Self. Being alive and aware is abiding as the Self. There is nothing else to realize. Once you get that there is absolutely nothing new to get, you finally got it. You have seen through the illusion of separation, duality and spiritual crap. Know the Truth! Spirituality and religions are garbage and cause of all mischief. Like a sought-after Jewel hidden within your own pocket all along. Life is the Sought-after Truth and the Reality. You are Life. Life is the true Beloved. How can you kiss this beauty?

You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ The Self is always naturally shining all day long with everyone alive as self-awareness. Awareness of being. Everyone knows and says 'I' am. Know that 'I' am is Life or God. No spiritual or religious mambo Jambo. 'I' am means 'I' exist. Being alive and aware is always being the Reality or God. Consciousness is at once being alive and being aware. Life is consciousness. Consciousness is Life. Same, same. Some call Life the Self or God. 'I' am represent the presence of Life itself. Awareness of being alive here and now is 'I' am. That is what the fuss is all about. So simple isn't it? Present closer than close. So near and so dear. Life is the Kingdom of God or the Oneness present in all. Same power, presence and intelligence. The Kingdom of God is not some place in heaven but present here ad now as Life itself. The Kingdom is in you. One Life, natural intelligence or consciousness present within the animal Kingdom, within the vegetable Kingdom, the mineral Kingdom, the human Kingdom etc. All there is present is consciousness expressing itself naturally as Life itself. As with water and ice. There is no ice without water. There is no existence without consciousness. Consciousness is Life or God. Remove consciousness from the body and you have a dead corpse. An empty lifeless shell that is still and silent. Life is lively and buoyant. There is only One Life expressing itself as many. That is the Open Secret to Oneness. There has never been some holy or spiritual state of Enlightenment or Freedom. That is all made crap used to entice Seekers to become worshippers of illusion. Everyone alive wakes up so called Enlightened, they simply do not realize it. Everyone alive is always abiding as the Self. They simply do not know it. Ignorant Seekers will go looking for something to be freshly acquired far and away.

To simply realize that to be alive naturally is to abide as one's true nature is Freedom. The experience is always here and now. Being is IT. Not some spiritual state of being but the natural state of being. Nothing new. Being awake, aware or conscious is this consciousness itself. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Being awake is awareness.To be conscious. Being alive and awake from sleep or aware is IT. Forget any spiritual and religious concepts for they are all false. That is just as it is. Spiritual and religious people cannot know this simple Truth. They spend their whole life looking away from the Reality and seek, worship and pray to illusion. For example some people find themselves a spiritual Teacher or Guru and believe that what these people are talking about is true but in fact is it only illusion. Some will even cultivate silence and others foolishly strive to go beyond a mind or kill an ego and are always told to keep quiet. Any spiritual Teacher or Guru is only a scammer that is using people's ignorance and desperation for themselves. Ignorant people that cultivate any kind of religious or spiritual beliefs are only bound to their acquired spiritual or religious beliefs. Who ever said that 'Enlightenment' is a spiritual state is only an idiot. Stupid ignorant person only. The Reality is at once being alive and aware. Consciousness present is pure awareness of being. Understanding that the Self is Life itself is the Realization. Not striving to become anything new. Who is not aware of himself? Everybody know that they are alive and one's own existence needs no proof. Everyone alive knows 'I' am. 'I' exist is always certain. No one can deny one's own being. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Consciousness present is 'I' am. Not some holy 'I' am but awareness of being oneself 'I' am. To be alive and aware of being oneself naturally everyday is to be the Self. So simple. Again, to be awake from sleep or conscious is at once to abide as the Self and pure awareness of being. Is that simple or what? It is so easy. Who ever said to know the Self was something hard or difficult? That is what the Self AKA Life or this consciousness or presence of awareness simply is. Awareness of being is simply the knowing that you are. Present awareness. The Self, He, the Reality is that 'I' am you know so well as your own affectionate self and being. To be or not to be? Present awareness is awarenes of being present. Knowing that you are present this very moment is 'I' am. If someone calls your name, you know that you are. You will answer, 'I' am here! That is IT. Who am 'I'? After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. 'I' am is certain. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ So simple is the ultimate Truth that is laughable. If you know that you are not dead than you are undeniably abiding as the Reality. Understanding that Life is itself the Oneness is the only Realization. Understanding is all. What is Life but consciousness expressing itself naturally. Being alive is being the Reality. Life is the natural state of being common to all. Present everywhere you look, He is there. Life is also called Nature. Life is the growing and functioning power. The substratum of all existence is Life. Just like a light bulb cannot shine without electricity. The body cannot shine without Life. Who is not alive and therefore aware of being? Everyone knows 'I' am. 'I' am is Life present or God present. Same, same. Know that 'I' am is Life or God. One's own undeniable natural effortless existence is itself the Self, He, the Reality or God. One must be alive first and foremost in order to be aware of being. Dead people do not say 'I' am.

Know that 'I' am is being the Self, He, the Reality or God. The Self (Life/consciousness) is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Call Life God or the Self if it turns you on, it makes not difference what you call it as long as you realize that to simply be alive naturally is to in fact be it. Life is what we all are. There is no becoming or achieving it. Being alive or living-ness or aliveness is abiding as Life itself. The Power or living energy within the body is the Reality AKA Life. The Kingdom is in you means that Life itself is the God being pointed to. Just this. Life is the natural power and intelligence we all like to be. Natural intelligence is Life. That is why only understanding Life is Freedom. It grows the oranges on an orange tree, a baby inside the womb, growing your hair and finger nails, it is beating heart and self-shining through your eyes this very moment effortlessly. Life is that presence itself. No Life, no you. Knowing the Self (God, Life, consciousness etc) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Nothing new, spiritual, religious or holy. The real God or the Reality is Life. This living-ness common to all and experienced by all as one's own being that some people call God or the Self is simply Life itself. God is to be. It is so easy to be.Life is the true beloved. Alive-ness is being-ness AKA 'I' am-ness. Being alive is being the Self. Existence is the experience itself. The bliss of the Self is Life itself. Awareness of being alive is happiness. Happiness is being. 'I' exist right here and now is bliss. How much time and effort does it take to know that you are? Look at yourself. Here and now you are aware of being. 'I' am is that. The experience some call 'Enlightenment' is not a spiritual state or any other spiritual B.S. people have read in a holy book but the natural state of being.

So simple. It is laughable. It is all a big Joke! The cosmic joke of 'Enlightenment' is that being alive is abiding as the Self, He, the Reality. Here and now you are that. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Existence itself is the Self. Therefore being oneself is being the One Self. Alive-ness is the Sought-after Truth. Being alive and kicking is IT. The natural state of being. Being alive and aware or awake from sleep everyday is always abiding as that. So simple. To know one's real nature is so easy. Remove ignorance only. Any spiritual practice or religious ritual and concepts are bondage. Nothing spiritual or religious needs to be reached, attained or acquired. Realize that there is nothing to practice. Nothing to go beyond or to overcome. Make no effort. Why should people meditate or do this practice or that practice? For what! Being alive and aware of being oneself here and now is the experience itself. That is IT. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be just as you are is to be the Self. There is nothing out there to be discovered. The kingdom is in you, present as Life itself. So simple. There is nothing to meditate upon or some fictitious God to pray to. Life is the only actual Reality. Turn within. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. One's own plain ordinary boring everyday existence is the experience. What else do you want? Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ One's own plain common ordinary everyday existence is the Divine. To be alive and aware of being oneself naturally is to be so called 'Enlightened'.

That alone is the experience itself. Just this. Not some spiritual or religious B.S. but being alive. So simple, so plain and ordinary. Life present is at once being-ness and conscious-ness. Awareness of being. God is Life itself. Plain and ordinary. You are that Life. Life is 'I' am. No one can deny one's own self. No one can say 'I' do not exist. 'I' exist right here and right now is the only absolute Reality. Throw away all the spiritual and religious books, they are all crap!Take it for granted. Kill the so called holy spiritual being or Enlightened Master, Sage, Guru or Buddha you may see on the Road because it is simply a fraud. A con artist only. What else would he or she be? You can take that to the bank. Spiritual and religious people are only cultivating ignorance.That is their job. Selling water by the River to the veiled and ignorant for either gratification or a fee. There never was anything new, special, spiritual or religious about the Reality. Didn't anyone tell you? The ultimate Truth is so simple that it is laughable. God as a spiritual or religious presence or entity is a myth. Life is God. Existence is what the wise have been pointing to. Just this and nothing else. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Understanding is all that is required to remove the camouflage of ignorance. There never was anything new, spiritual or religious to discover. That is the Secret. Look at yourself. Look at your own being.Are you alive? Are you aware of being yourself? 'I' am is certain? There you go sport, you are so called 'Enlightened'. That is what abiding as the Self is all about. All about being alive and kicking. That is the Open Secret to Freedom. That is all the Self or the Reality truly is. The real God is Life itself. Thou art that. You are Life. The Reality is nothing new or special but undeniably present here and now as Life itself. Know the simple Truth, There never was some holy God or spiritual 'Enlightened' beings, that is all illusion.

Spiritual sects and religious leaders entice ignorant and foolish people to believe the false to be true. Spirituality and religions are only bondage itself. Just this and nothing else. Why should anyone look toward illusion for the Reality? Any spiritual or religious beliefs are the only cause of all mischief. After all, God is not to be found in a mountain, in a temple, in an ashram or any church. The Real God or the Reality is naturally present within one's own dwelling as Life or consciousness. The Reality is at once being alive and conscious. It is pure awareness of being. Why suck up to spiritual B.S.? Ignorant of this simple truth, innumerable methods under different denominations, such as yoga, bhakti, karma, each again with many modifications, are being taught with great skill and in intricate detail only to entice the seekers and confuse their minds. So also are the religions and sects and dogmas. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is nothing more stupid, dividing and deeply ignorant than any kind of spirituality or religions. How can anyone believe any of that crap to be true anyhow? Isn't it obvious that is all illusion? Hellooo! Religions for example are brainwashing or conditioning and the only reason behind wars and prosecution. People stand up for their religious beliefs. These are the people that will never investigate if what they believe is true. They have read it in a holy book, so if the book says so, they will believe it. How foolish is that? Forget spiritually and any religion for the are all illusion or the greatest ignorance. Just this and nothing else. One can study this holy book or change religion and study these scriptures and never know the simple Truth. All religions are wrong knowledge. Spiritual or religious people foolishly believe the false to be true. That is why the spiritual or religious person will never know the Reality. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is...

He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ After all, there is no heaven, there is no hell, no past life or future life, no God or holy Grace or blessings etc. When somebody dies they end up going nowhere, There is nowhere spiritual or heavenly places to go anyhow. That is all religious garbage feed to the ignorant believer and worshipper to stay bound the a religion. That is all. Freedom has absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with anything so called spiritual or religious in anyway. In fact it works in reverse. A paradox. Spirituality and religions are the poison, not the cure. Freedom one gains absolutely nothing new, spiritual, different or special. Zip, zero, nada. Rermove ignorance alone is Freedom from all bondage. That is all it is. Just this. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Of course spiritual and religious people will never tell you that simple Truth. There is no spiritual goal to be reached whatsoever. Some ignorant Seeker only 'imagine' that there is. They have read it in a book somewhere or believe they have met a holy being, Master, Sage or Guru. How funny. Anyone pretending to be a spiritual Guru, Jnani, Sage, Master or religious being are the greatest illusion. Again the actuality of existence is the Reality. To be alive and aware of being is 'I' am. No one alive can deny their own being. 'I' am is first hand, and needs no proof. The wise will only say what I am saying now, but the self-appointed Guru or any kind of so called religious person will cultivate illusion and entice veiled and ignorant Seekers with spiritual crap or carrots. That is just the way it is. Spiritual con artist are everywhere. They may look the part for deceiving the vulnerable and the weak is their business but it is only for show, just like an actor in a play they are only playing a part of a spiritual being only to confuse and entice Seekers. There is no spiritual or religious Reality, that is only illusion or fantasy that these people are offering many for a fee.

See the false as false. That is what Freedom is all about. Forget about spiritual and religious God or Gods, they don't exist. Know the simple Truth, that alone sets you Free from the illusion of bondage. God or the Self is what we all are naturally anyhow. He is Life itself. Nothing new, nothing special, spiritual or different whatsoever. Just being alive is being IT. To simply be alive naturally is to be so called 'Enlightened'. That is what the fuss is all about. All about being. The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Understanding that to be alive is to be God is Freedom. That is all.Just this. So near and so dear. Closer than one's own breath. Life is the only power present within the body. That alone is the Reality present within your own dwelling. Why should anyone Seek it? Being alive is being IT. Life is indeed always undeniably present with oneself. If you are not dead, then you are aware of being. Look at yourself. You know that you are alive and you like it. Forget spiritual and religious crap. Being alive naturally is the experience itself. That is all. The ultimate Truth is so simple. To know the Self, be yourself. That is what it is. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The Real name of God is consciousness AKA Life. Therefore to be alive is to abide as God, He, the Self, the Reality. Nothing new, spiritual or fancy. God is being. One's own existence is the Divine. In other words, to naturally and effortlessly be alive and awake from sleep everyday

or being and remaining aware or conscious is at once sentience and God. God is being alive and aware, God is the natural state of being. Not some holy God or hidden spiritual power or presence, that is only B.S. for dummies. But simply realizing that God is nothing other than the fact of one's own being. Of course, what are you truly looking for, Reality or illusion? If you are Seeking anything new, spiritual or holy, that is only illusion. If you were tricked to falsely believe that the Self or God is something new, special, spiritual or holy, you have been conned. That is paradoxically why spiritual and religious people cannot know this simple Truth. Spirituality and religions point to illusion. They are only good for cultivating separation and bondage. The Truth is not and never will be anything new, different, spiritual, religious or special but the contrary. One's true nature is one's own existence and the most obvious and common to all living sentient beings. Like a diamond hidden within one's own pocket. Life is the self-shining presence we call God, He, the Self or the Reality. Is the Self, He, the Reality or the Sought-after Truth simply the natural ordinary presence of Life itself? Find out! What if! Wouldn't that be funny? Like a Fish in the water crying that he is thirsty. Life is always here and now. Present within your one's own dwelling.Like water and ice. Life express itself naturally as pure awareness of being. Consciousness present is 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The wise will say what I am saying now. To be alive is to be the Self, He, the Reality or God. That is IT. Full stop. So near and so dear. One's own existence is the experience. There is nothing spiritual or religious to get. There never was. Ignorant spiritual Seekers only 'imagine' that there is. Like foolishly chasing after a mirage or illusion. Present here and now. The Reality is Life itself. Self-shining naturally here and now as simply being alive and aware of being. Nothing spiritual or fancy about being.

Existence is being alive. No time or effort of any kind is required to be. Consciousness is the real presence of existence that we call Life. That is what God is. Forget all about spiritual and religious crap. It is all pure garbage given to ignorant people to swallow. The Self is your own affectionate self. So simple. Who is not aware of himself? Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Life present is pure awareness of being. To be or not to be. Everyone knows 'I' exist right now. Who is not aware of being? Here and now 'I' am is certain. No one can deny being. 'I' exist here and now is the absolute Reality. That is IT. Knowing that you are alive this very moment is being God. In other words to be alive is to abide as the Reality. So simple. Paradoxically the simplicity of the ultimate Truth is the only difficulty. Ignorant Seekers want the false to be true and reject the simple Truth as being false. Understanding this consciousness itself is knowing the simple Truth about oneself and God. Know that 'I' am you know so well as your own affectionate everyday self and being is the Reality. Everyone knows that they are alive, that they exist. There isn't anyone alive who does not say 'I' am. 'I' am represents pure awareness of being. Awareness of being alive and kicking here and now is 'I' am. To understand this is to know the simple Truth. Know that 'I' am is God. After all, can you separate yourself from your own being? Awareness of being is 'I' am. 'I' am is always with you. You know that you are, that you exist and you like it. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Say 'I' am to yourself, that is IT. So simple that it is laughable. That is the 'I' am being pointed to as God. Just this and nothing else. 'I' am is always first hand as the undeniable knowing that you are. No one can negate his own being and say 'I' am not. 'I' am that 'I' am. You are that 'I' am you know. You are the knowing that you are. Present awareness. God is nothing new. Everyone knows and says 'I' am all day long. God is 'I' am and 'I' am is the simple fact of one's own being.

The Truth is being. Alive-ness is the experience itself.Being alive is the experience. Conscious-ness is the experience itself. Being alive and conscious is the Reality. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be alive is to be God. So simple. He is Life itself. There is no becoming anything. Just understanding is Realizing that here and now you are that. Awareness of being. To be alive and aware of being oneself is 'I' am. Are you alive? Are you aware? There you go sport! You know that you are. Consciousness or God or Life is indeed undeniably present. To be alive and awake from sleep or aware is to be God. Call off the Search. That alone is the experience. The ultimate Truth is so simple. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Reality or Sought-after Truth is always present with oneself as unchanging awareness. The easiest way to recognize one's thoughtless Reality is to pause thoughts. What remains present without thoughts present? You remain. You are present as unchanging awareness itself. Awareness. Being and remaining aware is being the Self.That is all. Awareness is nothing new or special. Awareness is just another name for you. Be still and know that 'you' are that. To know one's true nature is so simple. After all, aren't you aware of being aware without thoughts? That is IT. That is this present awareness itself. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To know the Self is so easy. Child-like simplicity. Paradoxically spiritual Seekers that are frantically Seeking the Self do not want it to be so easy, what to do? They foolishly believe that the Self is something new, spiritual or special. But it is NOT!

All that is required is to realize that you are and remain aware. That is the Self AKA this presence of unchanging awareness. Wakeful-ness, conscious-ness or aware-ness are just that. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To know one's thoughtless true nature AKA the Self is un-believably easy. Who ever said it was hard or difficult anyhow? Just be still and voila! You are there. The Hoax of spiritual Enlightenment. Most spiritual Seekers are looking to become so called Enlightened or Realized. What these Seekers do not Realize is that the spiritual Search is the Trap. In reality a spiritual state of Enlightenment never existed. Just a religious myth or fiction. Just this and nothing else. If you ever see a Buddha AKA an Enlightened person, Guru or Master on the Road kill him for it is only a fraud. Most Seekers do not realize or know that to simply be alive naturally is to abide as one's true nature. To be alive and aware of being or conscious is the natural state of being. Everyone knows that they exist because they are aware of being. Everyone knows and says 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The natural state of being or the natural state of existence common to all and experienced directly by all is therefore translated with the words 'I' am or 'I' exist. Existence is being. No one can say 'I' do not exist or 'I' am not. One's own existence cannot be denied. 'I' am is certain and needs no proof. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

To be, to exist is the so called Realized state. There is nothing new, spiritual or religious about being. Everyone alive is aware of being. Who is not aware of himself? To be or not to be. Which are you absolutely certain of? To be, to exist cannot be denied. It is the absolute Reality. 'I' am is first hand and needs no proof. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To be alive is to abide as the Reality.That is all there is to realize. We call this Reality the Self, He, or God. To the wise it is simply known as Life itself. Call it any names, makes no difference what you call Life, consciousness or existence. As long as you realize that to be, is to abide as That. That is the Open Secret. One's own plain ordinary existence or being is the Divine. That alone is the Sought-after Truth. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ One own plain ordinary everyday self, being or the 'I' is the Lord. That is IT. God is me, my self and 'I'. So simple. There is nothing else to realize. Thou art that. God is you are. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What about all these so called spiritual and religious people parading themselves as special beings? A hoax used to entice and confuse the simple, the dumb and the weak. What else? See the false as false. Spirituality and religions are the poison, not the cure. Removing ignorance with understanding is itself Realizing. That is all that is required to know the simple Truth. Know yourself. Not as some spiritual being or religious entity.That is all illusion and garbage. But simply as Life living itself naturally.That is what knowing oneself is all about.

One's own existence is the Precious. Plain and ordinary. Nothing new, special, spiritual or fancy. The Sought-after Truth is 'I' am. Life is the true Beloved everyone likes to be. Awareness of being alive is bliss or happiness. That is all. Call off the Search. Just be content with the most plain, the most boring and the most ordinary. That is called the Reality. The Reality is nothing special, nothing spiritual or religious whatsoever. It is simple changeless awareness of being. Everyone alive is aware of being. Everyone knows and says 'I' am all day long. Plain good ol' boring ordinary everyday 'you' is the Reality. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Forget all the spiritual and religious crap you have been told about some holy spiritual presence or God, it is all lies. That is the funny paradox. All true Wisdom only points back to have a closer look at one's own affectionate self and being. At that 'I' am you know. Because to be alive and aware of being oneself is the so called self-realized state. The so called state of Self-Realization is not a spiritual state or religious myth, but being what we are naturally. All true Wisdom simply points toward alive-ness, living-ness, consciousness, aware-ness, being-ness, 'I' am-ness. There is no reaching or becoming anything. Call off the Search. The Search is the Trap. Being alive is to abide as that. That is IT. So simple. So familiar. So common and ordinary. Knowing the Self is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be or not to be. No one can deny one's own existence and say 'I' am not. The simple fact of one's own existence is 'I' exist or 'I' am. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Everyone knows 'I' am. Me, my self and 'I'. No one can deny one's own being.

That is it. So simple. Being alive is abiding as God. What can be easier than that? Thou art that. God is just another name for Life and you. Existence, consciousness, Life are all synonymous with the Reality. As they say, Life is what is truly happening will people are busy making plans. Be still and know that 'I' exist is that. One's own existence is the Reality. That is all. One's own undeniable existence is nothing new, nothing spiritual or holy. Unless pointed to, it is simply overlooked because it is so familiar and so ordinary. They do not tell the Truth about the Self, He, the Reality in spiritual books, temples and Ashrams. This is the simple Truth about the Reality that spiritual and religious people do not want Seekers to know. Would you worship and bow down to some con artist or scammer if you know this simple Truth? Spiritual and religious people need the ignorant to remain veiled and ignorant of the Truth. The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something newor reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Reality is the most boring, plain ordinary presence one has ever known. One's own plain ordinary existence is the Sought-after Truth. That is the Reality self-shining in plain Sight. After all, what effort do you make to be? To be alive is to abide as that.What can be easier than that? Nothing new, spiritual or holy. Only the ignorant wants it to be. To the wise the Self, He, the Reality is Life itself. What we all are naturally. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~

So near and so dear.Present closer than close. Life or existence is the true Beloved. So simple isn't it. You can only be what you are. How can you kiss this beauty? The World is illusion. This World and this entire Universe are just a dream of consciousness. That is all. See the dream as a dream. Mind is illusion. There is no such thing as mind present anywhere. Can you show me your mind? One only believes that there is. Ego does not exist. What ego? Any concept of ego is just a bunch of non-sense and a false notion of separation and duality. Look for an ego and surely it will not be found. Simply because ego never existed. Illusion or Reality. What is Real? What bondage? What liberation? Believing the false to be true. Attachment to the false or illusion is the only bondage. Ignorance is foolishly believing that one is the body. That this world is real. That there is ego and mind. That there is bondage and liberation and all sorts of beliefs attached to ignorance only. To know what is Real starts with self-investigation of course. Selfinquiry.Who am 'I'? Get to know your real identity and true nature to be consciousness itself. Realizing that the 'I' is truly consciousness, is all that is required. Consciousness is everyone's true nature. Everyone is always abiding as the Self or egoless, formless consciousness. It is nothing new. Being oneself is being this consciousness itself. Everyone knows it so well already as 'I' am. All there is ever-present as one's own affectionate self, is only this consciousness itself. Just this and nothing else. Then bondage and liberation for whom? On enquiry 'who' is bound? The notion of bondage vanishes and so does that of liberation. The one eternally free alone remains self-revealed. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

The Self is one's own affectionate plain ordinary everyday being. Who is not aware of being oneself? The Self is me, myself and 'I'. That is all. Everyone is already ever-Free. Everyone is always abiding as one's true nature. Some people simply do not know it. They do not know themselves. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Who am 'I'? Know thyself. Me, myself and 'I' is the Lord, He, the Reality or God. That is what the fuss is all about. Get to know your true identity. That you like it or not. You are already the Self this very moment. Consciousness is nothing new. If you know that you are alive and therefore aware of being. that is IT. Awareness of being is the Self. There is no becoming anything.There is no acquiring, reaching or attaining anything whatsoever. Hurray! Seeking something new, spiritual or religious to call Reality is only for the ignorant and the only bondage. Some people want to worship and suck up to illusion, that is what they do with their lives so they will spend their entire life chasing after the imaginary and cultivate illusion. If it is spiritual or religious it is crap or illusion anyhow therefore why should anyone waste their lives looking toward illusion for the Reality. Isn't it foolish? Understanding this consciousness alone is Freedom. That is called Self-Realization. Understanding is Realizing. Consciousness or the Self is NOT anything new, spiritual or religious whatsoever. Ignorant people believing themselves to be separate entities made it to be. A God of religion is only a made up fantasy for the ignorant to worship. To be conscious is this consciousness AKA the Self. That is all. Consciousness is the most common to all as one's thoughtless true nature. It is always experienced directly everyday as wakeful-ness, aware-ness or sentience. No one ever fails to experience the Self or this consciousness as being oneself or 'I' am. Consciousness present is 'I' am.

'I' am is at once abiding as the Self and one's own self. No separation from consciousness but Oneness. The natural state of being. Did you know that the 'waking' state is the so called 'Realized state'? That is IT. That's right! Everyone alive wakes up so called 'Enlightened' everyday.They simply do not know it. To be conscious or aware is the consciousness or awareness being pointed to as one's true nature. Sentience. It is nothing new or special. Nothing spiritual or holy. Just the natural state of being common to all. That is all. What about all theses phony Gurus, spiritual Teachers, Enlightened Sages and Jnanis etc, pretending to be holy? Just some holy crap these people feed ignorant followers, worshippers, believers, disciples or students. These people are all liars that are only selling water by the River to the veiled and the ignorant. Know the Truth!See the false as false. All spiritual and all religious concepts, beliefs and ideology about the Self or God are false.Take it for granted. Spiritual and religious Seekers are only looking toward the false, lies and deception and overlook the Reality. There never was anything new, special, spiritual or holy whatsoever about the Self, He, the Reality or God. One's true nature is simply unchanging awareness common to all and always experienced directly by everyone alive as plain ordinary everyday wakefulness. That alone is IT. Aware-ness. Wakeful-ness. Conscious-ness. That alone is the Sought-after Truth. Nothing new, spiritual or special. Who ever said it was? Not the wise. The wise will say what I am saying now. Only the ignorant believes in spiritual and religious garbage. That crap alone is bondage. The false notion or wrong belief in a spiritual or religious God or presence is only B.S. or spiritual carrots given to the veiled and the ignorant. Wrong knowledge. The Reality is nothing new, nothing whatsoever spiritual or hidden far away. One's true nature is undeniably present closer than one's own breath.

One's true nature is nothing new, spiritual or special. It is simple changeless being. Simple changeless being is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness or one's true nature present is wakeful-ness, aware-ness or sentience. That is all it is. Didn't anyone tell you? To simply be alive and awake from sleep is to be a 'Buddha'. There is no becoming anything new or spiritual whatsoever. There never was.That is the funny part. Some ignorant foolish people only imagine that there is. That is called false imagination. Consciousness is not some holy or spiritual state to be acquired or achievedbut what we all are naturally. Wakeful-ness, conscious-ness, aware-ness or sentience is one's true nature. That is all the wise have realized. Being awake or aware is abiding as the Self AKA consciousness. Am I right or am I wrong? Find out for yourself! Can anyone deny that being conscious is being the Self? Seekers do not even know what they are looking for. Funny or what. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ Notice that you are aware. The natural state of being aware is awareness. To be conscious or aware AKA wakeful-ness is the Self. If you ever wondered what is your true nature. That is IT. Nothing special. Whoever said it was anyhow? The only trouble for the lost spiritual and religious Seeker is not knowing that being conscious or aware is effortlessly abiding as the Self, He, the Reality or God. If you have been mislead to foolishly believe by self-appointed Gurus, Preachers and Teachers that the Self or Sought-after Truth is anything other than simply being conscious. Oops! You have been kept veiled, ignorant and on a endless Seeking path to nowhere. To Seek it is to always miss it. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~

Call off the Search. Present here and now. What you Seek is what you are and have always been naturally. Being conscious is this consciousness itself AKA the Self. Here and now you are that. Understanding this consciousness itself is simply realizing that the natural state of being aware or wakeful-ness common to all is itself abiding as the Self. To simply be conscious is abiding as this consciousness itself. Then you laugh at yourself. Before chop wood and carry water. After chop wood and carry water. Nothing changes.Same, same. Only the false notion of not being already a 'Buddha' is removed.That is all Freedom is all about. Realisation is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Remove the camouflage of ignorance with understanding and voila! Only the veiled and the ignorant believe they are not already a Buddha. They do not know this simple Truth. The wise understood that being awake or being aware is to be a 'Buddha'. So simple. It is laughable. Look at your own being. Are you conscious or un-conscious? Present awareness is 'I' am. Being awake or aware is knowing that you are. Awareness of being. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Understanding consciousness is Realizing the Self. Consciousness is the unchanging substratum we call wakeful-ness or unchanging aware-ness. It is always primary. For example a movie screen is always present and unchanging while images are being projected on it. The Screen is not touched by the images that are only appearing and disappearing. It is just the same with consciousness, it remains the same.Untouched by whatever state appears on it. Thoughts, feelings and e-motions appear and disappear constantly and

naturally but the witness or the knower remains present and untouched. Find out who is the witness. Who is the knower? Then you know your real self to be this consciousness itself. That is all that is required to recognized one's thoughtless true nature. Another simple way to recognize one's thoughtless true nature is to pause thoughts for a few moments. Thoughts disappear but the 'Screen' or unchanging awareness remains self-revealed as pure changeless being. Who is always undeniably present when they are thoughts present to be aware of them? 'I' am. Who is also present when thoughts are not present? 'I' am. 'I' am is always present as pure changeless being. Make no effort, your effort is the bondage. All that is required to realize the Self (consciousness) is to be still. What can be easier than that? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Be still and know or understand or realizethat 'I' am is that. That is all. The Self is yourself. After all, what remains present when they are no thoughts present? 'I' remain. The 'I' is the Self. 'You' yourself always remain present naturally, undeniably. Simply because you are not a thought. You are the unchanging awareness that is aware of them.The 'I' and awareness are One.Same, same. Unchanging awareness. Discern between what comes and goes and that which always is present. The 'I' is the Real-'I'-ty. Never coming or going anywhere. Ignorant people believe it is 'ego'. To the wise the 'I' is the infinite Self. That is the only difference between the wise and the ignorant. Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness AKA the Self AKA one's true nature is nothing new because it is you. So near and so dear. So plain, so common and so ordinary that unless it is pointed to, one's thoughtless Reality is simply overlooked. There is no separation. There is no duality. There is no becoming or attaining anything. The Self is already present here and now. Where else would it be hiding? In plain sight of course!

Be still and voila!What can be easier than that? Consciousness remains present and self-revealed when they are no thoughts. One's true nature is nothing new. True means constant and unchanging. It is always present. Notice that you are and remain conscious or aware when they are thoughts present or no thoughts present. That is the conscious-ness or aware-ness itself that is being pointed to as the real Self, He, the Reality, God or one's thoughtless true nature. So simple and so ordinary, so plain and so common to all. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To simply be conscious or aware is to always abide as the Self, He, the Reality or God.That is what God truly is. God is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well already as your own self and being. So near and so dear. To know God is so easy. It is laughable how simple, how effortless and how ordinary God truly is. Closer to oneself than one's own breath. How much time does it take to know oneself? Consciousness is always present. Who is not aware of himself? Be still and know that 'I' am is God. The Self (consciousness) is ever present. Each one wants to know the Self. What kind of help does one require to know oneself? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Alive-ness, living-ness, aware-ness, conscious-ness and God are One. That is what the fuss is all about. God is that 'I' am you know so well as you. Thou art that. There never was a God and you. There is only you present as the Omnipresent. That is all there is to realize. You are the One without a second. You are the One without two. Know your self and you know the Oneness.Not as a dying or aging body but as pure existence itself, as the unseen living-ness, alive-ness, aware-ness or undeniable conscious-ness present within the changing body. Existence, Life and consciousness are synonymous. Consciousness or God is known to all as 'I' am. After all, awareness of being or one's own existence is the most obvious to oneself isn't it. There is no one that does not say 'I' am.

The wrong knowledge of 'I' am the body is the cause of all mischief. This wrong knowledge must go. That is the Realization. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Wrong knowledge is the only trouble. Nothing was lost and nothing new is to be gained. Only realizing that Life is the Self, He, the Reality or God is itself Freedom. There isn't anyone who does not say 'I' am all day long.Everyone knows 'I' am. That is what this consciousness or the Self or God simply is. That 'I' am you know. One's own existence is the Reality. God is 'I' exist or 'I' am. Consciousness present is awareness of being. It is 'I' am. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Call off the Search. Be content with being alive and voila! God is that 'I' am you know so well already as your own being. That is what it is all about. All and only about being alive, being conscious and awareness of being. That is the only absolute Reality. Why should anyone foolishly cultivate false imagination and chase after illusion when the Reality is always here and now? Be still and know that 'I' am is that. That is all there is to realize. Self-Realization is 'I' am that 'I' am. The best definition is 'I' am that 'I' am. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no God sitting somewhere in heaven or any other realms but only the Reality present here and now as Life itself. That is the Reality. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The experience is here and now.To be alive is to be the Self. To be alive and aware of being oneself is consciousness itself. It is 'I' am. Any ideology of a religious God or holy person, place or thing is only a spiritual carrot given to the veiled and the ignorant to chase after. That is called illusion. Reality is Life itself.

Only spiritual and religious people 'believe' in a spiritual power, presence or being they call God. The wise knows that Life is itself the Reality. Consciousness is Life itself. Just this and nothing else. One can only know this consciousness present here and now as Life itself. Consciousness and one's own undeniable existence here and now are One and the same. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ We call consciousness Life. Some call it God. Both are One and the same. Just like you cannot see the wind you are only seeing consciousness manifestation and natural expression where ever you look. Where ever you look it is there. Omni-present. Look at nature. Look at the animal kingdom. Look at the vegetable kingdom. The mineral kingdom. The kingdom is present in you right here and right now as Life itself. God is just another name for Life. The unseen power, presence and intelligence present in nature and governing it, is this consciousness itself. Present here and now. One does not have to pray or meditate for consciousness to be. Look at your own being. Are you alive? Are you aware of being? Voila! Everyone knows it undeniably present as 'I' am. One's own self is the Self. 'I' am is that consciousness itself. One Life present as all lives. One Self present as all selves. Isn't it obvious? What is present in you and me? Life is this Oneness. Consciousness is Life itself. That is IT. So simple. So plain and so ordinary. Bound by their own acquired beliefs. Only spiritual and religious people that are veiled desire and foolishly strive to see the Self as something new, spiritual or special. An endless trap. Consciousness is the Real God and it is not some fictitious spiritual or religious concept or ideology. Consciousness is the natural presence of existence that is naturally and effortlesslygoverning

your entire body, your own self, this entire world and whole universe. That is what it does. Life = Reality. That is IT. Here and now is what is truly happening. Life is the actuality AKA Reality. Any religious God or holy being, place, object or presence etc = fiction or illusion. Non-sense. How can the water in a mirage make you wet, then why look toward illusion for Reality? You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ So near and so dear. Closer than close. The Reality is present within.Where else would it be? One's own affectionate being or existence is itself the Reality. Do not look for it outside yourself. Forget the world and this universe. You will never find it there. Look at your own being here and now instead because that is IT. Existence is just another name for your true nature. You are Life. How can you kiss this beauty? If you want to be free. Get to know your real self. It (consciousness) has no form, no appearance, no root, no basis, no abode, but is lively and buoyant. Therefore when you look for it, you become further from it. When you seek it, you turn away from it all the more. ~ Linji ~ Consciousness is Life.Being alive is being IT. One's own affectionate existence is the True Beloved. To look for it is to always look away from it. Take it for granted. You are it or that this very moment naturally by simply being alive and aware. That is why the wise pointer will always ask if one is undeniably alive and aware. Not because there is some hidden holy or profound spiritual message but because alive-ness and aware-ness is abiding as the Self. It is the knowing that you are. To realize this simple Truth about consciousness and oneself is to end the Search for the Self that was never lost. Here and now you are that.Being just as you are. Consciousness is that 'I' am you know so well as your own plain ordinary everyday self and being.

Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Who told you that you were not the Self already? After all, what is so special about being?Nothing. It is the natural state. To be alive and aware is to be the Self AKA consciousness. There is nothing more to realize. Only overlooked. You gain absolutely nothing new or different simply because nothing was ever lost. Understanding this consciousness is Realizing. Not foolishly striving to become anything new or different. The Self is ever present. It is not missing. He is Life. That is the Open Secret. You are Life. Present as Life itself. The Self or consciousness is present within all sentient beings. To be alive and aware is to always abide as that consciousness AKA the Self. No one can deny one's own existence. Life, consciousness, existence is at once the Self and 'I' am. No some holy or spiritual 'I' am but common awareness of being, 'I' am. In other words you simply are the very Life itself undeniably present here and now that is expressing itself naturally within the body. Consciousness present is the Spirit of Life itself. It is naturally beating your heart and effortlessly self-shining through your very eyes this very moment. The Self is consciousness. To be conscious is this consciousness itself. So simple. Any spiritual or religious concepts about the Self or consciousness are false. Existence is consciousness. It is nothing new, special or extra-ordinary. Simple changeless awareness of being or 'I' am is the Reality. The Self, He, the Reality is being oneself. Full stop. Spirituality and religions are only for show. It makes some people feel good about themselves by pretending to be holy. Some people may put on show to look the part, some selling silence or perhaps stare into people's eyes for five minutes pretending to transmit God's Grace etc, but that is all and only for show to entice confused Seekers to worship false imagination and illusion.

The Self (consciousness) is not something to be acquired from others. All that is necessary is to know its existence in you. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Common to all. The Reality is paradoxically the most plain and the most ordinary. It is nothing spiritual or religious whatsoever. It is simply Life living itself. Call it any names, makes no difference. All are pointing to one's own existence. Life just is. Just as it is. Everyone alive is being lived and voila! That is what the Oneness is all about. Existence or Life is God. One's true nature is plain ordinary boring everyday existence itself. That is why most people do not want it. Consciousness is no-thing. It is pure being. Pure existence. We call it Life and consciousness. Some call it God. The only trouble for the spiritual Seeker is to look for consciousness or the Self as something new or spiritual. Simply because it is not that at all, but in fact consciousness present is the complete opposite. A paradox. Again one's true nature is nothing new, nothing whatsoever different or special but simply that undeniable consciousness which always remains present and unchanging. That alone is one's true nature. Sentience, consciousness, awareness is the natural activity of nonconceptual 'knowing'. One must also discern between fiction and Reality. The Truth about oneself is not found in spirituality or religions. Spirituality and religions are fiction or illusion. Just this and nothing else. Consciousness is present in all sentient beings. We call it Life.Some give it the name God. Know yourself and if you know your real identity then you know the Oneness to be you. God, consciousness or Life are just other names for you. Here and now you are that. You are this Oneness itself. The 'I' and the Lord or consciousness or the Self are One. No dual-'I'-ty. Who is not aware of himself? Everybody knows one's own self is present because everybody knows 'I' am. In other words the Self is not something special or spiritual but simply what you always are and have always

been naturally your whole life without realizing it. Remove the camouflage of ignorance, that is all. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What is God or the Self? LIFE. Just this and nothing else. He is Life itself. What is being alive? Being God of course, what else! Just this and nothing else. That is all there is to realize. Self-Realization. One's true nature is consciousness or Life itself. To know this simple Truth is Freedom from all bondage. Why? Simply because Life itself or consciousness does not know death. Life is paradoxically the imperishable Self. The immortal. The eternal. Understanding this alone is Freedom. There never was any spiritual or religious God. That is only fiction and fantasy. One's own existence is Life present or God present within one's own dwelling. That simple. The unseen Power within the body is consciousness itself or the Self AKA Life itself. That is all. The power, presence and intelligence that we call Life and God is consciousness. Consciousness is the Real God or real presence of existence. All the wise know that Life is the Real God or the Reality. Nothing new, spiritual or holy. Being alive is itself abiding naturally as the true Self, He, God or the absolute Reality. That is the natural state of being we call Life, consciousness or existence. Only the veiled and the ignorant foolishly believe in some spiritual place, person or object to be Divine and to be revered or worshipped. Reality is here and now. Reality or illusion? One is of course bogus and fantasy and the other is the undeniable actuality. No one can deny one's own self.No one can deny one's own being No one can deny one's own existence. Ever questioned Reality?To know what is real is only self-revealed by investigating.

Not by waiting, not by praying or worshiping but by inquiring, by questioning and investigating. The false cannot stand up to investigation. Once you see the false as false then the Reality alone remains. The "coin drops" as they say. The veil of ignorance is naturally removed with understanding. No understanding and of course no realizing. Because both are one and the same. To realize or understand that simply being alive and aware of being oneself everyday naturally is in fact being God is the end of the search for the Self that was never lost. Gee yoU aRe yoU. Literally. To know your true nature to be consciousness itself, Life or existence and to know the Truth about yourself. Nothing new or fancy. Just being oneself is the Reality. Freedom is so easy that alone it the only difficulty. Once you get that there is absolutely nothing new, nothing spiritual or special to get or acquired. You finally got it or understood. That simple understanding alone is called Realization. Spiritual people only sell water by the river to others for gratification or a fee. These are all the people that do not point to the Reality. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Therefore what is the only difference between the wise and the ignorant?Simple! The ignorant falsely believes that consciousness AKA God is something new, special, spiritual or holy. While the wise knows the simple Truth that being naturally conscious is this consciousness itself. So simple. Just this and nothing is to be understood for Freedom.Freedom is so easy. Whoever said consciousness, existence or the Self was anything else anyhow? That is IT. To simply realize that to be conscious is itself to abide as one's true nature and Reality is Freedom. Look at yourself here and now. It is pure being. Are you conscious or unconscious? Have a look at your thoughtless true nature. Consciousness is pure awareness of being.

It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ In other words, if you know for certain that you are conscious and therefore remain aware of being conscious it is only because consciousness itself is present and self-shining naturally as the knowing that you are. Sentience, consciousness, awareness, wakefulness is always first hand and known to all as 'I' am. You must be awake, aware or conscious first and foremost. Consciousness is always primary. Consciousness present is the knowing that you are present and conscious. The Reality is at once being and consciousness. So simple that it is laughable. Consciousness is not to be achieved. Are you conscious? There you sport. That is IT. You do not try to become conscious. If you are awake or sentient you are conscious. Conscious-ness is the Real Self being pointed as one's true nature. That is all Self-Realization is truly all about.Very simple and so easy. Child-like simplicity. Know your real self or true nature to be this conscious-ness itself. Nothing was ever lost and nothing is to be freshly acquired. Only ignorance is to be removed. That is all. The state called Realization is nothing other than understanding that this conscious-ness is the true Self and that is everyone's true nature. That is all. Any beliefs and ideology acquired from anyone spiritual or religious about the Self are false. To be conscious is consciousness. To be aware is awareness. That is IT. That is the Self. That simple. Realize that and you have done all that needed to be done for Freedom. Understanding this is Realizing. The Self is not some spiritual person, place or thing. Not an object to be seen or a spiritual state to be acquired. The Self is pure consciousness.To be conscious is conscious-ness. Full stop! Call off the Search. Conscious-ness is the state of pure being common to all and known to all as 'I' am. Again find out what is Real? If one is wise enough to investigate what is Real. Then one can easily realize that this natural state of being awareand

remaining aware all day long or conscious-ness or wakeful-ness is simply and trulywhat all the honest pointers have been pointing tofor millennia as one's thoughtless true nature. That is what this consciousness is. Just this simple presence of unchanging awareness that we all experience directly everyday and call wakeful-ness or sentience. Always present closer than close to oneself. That is is the Self. That is the Open Secret. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ While the self-appointed spiritual and religious person will fabricate or invent some spiritual and religious God, with so many spiritual concepts, religious beliefs and stories attached to it for Sheepos to follow and worship. Paradoxically Freedom cannot be found in spirituality or any religions. Freedom is always here. Freedom is only removing the false notion of being bound. That is what Freedom is truly all about. A funny paradox. It is laughable to hear spiritual Seekers saying that they must do this or do that in order to Realize. How can keeping quiet help anyone Realize?It is stupidity. How can meditating help anyone Realize? How can repeating a mantra help anyone Realize? How can practicing bhakti, devotion or singing bhajans help anyone Realize? How can any yoga help anyone Realize? None of that non-sense can ever help understand or realize, but paradoxically keep Seekers bound to ignorance. Realize that to understand is to Realize. That is all. Realizing is understanding. Understanding is all. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Understanding is all.

Enlightenment means understanding. Realizing means understanding. That is what Self-Realization is truly all about.Understanding alone is Realizing. Remove ignorance with understanding only and you will have done all that ever needed to be done. There never was any spiritual or religious states of Enlightenment or Realization. That is the Secret. Only being alive and awake from sleep everyday naturally is always abiding effortlessly as one's true nature. Call off the Search. Present here and now. The Self was never lost and doesn't need to be found. Understanding that being oneself is the Self is all that is required for Freedom. Just this. After all, who is not aware of himself? Everybody knows one's own self and being as 'I' am. Know that 'I' am is that, He, the Reality or God.Freedom is so easy. It is laughable. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To strive to become Free is bondage. To understand there is no bondage is Freedom. Seeking it is missing it, while understanding is Realizing it. The spiritual and religious Seeker Seeks while the wise understands. Be wise. Call off the Search. Understand if you want to be Free and you will realize that you have never been bound but always been ever-Free. Wisdom alone is Freedom. Not knowing is the only false notion of separation and bondage. Where the ignorant believes there are two, the wise knows that there is only the One without two. There is no ego, there is no separation, there is no duality or any individuality but only the One without a second expressing itself naturally as many. Everyone's true nature is the exact same presence of existence. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Known to all as 'I' exist and common to all as 'I' am. Consciousness is existence. That is the Oneness.

Being is existence. Being is 'I' am. To be or not to be. Can anyone alive say 'I' do not exist? One's own existence is the Precious, the Beloved and the Divine. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Look at your own being. Are you alive? Are you conscious? Are you aware? Voila! You are the knowing that you are. The Self, consciousness or God is 'I' am. Consciousness present is one's own existence, self-shining as one's own being and 'I' am. Call off the Search. The Reality is already present here and now. Not as anything new, spiritual or special but simply as Life or existence. Consciousness is just another name for Life or existence and also for the Self or God. Being is the experience. Alive-ness, living-ness, existence is abiding as this consciousness itself. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ Know the Truth! Any spiritual or religious states of Enlightenment or Realization never existed. Self-appointed Gurus, sect leaders, cult con artists and religious scammer will entice Seekers with false promises of a spiritual or religious state of Freedom or salvation. There is no such thing. Just spiritual carrots are used to entice the fools, the simple, the weak and the ignorant just like a carrot on a stick is used to entice an Ass. To Seek Reality as anything new, spiritual or religious is bondage. Freedom is not found through spirituality or any religions. That is the open Secret. Understanding that simply being alive and aware of being oneself is being the Self is Freedom. There is no achieving or attaining anything new, different, spiritual or special. Just removing ignorance. The false notion that consciousness is in anyway spiritual or religious is the only trouble. Consciousness is paradoxically the most plain, common and ordinary

presence always experienced directly by everybody. It is being oneself. It is 'I' am. There is nothing to gain. Only removing ignorance is Freedom. What is consciousness AKA the Self? Realize that plain ordinary everyday wakefulness or awareness is the presence of this consciousness itself. In other words to naturally be awake, aware or conscious everyday naturally is to always abide as the Reality. The Self is no big mystery or something new, spiritual or extra-ordinary but the complete opposite. A paradox. That is what the wise have recognized as their thoughtless true nature and the ignorant have simply overlooked. To be conscious is consciousness. So simple. To be aware is awareness. Voila! The Self is effortlessly revealed. To be conscious or wakeful everyday is this consciousness itself AKA the Self. What can be easier than that? What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Awareness. Being aware is being the Self AKA awareness itself. That is IT. So simple. Being aware is not a special state. Being aware is the natural state common to all. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self, He, the Reality or God present AKA awareness present is being aware or being conscious or sentient. Another word for the Self, He, the Reality is plain ordinary everyday wakefulness or the waking or conscious state. That is what God truly is. The Reality or Real God is paradoxically nothing spiritual or holy but plain and ordinary. Wakefulness is the Self. To be awake from sleep naturally everyday is always abiding as the Self, He, the Reality or God. Nothing else. The wise will only say what I am saying now.Being aware is being the Self. Full stop. What else did anyone expect the Self, He, the Reality or God to be? That is what the Reality is. Some people are sold water by the river and they will suck up and worship the false believing it to be true. That is why the spiritual and religious Seeker cannot know this simple Truth.

They are always too busy looking away from it. What is special about being aware? Nothing! Leave any concepts and beliefs of a holy state or holy being or God to the Sects and religious followers Common to all. Sentience, cognizance, awareness, consciousness, that is everyone's thoughtless true nature. The Reality is not some fictitious God or spiritual presence but simply existence. So simple. Just this is Reality. Being and remaining aware is itself being the Self, He, the Reality or God, we call present awareness wakefulness. Imagine that! Everyone always wakes up Enlightened so to speak, nothing new or special, some just do not realize it. Have a look at your true nature. Being aware is present awareness itself AKA the Self. That is IT. Call off the Search. Simply realize that you are aware. Being aware is what it is all about. Just this and nothing else. There is no need to try to become aware. If you are awake from sleep then you are aware. That is all. So simple. Are you aware right now or are you asleep?So simple that it is laughable.You are that present awareness itself. To simply be awake or aware is to abide as present awareness, consciousness or the Self. That is IT. Full stop. The Self is nothing new, spiritual or special. It never was.Some ignorant people only imagine that it is. Awareness is pure changeless being. Being aware and remaining aware is itself abiding as the Self. That is all this consciousness or present awareness is all about. That simple, that easy, that ordinary. Who ever told you that it was anything else anyhow? Being conscious is this consciousness itself AKA the Self. That present awareness or consciousness is what has been pointed as one's thoughtless Reality for millennia. Consciousness or awareness is not something new or different to be freshly acquired. It is what we already are. There is nothing whatsoever spiritual or special or extra-ordinary about being the Self or consciousness. Being conscious is the natural state of pure being common to all and always experienced directly by everybody alive as wakefulness and being oneself. Being and consciousness is 'I' am.

The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ 'I' am or 'I' am not! Consciousness is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well as your own plain ordinary everyday boring self. The Self is nothing new but 'you'. Who is not aware of himself? Everyone knows and says 'I' am. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ So simple. So easy. So effortless. Say 'I' am. See! That is IT.Gee yoU aRe yoU. What else. Awareness of being is the knowing that you are. Present awareness is 'I' am. 'I' am is being conscious. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no becoming consciousness. There is no attaining or achieving consciousness. Being conscious is this consciousness itself AKA the Self. That is all. Being awake or aware or conscious everyday is the so called 'moon' being pointed by the finger. There never was anything spiritual or holy about the Self. Simple changeless being is one's true nature. Simple changeless being is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Forget all about spirituality and religions for they are only pointing toward illusion, fiction and myths. Paradoxically the spiritual and religions person knows nothing other than what they have acquired from books and others. Acquired spiritual knowledge is the greatest ignorance. Get a clue to what is the Infinite Self AKA one's true nature. Understanding this consciousness is so easy.So simple. Child-like simplicity. Consciousness present is wakefulness present. Same, same. Being awake is being aware. To be awake from sleep, aware or conscious is the knowing that you are present. That is IT. So obvious. Consciousness present is 'I' am present. No one aware or awake can deny one's own being. 'I' am is certain.

Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Anyone that is awake from sleep knows 'I' am. Being aware or conscious is at once wakefulness and 'I' am. That is what abiding as the Self is all about. Aware-ness. Being aware and remaining aware all day long is abiding as that. During the waking state or the natural state of being conscious, 'I' am is always with you. You know that you are present and aware of being. 'I' am is always here and now. Consciousness present or wakefulness is pure awareness of being. So plain and so ordinary is this consciousness. Everyone alive knows it so well already as their own being. What else did you expect this consciousness to be other than being conscious? Hellooo! If you were expecting a holy presence or spiritual experience that is only for the ignorant Seeker. Garbage or crap given to the veiled to pursue or chase after illusion of course. None of this crap is true. To be conscious is this consciousness AKA the Self, He, the Reality or God. Being aware and remaining aware all day long is always abiding as the Self, He, the Reality. So simple isn't it. That is the Joke of it all. Only the ignorant believes the Self is something new, spiritual or holy. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ If you have been told consciousness or the Self was anything new, spiritual or special you have been had. Someone lied to you that was pretending to be holy for either gratification or a fee. There is nothing more plain, more common to all and most of all more ordinary than abiding as one's true nature. Being aware or conscious is IT. Again, have a look at your real nature. Are you aware right now? Are you conscious? To be aware or awake from sleep is to naturally abide as one's thoughtless true nature. So simple. That is the one and only present awareness or consciousness being pointed to by the wise. Just this and nothing else.

That is all that needs to be understood, realized or recognized. Sentience is this consciousness itself. What else! All sentient beings are essentially Buddhas, most are veiled by ignorance and simply do not know it. Remove ignorance with understanding and you have done all that needs to be done. The mistake for the Seeker is Seeking. The mistake is to look or Seek consciousness as a new state. Forget states for consciousness is stateless. It is not a new, special or spiritual state that can ever be experienced. Consciousness is simply the activity of being. Being alive and aware is abiding as this consciousness itself. Therefore simply realize that you are conscious, awake and aware. That is IT. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Being aware is this consciousness itself. So simple. Aware-ness. That alone is the Self the Seeker has been Seeking far and away. Consciousness is nothing to be found far away but simply being aware and remaining aware all day long. We call the natural state of being aware the waking state. That is the Self. You can laugh now! Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Awareness is indeed undeniably present with oneself. Look at yourself here and now. Are you aware? Voila! Being aware is aware-ness. Who said Enlightenment was hard and difficult and especially reserve for the rare few? Everybody alive and awake from sleep is a already a Buddha. That is what Enlightenment is all about. Not about achieving some imaginary spiritual or religious state but being what you are and have always been. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something,

which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Realize that you are conscious, awake and aware. That is abiding as one's thoughtless true nature and Reality. That is all there is to Realize. Just this and nothing else. So simple. So easy. Of course the ignorant Seeker that wants to see consciousness as a blazing light will never know this simple Truth. Bound by the false notion that the Self is something new. These are the people that will keep on Seeking and Seeking until they die. It is just the way it is. If you are wise. you will stop Seeking and notice that you are this awareness itself by simply being you. Awareness is not something apart to be reached or acquired. It is the natural state of being awake or aware. Gee! yoU aRe yoU. That is all there to Realize. You already are what you Seek to know. Look at your own self. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Understanding is Realizing that being alive is being the Self.It is pure being. Being means existence. One's own plain ordinary everyday existence is itself the Divine. Existence is the natural state of pure being common to all.No one ever fails to experience directly. The Kingdom is in you so to speak. Nothing new. He or God is Life itself. So simple is this simple Truth. Realize or understand that being alive is being God or that 'I' am or 'I' exist is God as the presence of Life itself. Life, consciousness, God. Same, same. That is the Oneness present in all. Everyone knows it so well already as 'I' exist or 'I' am. Knowing that you are alive. Being alive is the experience itself. That is IT. Nothing new, spiritual or special about Life itself. Have a good laugh at the joke of it all. You are that consciousness or God or Life by simply being alive. Realize that there never were any religious or spiritual God. That is only found in holy books, fantasy and fiction.

All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ All that is being pointed to like a finger pointing at the moon is that one's own self, being or existence is the Divine. Not something spiritual or some holy Self or God born out of fiction, superstitions and fantasy but plain and ordinary. The ignorant will believe in a false notion of separation and duality while the wise will say what I am saying now. Call off the Search. You are the One without a second already. There is no duality. You are already that. Everybody knows the Self not as anything new but as one's own self. The Seeker is the Sought. Knowing that you are present or present awareness is at once being oneself and being the One Self. Everyone alive knows and says 'I' am all day long. Know that 'I' am is that, the Self or God. In other words consciousness present is self-shining as pure awareness of being. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Didn't anyone tell you? God is 'I' am or you are. Being oneself. All that is being pointed to as the Self is one's own self. The Self that was never lost is one's own plain boring ordinary everyday self. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self, He, the Reality or God is nothing holy, religious or special, but the most plain, boring and ordinary presence or 'I' am-ness one's has ever known oneself to be. One can only laugh! You are what you Seek. Nothing new. You are the One without two. Some people may sell water by the River to the ignorant for gratification or a fee. But in reality everyone alive is already the true Self and ever-Free. To know that Life itself does not know death is Freedom from all bondage.

Water cannot drown you, fire cannot burn you and the sword cannot cut you. Life or consciousness is the imperishable Self or the eternal, that which always is. Where can you find this Beauty, this Beloved, this Precious?Just like a 'diamond' that is hidden within your own pocket all along. It is so near and so dear. Turn within. Look at your own existence. You are that. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Life is another name for you. Get to know your real nature. That is all. Consciousness is the presence of Life and existence itself. Life is what you are. This very moment of existence is the absolute Reality. Freedom is not something new, spiritual or religious to be achieved or acquired, but simply what you are naturally. You are Life. One's true nature is itself Freedom. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The only difference between the wise and the ignorant or between a so called Jnani and Ajnani. is that the wise simply understood and recognizes that his or her true nature is simply Life itself. Call it any name, God, consciousness, awareness, the Self, He, the Reality, the Oneness etc, the only point to be understood is that everyone alive always abides as that Life itself. There is no separation from one's own being, self or existence. The 'I' is that. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ One's own self is the 'I'. The 'I' cannot see itself. How can 'you' kiss yourself on your own lips? You are the One Self or the One without two. Being oneself is being the One Self. Just this. Being oneself naturally is the experience itself. Full stop!

The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Self-Real-'I'-zation. The 'I' is at once one's own plain ordinary everyday self, everybody knows and everybody says 'I' this and 'I' that all day long and the Infinite Self. The 'I' present in 'I' am is the Real-'I'-ty. So simple.Thou art that. Realize that 'you' yourself are that Real Self this very moment. That is all. The state called Realization is not and never will be about becoming anything new, spiritual or special. In fact if you are wise you will realize that spirituality and all religions point away from the simple Truth. The so called state of Realization is all and only about being. Existence is the Divine. That is all. The state called Realization is so simple isn't it? Whoever said it was anything else anyhow? Being. One's own existence or being-ness or 'I' am-ness is what is being pointed to as the Self, He, the Reality. What else! Nothing was ever lost and nothing is to be freshly acquired for SelfRealization. Understanding alone is Realizing. Not foolishly striving to become or attain anything new. Everybody knows the Infinite Self as one's own plain ordinary everyday self. The Self is simply being oneself or that 'I' am everybody knows, they simply do not realize it. The Self is present closer to oneself than one's own breath. It is oneself. The Self you Seek is yourself. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no one to pray to, nothing to meditate upon or to worship. Being alive is being the Lord. The 'I' and the Father are One. Me, myself and 'I' is the One without two. Know Thyself. The Self is yourself. Remove ignorance and voila! Then you will laugh at yourself for foolishly Seeking the Self. You, being the Self, want to know how to attain the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Call off the Search. The Self is you.You are that.Full stop. Being alive and aware of being oneself is at once 'I' am and consciousness.That is IT. Stories of killing an ego or striving to go behind a mind is just spiritual crap given to idiots. Striving to become Free is bondage. Freedom is to understand that you are already Free. That is all. Beware of spiritual and religious garbage because it will screw you and not help you. That is the paradox. Know the Truth! Everyone alive is always abiding as the Real Self or the Reality. That is the Open Secret. All there is ever-present as oneself is the One Self or this pure consciousness itself. Nothing else. Omni-presence simply means that it is all inclusive.So simple. Thoughts, feelings, emotions etc, are just transient states of consciousness that are naturally and effortlessly appearing and disappearing on the unchanging and eternal. Just like all waves that appear and disappear on the surface of the Ocean are nothing but Ocean.What else! Nothing is wrong anymore. All there is ever present with oneself as oneself is always consciousness itself. It is all that. Just like ice, water and vapor is always the exact same essence appearing different. There is no bondage and there is no liberation either. There never was. Some people falsely believe that they are bound only because they do not know themselves. All that is necessary is understanding this consciousness as being what we all are. It is our true nature AKA Life. If you have met a self-appointed Guru or spiritual Teacher that implied that you are not already Free. That M.F. simply lied to you and has been keeping you on a Seeking path of ignorance to nowhere. You are already whole. There is no room in Omni-presence for becoming anything anyhow. After all, can you acquire, become or attain what you already are? Of course not! Foolishly striving to become, reach, attain or acquire anything new or trying to achieve anything other than being 'you' is the only bondage. That is only the trouble.

There is no becoming anything whatsoever. That is the best part about Freedom. You gain nothing. Zero. Simply because you have never been anything other than the Reality, He, the Infinite Self or God. Here and now you are that. The Self is just a word for you. Look it up in the dictionary. Self=you. Don't you know that Freedom is the easiest thing in the World? Get to know the simple Truth and that alone sets you Free. Remove ignorance. That is all Freedom is about. Understanding alone is Realizing. The ultimate Truth is so simple. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

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Did you know that Freedom is not at all about becoming Free?That is the paradox! Real Freedom from all bondage is all and only about removing the psychological idea of being bound. The one who believe is bound is on bound to his belief or attachment to the idea or false notion of bondage. Funny or what. It is laughable. It is like a Fish in the water that is crying

he is thirsty. There is no bondage. One only 'believes' that there is. False imagination. Only found inside one's own head. Freedom and bondage are only psychological. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Call off the Search and start to understand what Freedom is truly all about. To understand is to know the Truth. No striving to become anything new. The Sought-after Truth is found by not Seeking it. Simply because the Sought-after Truth is you. Here and now you are that. Therefore to look for it is to always look away from it. Seeking is always missing it. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ That is the Open Secret to Freedom.You cannot become what you are already. The Search is the trap. Only removing the false idea of being bound is Mukti. That is what Freedom is truly all about. Just this. Remove ignorance only. Freedom is so simple. After all, whoever said there is bondage and that one must achieve Freedom, Mukti, Liberation, Enlightenment, Realization etc, etc, etc, lied. Some liars made up some fictitious stories and a bunch of idiots foolishly believed them. Here goes the birth of a Cult, a Sect or a Religion. Funny or what! The idea of bondage is itself the only bondage. Why would anyone refuse to have a good look at their own being and paradoxically insist in believing in a made up God or Self born out of stories, myths and legends. When the Reality is Life itself. That is the Real God. Not some God hidden somewhere in the sky or far away but present closer than close within one's own dwelling as Life itself. One's body is Life's temple. Life is the Real God. Obviously if someone is given a wrong address, how can they ever reach the destination? They will never get there if what they have been following the wrong directions.

To be or not to be? Who is not aware of himself? 'I' am is first hand. Everybody says 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The 'I' is that. What you Seek is what you always are. Yourself. Know thyself and you will know the Kingdom of God to be Life itself.So simple. Your own being-ness is this consciousness itself. To know the Truth is easy. Understanding is Realizing. Life, consciousness, existence are synonymous with the Self or God. Everyone alive is abiding as the Self. Life is the Self present in all sentient beings. That is all Self-Realization is all about. All about being. Being alive and aware. Awareness of being is bliss. Existence is happiness. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Nobody becomes Free because Freedom is always here. As they say, if you ever see a Buddha on the Road, kill the M.F. Only for show, a religious scam, a spiritual crook, a fictitious hoax and a lie. There is nothing spiritual or religious whatsoever about Freedom from all bondage, for the old saying is true: If you believe you are bound then you are bound to your belief. If you know you are Free than you are Free. Seems too simple for the long time spiritual and religious Seeker to accept and yet it is the simple message that has been shared for millennia by the wise. Look for your chains and they will not be found. Freedom is not an event, not a spiritual or religious experience but simply what we are. Our true nature is Freedom. It is not to be achieved. All there is to realize for Freedom is simply that there is no bondage.That is all. One only believes that there is bondage, but it is all and only imaginary and psychological. Only remove the false notion of being bound and voila! You have done all that ever needed to be done for Freedom. That simple.

After all, that is what Freedom is truly all about. What else did you expected it to be? A spiritual experience, reaching a new state or a blazing light? That could not possibly be Freedom but paradoxically false imagination, illusion and bondage. Freedom has never been about the acquisition of anything new, special, spiritual or different. Only the false or illusion is. You may have read of heard self-appointed Gurus and Teachers claiming to have had a spiritual experience that they call Realization but that is all lies used to entice ignorant Seekers. No spiritual experience will ever be the Reality. It is impossible for the eternal to be experienced spiritually. Take it for granted. Whatever is freshly gained will also be lost. Why should anyone Seek the impermanent or transient experiences? No one can ever reach, achieve, attain or become what they are already. How can you kiss yourself on your own lips? It is impossible to acquire or achieve anything new. Therefore the Search, any striving and efforts of any kind that are made for Freedom are paradoxically bondage. All spiritual and religious stories told about Freedom are simply fictitious ideologies that are in fact bondage. It is not true. Cultivating any spiritual or religious concepts about Freedom is paradoxically bondage. Forget all about spirituality and religions if your earnest desire is truly to know the simple Truth. Anything spiritual or religious only works against you not for you. They are the poison, not the cure. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ The Reality is already present within your own dwelling. It is not to be acquired. Veiled and ignorant people have created religions. The wise will never point to spirituality or any religion for Freedom, but to only understand that He, consciousness or God is simply Life itself.

Ignorant of this simple truth, innumerable methods under different denominations, such as yoga, bhakti, karma, each again with many modifications, are being taught with great skill and in intricate detail only to entice the seekers and confuse their minds. So also are the religions and sects and dogmas. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Ignorant spiritual and religious people will only gain the way, acquired a practice, a yoga, a mantra, bhakti or sing bhajans and will surely die ignorant fools. All that acquired spiritual and religious crap for absolutely nothing. It is laughable when some people disguised as spiritual or religious beings even sell silence to the ignorant and pretending that it is something special or holy. Others will stare into people's eyes or put their hand on their head and pretend to transmit Grace or Shakti. It is all pure garbage of course but the veiled Seeker will worship illusion with ignorance and even pay a fee. Ask any Seeker. Do you truly know what the wise have been talking about and pointing to? They will have no clue. Everybody wants to believe the false to be true and no one wants to know the Truth. A strange paradox. To know the simple Truth is to so call "wake-up". To no longer be fooled by the false or illusion. See the false as false. A God of spirituality and religions never existed. Life, existence. To be alive is to be God. That is all.Consciousness is Life itself. Everyone that knows and say 'I' am is always abiding as God or the Self or consciousness. God is 'I' am. 'I' am is God. Nothing new under the Sun. Not some holy 'I' am but awareness of being 'I' am. That is the Real-'I'-ty. Here and now you are that. The Self (consciousness) is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self is one's own self. One's own self is the One Self.No two selves or small 'I' exists. Everyone is so called born Realized. There is nothing missing or that needs to be freshly acquired. Being alive is abiding as the Sought-after Truth. Being alive and aware of being is the experience itself.

Reality verses illusion. What is Real and what is false? Question, investigate. Find out for yourself.The false cannot stand up to investigation. Forget about a spiritual presence or religious God because that is only false, illusion and fiction. Life is the Self. Being alive is being the Self. So simple. No-thing to it. In fact it is child-like simplicity. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. You know that you are alive and you like it. What are spiritual and religious people waiting for? God! How funny. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at your self, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ God, Life same thing. The Self, He, God, consciousness or the Reality are just different words that are used to point to Life itself. One's own existence is the Soughtafter Truth, He, the Reality, the beloved, the precious, the diamond in your pocket and the Lord. How easier can it be? Thou art that literally. This very moment of existence is abiding as the Reality. The false notion that the Self, He, the Reality is anyway spiritual or religious is bondage itself, because it is not. Therefore spiritual and religious people are the ones frantically seeking to achieve or become Free. How funny. The Search for Freedom is a trap. There is no bondage and there is no liberation. There never was. Everyone alive is already the Real Self, the Reality and Free. That is the Open Secret. God is you are or 'I' am is that. That is all there is to understand or realize. Consciousness present is being alive and aware of being. Everyone is already what they Seek to know without ever making any spiritual or religious effort but naturally, they simply do not know it. Ignorance is the culprit and only obstacle to so called Self Realization. You, being the Self (consciousness), want to know how to attain the Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

If you know you are alive and therefore are aware of being, consciousness is indeed present. It is 'I' am. The Real God or Reality is not anything new, special, spiritual or apart from you. It is you. You are that. Thou art that. Tat Tvam asi. Literally you are the Self itself. Nothing else. That is the message of non-duality that has been shared by the wise for millennia. The Reality is nothing new or spiritual. It is what we all are naturally. Nothing new but what we have always been and are naturally. It is in fact laughable how ordinary the Reality truly is. The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Realization is simply understanding that the Sought-after Truth is nothing new or far away but simply what you already are here and now and have always been your entire life. Ignorance or not knowing this simple Truth is the only obstacle to Freedom AKA Realization. All the wise Realized with understanding only, not acquired, achieved or became anything new or different. Understanding is the best medicine.Understanding alone is Realizing. They are both one and the same. Removing the false notion of being bound with understanding is alone what Freedom is. The ones who do not understand will remain bound to ignorance and the ones who understand will realize that they have always been Free. Understanding the Oneness is Freedom.Omni-presence or Oneness simply means that there is no personal self or any independent entity present anywhere. There is only the One Self present as all selves. Everyone alive is therefore the One Self and this Oneness already and always has been abiding naturally and effortlessly as their true nature. Nothing was ever lost. Some only foolishly believe that the Self is missing.When in fact they are that already.

All there is ever present with oneself as oneself is only consciousness itself. Just this and nothing else. There never was a mind or ego to get rid of, to go beyond or to kill. Only false imagination. Just like someone would falsely believe that a rope on the road could be a snake. There is nothing with oneself that needs to be changed, altered or modified. To be oneself is always being the One Self, that is all there is to know. Some spiritual books and scriptures may tell Seekers to do this or that to become Free but they are are all wrong.Some people have been following the wrong address and have acquired wrong knowledge about this presence of consciousness for millennia. These are called sects and religions. So near and so dear. This consciousness and absolute Reality is always present within your own dwelling. We call it Life. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness present or the Self is existence. One's own existence is the Reality itself. To simply be alive and aware of being oneself is this self-shining consciousness itself. In other words to be conscious is this consciousness. So simple. Are you conscious? Realize that the Self is truly yourself. Nothing else. That is called Self Realization. There is no becoming or attaining what you have always been and are. Understanding is Realizing. That is the Secret to Freedom. Understand that consciousness is what you are. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Without understanding or realizing this, there is no Freedom. Nothing new or special is freshly acquired, only ignorance is removed.

That is what bondage and liberation is simply all about. Understanding is Realizing. Wisdom is Freedom, only ignorance is the false notion or illusion of separation and bondage. Any concepts and ideology of a spiritual or religious Freedom is only found within story books that have been written byself-appointed Teachers, Gurus or their followers and disciples. False stories created only to entice the ignorant and the veiled to worship illusion in exchange of a promise of liberation or salvation. All that spiritual and religious crap is pure B.S. of course. The ignorant will worship anybody for spiritual acquisition. In reality you need nothing. Only a false notion of being bound is to be removed with understanding. Just this and nothing else is Freedom.

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There is no individuality. No ego. No finite selves. Everyone alive is already the One Self, but many simply do not know it. A false notion of separation and individuality is the only cause of all mischief. Forget all about individuality and the body and know thy real self to be no-thing. Know yourself and you will know the Oneness. Here and now you are that. The reality about God is that a religious God never existed. It is just a religious myth.A fantasy. The God I am pointing to here is pure consciousness or Life itself. Not some entity or supreme being. Just like all waves that rise, move and collapse back into the Ocean are and always remain Ocean. Only the form that appeared disappeared. Patterns form and patterns disappear but consciousness remains the same. Consciousness is the essence of this entire universe.All there is or all that exists is this consciousness itself in nature only appearing in many different shapes, patterns and forms. Just like Gold always remains the same essence even though it can shaped as a bracelet, a ring or a chain. Consciousness is the substratum of all existence. Consciousness is the eternal. Consciousness is the nature of Life and present in all sentient beings. It is the nature of Nature, the natural intelligence expressing itself naturally as Life itself on planet Earth. No one can be or exist without it. It is the presence of existence itself. the core of all sentient beings. To recognize this consicousness present within one's dwelling is to know it to be one's own being. 'I' exist or 'I' am is at once being and consciousness. 'I' am represent this consciousness itself self-shining naturally. The Reality is 'I' am. Existence is consciousness, the core of one's own being. Being alive and conscious or awareness and sentience is the natural activity of consciousness. Everyone alive is already so familiar with this consciousness because it is present as pure awareness of being. To know this consciousness one must understand consciousness because it is very subtle and yet so obvious.

Openness and common sense is the only tool required to know one's true nature. To know one's true nature is very easy and effortless for anyone who is open to simplicity. To understand that God is consciousness or Life and recognizing it present with you as you is Freedom. After all, nothing is to be freshly acquired for the Reality to be. It is that 'I' am you know so well already. That is what Self Realization is simply all about. The Self or God is yourself or that 'I' am you know. Get to know your true nature. Know thyself. Who am 'I', what is self, what is 'I'? Me, myself and 'I' represent at once being oneself and being this consciousness itself which is the Infinite Self. There is nothing spiritual or religious about this consciousness, some ignorant people only made it to be. Creating fictitious God and Gods that were born out of false imagination, fears and superstitions. All spiritual and religious people out there are either selling fiction or if they are a little wiser only selling water by the river to the veiled and the ignorant. There is no bondage, there is no separation and there is no liberation either. There never was. Understanding is all that is required to remove ignorance. It is very easy. Child-like simplicity. Whoever said it was hard or difficult anyhow? Wisdom is Freedom. Know thyself. Know that the 'I' is God. 'I' am is Life. 'I' am is consciousness. The 'I' is the Lord. There is no ego or finite self present anywhere. Only the ignorant believes in separation and duality. Ego is not! Otherwise do you admit of two selves?... If you seek the ego you will find, it does not exist. That is the way to get rid of it. Look for it and it will not be found. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Spiritual and religious scriptures will point Seekers to overcome an ego as being the obstacle to Freedom. When in fact it all religious crap. There is no ego present anywhere. Spiritual scriptures are wrong. Have a look and see for yourself if what I am saying is true. See the false as false. Realize that all self appointed religious Gurus and spiritual Teachers from East and West

are truly ignorant people that will teach ignorance to others as being Truth. Know the simple Truth about yourself. That alone sets your Free. Me, myself and 'I' is the One without a second. There is no duality or two selves. There is only consciousness present as one's own self which is the One Self. That is all there is to understand or realize. The feeling that 'I' have not realised is the obstruction to realisation. In fact it is already realised, there is nothing more to be realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Know theTruth! To look for the Self, He, the Reality or God as anything new, spiritual or religious is to look toward illusion for Reality. Thou art that. There never has been a God and you.God is you are or 'I' am. Say 'I' am God and you are saying the Truth. Know that 'I' am God is to know the Truth. Not talking about a God of religion but the natural intelligence present everywhere you look and present within your own body that we call Life. This unseen presence is actually consciousness. Consciousness is what the Reality or the Real God or Omni-presence truly is. To understand that Life or consciousness is the same presence of existence that is present within all sentient being is to know the Oneness. The Self is in all beings. Consciousness is the Self. Being alive is abiding as this unseen undeniable affectionate presence of existence that we call Life and awareness. Awareness of being alive is 'I' am. Reality is at once being and consciousness... Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Nothing new, fancy, spiritual or different whatsoever. Realize that being oneself is at once the 'I' and the Reality.Self realization is 'I' is that, thou art that. 'I' am or 'I' exist or 'I' is present is the Real Self or God living itself as you. You are already that. Just like an ignorant child will believe in Santa Claus or in a tooth fairy. Beautiful enticing stories of spiritual and religious liberation, Freedom

or Enlightenment are just hoaxes and spiritual carrots. No of this manbo jambo is true. Just made up stories and myths. Ignorant spiritual Seekers have been chasing spiritual carrots some for many decades, all for nothing. Freedom has nothing to do with becoming anything new. It never did. Whoever said it does lied. There is no dual-'I'-ty or two selves. Only one Infinite 'I' present as all 'I's. The One without two is your own self. There is only One presence of existence. One Self present as all selves. That is all there is to understand or realize. Being oneself is nothing new to oneself and yet that is the Self. One's own self is that consciousness itself. Nothing new is paradoxically the Reality. Me, myself and 'I' is being the One without two. Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Me, myself and 'I' is the Real-'I'-ty. Anyone wise will only say what I am saying now. One's own plain ordinary everyday self is the Lord. Thou art that. Know Thyself and you will realize that you are God. So simple.The Lord is you. Me, myself and 'I' is God, the Self, the Real-'I'-ty or the Lord. That is all there is to know. Being oneself is being the Self , the Lord God. It is nothing different what what you are right now. Here and now you are that already. God is nothing new, God is you. You are that. Geee! yoU aRe yoU. The word God does not point to anything new or apart from you, but that you are that.It is what you are. There is no God out there to pray to, the Kingdom is in you. Life is the real God being pointed to. That is all there is to understand.God is that 'I' am you know so well. Call off the Search. God is your very own plain everyday ordinary affectionate Self. The plain good ol' you. Nothing new. You can laugh at yourself for Seeking God or the Self. It is actually very simple to understand that being alive and conscious is to abide as the Self or God. Know that the 'I' and the Lord are One and the same present of existence AKA consciousness i.e. Life.

To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Wisdom is to know oneself. If you know yourself you know the Infinite Self as well. It is very easy. You yourself being just as you are right here and now are the One without a second. Any concept, belief or a notion of God and me or 'I' and the Lord etc, is duality and separation. Spiritual and religious people are strongly attached and bound only to their acquired beliefs. Yet it does not matter what anyone believes. Freedom is not about believing anything but all and only about knowing. Wisdom is Freedom. Know Thyself. Rare is the one that will question who am 'I'? Therefore even though many Seekers are seemingly interested in knowing the simple Truth, they are strongly attached to and holding on tightly to their acquired spiritual and religious beliefs. Only a rare few will be open to hear this simple message of no-duality and Oneness. It is just the way it is. Everybody wants to believe and nobody wants to know. A strange paradox. The key word to Freedom is 'knowing' not believing, achieving or becoming anything. One must be empty or naked from all acquired spiritual concepts and beliefs for the Self to reveal itself to itself. Not by some blazing light or spiritual event but only by understanding that someone knows one's real identity. Understanding is the Key to Freedom. It is the removal of ignorance. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The Secret to Self Realization is that it is nothing whatsoever spiritual or religious but simple understanding. That is why the spiritual and religious Seeker has been searching for the Reality while the Reality is already here. That is the paradox.

It is like searching for some lost sun or reading glasses frantically everywhere while all along they are simply sitting on the top of one's head. They were never lost. Understanding alone is Freedom. The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Here and now you are that. Everyone alive is always abiding as consciousness. What else would one's own existence and being-ness be? So near and so dear. Life is consciousness. Life or existence is the Self, He, the Reality or God.So simple. To be alive is to be IT.Alive-ness is what has been pointed to as one's true nature and Reality for millennia. No one can say 'I' am not or 'I' do not exist. 'I' am is consciousness, it is pure awareness of being. The Reality is at once being and consciousness. To realize or understand that 'I' am is at once being oneself and consciousness itself is the so called Self Realization. Recognizing that oneself is the One Self. No dual-'I'-ty. One's true nature is nothing new or apart from oneself but paradoxically so common and so familiar to oneself that one's own existence is simply overlooked. One's own existence is consciousness. Everyone alive is aware of being. Everyone alive knows and says 'I' am. Understand that being alive and aware of being is consciousness itself.That is knowing the Self. Consciousness is not something new or spiritual but what you are and have always been. There is no becoming anything. That is the Secret to Freedom.The Reality is already here. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The so called Realization is not the acquisition of anything new or acquiring special faculties. The Realization is simply removing ignorance camouflaging one's real identity with self inquiry and understanding. Know the Truth and that alone is Freedom.

Now is being alive and aware of being oneself or 'I' am being the Self, He, the Reality or God? Find out! Do not look for the Reality to be some special, spiritual or religious 'I' am but plain and ordinary everyday awareness of being 'I' am. That is the Open Secret. Know that 'I' am is that. There is nothing new to be achieved, gained or acquired because everyone is already that. Understanding alone is Realizing the Self or understanding this consciousness itself. Is it not difficult to understand that being alive and aware of being oneself is being the Self. To be alive and aware of being oneself is at once 'I' am and God or the Infinite Self. That is the same message of Oneness or non-duality shared by the wise. One's own existence is the Divine. Just like the snake and the rope or the mirage of water in the desert or the illusion of a blue sky. There is no ego or duality. The simple Truth about one's true nature is only camouflaged by wrong acquired knowledge and false spiritual beliefs. A veil woven from false acquired knowledge is all that is camouflaging the simple Truth about oneself. The feeling of separation and bondage is only a psychological wall. A cage or prison build solely from words acquired from books and others. Some people as so attached to their acquired spiritual and religious concepts and beliefs that they will die for their strong beliefs, there is nothing that anyone can do to make them understand. Knowing oneself. Freedom is all about self-inquiry.That is getting rid of ignorance.It is called Wisdom. Knowing who the 'I' truly is. One must want to know oneself to know the Self. Question, investigate. It is not hard or difficult to understand what is being pointed to. In fact it is very easy.Openness is a must. It is all a funny paradox. Only strong psychological attachments to the false or illusion is the cause of all mischief. As they say, the Fish in the water cries that he is thirsty. You are what you Seek. The Search for wholeness starts because of ignorance and ends with wisdom only.

Nothing new, different or special is to be freshly acquired for Freedom, only ignorance is to be removed. Once you understand that understanding is all that necessary. You will call off the Search for the Self that was never lost and get to know the real you. Liberation is our very nature. We are that. The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The words Self or God represent Life or consciousness. Consciousness is nothing special or holy. To be alive and awake from sleep is to be it. The Real God or the Reality is not something to believe in or to Seek far and away, it is what you are. That is the same message of Omni-presence or non-duality that has been shared for millennia. Nothing new. To look for consciousness as something new or special is to always miss it. The Seer is consciousness. The hearer is consciousness. The thinker is consciousness. The knower is consciousness. Therefore the Seeker is paradoxically the Sought. Here and now you are that. 'I' exist is pure awareness of being or the knowing that you are. Selfawareness is 'I' am. 'I' am is being. Being alive and aware or conscious right here and right nowis being that consciousness itself. Consciousness is Life. The activity of being alive or alive-ness is conscious-ness. Makes no difference what name is given to consciousness. Some call it God, the Lord, the One without a second or the Reality. Others the Atman or the Self. I like to call it for what it truly is. It is Life itself. One's true nature is at once being alive and being conscious. Beating your heart and shining through your eyes this very moment. Consciousness is yourself or you are that consciousness itself this very moment. The Self or God is being just as you are and have always been your whole life naturally.

Consciousness or God is 'I' am. Everyone says 'I' am. Being oneself is the Self, He, the Reality. To effortlessly be alive and aware of being oneself naturally is the experience itself. That Self realization is what some have called 'Enlightenment' and Freedom. That is all there is to understand or realize. Just this and nothing else. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There are no fictitious spiritual or religious states of Enlightenment. That is all a myth. There is nothing fancy, spiritual or religious about Freedom. There never was. There is no becoming or attaining anything. All living sentient beings are already so called 'Buddhas'. Understanding that consciousness is Life itself alone is Freedom. That is what God is. So simple isn't it? Who ever said Freedom was hard or difficult? It is simplicity itself.Understanding is all. The honest pointer will only said what I am saying now while the false Guru will sell water by the River. He (consciousness) is the unseen seer, the unheard hearer, the unthought thinker. There is no other seer but He. No other hearer but He. No other thinker but He. No other knower but He. He (consciousness) is yourself.The inner controller, the immortal, the imperishable. ~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad~ Paradoxically Life does not know death. Consciousness is the imperishable Self. The unborn. The eternal. Everyone alive is always abiding as this consciousness itself. They simply do not know it. The ultimate Truth is so simple. You are Life living itself and expressing itself naturally as your affectionate self. Life or consciousness is another name for you. Being conscious is this consciousness itself. There is nothing else to realize. You cannot become or achieve what you obviously already are. The Self is truly yourself. Striving to become anything new or different is the only bondage.

You can only be what you are.How can you kiss yourself on your own lips? If you are alive you are so called a 'Buddha' or 'Enlightened'.You are the Self and Free already. Shining in plain sight. Being alive is the Realized state. It is the natural state of being. Life or existence is always what is truly happening in the here and now but it is always overlooked by the spiritual Seeker that is so busy searching for fantasy. What a pity. After all, can anyone be or exist without consciousness? As with water and ice. There is no Life without consciousness. Consciousness is the immutable presence of existence that we call Life. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ The Reality is within your own dwelling or the Kingdom is in you if you like. Nothing new or holy, simple ordinary everyday existence is the Reality. Just this. The Self or consciousness is not reached or attained. It is what you are right here and now naturally. Not knowing one's true nature is the only obstacle to Freedom. Remove ignorance if you want to be Free. Who is not aware of being alive?Who does not know and say 'I' am all day long? The activity of knowing that you are alive is awareness of being or 'I' am. That is what this consciousness is, the activity of knowing. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Look at yourself here and now. Are you alive? Are you conscious and aware of being? Voila! That is IT. That is the Self, one's true nature and the Sought-after Truth and Reality. 'I' exist is being. 'I' am is the Sought-after Truth. Nothing spiritual but actual.Life is Now only. Existence is being. Existence is here and now, God or consciousness is the presence of existence. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being.

Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Am I right or am I wrong? Find out! The only difficulty about Freedom is the simplicity. Ignorant Seekers do not want Freedom to not be the acquisition of anything new or spiritual. Yet consciousness no-thing. It cannot be acquired or denied. It is the activity of being alive and awake. God or consciousness is not what the Seekers and worshippers have been told it is by spiritual and religious people. Remove the camouflage. That is the Open Secret to Freedom. See the false as false is you truly want to be Free. That is all that is required. Remove the veiled of religious and spiritual lies covering up the simple Truth. The spiritual and religious God that people read about in spiritual and holy books, which is the pillar of all organized religions and have learned to accept as being real and worship, is in fact illusion. Reality or illusion?Most spiritual and religious Seekers believe the false to be true and paradoxically will reject the simple Truth to be false. A strange paradox. Just like no one can see the wind but easily see its expression. Life or consciousness is no-thing. It cannot be seen or objectified. Consciousness is undeniably present as the activity of being alive and aware. Knowing that you are present or present awareness is consciousness. Self-awareness is consciousness. Alive-ness, living-ness and being-ness and 'I' am-ness is consciousness. You are consciousness itself. If you want to be free. Get to know your real self. It has no form, no appearance, no root, no basis, no abode,but is lively and buoyant. Therefore when you look for it, you become further from it. When you seek it, you turn away from it all the more. ~ Linji ~ One's own being or undeniable existence is the Self, He, the Reality or God being pointed to by the wise. Just this and nothing else. It doesn't matter how long and how far someone goes to find himself. Being oneself is being the One Self. Nothing new or different. That is all there is to Realize.

The Self you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Once you get that there is absolutely nothing new to get than you know the Truth. That is the funny paradox. The Self that was never lost is your own self. Thou art that. Understanding consciousness is Realizing. Consciousness is one's own being. It is 'I' am. You are that consciousness itself simply by being yourself. That is all there is to it. You, being the Self (consciousness), want to know how to attain the Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You are consciousness or Life this very moment. Knowing that you are alive right here and now is the experience itself. The Self is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well as your own being. Call off the Search. To strive to find your real self as a spiritual or religious Self is bondage. One's real nature can only be recognized in the here and now as one's own self. To know that you are alive is consciousness. Awareness of being is 'I' am. 'I' am that 'I' am. You are the knowing that you are. There is no reaching or becoming anything for Freedom. Only ignorance is to be removed with understanding. Spiritual and religious stories are just that, stories. There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained. You are the Self (consciousness). You exist always. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Being alive and aware of being is this consciousness self-shining naturally as Life itself. Sentience. Being aware of being. That is the easiest definition. Dead people are not aware of being? Remove consciousness from the body and it is only a corps. No consciousness present, no 'I' am present. Life is gone from the body. Consciousness is the unseen Living presence and intelligence within the body. So near and so dear. Consciousness is undeniably present within your own dwelling.

Some want God to be something spiritual or mystical when in fact He is simply Life itself. "The Kingdom is in you" simply means that Life or consciousness is the God being pointed to. To be alive is to abide as one's true nature. Full stop. Call off the Search. Being alive and aware of being oneself everyday naturally is the experience itself. That is IT. That is all there is to realize. There never was anything new, spiritual or special to be freshly acquired. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The only bondage to overcome for Freedom from all bondage is simply ignorance. Meaning that not knowing that simply being alive and aware of being oneself is always abiding as one's true nature is the only false notion of bondage. Freedom is NOT about acquiring, achieving, attaining or becoming anything whatsoever special, spiritual or religious. It never was.Therefore the false notion that Freedom is to be reached is paradoxically a trap. Do not strive to become Free. Only remove the false notion of being bound. There is no bondage or separation from one's true nature. Present within one's own dwelling. Words like God, Kingdom, Reality, the Oneness or Self simply point that to be alive and aware of being is to naturally abide as this consciousness itself. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ Consciousness is Life itself. Being alive is being it. That is all there is to understand. Just this realization is Freedom. One's own being. Look at yourself. Are you alive? Are you aware of being? Consciousness is indeed present because you know that you are. 'I' am is at once being and consciousness. That is the Self.

The Self (consciousness) is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Knowing the Self or one's true nature is very easy for anyone that understands that Life or consciousness is itself what is being pointed to as one's true nature and Reality. Any spiritual or religious God is only fantasy. There is no such thing. A fictitious God of religions and spirituality is not the Truth or Reality being pointed by the wise. The Reality or True God is simply Life or consciousness. Nothing new or special but simple changeless being. You do not have to pray or meditate to know that you are. The Sought-after Truth, the true Beloved and Reality is that which is present and cannot be denied with oneself, it is one's own existence. The Reality is simply Life, consciousness, existence, being, 'I' am. Everyone is being Lived. Life is the unseen power and intelligence functioning the body. Your body is Life's temple if you like and you are the spirit of Life itself simply being just as you are. Life is this Omni-presence, power and intelligence that we all like to be. Life is the real God present in all. So dear is one's own existence. Life or consciousness is nothing new or far away but present closer than close. Why are Seekers refusing to accept that God is Life itself. Isn't it the most obvious? Look at yourself. Look at your own being. The experience is here and now. To be alive and aware is always abiding as this consciousness itself. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at your self, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ What are Seekers looking for? What are believers praying to, worshipping or waiting for? Life is the Oneness, the Kingdom of consciousness and God. One Life. That is what Oneness is all about. Life is present and self-shining within all living beings. That is the Omni-presence or Oneness being pointed to.

I think therefore 'I' am. What is more obvious than one's own being? After all, how many thoughts can you have if you are dead? Life or consciousness is the very core of one's being. One cannot be, without it.No life, no 'I' am. Consciousness present is the Spirit of Life if you like.Self-shining as awareness, being, 'I' am. Call it by any name, God, Self, the heart or the seat of consciousness, it is all the same. The point to be grasped is that this heart means the very core of ones being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ One must grasp the meaning. Understanding is all that is required for Freedom. Know the Truth! There has never been any separation or duality. There is only Oneness. The Self, He, the Reality or God is one's own self. Being oneself is being the One Self. The Self, He, the Reality or God is not and never will be something special or holy outside oneself. Who am 'I'? After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. 'I' am is certain. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Who is not aware of being? Who is not aware of himself? Dead people do not say 'I' am. Everybody alive knows that they are alive. 'I' exist is certain. That is the only fact one can be sure of. You are the knowing that you are. 'I' am that 'I' am. That is what the Self or this consciousness truly is. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know as your own plain ordinary everyday affectionate self and being. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Everybody knows and says 'I' am. The Self is nothing new. Whoever said it was? How can the Reality which is always present be anything new anyhow? The eternal or permanent means that it is always present right here and now. Why should anyone strive to reach, attain, acquire or become anything new to call the Reality.

Foolishness is to Seek the impermanent. It is that which can be freshly acquired and therefore will also be lost. What is always present with you? You are. 'I' am is always here. Know that 'I' am is pure consciousness itself. Consciousness is the knowing that you are. It is 'I' am. 'I' am is pure consciousness. The Self, He, the Reality or God is 'I' am or the knowing that you are. Awareness of being. The ultimate Truth is so simple. What a cosmic Joke! At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Freedom is so easy. It is laughable how simple it truly is.Child-like simplicity. Spirituality and religions are the only obstacle to Freedom simply because it is where the false is taught to others and foolishly believed to be true. Nobody appearing spiritual or holy can give you anything which you do not have already. The Reality is not to be acquired from others. It is what you are. This message of Oneness or non-duality was, is and always will be the exact same. The ultimate Truth is timeless. Know that 'I' am is that. You are that. The 'I' is that consciousness. The Reality is always present within one's own dwelling. There is no other Realization. Consciousness is undeniably present because it is Life itself. One's own existence is God or the Self. The Self is God. Everybody knows and says 'I' am.Know that 'I' am is God. Consciousness is the Self and oneself. That is all that needs to be realized or understood. No time or effort is required for Freedom. Being needs no proof. No one denies ones own existence any more than one denies ones eyes, although one cannot see them. The trouble lies with your desire to objectify the Self (consciousness), in the same way as you objectify your eyes when you place a mirror before them. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

I heard of Seekers and Gurus alike that foolishly believe that they do not exist. How can anyone with any common sense deny one's own existence? Consciousness is the knowing that you are. Existence is 'I' am. One's own existence is 'I' am and that is consciousness. It cannot be objectified or denied. Consciousness is always primary. How much time does it take to know that you are? How much time does it take to know 'I' am? Present awareness is 'I' am. Forget all about the special, the spiritual and the holy if you truly want to be Free. look at yourself instead. Get to know your true nature. It is always present self-shining naturally here and now as your own being. Can anyone separate oneself from one's own being? One's own self and being is the Self, He, the Reality. God is 'I' am. Who does not know that they exist? Here and now 'I' am is knowing that you are. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Everyone alive is that consciousness already. One can only understand this consciousness or living-ness itself. Not foolishly strive to become it, attain it or cultivate it in anyway or worst of all, pray or worship it. The word GOD or DOG means nothing if you do not understand the meaning of what is being pointed to. Omni-presence or Oneness simply means that all there is always present is this consciousnessor living-ness expressing itself naturally. Life is just another name for God or Omni-presence. Any other spiritual concept of a God sitting somewhere in the Sky to worship or pray to and some imaginary happy place to go to after death called Heaven are only fiction. Just religious beliefs acquired and cultivated by the ignorant and the veiled. Why would anyone turn to the false to know the Truth? Politics and religions both are human rules, human beliefs and human concepts. Words are used to control others to obey and follow their leader's ways and religious beliefs.

Don't you know that religions and prosecution go hand and hand? Both are one and the same. Have a look for yourself and see. How many have died in the name of a God that doesn't even exist? To follow any religion is to follow illusion.They are all the same. It is not because someone tells you something religious that it makes it true. In fact it is a paradox. The more holy, the more spiritual and the more extra-ordinary the story and the more crap it truly is.That is the rule of thumb. There are not and never has been holy special beings with great siddhis or spiritual powers and faculties. People made up all kind of fascinating stories for the Love of the Guru. Love for and attachment to illusion. After all, what else are all religions but truly sects with a spiritual leader and followers or shepherd and sheep. All sorts of myths and stories are told to entice Seekers to become believers in fantasy. The false cannot stand up to investigation. One must question and investigate what is Real. To foolishly believe that the Self, He, the Reality is spiritual or religious in anyway is bondage. The Reality is right here on Earth. It is happening presently, right here and right now. All there is to realize is that the word Self, He, the Reality or God are only pointing to Life itself. Consciousness is the most obvious and natural presence of existence. Everyone already knows it as 'I' am. Freedom is not and never will be about the acquisition of anything new, different, spiritual or religious. It never was. Freedom is to simply remove the false idea or 'belief' of being bound with understanding. Remove ignorance and voila! Understanding is all. After all, one does not have to pray, to meditate or strive to be conscious. Conscious-ness present is at once sentience and the knowing that you are AKA 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Know yourself. Know 'I' am. 'I' am is the most obvious to anyone alive. No one alive can say 'I' am not or 'I' do not exist.

'I' am is always with you as the knowing that you are. Consciousness present is the knowing that you are present. 'I' am represents the Self or consciousness and one's own being. Only a veil or cloud of wrong acquired spiritual and religious knowledge covers up this simple Truth about oneself, about one's true nature and Reality. The Self, He, the Reality, the Oneness or God etc, is nothing new or spiritual. It is the presence of Life or existence which is self-shining as ordinary consciousness. To be conscious is this consciousness. That is all there is to realize. Veiled Seekers will search for consciousness as something new or far away. Consciousness is nothing new or hidden far away. It is the most obvious of all!Look at yourself. It is so dear and so near, so familiar and so common to all as the natural state of being. Consciousness is always here. Present here and now. To be conscious is to be it. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The natural state of being conscious, awake, aware or sentient, cognizant and knowing. Plain ordinary everyday awareness or sentience is the Self, He, the Reality that is sought-after. One does not have to strive to reach, to attain or cultivate consciousness. To be alive and aware of being present as oneself is awareness and therefore the Self or consciousness is the knowing that you are present or present awareness. Just like a light bulb cannot shine without any power present or electricity. Present as existence itself. To be alive is to shine as consciousness itself. One's own undeniable existence is the Divine AKA consciousness. Life or this consciousness present is simply the natural and effortless activity of being at once alive and aware. Consciousness is not something special hidden far away or some spiritual state that is yet to be reached. Realize that this consciousness is simply plain ordinary existence and awareness of being. There is no spiritual presence of consciousness to be sought after or to be worshipped.

There never was. Some people made it all up. Why should anyone Seek and worship illusion? The false notion that consciousness or the Self is something new, spiritual or special is only a false belief acquired by spiritual and religious people that want to escape Reality into false imagination or illusion. Consciousness is existence. The knowing that you are alive and aware of being is translated with the thought and word 'I'. The sense of being. The 'I' represents this consciousness itself. Knowing that you are is 'I' exist. Knowing that you are is 'I' am. Existence. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Awareness of being. To be alive and conscious is the Reality. That is what 'I' am truly represents. To be oneself is to abide as the One Self AKA Life or this consciousness itself. It is nothing new. Know the Truth! Separation, duality, individuality, a personal self and ego do not exist. Everyone is the One without two. The 'I' is He, the Self, the Reality, the Lord, the Father or God. That is what Oneness or non-duality is simply all about. Know thyself to be the infinite Self. Here and now you are that. There is only one Life, one consciousness that is present in all sentient beings. Nothing new or different is to be freshly acquired. Simply notice that you are aware. To be aware is awareness. To be conscious is consciousness. That is pure awareness of being. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ 'I' exist here and now is pure awareness of being. It is 'I' am. The 'I' is the Self. Everyone knows one's own self to be. The 'I' is present awareness or awareness of being. One's own self or the 'I' is consciousness itself.You are that already. To be or not to be. No one can deny one's own self. Because that is the

Self. Can there be 'I' am without the 'I'? Who is present to be aware of being? 'I' is! Everything is always attached to the 'I'. It is the 'Knower'. Due to ignorance and wrong acquired knowledge from books and others. The 'I' is false believed to be a finite or small self when in fact the 'I' or one's own plain ordinary everyday affectionate self is the Infinite Self. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Only the ignorant who is veiled will foolishly spend year after year Seeking a special, a spiritual or extra-ordinary Self when in fact one's own plain boring ordinary self is the Sought-after Truth. It is all a paradox. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ Nothing new is to be acquired. Only remove ignorance. Know thyself. Everyone knows and says 'I' am. Know that 'I' am is this consciousness itself. Consciousness is that is-ness or being-ness or 'I' am-ness AKA oneself and the Self. Present closer to oneself than one's own breath. The Self that is soughtafter was never lost but always present all along with oneself as oneself. It is oneself. It is 'I' am. 'I' am is first hand and needs no proof. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Me, my self and 'I'. Stop imagining that the Self should be anything other than this.Be yourself. That is IT. Then you will laugh at yourself for foolishly Seeking the Self. Look at yourself and you have found it. You are already that consciousness itself but no one told you.Only ignorance is to be removed. Understanding is all that is required for Freedom from all bondage. Not striving to find anything new. Nothing is missing. It is already present as one's own plain ordinary everyday self. Call off the Search because you are that already this very moment. What else are you looking for?

Consciousness is the natural state of being common to all. Everyone knows it so well already as 'I' am. Did you know that Truth hurts? It is like taking a bitter medicine that is hard to swallow. The simple Truth will always challenge the core of one's belief. Some people will even go up in arms and some countries will go to war. The cause of all mischief is always because of strong attachments to the false or acquired 'beliefs'. The only reason ignorant spiritual and religious Seekers believe in separation or duality and that the Self, He, the Reality or God is something new or holy is only because of their acquired spiritual and religious beliefs. Why should anyone cultivate ignorance?Why should anyone worship illusion? When the Reality is always present within ones own dwelling as Life itself. Know yourself. Not as a special, spiritual or holy being but as Life itself. The Self, He, the Reality or God are just different names for Life and you. What someone that has understood the Truth about oneself recognized one's true nature to simply be consciousness itself AKA Life. Not some spiritual or holy state of consciousness but simple changeless being. Simple changeless being is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be alive and awake from sleep is the experience.That is what this consciousness itself simply is. Self-shining everyday naturally with all sentient beings as pure awareness of being. After all, who doesn't know and say 'I' am. Everyone knows 'I' am. It is all so simple and so effortless but Seekers are so veiled by so many acquired spiritual and religious concepts and ideology that they cannot handle the simple Truth.They desperately want to acquire something new or special. Foolishly striving to reach, achieve or become something new, spiritual, special or holy. But that is all illusion. There is nobody special in Omni-presence. Who is higher or lower in Oneness? It is all the same.

So why should anyone strive to become somebody special, spiritual or holy? Unless they want to start a religion and be worship as a special or spiritual being. All this non-sense has nothing to do with the Reality. It is all illusion. Spirituality and religions are all fiction. An ordinary person is already a Buddha and a Buddha is nothing other than an ordinary person. Same, same. Freedom has never been about reaching or attaining anything spiritual, religious or special. The only obstacle to be removed is ignorance. Know that consciousness present is 'I' am or 'I' exist. Awareness of being. Who is not aware of being oneself? Understanding is Realizing. Just this and nothing else. Everyone alive is always abiding as the Reality. That is all there is to realize. Nothing new, spiritual, special or apart but the simple fact of one's own being. Everyone alive knows and says 'I' am. Know that 'I' am is the Self, He, the Reality. The knowing that you are. If someone calls you name you will answer 'I' am here! That is the 'I' am being pointed as the Self, He, the Reality or God if you like. After all, who is not aware of being oneself? Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can say 'I' am not. One's own undeniable plain ordinary everyday existence is this consciousness itself. That is IT. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The wise will say what I am saying now. Know yourself and you will know the Oneness. To know the Reality simply look at yourself and you have found the Reality. Not as anything new or spiritual. But simply as the fact of your own existence. Life is the Oneness. One's own existence is the Divine being pointed as the Self, He, the Reality or God. 'I' exist here and now is 'I' am. Nothing was ever lost. Freedom is a strange paradox. It all works in reverse. The false notion of bondage

and separation is only psychological, due to wrong acquired spiritual and religious knowledge. Paradoxically acquired spiritual and religious knowledge is the greatest ignorance. Freedom is not the acquisition of anything new, spiritual or religious. There is no becoming, achieving or attaining anything. Ignorance is the only obstacle to Freedom. Everyone is already the Self and Free but they do not know it. Foolishly believing that Freedom is yet to be achieved or acquired is the only trouble. Freedom is already here. Remove the false notion of being bound with understanding only. That is all that needs to be done. Understanding is realizing. Any effort is bondage. Ignorance or not knowing what one's true nature and Freedom from all bondage is truly all about is the only veil. Get to know your real nature by paradoxically emptying yourself from all acquired spiritual and religious crap. Spirituality and religions are the poison not the cure. That is the only cause of all bondage, wars and sorrow. After all, there has been more killing and destruction in the history of this planet in the name of a fictitious God or Gods, spirituality and religions than any other cause for man inhumanity to man. Isn't that a strange paradox? Yet 99.99% of people will never question the validity of their acquired spiritual and religious beliefs. Challenge or pinch someone's spiritual and religious beliefs and they will go up in arms screaming. That is why some people see it and some do not. Many are veiled by religions and spirituality. Anyone can adopt a religion for awhile and then go to another religion and so on and so on. There is absolutely no end to acquired spiritual and religious concepts and ideology. That is the proof that spirituality and religions do not offer the ultimate Truth. Spiritual and religious people are always looking away from the Reality. Simply because the Self, He or the Reality is nothing new or spiritual. Only the camouflage of ignorance needs to be removed for Freedom. Not becoming anything.

Know the Truth about yourself. Not by acquiring anything new but by understanding. To be alive and aware of being oneself is 'I' am. The Truth is pure awareness of being. The Truth is 'I' am. Being oneself is the being the Self. Everyone knows and says 'I' am. The Self is ever present. Each one wants to know the Self. What kind of help does one require to know oneself? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Being oneself is so ordinary isn't it? The One without two is being you. Gee you are you. Ignorance is the only bondage. Not knowing one's real identity and true nature is the only trouble. The Self is not some imaginary spiritual or religious presence but plain ordinary everyday consciousness. To be alive and aware of being oneself is consciousness itself.The Self or the Reality is nothing new or special. Look at your self here and now. Who told you that you are not the Self already? Everything simply point that in fact here and now you are that. Nothing was ever lost. Didn't anyone tell you that to be conscious is consciousness? That to be aware is awareness? Sentience. That is the Self, He, the Reality or the real God and everyone's true nature. So simple isn't? Are you conscious? Aren't you aware of being present? Me, myself and 'I'. That is the Self, God or the Reality. To be conscious, awake or aware everyday is to abide as the Self. The ultimate Truth is so simple. It is laughable. Spiritual and religious Seekers do not want the ultimate Truth to be so simpleand yet that is the Open Secret to Freedom. The ultimate Truth is that simple. The ultimate Truth is so simple. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Me, my self and 'I'.That is the Sought-after Truth and Real-'I'-ty. The 'I' and the Self are One and the same presence of consciousness, Life, existence. Here and now you are that. Present closer to oneself than your one's own breath. What is the Self? One's own plain ordinary boring everyday self. Never lost or apart for even an instant but naturally self-shining in plain sight all along.

Life is the Reality itself. Everyone alive is always abiding as the Real Self or Real-'I'-ty. To be oneself is the Self. That is what this message is all about. Know thyself and you know the Self. Forget about any dualistic, spiritual and religious concepts of a finite self or ego. These are just lies and wrong acquired knowledge from books and others. There are not two selves or ego, it is just a false notion of duality. Only the veiled and ignorant person believes in an 'ego', small 'I', finite self etc. Things are not what they appear to be. There is no individuality or separation. There is only the One Self expressing itself as all selves. The One without a second is you. A false notion of 'ego' or individual self are only for ignorant people that do not know themselves. If you meet someone that talks to you or others about ego or small 'I' or finite self. Give them a good slap. Who is dumb enough to believe the false notion of ego to be true. What ego? Look for it and it will not be found. Ego is not! Otherwise do you admit of two selves?... If you seek the ego you will find, it does not exist. That is the way to get rid of it. Look for it and it will not be found. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Everyone alive is already the Infinite Self and Free. There is no ego. Not knowing this simple Truth is the only false notion of separation and duality. Forget spiritual and religious crap. It is all garbage and bondage. Ego is wrong knowledge believed and accepted to be true by the veiled, the ignorant and the foolish. Spiritual and religious knowledge is wrong knowledge. That is why spiritual and religious people cannot know the Truth. Usually spiritual and religious people believe in a fictitious presence they call God and therefore will pray and worship illusion their whole life without ever knowing the simple Truth. If you know the simple Truth it instantly sets you Free from a false notion of bondage and separation. Remove spiritual and religious ignorance. Just like being hypnotized to believe the false to be true.

Spirituality and religions are only false imagination. There has never been a God and you. Get to know your real nature with understanding. That is all there is to be done. The Truth is not talking about some holy, spiritual or religious 'I' am. The Reality is not some fictitious God or imaginary presence but one's own existence. Present here and now. 'I' exist is 'I' am and that is the absolute Reality. Know that 'I' am is that. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To be or not to be. Awareness of being. 'I' exist is always certain. The 'I' present is 'I' am.What else would 'I' am be? The fact of one's own being is 'I' exist. Awareness of being present as oneself or present awareness is the 'I'. One's own self is the Self. After all, can there ever be a 'I' am without the 'I' present first? Of course not. The 'I' is always primary as consciousness itself. That is the Self that is being pointed to. The 'I' is that. Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Everybody knows and says 'I'. Call off the Search. The 'I' represents awareness of being. Who is not aware of himself? So near and so dear. The Reality is me, myself and 'I'. Gee yoU aRe yoU. Here and now you are that. There has never been some holy or special Self or spiritual Reality. Spiritual and religious people have only been praying and worshipping illusion. The Lord or God is you are. You already are the Real 'I' or Real-'I'-ty. Nothing new or special. Know yourself meaning the 'I' real identity if you want to be Free. It is very easy. There has never been any bondage, duality or separation. There is no liberation either. Remove ignorance only. Free yourself from all acquired spiritual and religious concepts and beliefs.

They are all a trap. They themselves are the cause of all mischief and false notion of duality and separation. You are the Self and Free already. No duality. The Self is you. Right here and right now being just as you are. You are that. On enquiry 'who' is bound? The notion of bondage vanishes and so does that of Liberation. The one eternally free alone remains self-revealed. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Remove ignorance and you will understand that me, myself and 'I' is pure egoless, formless consciousness itself. Then you know the Truth about the Oneness, about non-duality and the Kingdom of God is simply Life itself. Life, existence, consciousness is the Reality. That is what the fuss is all about. That is what the Real God is. Look at yourself. Are you conscious? Are you aware of being? There you go sport. That is the Self or God.So simple isn't it? The 'I' is at once you and the Self. You are that consciousness itself literally this very moment.The 'I' is that. Why would anyone deny that being oneself is being the One Self? That is what Self-Realization is simply all about. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Not trying to achieve a new, spiritual or different state or to acquire some special faculty. Realize that the Sought-after Truth is you. Here and now you are that. The plain good ol' everyday you is the Sought-after Truth. Me, my self and 'I'. You are and have always been all along what you Seek to find. Nothing was lost. That is the funny paradox. The Self you Seek to know is truly yourself. Not some special, spiritual or different extra-ordinary Self but the plain good ol' ordinary everyday 'you'. The Reality is nothing new or extra-ordinary but paradoxically the most plain common to all and ordinary. Selling water by the River. Self-appointed spiritual and religious people may pretend that the Self, He, the Reality is something new, spiritual, special or extra-ordinary, but are truly just lying for their own self-gratification or a fee.

The wise will tell that if you see a Buddha on the Road, kill him. Simply because it is just a fraud. A con artist and a liar. There is no such thing. Enlightenment is only a religious myth or spiritual carrot. Obviously the brainwashed spiritual and religious Seeker or believer has been taught lies and given wrong knowledge about the Reality and therefore cannot accept that there is nothing new, special or spiritual about the Self, He, the Reality. One must question all their acquired spiritual and religious beliefs for they are paradoxically all false. Realizing that one's own self is Life expressing itself naturally is knowing the Truth and the Reality. Just like someone cannot see the wind but only it's expression. Everywhere one look one is seeing the expression of this consciousness itself or God, we call it Life. Being alive and aware of being oneself is God. God is 'I' am. The experience is always here and now. He is Life itself. The Self (consciousness) is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Your own existence is the Reality and consciousness. When have you ever been apart or have lost you? So near and so dear. The Self is that 'I' am you know so well. Being alive and aware of being oneself is the Reality. It is 'I' am. That is IT. Only the veiled and ignorant spiritual Seeker and Guru lover foolishly imagine that the Reality or the Self is anything other than this, anything other than simply being oneself naturally. The Self you Seek to know is truly your own self. An ordinary person is already a Buddha. Once you get that there is nothing new to get. You finally got it. Understanding this is Realizing. Stop trying to escape.There is nowhere to go. There is nothing to change, alter or modify. Call off the Search. The Search is a trap. You are what you Seek this very moment. Nothing is missing. Freedom is simply all about being. Not becoming anything. If you have been Seeking for the Truth for years, well realize that it is only because

you have been following the wrong address all this time. You already are at the destination. After all, all spiritual and religious beliefs are false but people are so strongly attached to them that they are blind to thesimple Truth. Yet believing is not knowing. Know the Truth. Remove the veil of acquired ignorance by questioning all your acquired spiritual and religious beliefs. That is the fastest way to Freedom. The bird's way to Freedom. See the false as false. After all, one only 'believes' that there is bondage. Just a false notion or wrong belief. Only believers are bound to their strong beliefs. Believe it on not!Some ignorant and veiled spiritual or religious Seekers still foolishly believe that the Self is something special, spiritual or religious. How foolish. The Self is nothing new, special or apart. It is being oneself. Do not take my word for it. Look it up in the dictionary. It is very easy, the word 'Self' means you. That is what it being pointed to. Gee, you are you. Me, myself and 'I' is the Real-'I'-ty.Thou art that. That is all. So simple. There is nothing more to realize.That is call Self-Realization. The Self you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Know thyself and voila! Know that your own self is the Self you Seek to know. Ignorant spiritual and religious Seekers cry over nothing. How funny! Nothing new or different is to be freshly acquired for the Self or the Reality to be. The Self is already here. You are the Self itself this very moment. Remove ignorance only. Nothing else is necessary. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

The experience is always here and now. The Self can only be understood. There is no reaching the Self. You already are the Self itself this very moment. There is nothing to gain because nothing was ever lost. You are already whole and complete. Again the Self is your self. Here and now you are already that. Call off the Search. What is missing? Only the veil or camouflage of ignorance is to be removed with clear understanding. Not knowing that simply being oneself naturally is always being the One Self is the only Trouble. To know one's true nature is very easy for the ones that understand what is simply being pointed to. After all, no one can become or achieve anything new. Understanding is all. Know the Truth about Freedom. Freedom is not and never will be what spiritual and religious Seekers foolishly believe it is. Realize that only the false notion and wrong knowledge of not being the true Self itself already is all that needs to be removed with understanding. That is what Freedom truly is. That simple. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Reality is already here. Everyone alive is already the Self. There is nothing new or different that needs to be acquired. There never was. Only remove ignorance.And you will have done all that ever needed to be done. The Search for something new, something different, perhaps spiritual or holy is a Trap. Know the Truth! Nothing needs to be changed, altered or modified about oneself for the Reality to be. Freedom has never been about the acquisition of anything new, different, spiritual or special, but all and only about the removal of ignorance. Just this and nothing else. Perhaps you have met spiritual or religious Gurus and Teachers that gives spiritual talks or Satsangs and write book after book and foolishly believe that

they are special beings with spiritual faculties. When in fact they are truly scammers pretending to be holy. Spiritual or religious Enlightenment does not exist. Do not look for Enlightenment because it is only a spiritual carrot or myth. Only the veiled and the ignorant foolishly believe in that non-sense. It is all and only crap. There is no bondage and of course there is no liberation either. Ignorant people only believe that there is. Not knowing that being alive and aware of being is abiding as one's true nature is the only obstacle to Freedom. There never was anything new, spiritual or special to be acquired for Freedom. Spiritual and religious people, Teachers or Gurus only pretend to be holy and to have acquired something special or attained a spiritual state of Enlightenment to only sell water by the River. Just this and nothing else. It is B.S that is only used to entertained and entice the simple, the weak and the dumb to believe the false to be true. Who wants to be a dumb spiritual or religious Sheepo? Wake up and smell the coffee! Wisdom is Freedom. Only ignorance is the false notion of bondage that needs to be removed. The false notion that someone has attained a spiritual state and has become a holy spiritual being is crap. There are no special, spiritual or holy beings. Gurus and spiritual Teachers are all phonies. Only wanna be. Realisation is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Realization has never been about acquiring anything new, different or becoming some holy or spiritual being with special spiritual faculties and all that non-sense? Only self-appointed spiritual Teachers and religious Gurus pretend that they have. Paradoxically these phony spiritual and religious people keep Seekers on a path to nowhere. The ones that pretend to have reached Enlightenment will never reveal the simple Truth to Seekers. Know the Truth! The Realization is simply removing the ignorance that camouflages the simple Truth about one's true or real nature with common sense and clear

understanding. That is all. Nothing else is required for Freedom from all bondage. Understanding alone is Realizing. The Self you Seek to know is nothing new, nothing whatsoever spiritual or holy but simply what you are right now and have always been your whole life naturally. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ A spiritual or religious person will never tell you the Truth. That you can take it to the bank. Only fools and veiled ignorant Sheepos falsely believe that others are special spiritual or holy beings. That false notion of holy spiritual or special beings becomes a cloud of ignorance and a reference point. Sucking up and worshipping illusion has become common practice for the veiled, the ignorant and so many. It is simply reverse psychology.Foolishly believing that someone else has become a spiritual or holy being, the fools or followers want that same experience for themselves. It is all crap of course but they do not know that. Stop imagining that Freedom has anything to do with spiritual or religious states or some blazing light. Freedom is not the acquisition of anything new, special or spiritual whatsoever but only removing the false notion of being bound. The spiritual or religious Seeker, worshipper, follower, disciple, student, devotee, apostle, bodhisvatta, etc that do not want to understand the Reality but rather Seek Freedom as something new, spiritual or special, is bound to die ignorant of the simple Truth. Only bound to an idea of being bound. How funny. As the saying goes, one can only take a horse to water but cannot make him drink. The Realization is not achieving or attaining anything spiritual or religious. Freedom has nothing to do with spirituality or any religions. Wisdom is Freedom. Only ignorance is bondage.

Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Reality is the actuality of existence. Being alive and aware of being here and now is 'I' am. The Reality is the knowing that you are present or present awareness. Ignorant people look for the Reality far and away, some even believing in other realms. There are no other realms or realities. There is only the here and now. Just this and nothing else is the Reality. All the rest is illusion. Reality or illusion. What is Real? Have a look and see the false as false. The false or the illusion and B.S. cannot stand up to investigation. The Reality is that which is always present and can never be denied. Instead of looking for something new or different, notice that which always is. Remove ignorance with understanding. Believing any spiritual concepts or religious ideologies is not knowing the Truth but always cultivating ignorance, lies and illusion. Know the Truth for that alone sets you Free from the false notion of bondage and duality. Not knowing how close the Truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ So near and so dear. How close to oneself is the Truth? The Seeker is the Sought. One's own self is the Sought-after Truth. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ Call off the Search. There is no bondage or liberation. Freedom is already here. Any spiritual concepts of dual-'I'-ty, or some small 'I' and big 'I' are false. Any spiritual concepts of a lower self and higher Self, ego or two selves that ever existed are false. Any spiritual or religious concepts of a past life and future life, karma, dharma, heaven and hell are false. Empty the garbage can of ignorance or acquired spiritual and religious trash AKA knowledge, concepts and beliefs. Paradoxically the ignorant spiritual and religious Seeker foolishly believes the false to be trueand will reject the simple Truth as being false. A strange paradox.

Remove the veil or camouflage of ignorance acquired from spiritual books and others. Acquired spiritual and religious knowledge is the greatest ignorance. That is a must for Freedom from all bondage. Question all your acquired spiritual and religious beliefs. They are the only illusory chains and obstacle to Freedom. Get to know your real identity with self-inquiry or self investigationand you will easily discover and know this Omni-presence or Oneness to simply be nothing other than Life itself. The Sought-after Truth is not some special, spiritual or religious state, but what we are. Our true nature is Life and Life is God. That is the imperishable Self present in all sentient beings. Paradoxically Life does not know death. That which is born must die but consciousness itself always remains. Liberation is our very nature. We are that. The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Did you know that Freedom from ALL religions is paradoxically Freedom from all bondage? After all, no one is born religious. Acquired religious beliefs and concepts are brainwashing, programming or conditioning. Paradoxically all religions are false. That is why spiritual and religious people do not know the Truth. Religions are fabricated by worshippers, believers, followers and devotees. To believe in any God is bondage. To know that there is no such thing as a God is Freedom. Some people want to believe and worship illusion what to do. Others fear illusion because of ignorance. How can anyone know the simple Truth when everything they are told since childhood are lies? How can anyone get to the destination when they are given the wrong address? Obviously it is impossible.

Therefore wisdom is to question all religions and realize that they paradoxically are the poison and not the cure. The Reality has nothing do to with anything spiritual or religious. It never has. Some people falsely believe in something spiritual and holy. If you have been a long time earnest Seeker and have not found the Sought-after Truth by now when all the wise will tell you that it is already undeniably present right here and right now. It is only because you have been given the wrong address or given wrong knowledge about what the Reality, He, the Self or what so called God truly and simply is. The Reality is simply Life. Life is one's real nature. To be alive is to always abide as the Self and that alone is the Reality. Not some spiritual or religious mambo-jambo but the simple fact of being alive naturally. To look for the Reality, He or the Self as something new, spiritual or religious is to always foolishly look away from it. There is nothing to be freshly acquired for the Reality to be. If you are aware of being alive here and now, you are therefore abiding as your real nature AKA Life itself. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ The actuality of being alive is the Sought-after Truth. What can be easier than that? To be or not to be? Be still and know that simply being alive naturally this very moment is God. Be still and know or understand that 'I' exist or 'I' am here and now is the Reality. So simple is the ultimate Truth. Who ever said the Reality was anything else? The ultimate Truth is so simple. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Only ignorant spiritual and religious people believe the false to be true. The undeniable Reality is nothing other than the simple fact of one's own being. Look at your self. Look at your own being. You know that you are. 'I' am is certain. So simple.

Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The simple Truth may not be enough for the ignorant but it is enough for the wise. That is what the wise have understood and pointed as the absolute Reality for millennia. Only pointing to Life or the core of one's own being. To be or to exist is the Sought-after Truth. Knowing the Self (consciousness/Life) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Who is not alive and aware of being? Everybody knows 'I' am. You are or 'I' exist is the only sure fact. One's own existence is the True Beloved. You are what you Seek this very moment. Life itself. Freedom is so simple. Nothing to it. After all, no one can deny one's own being. What should someone do for Freedom? Do nothing! You are the Self and Free already. Understanding is all. To know the Self or the Reality is child-like simplicity. Look at your own existence. Look at your own being. The Self is your own self. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at your self, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ You do not have to pray or meditate to God. You are God. 'I' am is that. The Kingdom is in you. Life is what is naturally and effortlessly happening presently. The experience is always here and now. Life or existence or being is always presently. Being aware of being here and now is 'I' am. 'I' exist is the absolute Reality.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Life present is consciousness present, one and the same presence of existence. The words Self, He, the Reality or God are simply pointing to Life or consciousness. Existence or Life is the Self. Knowing that you are is consciousness. To be alive and aware of being oneself is at once consciousness and 'I' am. Everybody alive is abiding as the Self, He, the Reality. Nothing was ever lost. Simply overlooked. Some ignorant people 'imagine' themselve to be somehow apart or separated from their own ordinary existence. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

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The Self is existence. Existence present is the same as being. Therefore consciousness present is 'I' am. Why should anyone Seek it. Call off the Search. The Self, He, the Reality is that 'I' am you know so well already. The Search is the Trap. Did you fall for the spiritual and religious Trap? Did you fall for the holy and special beings, for the Saints, Masters, Teachers, Prophets, Yogis, Buddhas and Jnanisthat always talk about a spiritual or religious God? These are religious and spiritual people that are only putting on a show to entice Seekers, believers, worshippers to create and cultivate a religion or Teaching based on false imagination. Religions are also called Sects and Cults. When you have a spiritual or religious leader and a bunch of followers it is nothing other than a cult. Religious and spiritual people will never point to this simple Truth and the Reality. They require the simple Truth to remained camouflaged. All these selfappointed spiritual and religious people do not want Seekers to know and remove ignorance, for they would loose the spell and veil that makes them popular. Ignorant spiritual and religious people always want to find, listen, worship, follow and wipe the asses of anyone appearing spiritual and holy usually with an ecstatic smile of happiness on their face. Some people like the smell of their own farts so much so that they will give so called Satsang. And a bunch blind idiots will sit there and wait for a holy transmission while believing that their beloved spiritual Guru or Teacher is the Self or the Reality. Oops. Didn't anyone tell you? So near and so dear. You are Life itself. To understand that to be alive is to abide as the Self/consciousness is Freedom. Just this and nothing else. Present here and now, what else would the Self, He, the Reality be?

You yourself are the natural expression of this pure consciousness itself by simply being alive and aware. The natural state of being. To be alive is to abide as this consciousness itself.That is what Life is. The natural activity of being alive and aware of being is this consciousness itself. That is all. So simple. How much time does it take to know that you are. Present awareness? Consciousness is undeniably present right here and right now. Look at your own self. Who is not aware of himself? Everybody knows and says 'I' am. After all, what is more obvious than one's own being? No one can deny one's own existence and say 'I' am not or 'I' do not exist. Everyone knows 'I' am. One's own existence is this consciousness itself. That is the Reality selfshining in plain sight. Everyone knows the Self or this consciousness so well already not as anything new, different or special but simply as one's own being, as 'I' am. Say 'I' am to yourself. See! You undeniably know that you are and you like it.Awareness of being is bliss. It is all so simple. That is paradoxically the only difficulty. What else would anyone believe the Self is anyway? Like a fish in the water that cries that he is thirsty. One can only laugh.What is missing? Being alive is to abide as the Self. That is all there is to understand or realize. Not knowing that simply being conscious is this consciousness itself AKA the Self is the only trouble. That is what everyone's true nature simply is. No time or effort is required for consciousness to be. If you are conscious, awake or aware here and now you are undeniably abiding as the Reality. Are you conscious? Are you aware? Voila! Understanding alone is Freedom. The experience is always here and now. All there is to realize is that being alive and aware of being oneself is to be the Reality. The only trouble is searching for something new or special. The Reality is nothing new or special. It is what you are. Here and now you are that. One could ask why do spiritual and religious people put on a show if there is nothing spiritual or religious about the Reality?

It is called illusion. People like pretending to be holy to entice and entertain the ignorant. Given spiritual carrots to chase after. Some people like to worship and others like to be worshipped. Who doesn't like a bunch of dumb Sheepos sucking up to them and take care of them while being loved and worshipped as a special or holy being? If they are lucky the special being will breathe, fart or stare into their eyes and transmit some Shakti or Guru's Grace etc. How funny is that? It is so laughable. Some people want to worship and love illusion. There is nothing anyone can do to help them. Love and attachments for illusion or the false is so strong with some people. Oh well. That's life. Do you know anyone that fits in that basket? I met plenty and some are still looking for a Guru to fall in love with. I even witness Seekers worshipping pictures of dead people or Ghosts they call their Guru. Forget Gurus and dead people. They cannot help you. Only removing ignorance will. After all, the answer to who am 'I' is not found in the graveyard of the past. The experience is here and now. Existence is now only. Life is Now only.That is the Reality. That is what is being pointed to. The past is dead and the future doesn't exist. All that is undeniable is right Now. Life is always happening presently. Not a moment ago or the next moment but Now only. The actuality of existence is always presently. The concept of time is illusion. All there truly is Now. The past existed in the present and the future will be the present as well. No one escapes the present or Now. Forget the past and forget the future and notice what is really happening right here and now. That is where the magic truly is. We call it Life. Being alive and aware of being presently is 'I' am. Freedom is very easy if you are told the Truth.After all, there is no bondage. Wrong acquired knowledge and ignorance is the only cause of all mischief.

Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Anyone that believes that the Self, He, the Reality is something new, special or spiritual believe the false to be true and bound to that belief. Bondage and liberation is only psychological. Some people 'believe' in illusion or a false notion of bondage. Remove ignorance and voila! Freedom is so easy. There never was anything spiritual or holy about the Reality. The experience is always here and now. To be alive is to be the Reality. The only difference whatsoever between a so called Sage, Saint, Master, Enlightened Buddha and Jnani or between the wise and the ignorant is understanding. Common sense is all that is required to remove the veil of ignorance. It is paradoxically very easy. There is no reaching, no becoming or attaining anything spiritual, different or religious whatsoever. That is the Open Secret to Freedom. Understanding is Realizing. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Due to ignorance some people believe in separation, duality and bondage. Of course that is only false a belief that have never been investigated. False imagination. There is no separation, no duality or bondage. One only believes that there is due to ignorance. Know the Truth and it instantly sets you Free from ignorance. Not striving to reach, attain or become anything. Just realize that to be alive is to be God. That is all. God is Life itself. Just this and nothing else. Realize that there is no spiritual or religious God sitting somewhere in the sky. There never was. A holy God found in holy books and scriptures never existed. Just a religious myth. The Reality is here and now. It is 'I' am.

Whoever told you that you are not the Self and Free already? Here and now you are that. The Self or the Reality being pointed to is not something new, spiritual or special. The Self is consciousness. Plain common ordinary everyday consciousness. Nothing new or spiritual. To be conscious is this consciousness itself. That is one's unchanging true nature and natural state of being. Look at yourself here and now. Are you aware of being? Consciousness is indeed present because you know that you are present. Present awareness or awareness of being present is at once this consciousness and 'I' am. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Whoever said Freedom was hard or difficult? It is so easy. You gain nothing new, special, different or spiritual because nothing was ever lost. Self-appointed spiritual and religious Teachers may fool you to believe they have reached or acquired something new, special and holy but that is all lies and B.S. Only pretending to be for self-gratification and a fee. Ignorant Spiritual Seekers will spend their whole life foolishly Seeking some special state of consciousness. While the wise understood that to simply be conscious is this consciousness itself. Funny or what! What did you foolishly believe He, the Self or the Reality truly is, a blazing light? Of course not! There is absolutely nothing new, special or spiritual about one's true nature. There never was. Some people only foolishly believe that there is. Leave the Search for spiritual and holy states to the ignorant and the veiled. Realize that to be aware is awareness. To be conscious is consciousness. The natural state of being. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Consciousness present is self-shining naturally as wakeful-ness or aware-ness.

To be aware is to be awake from sleep or conscious. In other word wakeful-ness is the Self. The natural state of being aware and remaining aware all day long is this consciousness itself AKA the Self. That is what the Self, He, the Reality, the Oneness or God simply is. Consciousness is being conscious. Nothing extra-ordinary but the most common, plain, boring and ordinary. A funny paradox. Another name for this consciousness itself is sentience, cognizance or awareness. Meaning is you are not dead or asleep you are awake and aware. To be awake from sleep is to be so called Enlightened. That is the funny joke of Enlightenment. Everyone's real nature is consciousness AKA Life. That is the Reality and actuality of being. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Who told you the Self, He, the Reality was anything else? You never lost anything. You are already there. Call off the Search. 'I' am is the destination you have never left. One's own existence is God. It is that 'I' am you know so well. Nothing special or spiritual. So near and so dear. That is the diamond in your pocket. The true beloved you cannot kiss is your own existence or your own being. How can you kiss yourself? You are that. Consciousness, Life or God are just different names for you. Nothing new. If you are alive and aware of being present here and now, you are abiding as the Reality this very moment. Consciousness present is at once Life and the knowing that you are present or present awareness which is 'I' am. It is all so simple. It is laughable. One doesn't have to pray, worship or meditate to be. 'I' am is always with you. Awareness of being alive here and now is 'I' am. Forget all about spirituality and religions simply because they cannot help you. If you investigate you will realize that they do not point to the Reality but only to illusion.

So are the Buddhas, holy beings and Gurus you may come across on your path or on the Road. Any spiritual God is only found in fantasy books called holy books and scriptures.Nowhere else. The Reality is not found in books but undeniably present here and now as one's own being. Rejoice! You are He, you are that, you are Free this very moment. To simply be alive and aware of being oneself or sentient is to be IT. God or Life present is that 'I' am you know so well as your own affectionate being. The Reality is paradoxically so common, so plain and so ordinary that the veiled and the ignorant Seeker keeps on missing it. Simply because it is nothing new, spiritual or special. To be alive and conscious is at once being yourself and God. That is all. The Reality has never been and never will anything spiritual or religious in anyway. Know the simple Truth. God is simply ordinary everyday consciousness or being and remaining aware. Here and now you are alive and you are aware. Therefore you are God, you are awareness, you are Life. All are different names for the activity of being and consciousness. In other words God is 'I' am. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Nothing new, spiritual or special about being is there? That is IT. That is why Seekers always miss it. Because it is nothing new, spiritual or special. Consciousness is existence or Life. To be is the Reality. No consciousness present, no 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Reality is nothing new or apart from you but your very existence. That is right. To be alive and aware of being is the Reality itself. That is what God truly is. You may come across religious and spiritual people from East and West pretending to be holy that talk about God this and God that, but that is all crap and fiction.What God? Can you show me God?

Anyone looking for something new, spiritual or religious to call Reality is going to be Seeking for a long time. A spiritual and religious God or holy presence is just a myth. A God of spirituality and religions never existed. A myth that ignorant people worship. Just simple changeless being is one's true nature. If you want to know your real nature, it is very easy. All you have to do is to empty yourself from all the spiritual and religious crap you have acquired from books and others over the years. Acquired spiritual and religious knowledge is the greatest ignorance. If you want Freedom then understand what is being pointed as the Reality.Nothing else. If you don't want to understand, then you will remain bound to ignorance only. The choice is yours. What I share here is only what I found out to be true for myself.Period end. Are the pointers shared here true or false? Find out for yourself. Have a look and see. Drink if you are thirsty. I am not asking, charging or wanting anything from anybody. I am not trying to make a name for myself or turn simple pointers into a religion or a teaching. If you resonate to what is being shared here, then good for you and if you do not resonate with what I am saying you can leave and never comeback. Makes no difference to me, I don't really care what others say and do. The only reason some people do not know the Self, He, the Reality is due to misunderstanding. Ask any Seeker what is the Self, He, the Reality and they will have no clue. They do not know. The ignorant believes that the Self or consciousness is either beyond description or cannot be pointed to and understood but that is not true. Understanding consciousness is paradoxically very easy. Most Seekers believe it is something new, something special or spiritual but it is not. Obviously anyone who is strongly attached or brainwashed to believe the false notion that the Self, He, the Reality or God is something new, special, spiritual or religious,

veiled and shielded themselves that they cannot realize the simple Truth. They are not open to hear and understand what the Truth is. Just like a parachute will only work when it is open. To be open is to have a look and see. Paradoxically the only reason why anyone falsely believe that there is bondage and liberation is only because of false promises told by spiritual and religious people. It is not true. There is no bondage and no liberation either. Freedom is always here. Blindly believing others to speak Truth is not knowing the Truth for oneself. One must be empty or naked so to speak from all acquired spiritual and religious concepts to be open to understand this simple Truth. If not then there are inevitably resistance, conflicts and confusion. Ignorant people shun, are afraid and destroy what they do not understand. Mostly people do not question their acquired beliefs and will not understand this. Some will question and investigate. That is the only reason why some get it and some do not. The false cannot stand up to investigation. Have a look and see. Why wait when it is already here and now? Of course anyone programmed to believe in a blue man with a flute, a flying monkey or angels in the sky really exist or existed, then they will have a hard time knowing what is Real and realizing the simple Truth. As they say one can only take a horse to water but cannot make him drink. One must want to know the Reality. After all, anyone who has been seeking for decades must eventually come to the realization that they have been looking in the wrong direction. A strange paradox. The Truth is not anything spiritual or religious. It never was and never will be. That which is undeniably present right here and right now is the Soughtafter Truth. So near and so dear.What the Self, He, the Reality truly is, is simply Life. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~

Life is the true Beloved. The diamond in your pocket. Life is the Sought-after Truth and God. That is the Omni-presence. Life is naturally present in all sentient beings. All living beings are so called 'Buddhas'. Everyone alive is the Self itself already or God. Another name for Life is consciousness or existence. We all experience this consciousness directly as pure being.Being alive is the natural state of being. Consciousness or the Self is nothing new or apart but what we are and have always been naturally. Being alive is the experience itself. That is what is truly being pointed to as the Self, He, the Reality. There is no waiting for anything. Waiting for what? If you are alive you are a Buddha. You cannot be anything else. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Nothing was ever lost. That is the Open Secret. You are Life. Thou art that. That is the simple meaning of the word "that', it simply means you are Life itself. Understanding this is Freedom. The real meaning behind the words be still and know that 'I' am God, is not pointing to someone else outside oneself, to some Guru, Prophet or Teacher but that 'I' exist is the Reality. One's own existence is the Divine. One's own self, being and existence is the Sought-after Truth. 'I' exist here and now is 'I' am. 'I' am is that existence or Reality being pointed to. Closer to oneself than one's own breath. One's own undeniable existence needs no proof. 'I' am is always certain. You know that you are and you like it. There is nothing more to realize. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no becoming anything. There never was anything new, special or spiritual to be freshly acquired. The Realization is to simply understand that to be alive is to be God, the Self, He, the Reality itself.

That is all. No time or effort is required to know that you are. No one can deny one's own self and being and say 'I' do not exist. 'I' am is always with you. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Meditation, yogas, bhakti, bajhans, mantras etc are only for the ignorant that want to become, reach or achieve some imaginary spiritual state of 'Enlightenment'. What the veiled and conditioned spiritual Seeker does not realize is that the so called state of 'Enlightenment' is simply being oneself. Not reaching, becoming or achieving anything new, anything spiritual or special. Freedom is already here. It is not to be acheived. Any spiritual effort to become anything new or special is the bondage. Only removing the veil of ignorance with understanding is all that is necessary. Because of misunderstanding and religious conditioning some people will spend their whole life worshipping a dead Guru, a Preacher, Teacher or a Prophet and not realize the true meaning behind the words. Foolishly worshipping the graveyards of the past and messengers that always come and go and not hear the message. Life is not to be found in the graveyard of the past or somewhere in the future. But recognized present within your own dwelling here and now. The Kingdom of Life is the Oneness. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ The Search is the Trap. Paradoxically one can only found the Sought-after Truth by not Seeking. One's own plain boring ordinary everyday self and affectionate everyday being is the Real Self and Truth. One's own self is the Self. There is no finding or reaching consciousness but only understanding it. People that pretend to have experienced or reach the Self or the Reality are just full of crap and saying all sorts of lies to entice the veiled and ignorant spiritual and religious Seeker. Whatever they will promise you is not true.

Anyone spiritual or so called Enlightened Gurus, Masters and Teachers are the greatest illusion. Love is blind. Love for illusion is so strong with some ignorant people that they will blindly follow the words and wishes of their beloved Guru. Whatever the Guru says goes as being the ultimate Truth. Some ignorant people called it "putting faith in the Master". Blind Sheepos, never questioning or investigating if the crap or spiritual garbage they have acquired from their Guru and have been mislead to believe is the Truth. Once you realize that an Enlightened Guru or Buddha is in fact truly an ordinary person, the spell dissolves instantly. Meaning that any so called Enlightened Guru, Teacher, Master, Sage, Buddha or Jnani are not more Enlightened than your neighbor's Grand-Mother. They know it and you don't. They camouflage the real Truth. They will promise ignorant Seekers salvation and Freedom if they worship, follow or be at the service of the Guru. That is the simple Truth that self-appointed Gurus, Teachers and Buddhas do not want Seekers to know. If you ever see a Buddha on the Road kill him, not worship him.Why suck up to illusion? Know the truth. Any spiritual Guru, Master or Teacher is not your Friend. Freedom is simply to understand that being alive and aware of being is the Reality. A spiritual or religious state of 'Enlightenment' does not exist. It is only a religious myth. Self-appointed spiritual and religious people are only Seeking recognition and to acquire disciples. Usually having something to sell to others, some will even sell silence. It is nothing but a scam to entice Seekers. Offering spiritual practices, rituals and techniques which are only getting their followers deeper into ignorance. Forget all about Gurus, Teachers, Masters and Jnanis. These people are only concerned with themselves. They may look the part, appearing spiritual and holy but it is all and only for show. Spiritual Teachers and Gurus are simply people that are taking advantage of other people's ignorance. Paradoxically there is no Truth in spirituality or religions. Some people worship others or religious deities out of ignorance.

Only an imaginary God created from superstition and religious concepts. The Reality has never been anything new, special or apart from anyone alive. Freedom is not and never will be something new or spiritual to be acquired from others. So don't go foolishly Seek a holy being to give you something that you do not have already. That is the cosmic joke or paradox. You are what you Seek to find this very moment. To Seek it is to look away from it. Call off the Search. You are that already. Just understanding that simply being alive and aware is always abiding as one's true nature is Freedom. The word God is just another name for Life. That is the Realization. No one is ever apart from it and never not experiencing it directly everyday single day as plain ordinary sentience, consciousness or awareness of being. That is what 'I' am represents. Some will look to silence or mental stillness to discover something new but that is a mistake. The Self, He, the Reality is not found in silence or stillness but present as awareness of being. Knowing that you are alive is awareness of being. Awareness of being is 'I' am. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The Self, He, the Reality that some people call God is not something to 'believe' in, but to realize or understand is what you are. Being alive is being the Self or God if you like. Spiritual and religious people have been looking away from the Self, He, the Reality and not realizing it. Not understanding that being alive is the activity of consciousness itself or the Self is the only trouble. The Self, He, the Reality is the natural activity of being alive and aware of being. Are you aware? Are you alive? See! You know that you are. Nothing extra-ordinary about the Self.Who is not aware of himself? It is pure awareness of being. Everybody knows and says 'I' am.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Reality is not any special or spiritual 'I' am but simply the knowing that you are alive and kicking 'I' am. Of course this simple Truth will never be found in spiritual and religious books, because the people that wrote them did not know themselves. Realize that all religions are truly sects and cults. Just this and nothing else. It doesn't matter how old or how integrated a religion is in society, the fact remains the same. A Guru or Teacher is the leader and is followed by disciples, followers and a religion is born. That is all. The Reality is always here and now. Consciousness is not acquired from others but present as Life itself. The real Truth is you. Not something apart or far away from you. You are that. You are alive, you are aware of being. You are that consciousness itself this very moment. Consciousness is sentience. The activity of being and remaining aware or awake all day long. The Self, He, the Reality is simply the activity of being conscious or awake from sleep. That natural activity of being conscious is called awareness. To be aware and remain aware is aware-ness. Know the Truth. Remove misunderstanding with the correct understanding and voila! You have done all that need to be done. You gain nothing new because nothing was ever lost. Consciousness is the natural Living presence, power and intelligence we all like to be that we call Life. Call it the Self, He, the thoughtless Reality. It does not matter what you call consciousness. The simple point to understand is that to be conscious is this consciousness itself. To understand that to be conscious is consciousness itself is Realizing the Self. Paradoxically it is very easy. No effort is required to be conscious. If you are awake from sleep you are therefore conscious. You do not have to reach, to strive to become, attain or cultivate consciousness.

Only an ignorant fool would strive to reach the Self or try to become something new or different. Look at yourself. Have a look at your true nature. Discern between the permanent and what comes and goes. Be still, and voila! What remains present and unchanging if you pause thoughts? You yourself remain present and aware. Consciousness remains the same. Only thoughts will disappear, just like clouds disappearing on the unchanging sky. Notice what remains present and unchanging is your thoughtless true nature. You are that present awareness. Always been all along your entire Life. It is nothing new. The words Self, He, the Reality or God are just other names for you. Seeing is being the Self, He, the Reality.Hearing is being the Self, He, the Reality. Being cognizant, being aware, being conscious is being the Self, He, the Reality. That is IT. That is what the fuss is all about. So near and so dear. To be conscious is this consciousness itself AKA the Self. In other words to be awake or aware is present awareness itself. What else would it be? Consciousness is undeniably present as the knowing that you are present. Simply because you are that. There is no consciousness and you but you present as consciousness itself. Look at yourself here and now. You know that you are. Be still and realize that 'I' am is the Real you. 'I' am that 'I' am is the Realization. You know that you are and you like it. That is IT. 'I' am is the destination you have never left. Awareness of being is consciousness. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What else did you expect the Self, He, the Reality to be? A blazing light? A beautiful spiritual experience? That is only crap or spiritual carrots. Being is the Reality. Just this and nothing else.

The Self was never lost! Just overlooked Who told you that you are not the real Self already? Look at your own self and you have found it. Gee! you are you. Call off the Search. The Search is itself the Trap. Just understand that you already are what you Seek this very moment. Striving to become anything new or different is the only bondage. How can you kiss yourself on your own lips? Understanding alone is Freedom. When the Seeker ask "why should I do for Freedom?" "Should I practice or meditate?"" Should I practice keeping quiet?" The answer will surprise you! Do nothing at all. No practice. Understand only. There is nothing to practice. Practice for what? All practice of any kind for Freedom are paradoxically bondage. The wise will tell you that there is nothing you have to do. Just understand. Get rid of ignorance. There is no reaching, attaining or becoming anything. There never was.That is the Secret to Freedom. Some people may tell ignorant Seekers to do this or to do that, but they are only full of crap. Self-appointed Gurus are nothing but scammers praying on the weak and the ignorant. Being yourself is already being what you Seek. You cannot become more of what you already are. Freedom is not about becoming a "More-On". It all works in reverse. Remove ignorance only. People foolishly believe what others disguised as spiritual and religious people to speak the Truth when in fact they are lying about the simple Truth. That is another funny paradox. If it looks holy and spiritual then it is crap. Funny or what? Ignorant of this simple truth, innumerable methods under different denominations, such as yoga, bhakti, karma, each again with many modifications, are being taught with great skill and in intricate detail only to entice the seekers and confuse their minds. So also are the religions and sects and dogmas. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Beware of so called spiritual and religious people and kill the Buddha you see on the road, because it is a fraud. Spiritual Gurus and Teachers are not your friend. They will screw you in the name of Truth and Freedom. Prove to yourself. How long have you been waiting and searching for the Self that was never lost? The rule of thumb is very simple. It is all a paradox. The more holy and extra-ordinary the more crap it truly is. Spirituality and religions are the poison, not the cure. Again a paradox. Spiritual or religious beliefs are bondage.Any spiritual or religious practice is bondage. Any spiritual or religious rituals, karma, yoga, meditation, bhakti or devotion etc is bondage. All acquired spiritual and religious beliefs, practices and rituals must go. That is what Freedom is about. Again, don't "believe' anything I say. Why should you? Have a look and prove it to yourself. How long are you going to Search for it? If after five, ten or twenty years you are still crying where is IT? Then you have to be honest with yourself and realize that you have been looking in the wrong direction all this time. How much time should it take to find this Reality when it is already here and now? It shouldn't take long. It is like a fish in the Ocean searching for the Ocean. Paradoxically common sense is not always common. Instead of looking for something new to add on to yourself to call the Reality simply notice what is always undeniably present and unchanging. That is the Reality. What is always present and unchanging? YOU ARE. Aren't you aware of being yourself here and now? 'I' am is always with you. No one can deny one's own being. 'I' exist is certain. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To be aware of being is the Sought-after Truth. Therefore you are the Self you Seek to know. Funny no! There is no bondage. One only "believes' that there is. That is the funny

joke or paradox. It is all and only psychological. Just a false notion "believed" to be true. Why "believe" the false to be true? Question your "beliefs." Free yourself from ignorance and religious concepts. Remove ignorance with understanding. Understanding is all. No amount of time or effort will ever bring upon Freedom. It is impossible. Any effort is a waste of time. Simply because Freedom is not reached. Freedom is always here. People Seeking Freedom are only bound to ignorance. Not knowing that what they Seek is what they already are is the only trouble. There is no bondage and there is no liberation. Only the removal of ignorance is Freedom. Look at yourself. Are you alive? Are you aware of being present here and now? YES! Voila! You know that you are present, present awareness is 'I' am. Don't you know that the Sought-after Truth is already present here and now and self shining in plain sight? After all, what is always undeniably present here and now that one cannot deny? One's own being! Like frantically Seeking a precious diamond that is paradoxically present within your own pocket all along. Present within your own dwelling. Life, consciousness, existence is the higher power. Life is the Self, He, the Reality or the real God being pointed to. Being alive and aware of being is the experience. Being is so simple. What effort do you have to make to be? Nothing new, special or spiritual. One's own existence is the Divine. God is 'I' am. To be or not to be. Everybody knows that they are alive. Know yourself and you know this Oneness, this Omni-presence or God to be you. Nothing new. Gee! yoU aRe yoU. Tat Tvam Asi. Thou art that. You are Life or consciousness. Consciousness is undeniably present because you are aware of being. If you know you are alive it is because Life is paradoxically present and self-shining as awareness.

Life or consciousness present is awareness of being present or present awareness which is known to all as 'I' am. What you Seek is what you are right here and right now naturally. So near and so dear. Being alive and aware of being oneself is at once God and 'I' am. Know the Truth! Any spiritual or religious God never existed but only in myths and legends. Found in holy books and stories. Eastern and western mythology is where you will find God and Gods. The Real God or the Reality is simply Life itself.That is the experience. Nothing new. Consciousness is the Real presence of existence that we call Life. To be or to exist is 'I' am. Everybody knows and says 'I' am. No one can deny one's own being. That is IT. 'I' am is the Self and yourself. Non duality means no two selves or ego. You are egoless, formless consciousness AKA Life. Ego is not! Otherwise do you admit of two selves... If you seek the ego you will find, it does not exist. That is the way to get rid of it. Look for it and it will not be found. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Know thyself. Duality and separation never existed. There is no ego or personal self present then who are you? Everybody is already the Self and Free, they simply do not know it. Only remove ignorance and voila! Know thyself and you know the Truth. Know the simple Truth and it sets you Free instantly from ignorance.So simple. The ultimate Truth is so simple. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Forget everything and you are there. Acquired spiritual and religious knowledge is the greatest ignorance. Freedom is to burn all the spiritual and religious books you have ever come across. Simply because spiritual and religious books only point to illusion, false imagination and lies. Yet some may ask why do I write these words when I tell others to throw away all the holy and spiritual books. Words are used to tell you to get rid of spiritual concepts and religious

beliefs acquired from holy books and others. It may seem like a contradiction and it is.Just like spirituality and religions are the poison not the cure. Obviously if you tell anyone who believe themselves to be special, spiritual or religious that the Self, He, the Reality or so called God is nothing whatsoever spiritual or religious, they will go up in arms screaming. People will defend their acquired spiritual and religious beliefs, stand up for their programming or conditioning. Attachment to the false and love for illusion is so strong with some people that nothing can help them understand the simple Truth. Some people get it and some don't. It is just the way it is. Not everyone is open to know themselves. Some people take confort in their spiritual and religious beliefs. Paradoxically a thorn is used to remove another thorn. The Reality is not something to be found in any spiritual or religious books. The Reality is what you are naturally this very moment. Here and now you are that. To be alive and awake from sleep is at once being and consciousness. Awareness of being is 'I' am. To be alive, conscious or aware is the Sought-after Truth. The natural state of being common to all. That is what the Reality simply is. Nothing new, spiritual or special about being aware of being. It is the knowing that you are. Here ignorance is removed with understanding. Understanding is all. Not striving to become, attain or achieve anything new, different, spiritual or special. No time or effort is required for Freedom. Understanding is the best medicine to remove ignorance. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The word realize means understand. That is what Freedom is all about. No understanding, no realizing. Realizing the Self is understanding consciousness. Not striving, Seeking or becoming anything.

There never was a mind to go beyond, there is no ego to kill or overcome, that is all religious garbage. Anyone who cultivates silence or waits for something new to be experienced or freshly acquired, perhaps a spiritual transmission or spiritual event to call Freedom will die ignorant. Flush all acquired spiritual and religious crap down the toilet.Remove ignorance and voila! That is all what Freedom is. The removal of any false notion of separation and duality. To be conscious is this consciousness itself. No one ever fails to experience it directly. Consciousness is already here. Undeniably present within your own dwelling. To be alive and conscious or awake from sleep everyday is to abide as that. Understanding is Realizing. Not acquiring or becoming anything new. Understanding consciousness is the Realization. That is all. Why would anyone wait for Freedom or Seek consciousness when consciousness is undeniably present here and now? Consciousness is obviously always present with everyone alive but because it is not understood it is therefore simply overlooked. To understand consciousness, one must explain this consciousness and of course point to this ordinary everyday common to all consciousness. Again, nothing special about recognizing what you already are and have always been. There is no becoming anything new or different.There never was.You are already that. There is no achieving anything spiritual or reaching some religious goal.Only understanding. There is no bondage and liberation. Enlightenment is a religious myth and hoax used to entice ignorant Seekers. Only by hearing and reading written words Seekers acquired wrong knowledge and took on a veil of ignorance and paradoxically with the use of a few clear direct pointers or words to the simple Truth about one's own self the veil of ignorance dissolves instantly. One must understand what is being pointed to as the Self, He, the Reality in order to recognize it present as oneself. Understanding is all that is required.

The one would does not wish to understand this consciousness will remain veiled. No understanding, no Wisdom, no Freedom. Only ignorance is bondage. Obviously consciousness is easily recognized if simply pointed to. It is at once Life and one's own self. To recognize one's true nature, He, the Self, the Reality etc, is very easy. It is so near and so dear. No one wise ever said it was hard or difficult. After all, it is already undeniably present here and now. Anyone who Seeks consciousness as something new, different or far away is only looking away from it. Nothing new or special will ever be the Reality but paradoxically illusion. To be open to simplicity and the most plain, common and ordinary is the key. Understanding what is being pointed as one's true nature is necessary. It is nothing new. Like the word 'water' will not make you wet and the word 'fire' will not burn you. Don't get hung up on the words. The word is not the actuality. What the words are pointing to is. Just like a sign on the Road is not the destination. Words are just pointers. Just this and nothing else. The words here are just pointing to that. No Teaching, no method or practice is offered. Just simple pointers. The only difference here is that nothing new, spiritual, special or extraordinary is pointed to but paradoxically the most plain, the most common, the most ordinary everyday presence of Life everyone knows so well already. Nothing spiritual here or some imaginary religious concepts, beliefs or ideology. Only the fact or actuality of being alive here and now is pointed to as one's true nature. Again nothing spiritual or religious. Nothing extra-ordinary or special but plain and ordinary. Anyone can easily remove the veil of ignorance with understanding. If there is a will, there is a way. The Reality is paradoxically nothing whatsoever spiritual or religious.It never was. The Reality is here and now. Being alive and aware of being is the Reality. That is what 'I' am represents. Pure awareness of being.

It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Freedom is not a special or spiritual state. Freedom is to simply know the Truth. Freedom is the removal of ignorance only. Not the acquisition of anything new. Like a finger pointing at the moon. All that is pointed to here is Life. One's own being or affectionate existence is the Reality or God. The word God is just another name for Life. The experience is always here and now. The fact of one's own being is the Reality. Who is not aware of being alive here and now? Awareness of being alive right here and now is 'I' exist. Consciousness present is at once Life and awareness of being. Consciousness present is the knowing that you are present, it is 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Nothing new, nothing special, nothing different or spiritual. Simple changeless awareness of being is 'I' am. 'I' am is the destination you have paradoxically never left. One can only laugh at oneself for Seeking the Self. After all, who doesn't know and say 'I' am? 'I' am is the goal and final Reality. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Call off the Search. Freedom is so easy. Look for your chains. There is no bondage, there never was! Just a false idea of being bound. People have been mislead to falsely believe for millennia that there is duality and separation. Enticed by self-appointed Gurus, spiritual Teachers, religions and Buddhas to believe the false to be true. The simple Truth is that there is no duality or separation. Everyone alive is already that which they Seek. One's true nature is nothing new or special but plain ordinary everyday aware-ness and being-ness. There never was a spiritual or religious presence to call God. Any spiritual or religious God is only false imagination.

Spiritual and religious believers and worshippers invented a God from ignorance, fear and superstitions. While the veiled and the ignorant foolishly believes that there a God sitting somewhere in the Sky. The wise understood that Life is itself God or the Reality. Nothing new, spiritual or apart. Only the natural presence of Life is itself the real presence being pointed to as everyone's true nature. The Kingdom is in you. Life is the undeniable presence some call the Self, the Oneness or God. To Seek it is to always miss it. To be alive and aware of being oneself everyday is to be it. Who is not aware of being alive and kicking? 'I' am is always first hand. Present awareness. Everyone alive knows that they are present and are therefore aware of being. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Always present naturally closer than close. The Self is simply the fact of one's own being. God is 'I' am. One's own existence or being-ness is the Self, He, the Reality or God. God is the knowing that you are. Nothing special. You are the knowing that you are. Being alive and aware of being. Awareness of being alive presently or right here and now is 'I' am. Anyone alive cannot deny being alive and aware of being. Therefore 'I' am is God or Life or consciousness. Thou art that or 'I' am is that presence of Life or consciousness some people call God. Life, God same thing. Life or consciousness is existence. One's own existence is the Divine. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ Change the word God to Life and you will understand the Oneness. Nothing new or special to be found far away. So near and so dear. Everyone knows Life is undeniably present because everyone knows and says 'I' am.

That is what is being pointed to as the Reality. One's own alive-ness, living-ness, being-ness, 'I' am-ness. Another word for Life and awareness of being oneself is consciousness. Consciousness present is 'I' am. Know that 'I' am is that.Knowing that you exist right here and now is 'I' am. Life or existence is what is always happening presently. Now is Life itself. Existence is being. Being aware of being is 'I' am. Nothing was ever lost. 'I' am is the Real'I'-ty. Being alive is the natural activity of the Self or consciousness. The 'I' present in 'I' am is this consciousness itself. Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ One's own plain ordinary everyday self is the Self. The 'I' is that. Therefore the Search is the Trap. Call off the Search. The Self is not silence, it is not space. It is nothing new or spiritual. It is simply LIFE.So obvious. No one can deny one's own being. Ones own existence is the true Beloved or the Precious that is Sought-after. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Prove it to yourself. Be still and know that 'I' am is that. What remains present if you pause thoughts? Do you stop being alive? Do you stop being aware of being? Of course not! 'I' am is always with you as the constant knowing that you are. Even while busy making plans, Life or existence is what is Real, what is truly happening. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Everyone alive is already Realized or a Buddha. An ordinary person is a Buddha. A Buddha is an ordinary person. After all, can anyone alive deny one's own self, one's own existence, one's own being?

Of course not. No one can say 'I' am not or 'I' do not exist. 'I' am is first hand and needs no proof. To know oneself to be Life itself is to know the simple Truth. Being and consciousness is 'I' exist or 'I' am. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Nothing was ever lost but simply overlooked. Like a Diamond hidden within your own pocket all along. Your own Life or existence is the Divine, the Beloved, the Precious. You have always been the Reality you Seek to know all along. You never lost it. Life is the Diamond in your pocket. Nothing new of far away but present closer than close. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ The experience is here and now. It is one's own existence. To be alive is the Reality and Sought-after Truth. There never was anything new or different to be gained. Some people only 'imagine' that there is. Stories of special places, special beings and special things are all illusion.Spiritual carrots only. There are no past lives or futures lives. No reincarnation or some happy place to go after death. These are only fairy tales used to entice the simple and the weak to believe the false to be true. It is all a contradiction. A paradox. The Sought-after Truth is nothing new or different neither spiritual or religious. It is you. You are that this very moment. Being just as you are naturally. You are what you Seek already. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Life, existence, consciousness present are all synonymous with awareness of being. It is nothing new. 'I' exist here and now is 'I' am. No one can deny one's own existence. 'I' am is common to all. Your own ordinary every Life or existence is the Self you Seek to know.

You are alive. Therefore you cannot gain anything new. You can only be what you are. It is all paradoxically very easy. Simplicity is the key to Freedom. After all, no one wise ever said it was anything hard or difficult. Only the ignorant who is veiled believes the Reality to be something new or special that is yet to be acquired. Call off the Search. To Seek it is to always miss it. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ Life is the natural presence we all like to be. That is the Reality. Remove ignorance with understanding that simply being alive naturally and aware of being oneself is at once 'I' exist and the Reality is all that is necessary. Call it many names, God, consciousness, Life, the Self, He, the Reality, it is all the same natural presence of existence. The Self or Life is present within all beings. No one can be, without it! We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Bondage and separation is only false imagination. Just a false belief that was never investigated. Look for your chains. There is no bondage and there is no liberation. Only understanding is Realizing. People want the Lord, the Self or God to be something new, spiritual or holy but it is not that at all. The Lord, the Self or God is what you are and have always been your whole Life naturally. Thou art that. The only bondage is only a false notion of being bound. Life is always present within your own dwelling. Existence, conscious-ness, alive-ness, being-ness, 'I' am-ness, all are synonymous with the Self, He, the Reality. Freedom is very easy but paradoxically people Seeking Freedom do not want it to be that easy. A strange paradox. If you are wise. Have a look at yourself. At your own existence. At your own being. That is the Sought-after Truth and the Reality that was never lost or hidden far away but

paradoxically always present so dear and so near, Life is Now only. It is simply overlooked. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now?You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Any effort for Freedom is bondage. Understanding is all. Life is living itself as you. Gee! yoU aRe yoU.Your own being or undeniable existence here and now is the true Beloved. The Self, He, the Reality is nothing new but in fact your own boring ordinary everyday self. Wizen up! There never was anything new to become, to be reached or attained. The experience is always here and now. Being alive is the experience itself. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Here and now you are that. To be present and aware is present awareness. The state of being aware is this self-shining present aware-ness itself. Being aware is the experience. Awareness of being is bliss. The 'I' and awareness are One. To be aware of being oneself is 'I' exist or 'I' am. Who is not aware of himself?Everybody knows 'I' am. Understanding that "being aware" is present awareness itself and the natural state of being is to know the Truth. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The mistake for the ignorant Seeker is the false belief that awareness is some kind of spiritual or special state of being. Awareness is nothing new nor spiritual but the Natural state of being. Understanding this, is Freedom. Once understood that "being aware" is the Sought-after Truth, the Search for the Self that was never lost is over.

No one wise ever said that the Self was something new or special but in fact awareness is what you are and have always been. The Search is the Trap. Get to know your true nature. Not by Seeking but by understanding. After all, how much time does it take to know that you are aware? "Being aware" is present awareness. Present awareness is 'I' am. To be conscious. Knowing that you are present or awake is present awareness. Who is not aware of himself? Everybody knows awareness present as being present. Call off the Search. Remove ignorance. The experience is always here and now. The Self is simply being oneself. Awareness of being oneself is the Self. Awareness present is 'I' am. 'I' am is present awareness. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for 'you'. Since 'you' are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Here and now you are aware. That is what this present awareness is, being aware is being the Self. You are therefore always abiding as the Self.Being aware is the Self. Same, same. That is all. You are aware. That is IT. Nothing new, spiritual or special but present closer to you than your own breath. Have a look at your true nature. Are you not undeniably aware right here and now? You can laugh now! It is all a cosmic Joke. You already are naturally and have always been what you Seek to find. Nobody becomes awareness. Being aware is this awareness and one's thoughtless true nature i.e. the Self. The ultimate Truth is so simple. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To know the Truth about awareness alone sets you Free. There is no striving, becoming or attaining anything new. Only understanding that to be alive and awake from sleep or sentient is to abide as the Self or awareness is Freedom. Who ever said Freedom was hard or difficult? It is so simple that is paradoxically the only difficulty. Being aware is the so called Self-Realization. The Self is awareness. There is no bondage. There is no separation or duality. What you Seek is what you are right now.

Freedom is not something new or spiritual to be achieved.Freedom is to remove ignorance with understanding. Understanding is Realizing. That is all Freedom from all bondage is truly all about.Paradoxically it is very simple. So near and so dear. To realize that to be aware or conscious or sentient is to be the Self is the Realization. A simple recognition of what you already are and have always been naturally your whole life is all that is required to end the Search for the Self that was never lost. "Being aware" is everyone's true nature. To be alive and sentient is itself abiding as one's true nature. That is all there is to understand or realize. 'I' am is that awareness itself. Awareness present or present awareness is the knowing that you are present. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To understand that being conscious and aware of being oneself naturally everyday is at once to be abide as one's true nature and I' am which is the knowing that you are present or pure awareness of being and that this present awareness is He, the Atman, the Lord, God or the Self is called Freedom from all bondage. The experience is always here and now. Being alive and aware of being is the experience itself. It is 'I' am. Understanding alone is all that is required. Awareness is the knowing that you are present. It is 'I' am. Look at yourself! Aren't you aware of being present here and now? Everybody says 'I' am. The Reality is not space, it is not silence and it is not sound. The Reality is Life itself, consciousness, existence, being is the Reality. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ 'I' am is always with you. Consciousness is nothing new. To look for it as something new or different is called bondage. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness is 'I' am. Being aware of being. All words written here only point to one's own being.

One's own ordinary everyday existence is the undeniable Reality. Spirituality and religions are all false knowledge pointing toward illusion. Ignorant religious and spiritual Seekers alike foolishly look toward silence for the Reality. The wise knows that Life or existence is the Reality.Being alive and conscious is lively and buoyant. As with water and ice, if there is no Life and awareness, there is no 'I' am. Being alive and aware is 'I' am. Spiritual and religious Seekers Seek, that is what they do. The ones who do not know themselves Teach ignorance to others and paradoxically write book after book about something they do not even know. Usually selling silence and satsangs to the ignorant Seekers for gratification and a fee. Understand the meaning of what is simply being pointed as the Self, He, the Reality. Wisdom is to simply understand what is being pointed to as one's thoughtless true nature. Nothing new, spiritual or special to be freshly acquired or achieved. Simply noticed and recognized. Another name for the Self is simply everyday Life, consciousness, existence. Existence present is 'I' exist.To be or not to be. How do you know that you are? Present awareness. Knowing that you are present is at once the Reality and 'I' am. Say 'I' am to yourself. Your own self. You know that you are. That is the Self you Seek to know.Funny no! The Seeker is the Sought. Thou art that. So simple that it is laughable. Forget acquired spiritual and religious crap and you are there. Awareness is always here! Why wait when it is already here and now? There are no spiritual experiences, events or flashes of light to become Free. The Self is not something new or special to be acquired. It is what you already are. Whatever is freshly acquired will be also be lost. Why strive for the impermanent or the transient? Experiences always come and go. Only understanding is Realizing. Freedom is only the removal of ignorance.

There is no becoming anything. There is no reaching or achieving anything. Understanding alone is Freedom. Simple changeless awareness common to everyone alive is the Self or one's true nature. The natural state of being. You already are what you Seek. Look at your own being. Right here and right now that you like it or not you are alive and aware. Awareness of being is 'I' am. That is all that needs to be understood or realized. 'I' am is that. Only realizing that "being aware" is the awareness itself being pointed to as one's thoughtless eternal true nature is Freedom from the false notion of being bound and that alone is the so called Self-Realization. The word Self means awareness or being aware. Sentience, cognizance, the state of being conscious. That is the Self. Freedom is not an experience or an event but a simple recognition of "being aware" as being one's true nature. You already are what you Seek. Awareness is nothing new. Aren't you present and therefore aware right now? To look for it is to look away from it, to Seek it is to always miss it but to understand it is to Realize it. Just like space is always present but overlooked. Notice that you are aware. That is being the Self. Realize that you are and remain aware. That is one's true nature. Awareness. This plain ordinary undeniable present awareness itself is the Self. So simple.You are that. To be awake or aware is the present awareness being pointed to as one's thoughtless true nature. Ignorant people are brainwashed themselves to foolishly believe that the Self is something new or spiritual that is yet to be acquired but it is NOT. Like a fish in the water foolishly crying that he is thirsty. Have a look and see. Call off the Search. Understand. Remove ignorance. You are already home. "Being aware" is home. Awareness is common to all. No effort is required to know that you are aware. Being aware is the most obvious. "Being aware" is one's true nature. That is IT. Sentience. All sentient beings are always abiding as the Self. You are awareness. The cosmic joke is that nothing was ever lost. Awareness is yourself, just overlooked.

The Seeker is the Sought. Closer than close spiritual Seekers overlook the most obious, themselves. Now what can you do with awareness? Nothing! Just be what you are. There are no special or spiritual faculties or transmissions all that nonsense associated with the Self, He, the Reality. "Being aware" is the natural state of pure being common to all. Just this. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Thou art that. Now you know the simple Truth! That simply "being aware" is everyone's true nature. That is all. You gain absolutely nothing new simply because nothing was ever lost to begin with. After all, if the Self, He, the Reality could be freshly acquired from holy books or others it would also be lost. Only illusion can be acquired from others. The Self is yourself. Aware-ness is that which always 'is' present and unchanging with oneself naturally as pure being. It is oneself. Who ever said Freedom was something new or special only reserved for the spiritual lied to you. It is so easy. Awareness is present within all sentient beings as the natural state of being conscious, awake and aware. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ You already are and have always been what you Seek. Awareness is nothing new. Freedom is so easy. Only ignorance is difficult and full of timely practices and spiritual effort. Know thyself to be the Self i.e. present awareness itself.That is all there is to understand or realize. Understanding that simply "being aware" is the Sought-after Truth, He, the Self, the Reality is the Realization. Freedom is not some happy state or achieving a spiritual state of awareness. Being aware is the aware-ness itself. Awareness is not some holy presence or a spiritual state to be reached. It is what you are naturally everyday. Awareness is the natural state of "being aware" common to all, we always experience it directly as wakeful-ness.

The ignorant spiritual Seeker is just someone that is only bound to a 'belief' of being bound. That is all. As with the popular story of the "stupid camel", there is no bondage but only liberation. Everybody is always Free. Not knowing it, is the only cause of all mischief. Remove ignorance and voila! Understanding is all. Didn't anyone tell you? The Kingdom is in you. The Self is Life itself. It is not something new, spiritual or special to be acquired tomorrow or that can be transmitted from some holy A-hole. That is all false imagination. The Self (consciousness) is not something to be acquired from others. All that is necessary is to know its existence in you. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self or the Lord is consciousness. That is all the Reality simply is. Therefore to be conscious is to abide as the Self. So simple. Turn within. Look at yourself. Nowhere else to be found. Consciousness is undeniably present within your own dwelling. The Self is nothing new or spiritual but the presence of Life itself. Existence. Alive-ness. Living-ness. Present awareness is sentience. The Oneness is Life. The words Self or God simply represent the natural presence of Life or the presence of consciousness. In other words to be alive and aware or sentient is to be the Self or God. The Reality or the Kingdom is in you so to speak. Just like a light bulb cannot shine without power. Consciousness is the Living presence or unseen power within the body. You are that Living-ness itself. Consciousness is everyone's true nature. We call it Life, existence, sentience and awareness. To be alive and aware is to be the Self, He, the Reality. Who are you? You are Life! Life is running the show. You are being lived. The Self, God, Life, same, same.Just different names for consciousness. Consciousness present is existence. To be alive is to be it. That is the experience itself. Ignorant spiritual and religious people are busy Seeking new experiences while Life is what is truly happening. Being alive is the experience itself. That is IT. One's own undeniable existence here and now is the Divine.

Now you can laugh when you hear ignorant people saying that they want to be in the moment. To be means existence. Life or existence is always unfolding and happening presently. There is no other moment of existence but presently or Now. All acquired spiritual and religious knowledge is the greatest ignorance. A funny paradox. That is paradoxically why the spiritual and religious Seeker is only bound to Seeking something new. Life, consciousness, existence or sentience is already here and now. There is no becoming or achieving anything new or special. Consciousness is the natural state of being. Consciousness is paradoxically nothing new, spiritual or holy. Consciousness is 'I' am. Everybody knows that they are. 'I' am is nothing new. 'I' am is the knowing that you are alive, that you exist this very moment.That is IT. One can only understand this presence of consciousness. Understanding this alone is Realizing. 'I' am represent the knowing that you are and therefore that consciousness or Life is present. Consciousness or the Self is 'I' am. Awareness of being oneself is the Sought-after Truth. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ You are the knowing that you are. The Self is present because you know that you are present. 'I' am represent that living-ness, alive-ness or consciousness itself. The ultimate Truth is so simple. To be alive is to abide as one's true nature. That is all there is to Realize. Call off the Search. The Self is in all beings. That is what everybody likes to be. Consciousness is the exact same natural presence of intelligence that we call Life. The natural state of being alive and aware is at once being oneself and being the Infinite Self. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Freedom is easy. Remove the idea of being bound and you are Free. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required.

We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be alive is to be Realized.That is the natural state. There is no one bound that needs to become Free or liberated. Everybody is already the real Self and Free. Some simply do not know it. Remove ignorance and voila! Tada. That is what Freedom is truly all about. The ignorant believes in separation, duality and ego and therefore will Seek liberation. But the fact is that there is no ego. Just a religious dualistic concept acquired from books and others. Only the Self is Omni-present as oneself. Therefore to be oneself is to be the One Self. Call off the Search. Did you know that spirituality and religions have absolutely nothing to do with the Reality and Freedom? That is why spiritual and religious Seekers will spend their whole life looking away from it. A strange paradox. No one wise has ever said that the Reality was anything new, anything spiritual or religious.Because it is not. The ones who teach and pretend that it is, are only doing it to entice and confuse Seekers. Nothing else. Ignorant of this simple truth, innumerable methods under different denominations, such as yoga, bhakti, karma, each again with many modifications, are being taught with great skill and in intricate detail only to entice the seekers and confuse their minds. So also are the religions and sects and dogmas. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Spiritual and religious Teachers are only people that are full of crap. Keeping people on a Seeking path to nowhere. Usually for gratication or a fee. No amount of effort will ever bring Freedom to anyone but only perpetuate the false notion of bondage. Yoga, meditation, keeping quiet, doing this and doing that ritual is only for the ignorant to remain ignorant. Freedom is paradoxically very easy. Anyone wise will tell you that. After all, there is nothing you have to perform. There is no reaching or acquiring anything new, spiritual, different or special either. Understanding is all that is required for Freedom. Nothing else.

Bondage is only false imagination.Did anyone tell you? The one who is bound is only bound to the 'imaginary' idea of being bound. What you Seek is what you are naturally. Nothing new or special but the most common and ordinary. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Spiritual and religious people spend their whole life Seeking, worshipping etc, that is what they do. One's true nature is nothing new, nothing spiritual or religious whatsoever. Never was and never will be. It is paradoxically the most plain, common ordinary presence of existence one has always known oneself to be. If you want to be bound to ignorance then you should adopt a religion, a spiritual Guru or read many spiritual books. If you want to be Free, simply get to know your real self. Who am 'I'? What is 'I'? What is my real nature? What is always present with you that you cannot deny? You are! Your own self of course. Your own being and existence. 'I' exist is the Real-'I'-ty. 'I' am is always certain, first hand and always with you. 'I' am is first hand and needs no proof. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ You are that 'I' am or 'I' am that 'I' am is the Self-Real-'I'-zation. In no circumstance can you deny the knowing that you are. Awareness of being. Who is not aware of himself? One's own self is the Self. Everybody knows and says 'I' am. 'I' am is that. 'I' am or you are is the Self you Seek to find which is paradoxically your very own self. Funny paradox. There are no two selves. There is only the One Self and you are that. 'I' am is that. Nothing new under the Sun. Get to know your true nature. It takes no time or effort. There is nothing to be taught and nothing to be learned. Only pointing to and recognizing this obvious presence of existence itself to be the Reality. You are that already. Being alive. Existence, consciousness, alive-ness, all are synonymous with 'I' am, with simply being oneself.

What you Seek is always here and now, present this very moment as alive-ness.Being alive is it. Existence. The Reality is nothing new or far away. Undeniably present within your own dwelling. The Reality is Life itself. One can only laugh at the joke of it all, that is all there is to Realize. You are that Living-ness. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ What are you waiting for when it is (Life) already present here and now? The Self is Life itself. Call off the Search. Understanding is all. What is the Sought-after Truth? One's own being-ness or 'I' am-ness. 'I' am or 'I' exist is the goal. 'I' exist, 'I' am is the Reality. 'I' am is the goal and final Reality. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ One cannot deny one's own self. 'I' is present or 'I' exist is the experience.That is the Real-'I'-ty. You are the knowing that you are. 'I' am is simply plain and ordinary awareness of being. Everybody knows and everybody says 'I' am all day long. Awareness of being is nothing new to anyone alive. Present closer than close. 'I' am is always with you as the undeniable knowing that 'I' is or 'you' are. That is all. Whoever said Freedom was hard or difficult? It is so easy. Only the veiled and ignorant spiritual and religious Seekers foolishly believe that Freedom is something spiritual or religious that is only for the rare and for the few. All there is to realize is that simply being alive is always abiding as the Self, He, the Reality.He is Life itself. The living-ness present within your own body. Life, consciousness, existence is the Sought-after Truth. Being alive and aware of being oneself everyday is 'I' am. That is IT. 'I' am is that. Thou art that. Understanding the Self is the short cut or the "Bird's way" to realize that you are and have always been the Self. Consciousness is being conscious. Awareness is being aware. That is what is being pointed to as the Self. Nothing new or special about one's true nature, but the natural state of being common to all.

What is always present naturally here and now with oneself is called Life or the Reality. What are you looking for? Whatever is new, spiritual or religious is called illusion. Freedom is not the acquisition of anything new. Being alive is being the Self. The Sought-after Truth is simply Life. Funny. One cannot be without it. So near and so dear. Life is the Precious. Life is the True Beloved. One's own ordinary everyday existence is the Divine. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Being alive is being the Self, He, the Reality. That is the Open Secret shared by the wise.He is Life itself. The one who knows himself, knows that Life or consciousness is one's true nature. Only pointing away from the Reality. Spiritual and religious people like to sell "Water by the River" to the veiled and ignorant Seekers. After all, spirituality and religions are a business camouflaged as Truth. What is spiritual religious or holy about Life? Nothing. To the question who am 'I'? 'I' am is the answer. No one can say 'I' do not exist or 'I' am not. No one can deny one's own self or deny one's own existence. Simply because the 'I' is the Real-'I'-ty. The 'I' is the Self, He, the Reality. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Just like a precious diamond hidden in your own pocket all along. Me, myself and 'I' is the real Self, what else would it be? Know thyself and you know the Self to be you. Only ignorant spiritual and religious people believe in some finite self or ego. Something other than the Self. The wise knows that ego is not. Just a religious myth used to entice and confuse Seekers. What ego? Remove ignorance and flush acquired spiritual crap down the toilet. Ego is not! Otherwise do you admit of two selves? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

One's own self is the Self. The One without a second is yourself. How can 'you' kiss yourself on your own lips? There is no bondage. The Self is yourself. The Self you Seek is yourself. Plain good ol' you. Everybody alive is He. He is yourself. The Self is that 'I' am you know so well. If you ask any spiritual or religious Seeker if they know what they are looking for, they will have no clue. Like a fish in the Ocean searching frantically everywhere for the Ocean.The Seeker is the Sought. Therefore Seeking is the Trap. Understanding is the Realization. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ Here and now 'I' am. You know that you are alive and aware of being. That is the Self and the final Realization. Here and now you are that. 'I' am is that. Look at yourself. You know that you are and you like it. One's own existence is the Reality. That is the experience itself. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ After all, who doesn't like to be?Life is the Beloved. Nothing was ever lost. Being alive is the experience.Call off the Search. One's own undeniable plain ordinary everyday existence is the Reality. That is all. You are always abiding as your true nature.Everyone alive is always the Self. Be content with your boring ordinary everyday existence and voila! That is IT. So simple. What else did you foolishly expect your true nature to be? Something new, spiritual or holy. Oops. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To be or not to be. Who is not aware of being oneself?Everybody knows and says 'I' am. The Self is nothing new.

To be is the experience.'I' am is that. Closer to you than your own breath. To know the Self. Be yourself. The Self is just another name for you. Only the false notion of being anything other than the Self is bondage. You cannot be anything else anyhow in Omni-presence. All there is always present is consciousness. Forget about your individuality. Thou art that. The One without a second is 'you'. Gee! 'yoU' aRe 'yoU'. A funny paradox. Did you know that to try to become Free is bondage? Paradoxically to understand that there is no bondage is Freedom. It is all very simple. After all, bondage and liberation is only psychological. Who told you that you were bound and why would you foolishly believe it? Ignorant people go from Guru to Guru and read book after book looking for Freedom. Oops Like a fish in the Ocean searching everywhere for the Ocean. No one was ever bound. Everyone is ever-Free. On enquiry 'who' is bound? The notion of bondage vanishes and so does that of liberation. The one eternally free alone remains self-revealed. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What binds you? Look for your chains and they will not be found. That is all there is to realize. Bondage is only found inside one's own head as a belief. One only 'believes' there is bondage. The false notion of bondage is only for ignorant and foolish people. Did you ever question your acquired beliefs? Call off the Search. Didn't anyone tell you? Only removing the false notion of being bound is Freedom. That is all Freedom is. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The One without a second is you very own self. To be oneself is to only and always be the One Self. Same, same. There is nothing more to realize. Thou art that. Being alive and aware is to be IT.

Life, consciousness, sentience, existence is the experience itself. Here and now you are the Self. Do not be fooled by so called spiritual and religious people pretending to be enlightened and holy, that is all crap. These self-appointed spiritual people are only scammers praying on the weak, the simple and the dumb. Most are just A-holes pretending to be holy for a fee. Crooks selling the false and ignorance as Truth. Freedom is not the acquisition of anything new, different, special or spiritual. It never was. Some ignorant people only believe that it is, but it is not. Get rid of the idea of being bound and you are Free. That simple. Freedom is so simple. Understanding is Realizing. That is the Open Secret to Freedom. Remove ignorance with understanding and voila! Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Paradoxically for Freedom from all bondage, one most forget all about the religious, the spiritual and the holy. Simply because it is all crap. Spirituality and religions are the bondage. Did you know that if you see a Buddha on the Road, you really are seeing a con artist? That is right! Some people wear white robes, stare into people's eyes. Tell them to keep quiet. Talk to them about a fictitious God, past lives or future lives. Heaven and hell, karma, dharma etc. These are all people that like the smell of their own farts that are using ignorance, religions and spirituality to get a bunch of blind idiots to follow them and worship them as special spiritual and holy beings. Of course it is all and only for show. Just a scam to entice the weak, the simple and the dumb. Paradoxically spiritual and religious people cannot help you or anyone else for Freedom. They are all liars. There is absolutely nothing to worship. Being alive is being the Self. Understanding is all that is required to realize that there is no duality or bondage. The Self you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten

foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You are what you Seek. Nothing new but the plain boring ordinary everyday 'you' is the Self you Seek to know. Funny no! Gee! yoU aRe yoU. Forget all about spirituality and religions and you are there. You are the Self you Seek, this very moment being yourself is being it. Nothing different or special. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Me, myself and 'I'. That is being oneself and the Reality, He, the Self. Everything is always attached to the 'I'. The 'I' is the Real-'I'-ty 'I', 'I', 'I', so simple. 'I' see, 'I' hear, 'I' feel, 'I' think therefore 'I' am. Who am 'I'? After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. 'I' am is certain. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The false notion of separation and dual-'I'-ty and the erroneous idea of a small 'I', a finite self or ego present is only for spiritual and religious idiots.People that do not know themselves. The 'I' is that. The 'I' is at once being oneself and the One Self. No difference. Laugh at yourself. You are the Self. You are the Self you Seek to find. Funny or what? Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Plain good ol' boring ordinary 'you'. Hidden in plain Sight. The Sought-after Truth is 'you'. Me, myself and 'I' is He, the Self, the Real-'I'-ty. The True Beloved or the Precious you Seek is nothing other than your plain ordinary everyday self. Were you promised Enlightenment or Self-Realization as a spiritual event or extra-ordinary experience. Oops! That is what self-appointed spiritual and religious people promised to the ignorant and the veiled for service or a fee.

To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There no special, spiritual or enlightened beings.These concepts of special beings are all false and a trap. Everybody alive is already the Self. Some people understood it and some don't. Understanding is Realizing that being oneself is being the One Self. The One without two is the 'I' you know so well as 'you'. Consciousness is what is being pointed to as the Self, He, the Reality. You are that. To be alive and aware of being oneself is this consciousness itself. It is 'I' am. So simple. Understanding is Wisdom and Freedom. Understanding is all that is required. That is the only way to remove ignorance and the false notion of bondage. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Only ignorance is to be removed with understanding.Just this and nothing else is Freedom. Understanding is Wisdom and Freedom. Ignorance is the only false notion of bondage and separation. There is nothing new, nothing whatsoever spiritual or religious about the Self, He, the Reality. Spiritual and religious people want to acquire something new, spiritual or special. That is the mistake. Consciousness is nothing new or spiritual but Life itself. Everyone alive is He. That is the meaning of here and now you are that. Spiritual and religious beliefs are the poison, not the cure. Didn't anyone tell you? Understanding is the best medicine. Remove ignorance and you have done all that needed to be done. There is nothing more simple and more effortless than Freedom. Some phonies pretending to be special and holy may make ignorant Seekers foolishly believe that Freedom is something special or spiritual, but that is all false.

There is no waiting for a blazing light or becoming anything. Zip, zero. Once you get that there is absolutely nothing new, nothing spiritual, nothing different or special to be achieved or acquired. You finally got it. Plain and boring. The Self is being oneself. Why do spiritual and religious people strive to become what they are already?Ignorance is the only culprit. Spiritual and religious people are the only ones who foolishly believe themselves to not be the real Self already. Bound only by a false belief in separation and duality. When the Self is nothing other than the presence of Life itself. The Self is Life itself. Consciousness is the real presence of existence. To be alive. To exist and to be aware of one's own existence is the Self. It is 'I' am. Life or consciousness present is undeniably shining and known to all as pure awareness of being. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Knowing that you are is consciousness. Consciousness, sentience, awareness are synonymous with 'I' am. Awareness is nothing new but simply plain ordinary everyday wakefulness. Didn't anyone tell you? There never was some holy presence of consciousness or awareness but only plain ordinary everyday being-ness or 'I' am-ness is this present awareness itself. That is all. Stories of holy transmissions, spiritual presences and radiances and all that crap is only for the ignorant. Being aware is so ordinary that it is simply overlooked. Awareness is plain, common and boring. Yet being aware is the ordinary everyday state of pure being common to everybody alive. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Being alive and aware everyday is the Reality. While spiritual and religious people are striving to add-on or become a more-on. Awareness is nothing spiritual or religious.That is the Open Secret.It is the natural state of being.

Closer than close. Awareness is the natural state of being and remaining aware common to everybody alive. Sentience, cognizance, awareness are just the natural activity of being conscious i.e. conscious-ness is this alive-ness. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What you are looking for? To know the Self, look at yourself. You are that. To be alive and aware of being oneself is to be the Self. So simple. Who is not aware of being? The Self is that 'I' am you know so well already. There is no waiting, no reaching, no attaining or striving to become anything. Thou art that. Forget spiritual and religious crap and voila! That is called Wisdom. The Truth is you. Realize that you are and always remain present as yourself. Present awareness is 'I' am. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Like a fish in the water crying that he is thirsty. Nothing was ever lost, why cry over nothing? Call off the Search. One's own self and undeniable ordinary everyday existence is the Divine. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ Thou art that. Me, myself and 'I'. That alone is the Sought-after Truth. The Self you Seek to know is simply your own everyday self. That is IT. That is the Self-Realization itself. If you know that you are not dead, not asleep or unconscious. Then you are undeniably alive, awake and aware. Present awareness. That is IT. You know that you are present, alive and kicking and you like it. Awareness of being is bliss. To be alive, to exist is this undeniable presence of consciousness itself. Life itself. That is what the fuss is all about. Nothing new, special or spiritual. Existence is being. One's own existence is the precious and the true Beloved.

To be alive naturally is to be the Self. That is all. Who is not aware of being? Awareness of being is 'I' am. In other words, to be alive and awake from sleep is to be a 'Buddha'. Life is the Reality. So simple. There is no bondage and of course there is no liberation either.Only understanding is Realizing. Thou Art That. You are that. Tat Tvam Asi.You are the Reality itself already.Being alive and aware of being. ABC,s of the Self, He, the Reality. It is the natural intelligence governing and expressing itself as yourself. Beating your heart, digesting your food, growing you hair and finger nails, hearing, thinking, seeing etc. The Self is nothing new, spiritual or special. He is Life itself. Therefore to be alive is to be the Self. As with water and ice, there is no Life present without consciousness present. Consciousness is Life itself. Different names for the exact same presence of existence. The Self is nothing new to anyone alive but paradoxically the most plain, common and ordinary. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ Everyone alive and aware of being oneself is already the One Self. An ordinary sentient person is a 'Buddha' and a 'Buddha' is an ordinary sentient person. No difference. Only the ignorant believes a person is spiritual or a Saint, a Sage, a Jnani, a Guru or Buddha etc. The wise knows that everyone alive is nothing but the Self and that a so called holy Buddha is no more Enlightened than your neighbor's Grand-Mother. Ignorance is the only false notion of some holy special being and yourself. Any spiritual, special and religious holy beings are nothing but the greatest illusion. It is only for show. The wise will say what I am saying now. Kill the holy Buddha you are seeing on the Road, it is only a crook. That is guaranteed and you can take it to the bank. Any spiritual and religious person is truly a liar. See the false as fasle and Free yourself from illusion and ignorance. After all, how can anyone pretend to be enlightened, spiritual and holy when in fact there is no 'God' and there is nothing spiritual about the

Reality and Freedom? Why should anyone worship illusion? God is just a belief. Look for a God and it will not be found. Exactly like a carrot attached to a stick for an Ass. Religious and spiritual con artists will sell water by the river to the veiled and ignorant usually for a fee. Enticing the ignorant Seekers with lies and false promises, foolish spiritual and religious concepts and imaginary stories. Forget all these idiots that worship others believing them to be holy.These are Sheepos and Suckers. If you have been told that to be in the presence of some holy being will ever help you, you have been lied to. The Self is no something that can be acquired from others.Forget all that non-sense. The Self is simply the natural presence of Life and awareness that you know so well as 'I' am. One's own plain ordinary everyday existence is the Self. Therefore the experience is always here and now. To be alive and aware of being is the Reality. We call Life or consciousness the Self, He, the Reality. Same, same. The undeniable Living presence, power and intelligence within the body that you already know so well as your own plain ordinary everyday self and 'I' am. No Self, no 'I' am. 'I' am is that. 'I' am is the Self itself. Say 'I' am. See, you know that you are. Consciousness is indeed present because you are aware of being. Everybody knows and says 'I' am. Being is the Self. What is so special or spiritual about that? Nada! Nothing. One's own existence is that. There is no one that does not say 'I' am. The wrong knowledge of 'I' am the body is the cause of all mischief. This wrong knowledge must go. That is the Realization. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness is the Living-ness or the actual Life itself present within the body. The Power, the intelligence and awareness we all like to be. Awareness of being is 'I' am. 'I' am is that. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

To be alive is to be consciousness. To be alive is to be the Self, He, the Reality. Nothing spiritual or religious, just simple ordinary existence. You already are what you are looking for. Being alive is the experience. So near and so dear. What you Seek is what you already are this very moment naturally. Consciousness is absolutely nothing new or spiritual but what you are right now and have always like to be. It is like having your Sun glasses on the top of your head and yet going far away to frantically Search for them. Call off the Search. Realize that to be alive is the experience itself. That is IT. That is all there is to realize. The natural state of being common to everybody alive is one's true nature. To simply be alive and sentient or aware is to be the Self, He, the Reality. So simple. Forget about spiritual and religious crap. Understanding consciousness to be at once Life and awareness is all. Who is not aware of being alive? Each one knows. Who doesn't know and say 'I' am this and 'I' am that all day long? Remove that Life essence from the body and you have a still and silent corps that will have eyes but unable to see. Silence and stillness is only for idiots and for the Dead. Life is lively and buoyant. Sentience is Alive-ness. Speaking, thinking, hearing, feeling, seeing, knowing etc, are all the natural activities of consciousness itself. Consciousness is the Seer, the hearer, the thinking, the speaker, the knower. Consciousness or He is nothing new or different. He is yourself. He (consciousness) is the unseen seer, the unheard hearer, the unthought thinker. There is no other seer but He. No other hearer but He. No other thinker but He. No other knower but He. He is yourself.The inner controller, the immortal, the imperishable. ~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad~ To be yourself is to be the Self. No difference. After all, who else would you be in Omni-presence? Who told you that you yourself are not the Self already? There is no room for anything else to exist. All there is always present is this consciousness itself. Consciousness is what you are and have always been all along. Just this and nothing else.

What about ego, mind etc, and all that manbo jambo? Simple it is all crap. Neither a mind or ego ever existed. If you look for them they will not be found. Ignorant people only believe the false to be true. If you seek the ego you will find, it does not exist. That is the way to get rid of it. Look for it and it will not be found. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Remove ignorance only. Forget all about spirituality and religions simply because it is paradoxically the poison, not cure. Many ignorant and veiled Seekers have sat with self-appointed Buddhas or Enlightened people that have been telling them to kill an ego or go beyond a mind to become Free. All it is all a bunch of B.S. All these people are just frauds. What else?Spirituality and religions are a Trap. Just this and nothing else. An Enlightened person is truly a scammer and a liar. Kill the Buddha you see on the road. That is called Wisdom. Who are you? You are consciousness.Thou art that. What is it? Simple! Life is just another name for this presence of consciousness. Nothing holy, religious or spiritual paradoxically about God. He is Life itself. So simple. Nothing new under the Sun. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ Leave all spiritual and religious concepts, beliefs, rituals and practices to the ignorant. Empty yourself and you are full. It all works in reverse. All is a strange paradox. The ones who practice spirituality will remain bound to ignorance. So if you want to know the simple Truth about yourself or the answer to who am 'I'? Then realize that all acquired spiritual and religious crap must go.Flush it all down the toilet. Then you are open to know your real self or true nature to simply be the presence of consciousness itself. You are the Self, you are consciousness, you are Life. All are One and the same presence of existence.

Nothing spiritual or special about being. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no becoming the Self. Only understanding it. It is very easy. Once understood that simply being alive and awake from sleep is in fact to abide as one's true nature. You have done all that needed to be done, you know the simple truth and you laugh at yourself. The Self you Seek is nothing new or special but simply what you are and have always been. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self Did you know that the Self is awareness? Did you know that being aware is this awareness itself? Therefore to know the Self is super duper easy. Just be still!That is all. After all, what always remains present if you pause thoughts for just a few moments? Awareness itself. Realize that 'you' yourself are indeed present and aware. You are not a thought but awareness. Just like clouds come and go and the Sky always remain. Thoughts always come and go but 'you' remain. Realize that you are and remain aware. Being aware. The activity of aware-ness is everyone's true nature. What can be more simple than that? It is so easy, it is very funny. In fact when you realize or understand that being aware is in fact being the Self and your thoughtless unchanging true nature, that is called Self-Realization. Why get lost in translation? Self meaning awareness and Realization meaning understanding. Self-Realization. Remove ignorance. Not knowing that simply being aware is always being the Self, is the only trouble. Nobody becomes the Self or anything new whatsoever. Being aware is being the Self. That is all.

Get to know your real self i.e. that you are in fact this presence of awareness itself. So simple. Whoever said knowing the Self was hard or difficult anyhow? All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Why wait? There is no bondage and there is no liberation. You are the Self and Free already. That is the funny paradox! That is why the spiritual and religious Seeker cannot know this simple Truth. Never realizing that the Reality is nothing new. Some will seek experience after experience. Spiritual and religious Seekers are called Sheepos or blind and ignorant fools. Seeking is what they do. One only 'believes' there is bondage and therefore will Seek liberation. Oops. How foolish. Seeking is the trap. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ There is no 'God' to worship and there is no 'God' to pray to. All there is present is consciousness. Consciousness present is Life itself. Life, consciousness, existence is the unseen presence and intelligence some refer to as 'God'. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ Call off the Search. The presence of Life is consciousness itself. Sought-after Truth is present within your own dwelling. To be alive is to be the Self, He, the Reality. The experience is existence itself. That is all there is to understand or realize. Here and now 'I' am. There is absolutely nothing new, different or special about being. Forget spiritual and religious crap and understand that 'I' am is the Self and Sought-after Truth. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Life essence and intelligence that grows the oranges on an orange tree or grows a baby in the womb.

The One, He, the Self, the Reality is simply Life itself. The growing, governing and living presence that we call Life is the Sought-after Truth.That is IT. Where can you find it? Consciousness or this Omni-presence if you like is always present naturallywithin your own dwelling as Life itself. Sentience, aware-ness is this presence of consciousness. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Who is not aware of himself? No one can deny one's own self. 'I' am is always with you. One's own affectionate ordinary existence is nothing new but paradoxically the most obvious. So near and so dear. Thou art that. The Self or consciousness is not something to be freshly acquired. Consciousness is nothing new. It is the knowing that you are, that you exist this very moment. Existence is this consciousness itself i.e. the Self. The Self is 'I' am. 'I' exist is the Real-'I'-ty. After all, don't you know and say 'I' am all day long. Everybody knows that they are. Forget spiritual and religious idiots that will tell Sheepos that the Self is something spiritual or special because it is not. These people are just liars. Self-appointed spiritual Gurus will entice weak and simple people to join them in spiritual groups and events that some call satsang or even sell silence foolishly pretending that the Self or existence had anything to do whatsoever with either silence or space. But it does not. Just a scam people use to get something from the veiled and ignorant. The Self is not space and it is not silence. That crap is only for idiots. The Self is simply Life. Consciousness is Life itself. All that is required for Freedom is to know the Self present as your own being. To know the Self is very easy. Look at your own being. Look at your own existence. Are you alive or are you dead? Which one are you absolutely certain of?

If you know for certain that you are not dead but in fact alive right here and right now, then you are the Self. That simple. Who ever said that knowing the Self was hard or difficult? Child-like simplicity. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ After all, no one can deny one's own existence and foolishly declare 'I' do not exist. Only a fool would say that there is no one and try to negate their own existence. How stupid. One's own ordinary everyday being-ness and natural existence itself is the Real-'I'-ty. The Self is simply Life itself. Consciousness present is existence present. Awareness of being present or present awareness is 'I' am. One's own existence is the Self. That is all. Nothing was ever lost. Plain good ol' everyday 'I' am is the Reality. So simple. Call off the Search. One own plain ordinary everyday affectionate self is the real Self. Thou art that. The Self (consciousness) you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Everyone alive is already the Self. The Self is Life itself. That is all it is. The Search is the trap. Nothing was ever lost and nothing new is to be freshly acquired. Only remove ignorance and you have done all that needed to be done. Understanding is all. One's own existence is this Oneness and 'I' am is certain. 'I' exist needs no proof. 'I' exist is 'I' am. Everybody knows 'I' am. Knowing that you are, that you exist is the Self. You are that. So simple. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be or not to be. 'I' am or 'I' am not. Are you alive and aware of being? Your own ordinary everyday existence or Life is this Oneness. That is all.

So simple. Like a fish in the water crying that he is thirsty. To be alive is to be the Self, He, the Reality. Consciousness is beating your heart and shining through your eyes. The Seeker is the Sought. Sought-after Truth is not far away. It is what you are. If you are alive and awake or aware, consciousness is indeed present, 'I' am is certain. There is no reaching, there is no attaining or becoming anything new, spiritual or special. To be alive and aware of being oneself is the Reality. The Reality is that 'I' am you know. Sacred spiritual books and religious scriptures are all garbage. Throw them all away. Nothing new, spiritual or religious will ever be the Reality. It is impossible. If it is holy or sacred it is only crap, flush it all down the toilet. The Reality is not a person, a place or a thing. Neti, neti as they say or not this or not that. Reality is NO-Thing. Forget about so called sacred and holy beings, places and books. It is all false, crap and illusion. Reality has nothing to do with all that non-sense. The Reality is always present within your own body. Nothing new, special or spiritual about He, the Self, the Reality, the Oneness. That is what is so funny. What you Seek to find is what you are and have always been. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Spiritual and religious people foolishly believe the false to be true. The Reality is NOT what spiritual and religious will tell you it is. That is the paradox! The Self is a surprise to the one who understands what this presence of consciousness truly is. Present here and now, what is the Reality? Life. One's own existence is the Divine.That is all. Everyone alive is already the Self but they do not know it. Ignorance is the only veil to be removed.

Removed ignorance with understanding. That is all that is required for Freedom. Do not turn to spirituality or religions for Freedom, it is a waste of time. Simply understand what the Reality is truly all about. It is very easy. Plain, ordinary everyday existence is the Reality. The Reality is Life itself. Being alive and aware or awake everyday is to abide as the Reality. Consciousness is existence itself, just this and nothing else.Freedom is very easy. Only remove ignorance, that is all. There is nothing new to be reached or acquired anyhow. To be alive is to be the Reality. He is Life itself. Consciousness is the real presence of existence. 'I' exist is 'I' am. 'I' am is the Reality. One's own everyday self and plain ordinary existence is the Divine. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The experience is me, myself and 'I'. That is the Self, He, the Real-'I'-ty. Forget spiritual and religious crap because it cannot help you for Freedom. It only works in reverse. Bound to an imaginary prison made of words and stupid concepts that Seekers have acquired from books and others. Never questioning, investigating what is real. Ignorant and foolish people will believe the false to be true what to do! Paradoxically religions and spirituality have absolutely nothing to do with Freedom but is in fact the bondage itself. All religions are lies. For Freedom one must forget all about spirituality and religions, simply because it is all crap. Once realized that so called holy beings, Sages, Gurus, Saints, Masters, Jnanis etc, are truly con artists and liars. Then you are finally ready to know the simple Truth. Ready to understand what is Reality and what is fiction. After all, Enlightenment is just a myth or a spiritual carrot used by con artists to entice suckers or Seekers. But awareness is not! Here and now you are aware. Awareness present is the undeniable Reality. Present here and now. The Sought-after Truth is aware-ness i.e."being aware". To be aware is to be conscious, sentient, cognizant or awake from sleep.

The Self is always present with anyone alive and awake or aware of being as awareness. Awareness present is nothing other than plain ordinary everyday wakeful-ness. The conscious state. The natural state of being conscious and remaining conscious all day or awake is consciousness i.e. the Self. Being awake from sleep everyday is being this presence of awareness itself some people called the Self. In other words the waking state is the so called 'Enlightened' state or 'Realized' state. Hurray!!! Call off the Search! Anyone awake from sleep or sentient is already a so called 'Buddha'. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no acquiring, no reaching, no becoming or achieving the Self. Any kind of effort is paradoxically bondage. Remove ignorance only. Understanding is all. Understanding alone is all that is required to removed ignorance. Everybody alive is already the Self. They simply do not realize it. Being awake or aware is ordinary and subtle. Present here and now. Reality is at once being and consciousness. Everyone alive is aware and everyone aware is alive. Just like with water and ice there could not be ice present without water. Awareness is simply a natural expression of Life, existence or consciousness. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Whoever told you that you are not the Self already lied to you. Sentience, cognizance or aware-ness is the natural presence and activity of Life. There is no waiting for anything new or different. To be aware is this present awareness itself. Look at yourself. Are you aware? There you go sport, you are He, you are the Self. Being aware is aware-ness. Present as awareness itself. You are that.

There is no need to try to attain, acquire or cultivate awareness. To be awake is to be aware. Consciousness, sentience, awareness are synonymous. Who ever said Freedom was hard or difficult? So simple. Freedom is the simplest thing of all. To know the Self is very easy. There is nothing more simple and more effortless. After all, no time or effort is required to know that you are awake from sleep or aware. Present awareness. How much time does it take to know that you are present? Awareness is the knowing that you are. To be awake or aware is 'I' am. You are the knowing that you are i.e. awareness itself. Being aware or aware-ness is nothing new or different in anyway than what you are right now and have always been. Thinking, feeling, smelling, tasting, hearing, seeing etc are all natural activities that are registered by awareness. Some people mistakenly call awareness 'mind' but there is no 'mind' present, only awareness is present. Just like clouds come and go, the Sky always remains. Thoughts come and go but awareness remains. Stop imagining that you have a 'mind or an 'ego' to get rid of. That is only false imagination or duality. You are awareness itself this very moment. Just as you are, you are the one without two. Thou art that. Look at yourself. Who is always present to be aware of this and aware of that? 'I' am of course! Who else? You are the unchanging presence of awareness itself that 'I' am represents. You are that. Awareness is you. Awareness is nothing new. Everybody knows and everybody says 'I' am. Who is not aware of himself and does not know and say 'I' am all day long? You only know that you are present simply because awareness itself is present. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self . A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Shining effortlessly all day long as ordinary wakeful-ness, as the knowing that you are. Wakeful-ness is just another name for the Self, He, the Reality. Wakefulness is aware-ness.

It is all a big Joke! You are already that. That is the Open Secret to Freedom from all bondage. Ordinary wakeful-ness is this presence of awareness itself i.e. the Self. Being aware is wakeful-ness. Super duper simplicity. To know one's true nature is very easy! All you need is to realize that you are aware. That is what the fuss some people call "Self-Realization" is all about. "being aware". That is all. Nothing else. Realize that to be and remain aware all day long is the natural activity of "being aware" thus aware-ness. You are that. Awareness is what you are this very moment naturally without trying to be. To be aware is the natural state of being common to all. Nothing special. Boring. That is the Sought-after Truth. All you need is to realize that being aware is being the Self. That is the Reality or consciousness the wise have been talking about and pointing to for millennia. Nothing new, spiritual or religious and all that crap. Just plain common ordinary simple awareness itself. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The ultimate Truth is so simple. Child-like simplicity. So easy that one cannot help but laugh at the joke of it all. If you know without a doubt that you are not dead or un-conscious i.e. asleep right here and now but in fact absolutely certain that you are alive and awake from sleep i.e. conscious. You are abiding as the Reality. THAT IS IT! There is no reaching or attaining the Self. Being alive and awake is abiding as the Self itself i.e. one's true nature. The experience is simply being aware or awake. That is what the Self is all about. Aware-ness, sentience. To be awake and remain awake is aware-ness itself i.e. the Self and one's true nature. Life is consciousness. Consciousness is always experienced directly by everyone alive naturally as common to all ordinary everyday wakeful-ness or plain ordinary sentience or awareness. The Self is consciousness. To be conscious is to be the Self. That is all there is to realize.

What else do you want? Just realize that you are aware and that "being aware" is at once being oneself and the Self. Awareness of being present as oneself i.e. 'I' am is this present awareness itself. Awareness is NOT some spiritual presence or something religious or holy. Awareness is being. To be or not to be?If you are awake or aware, you undeniably know that you are. Awareness of being. Be still and know that 'I' am is that awareness. Aren't you aware of being present? Present awareness is 'I' am. That is all what the fuss is all about. BEING AWARE. To be aware is awareness. To be conscious is consciousness. Nothing special, new or different about the Self. Consciousness is being oneself. You are IT. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Reality is not to be achieved. It is already here. After all, if the Reality wasn't already here and now. It would not be the Reality but simply something new that is acquired and therefore impermanent. Awareness is nothing new but simply what you are right now and have always been naturally. Being aware is being the Self. Understanding is all. To understand this simple Truth alone is the so called Self-Realization. That is all that needs to be done. The ultimate Truth is so simple. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Get rid of ignorance with understanding.That is all. Forget all about spirituality and religions is you truly want to know the Truth. Awareness or the Self is what you always are and have always been anyhow. It is nothing new. To look for the Self as anything new, special, spiritual or religious is to look away from it. Don't you know that spiritual and religious people are only selling wrong knowledge to the ignorant. As the saying goes, the ones who can do teach. Spiritual Teachers and Gurus are the biggest illusion and Liars. A paradox. The more holy and Enlightened it appears to be, the more garbage it truly is. It all works in reverse.

Spiritual Gurus are only people that keep ignorant Seekers chasing after illusion and false imagination. Anyone that makes you foolishly believe that the Self or your thoughtless true nature is anything other than simply "being aware" or being awake from sleep everyday is screwing with you. Sentience. Being awake, conscious or aware. That is conscious-ness i.e. the Self, He, the Reality. Awareness of being present is this present awareness itself. Life is another name for consciousness. Everyone alive abides as consciousness itself. If you remove consciousness from the body. You have a dead body. No more power or Life present. Consciousness is the Living presence, power and intelligence within the body that we call Life and awareness. All anyone can do is point like a finger pointing at the moon that simply "being aware" is this presence of awareness itself some people call the Self, He, the Reality and therefore one's true nature. Are you conscious, are you aware? Consciousness is indeed always present because you know that you are. 'I' am is that present awareness itself. 'I' am or knowing that you are present is always with you. When did you loose you? How funny. Thou art that. The Seeker is the Sought. So, so, so simple. The Self is not reached and nobody becomes the Self. Stories of Enlightenment are all garbage. Lies only used to entice imbeciles. When you see Seekers sucking up to holy Enlightened beings or Buddhas. Laugh! The Realization is that to be aware is to be the Self. Just realize that you are and remain aware.Aware-ness. Being aware is simply being awake from sleep, to be conscious. Wakeful-ness is conscious-ness. Being conscious is aware-ness. So simple. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ How long have you been Seeking the Self that was never lost? Throw away all the religious and spiritual books. They are all false.Just crap.

Forget everything you foolishly believe you know about the Self that you have acquired from spiritual Gurus and religious Teachers and you are open to know the simple Truth about your real nature. If you Seek the Self as something new, special, religious or spiritual, you are only Seeking illusion. Understand awareness. It is so simple for anyone alive to remove the veil of ignorance. Of course if you don't understand awareness then you remain bound to ignorance. Understanding is Realizing. That is what it is all about. Understanding. Common sense. Not becoming anything new. No understanding. No Freedom.Simply because the false notion of bondage is only due ignorance. After all, there is no becoming the Self. You are already the Self i.e. awareness itself this very moment. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ So near and so dear. Awareness is the natural state of being. One's own existence is the Reality. The Self is not something new, religious or spiritual.That is all wrong knowledge. The Self is Life itself. No one can transmit or acquired the Reality. Forget all that non-sense. Awareness is what you are right now. You are aware of being. Therefore awareness is simply just another name for you. You are that. Awareness is the activity of being awake or aware. To be conscious or aware all day long is to simply be awake. Wakeful-ness is another name for the Self. Same, same. That is IT. Present awareness is nothing new but plain ordinary everyday wakefulness. If you are aware of being or you know that you are present and 'I' am is certain. Voila! To be alive, to be awake, to be conscious, to be aware, to be sentient is to be the Self. So simple. What did you believe the Self i.e. present awareness and one's true nature was truly all about? Plain ordinary everyday common awareness is one's true nature. Wakefulness, consciousness, awareness are synonymous. To simply be conscious is to be the Self.That is all.

Once you understand or realize that simply "being aware" is being the Self that was never lost. You laugh at yourself and call off the Search. What you seek is what you are and have always been all along. If you are aware you are the Self. Being aware is aware-ness. That is IT. What can more simple and easier than that? The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no becoming anything whatsoever. Being aware is what you are right now. Freedom is so easy. Ignorant people foolishly believe the Reality is something that it is not. Nothing to it. Look at yourself. Aren't aware or awake or sentient or conscious right here and now? That is what the Self and one's true nature simply is, plain common ordinary everyday sentience or awareness. Everyday you abide as the Self. Being aware or aware-ness is everyone's natural state of being. After all, if you know that you are present it is only because awareness is present. The 'I' and awareness are One. One's own ordinary self is the Self. Present awareness is at once being and consciousness. Present awareness is 'I' am. Knowing that you are present or awareness of being oneself is this presence of awareness itself i.e. the Self. When awareness is present 'you' are present. When you are present it is because awareness is present. You are that. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The ultimate Truth is so simple. In other words, you being the Self or awareness want to attain the Self or awareness. It is impossible! How can you kiss yourself on your own lips? You are already what you Seek to find. Look at yourself. Realize that "being aware" is being the Self. Here and now you are that. There is no need to try to reach, attain or cultivate awareness. Only remove ignorance with understanding. Understanding is all.

Understand what is awareness. It is so simple. Get to know your true nature. It is so easy. That is all what Freedom is about. It is simple and easy to understand awareness. Understanding awareness is Realizing that to be aware is to be the Self i.e. awareness itself. So near and so dear. Awareness is already here anyhow. After all, how much time does it take to know that you are aware? If you are not asleep or un-conscious, you are undeniably awake or aware. Being aware is aware-ness. Everyone awake is aware and abiding as the Self. So simple. Nothing to it. Wakeful-ness is just another word for aware-ness. Both are the Self, He, the Reality. Of course is you desire to see the Self or awareness as something new, as an extra-ordinary experience or as a blazing light, well realize that you have read too many religious books or sat with too many self-appointed spiritual Gurus pretending to be special and holy. Awareness is nothing new, special, spiritual or holy. It is simple changeless being. Simple changeless being is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Have a laugh at the Joke of it all. It is so funny. To be awake, aware or conscious and therefore being cognizant, perceiving and alert is synonymous with the Self, He, the Reality. That is all awareness simply is. The natural state of being aware is aware-ness itself. The natural activity of being conscious, awake, aware and alert. To be awake from sleep everyday is to be so called 'Enlightened'. So simple.That is IT. Everybody awake or sentient is a so called 'Buddha'. There is nothing new to be reached or attained. Awareness is the natural state of pure being common to everyone alive. Awareness of being present is 'I' am. If you are conscious. You are aware of being.Consciousness is 'I' am. If you are conscious you know that you are. Consciousness present is 'I' am present. That is all there is to realize. You are the knowing that you are i.e. this consciousness itself.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ So, so, so simple. It is laughable how simple it all is. Look at yourself. Are you aware right now? Yes? There you go sport you are so called 'Enlightened'! Call off the Search. You are He. You are that this very moment. Simply realizing that to be aware is to be the Self is the Self-Realization. "Being aware" is the natural state of pure being common to all. It is nothing new. Consciousness is the real presence of existence.We call it Life. The Self is nothing new to anyone alive. Being the Self is being alive. Alive-ness. Living-ness. Being-ness. 'I' am-ness is the Self. Nothing spiritual or special. Consciousness present is existence itself. Existence is being. Being is 'I' am. Therefore 'I' am is the Self. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ No one alive can deny one's own being or existence and declare that 'I' do not exist. 'I' exist is the absolute Reality. The 'I' represents one's own affectionate immutable self. The 'I' represents one's own ordinary everyday being. After all, 'I' exist is certain.'I' exist is 'I' am. No one can deny one's own being or existence and say 'I' am not. To be or not to be? Knowing that you exist, that the 'I' is present is the knowing that you are. It is 'I' am. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The 'I' you know so well as your own affectionate everyday ordinary self is the One without a second. The 'I' is the Self. That is the Open Secret. Me, myself and 'I' is the eternal and imperishable Self. The Self is one's own affectionate plain ordinary everyday being and existence. Same, same. No 'I' present, no 'I' am. The 'I' present in 'I' am is the Real Self or Real'I'-ty. The 'I' cannot see itself. The 'I' is the Seer. The 'I' is that.You are what

you Seek. The Seeker is the Sought. Say 'I' to yourself. That is IT! That is what the Self is. Being oneself is being the Self. There is nothing more to realize. Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Where the ignorant believes religious crap and concepts like ego and finite self etc. The wise knows the simple Truth. That the 'I' and awareness are One. That the 'I' is not different from the Infinite Self but One and the same. There is no bondage or liberation. Being oneself is being the Self already. Therefore bondage for whom? On enquiry 'who' is bound? The notion of bondage vanishes and so does that of Liberation. The one eternally free alone remains self-revealed. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Forget bondage and forget liberation. Know that you are already the Self and Free. After all, who is not aware of himself. Who is not aware of being? So simple. To be or not to be? Everyone alive knows and says 'I' am all day long. No one can deny one's own existence. Deny one's own being. So easy! If you know that you are alive this very moment, you are therefore so called 'Enlightened'. To be or not to be? That is all. Laugh! Nothing to it. So simple. That is the Joke of it all. To be aware of being alive and kicking as one's own self is to be the Self. Present awareness is 'I' am. It is the knowing that you are. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self . A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What about 'Buddhas' and Enlightened Gurus, Masters, Teachers and Jnanis you may see on the Road or come cross on your path? A bunch of crooks! These SOB's paradoxically will keep people on a Seeking path for their own benefits, many asking a donation or a fee. So called Enlightened Gurus and spiritual Teachers from East and West etc, are just scammers, liars and phonies. People pretending to be holy and Enlightened and idiots believed them. How funny.

Forget Enlightenment. It is just a bunch of crap. Forget everything spiritual and religious and voila! You are there. Be still and awareness remains present and self-shining. Self-revealed as pure changeless being. Being aware is being the Self. Awareness is the natural state of being common to all. Nothing special. Nothing spiritual, religious or holy. That is the funny paradox. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The wise understands that simply being aware is being one's true nature. Spiritual Seekers are not wise but paradoxically the most veiled and ignorant people. They will foolishly spend their whole life striving to become something new, different or special. Oops. The Search is the trap. Freedom is always here. It is not to be achieved. There is no becoming anything new, spiritual, different or special.That is the open Secret. Thou art that already. Only removing the false notion or idea of not being the real Self already is all that is required. People want to see the Self as something new.How foolish. The Self is in fact the most boring, the most plain ordinary everyday familiar presence of awareness one has always known. It is nothing new whatsoever but so common and so familiar that one's true nature is simply overlooked. Awareness is so boring, most people do not want plain ordinary awareness to be the Self because it is no-thing. Understanding is all. The Self is just another name for awareness. Awareness is nothing new to anyone alive but simply what we are. Freedom is not about becoming anything new, but only about removing ignorance. Call off the Search.There is no need to strive to reach, to attain, to become or to cultivate awareness. To be conscious or sentient everyday or wakefulness is abiding as this presence of unchanging awareness itself. Now if you do not understand what the word 'awareness' means. Look it up in the dictionary. Conscious or aware.

It simply means sentience, cognizance, the activity of knowing, feeling, sensing, seeing, hearing etc. Consciousness. In other words if you are not un-conscious or asleep you are indeed awake and aware.Wakefulness is sentience. Freedom is very simple. Only the fool and the ignorant wants it to be difficult. Oh well too bad them. After all, there is no bondage and of course there is no liberation either. One only 'believes' that there is. Ignorance is the only obstacle to Freedom. Freedom is not reached. Only ignorance is removed with understanding. All that we need do is to remove the obstruction. That which is eternal is not known to be so because of ignorance. Ignorance is the obstruction. Get over this ignorance and all will be well. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Freedom is very easy. No time or effort is required to understand this consciousness or present awareness. Only the ignorant spiritual Seeker wants it to be hard and special or spiritual, but paradoxically it is not. Just basic ordinary everyday common sense and child like simplicity is all that is needed. Again and again. There is absolutely nothing whatsoever spiritual or religious about the Self. That is the funny paradox. People have been looking away from it all their lives. The Self is awareness. To be aware is this present awareness itself. It is nothing new. If you are aware of being aware you are undeniably abiding as the Self.You know that you are. That simply means that to be conscious, sentient or awake from sleep is to be the Self itself.That is IT. When you sleep you are not aware of being. You are un-conscious. When you are awake, you are aware of being yourself. Consciousness is present. Awareness of being oneself is 'I' am. That is the Self. 'I' am is the Self. The Self is 'I' am. Therefore the Reality is simply being alive and conscious or existence and consciousness. Existence and consciousness present is the knowing that you are present or awareness of being. That is what 'I' am represents. The knowing that you are. Only remove the false notion of separation by understanding or realizing that

being alive and awake from sleep everyday is to abide as the Self. That is the Open Secret. The Self is not reached or attained. Therefore if you foolishly believe that you have met a spiritual Guru or religious Teacher and have been in the holy spiritual presence of an 'Enlightened' Sage, Jnani, Master or Guru that pretends to have reached, attained or become so called 'Enlightened'. Laugh. It is a phony! It is just for show. Some even pretend to have some holy spiritual faculties of transmissions by staring in people's eyes or give Satsang. The Self (consciousness) is not something to be acquired from others. All that is necessary is to know its existence in you. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be or not to be. 'I' am or 'I' am not? Everybody knows and says 'I' am. Know that 'I' am is the Self. The Self is one's own self. When did you loose you?'I' am is always with you. Look at yourself. You know that you are. Thou art that literally. Being yourself is the Self. The Self (consciousness) you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Like a fish in the water that desperately cries that he is thirsty. Fools spend their whole Life striving to become something new, special, spiritual and holy. When all along the Self they Seek to know is truly their own everyday ordinary self.How funny! When you come to realize and see the false as false that there is no such thing as 'Enlightenment'. It is nothing other than a religious carrot or myth for the weak, simple and ignorant you have wizened up. The Self is nothing new, spiritual or religious but plain ordinary everyday being-ness, 'I' am-ness or existence. Consciousness, Life and existence are synonymous with the Reality. Being alive is being the Self. So simple! That is all there is to understand or realize. Ignorant and foolish people desire to see the Self as something new but it is nothing new or special.

There is absolutely nothing you have to do for the Reality to be. The Self is consciousness. Consciousness present is your own affectionate self and being. Consciousness present is 'I' am.No one can deny consciousness because no one can deny being. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is nothing new to be gained or acquired.Everybody alive and awake from sleep is already Self. The Self is not some spiritual presence or spiritual state. The Self is simply being alive. Being alive or alive-ness is the Self.The Self is at once being and consciousness. That is what the Self is. Anyone that tells you otherwise is full of crap. Look at your own being. Consciousness is paradoxically closer to you than you could have ever imagined. This natural effortless presence of self-shining awareness is at once the Self and everyday wakefulness. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Want to know the Self? It is so easy! Only understanding is required. To be consious is consciousness. To be aware is awareness. That is the Self. So simple isn't it? Whoever said Freedom was hard or difficult? Say 'I' am to yourself. See! You know that you are and you like it. Like a big Joke.So simple!It is laughable. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Everybody knows and everybody says 'I' am all day long. Nothing special or spiritual about that. Who is not aware of himself? What can be more plain, more common and more ordinary and familiar than that? The simple fact is that there is nothing whatsoever Godly, holy, spiritual or religious about the Self. The Self is not hidden somewhere far away or up in the Sky. The Reality is present within your own dwelling. The Self is Life itself. That is all it is. The Self or consciousness is undeniably present with all sentient beings as

plain, common ordinary everyday unchanging awareness AKA wakefulness. Plain and simple. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ Once you understand that plain ordinary everyday awareness is your true nature. You have done all that needed to be done. Being aware or awareness is also called the thoughtless Reality. Being alive and being awake everyday is being the Self. Sentience. That is what the fuss is all about. Nothing new or different but paradoxically what you are here and now and have always been. The Self, He, the Reality etc, are just other names for being aware or awareness. All these fancy words simply point to this natural presence and activity. Being aware. Awareness is everyone's natural state of being. Now why would anyone try to reach, attain or achieve awareness? Look at yourself. Are you aware? There you go sport. You know that you are. That is awareness itself. Awareness is 'I' am. Freedom is funny paradox. You do not become anything new. You simply remove the false notion of being bound. That is all it is. Funny no! Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Everyone alive is always the Self. What else would they be? The Self is Life itself. Life, consciousness, existence, awareness is 'I' am. To simply be alive and conscious or aware is at once being and consciousness. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ After all, what effort do you make to be?You undeniably know that you are and you like it! Existence is the so called bliss of the Self. Awareness of being is bliss. Awareness of being is at once 'I' am and the Self. You are or 'I' am is that.

Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self . A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be or not to be? How do you know that you are? Simple. Have a look and see. You are aware. To be aware is the knowing that you are. Knowing that you are is 'I' am. Therefore 'I' am is the Self. Be still and know that 'I' am is that. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The Self is nothing new or special.Being awake or conscious naturallyis being aware and remaining aware all day long naturally i.e. aware-ness. That is the Sought-after Truth, He, the Self, the Reality. If you are awake, you are aware.That is being the Self. When you are awake, you are conscious and abiding as your true nature. Simple recap.If you are sure of the fact that you are not dead or asleep this very moment, then you are indeed awake from sleep and aware of being. That is IT. Present-awareness is 'I' am. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Awareness of being alive is 'I' am. Being alive, awake or aware is abiding as the Self. So simple. Some call this Sat-Chit-Ananda. Awareness of being is bliss or happiness. Joy de Vivre! Being alive is being the Self. You know that you are and you like it. What can be more near and more dear than that?Everybody knows and says 'I' am. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Once recognized that simply being alive and awake from sleep everyday naturally is in fact abiding as one's truenature or simply being the Self, He, the Reality etc.

Then life goes on just as before. Chop wood and carry water. After all, why would anything be any different when nothing new, nothing special, nothing whatsoever spiritual or religious is freshly acquired, but only ignorance is removed? Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Call off the Search. Bondage is only believing that the Self is something new, something special or spiritual, but it is not! When you laugh at yourself for foolishly Seeking the Self, then you have finally arrived at the destination you have paradoxically never left. Understanding is Realizing. If you do not laugh at yourself for being an ass or a fool, then you have not understood. Simply because it is all a Joke! What you Seek is paradoxically what you are and have always been. Gee! yoU aRe yoU. Nothing new! It is you. You are the Self. Me, myself and 'I' is the Self. The Seeker is paradoxically the Sought. How can you kiss yourself? Thou art that. There is nothing new under the Sun. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is nothing to be achieved. In other words an ordinary person is already a so called 'Buddha' and vise versa. A 'Buddha' is truly an ordinaryperson as well. There is no difference whatsoever. There is no one special anyhow. Of course if you foolishly have hypnotized yourself by following others like a blind sheep and became a closedevotee AKA a spiritual or religious Sheepo, foolishly believing that a Guru is a special beingthat has reached, attained or acquired the Self and has developed some mystical or spiritual faculties. Oops! A Guru is in no way more Enlightened than your neighbor's GrandMother. He or she knows it and you don't. That religious and spiritual crap is only for idiots that want to foolishly worship and suck up to illusion. That alone is the only difference between the holy Enlightened Guru and his disciples and students. Self-appointed spiritual Guru and religious people are just ordinary people pretending to be holy. Forgot the Gurus for they cannot help you.They only point to illusion.

Reality is always here. Ignorance is the only obstacle to so called 'Realization'. Get rid of ignorance and voila! Once you get that there is absolutely nothing new to get. You finally got it. You are what you Seek. Being just as you are. So simple. Understanding is all. The Guru will say only what I am saying now. It is impossible for anyone to get what he has not got already. Even if he gets any such thing, it will go as it came. What comes will also go. What always 'is' will alone remain. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The bottom line for Freedom is very simple. Call off the Search. Understand only. There is nothing new to achieve or become. The Search starts and ends with you. You are what you have always wanted. Plain good ol' you. Nothing new. There is no Seeking or experiencing the Self i.e. consciousness. Unchanging. Consciousness is always present and always remains the same. Consciousness is not something new to be found, reached or acquired. It is what you are. Stories of holy transmissions and spiritual acquisition from Enlightened Spiritual Gurus and others are just crap to entice stupid people. Get rid of ignorance. It is impossible to acquire anything new for Freedom. After all, the Open Secret to Freedom is that simply being alive is being the Self. He is Life itself. Consciousness expresses itself effortlessly everyday as simple changeless awareness of being or 'I' am. In other words, to be conscious is this consciousness itself. That is the Oneness or the One without a second. Consciousness is always present with oneself as oneself. Consciousness is the 'I' you know so well as your own self. If you are conscious and therefore aware of being yourself here and now, you are so called Enlightened. You are it. You must be honest with yourself. What are you looking for?If you are Seeking Love, Peace and Happiness you will never know Freedom.

All that non-sense is in fact bondage. Freedom is to know that which is real, permanent and Eternal. Consciousness is the immortal imperishable Self. Consciousness is formless, eternal and stateless. There is no state of Love, there is no state of Peace or any state of Happiness in it. It is Empty. Consciousness is Emptiness. It is pure changeless being. Why Seek the impermanent? Love, Peace and Happiness are just states that are impermanent.All are illusion. Of course. What do you truly want most. Illusion or Reality?

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Did you know that the words Self, He, the Reality or God etc.., DO NOT represent anything whatsoever new, whatsoever spiritual, religious or special?

That is the funny paradox. It is like telling a five year old that there is no Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus. Some people want to believe in a spiritual or religious God that does not exist. Others in flying monkeys or a blue man playing a flute and all that religious non-sense. People that believe in God are ignorant. People that talk about God are liars. Everyone's true nature is not God! That is a myth. Everyone's true nature is consciousness. God is illusion and consciousness is the Reality. That is the Open Secret self-shining in plain Sight. Another name for everyone's thoughtless true nature or this Reality that is the most plain, the most boring and therefore the most ordinary everyday presence or this consciousness is simply the natural state of being aware. Are you dead or un-conscious or awake and therefore aware? To be awake is to be aware. So simple. This waking or cognizing activity is called awareness or sentience. Look at yourself. You are awake. You are aware. Seeing, hearing, thinking, smelling, feeling etc is being aware. Just realize that being aware is being the Self. Being aware. That is aware-ness. So funny. That is the Sought-after Truth. What else did you expect awareness to be? Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Don't you get it? Stop Seeking! You are that. There is nothing new to to be acquired. Understanding, recognizing or Realizing that simply being aware is being the true Self is the Self-Realization. That is IT. Self means awareness. There is nothing to change, alter or modify about yourself for the Reality to be. If some idiot disguised as a holy Guru, Sage, Jnani or Buddha tries to sell you Silence laugh! Consciousness has absolutely nothing to do with silence nor space. Only about the actuality of existence or Life.

To simply be alive and aware of being oneself everyday is to be the true Self, He, the Reality. He is Life itself. Perhaps you have read some holy spiritual scriptures that talk about getting rid of the 'ego' for Freedom. That was just crap written by some idiots. Spiritual people are dumb idiots that believe crap to be true. If you seek the ego you will find, it does not exist. That is the way to get rid of it. Look for it and it will not be found. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Spirituality and religions are ILLUSION. It is all crap. Take it for granted. People want the false to be true, what to do! The only Freedom is to simply remove the idea of being bound. So simple. Remove ignorance only. Anyone wise will tell you that Enlightenment for example is nothing other than a religious myth, a hoax, a joke if you like, total B.S. There is no such thing. People have been using the concept of Freedom, Enlightenment and God to entice others to be Sheepos. Fearful. Most spiritual and religious people do not dare to question their acquired spiritual or religious beliefs. Like being afraid of their own shadow. Spiritual and religious people are afraid of a God that does not even exist. Scriptures are only full of crap. Just fictitious stories and ideology. Some will talk about small self and big self. Some about a small 'I' and big 'I'. Lower self and higher self etc. Spiritual knowledge is wrong knowledge. There are no two selves.There is only the One Self i.e. consciousness and you are that. Realize that there is no bondage. No duality. No separation. Thou art that. What is 'that'? Consciousness. If you are conscious, you are this consciousness itself. The Self is not some happy place, spiritual presence or Enlightened state of bliss etc. The Self is what you are. Your true nature is stateless. Consciousness is pure changeless being. Pure existence. Looking for some religious presence or spiritual states is only for idiots. Consciousness is simply existence. That is all.

Paradoxically the spiritual Seeker Seeking the Self has no idea what the Self truly is.People cry over nothing. A funny paradox. Like a fish in the water foolishly crying that he is thirsty. The Seeker is the Sought. The Self you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ One can only take a horse to the water but cannot make him drink. If you do an experiment and tell the veiled and ignorant spiritual Seeker so attached to fantasy that the real Self is simply the natural activity of being alive and awake from sleep naturally everyday, these ignorant spiritual Seekers will go up in arms screaming that this is not it, of course they do not know what the Self simply is, but they have brainwashed themselves to foolishly believe that the Self is so much more. Paradoxically the wise and honest pointer will only say what I am saying now. Funny no! The Self is nothing new or special. Consciousness present is Life itself. You do not become it. You are it. It is like the analogy of looking everywhere for your glasses when all along they are right on top of your head. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Natural state of being is consciousness. To be or not to be? One's own ordinary everyday existence is the Self. If you are alive, you are aware, you are consciousness. You are that. How can you kiss yourself on your own lips? All there is to understand is that being oneself is being the Self. That is all. It is all about being. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ If you are alive. You are the Self. The Self is nothing new, religious or spiritual. To know the Self look at yourself. You are the Self. Full stop. Spirituality and religions only point to fiction. There is no Truth there.

The false cannot stand up to investigation. Just like the water in the mirage is not real. Realize that there is no ego. Just fiction. Look for an ego and it will not be found. It is all so simple. And yet some idiots will spend their whole lives striving to kill an 'ego' that doesn't even exist. How foolish. People pretending to be holy made up an 'ego' and a bunch of idiots believed them. There goes a Sect and religion. Freedom is not about acquiring anything new, special, different, spiritual or religious. It is simply and only about knowing yourself. Know your true nature. Life doesn't know death.Living itself as you.You are Life. Your true nature is consciousness. What binds you? You are the imperishable Self. The immortal. The One without two is you. Nothing new. Gee! yoU aRe yoU. Nothing binds you! Look for your chains and they will not be found. Bondage is only psychological. People believe the false to be true. There is no bondage. There is no ego either.Unless you want to invent one in your own head. You are Free. Here and now you are the one without a second or the oneness. You are that or He this very moment. Nothing new, spiritual or holy about the Self or consciousness. It is simply what you are and have always been. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ You are already the Self. There is no so called 'awakening' simply because no one has ever gone to sleep. Everybody alive is already the Self. They simply do not understand it.The word Realize means understanding. Anyone that pretends to have had a spiritual 'awakening' is an idiot and truly con artist. A poser and scammer. Freedom is not some blazing light or some spiritual experience or event. That is all illusion and crap. Some idiots wait for a holy Guru or Enlightened Master to transmit Freedom. What a load of crap. Some even foolishly believe that they have experienced the Self i.e. consciousness. How funny.

All that is required it to get rid of the false notion of bondage with understanding. Very easy. Understanding and Freedom are synonymous. Both are one and the same. Understanding is Realizing. No understanding. No Realizing. No Freedom. Simple as that. No one becomes Free or achieves anything new. Freedom is only removing ignorance. To be alive and aware is consciousness i.e. one's true nature. That is all there is to understand. You are and have always been egoless, formless consciousness or the presence of Life itself. You are Life. There is no 'you' and consciousness. There is only 'you' present as consciousness itself. That is called non-duality. Forget about ego. What ego? It is only crap given to imbeciles to chase after a religious idea, a false notion. That is all. No amount of spiritual or religious practice, ritual, mantra, meditation or yoga can ever help you for Freedom. It works in reverse. In fact spiritual and religious practice only perpetuates the false notion of bondage itself. People have foolishly acquired wrong knowledge from spiritual books and others. They believe the false to be true. Imagine that. Perhaps you have accumulated so many spiritual and religious books over the years. For what? Cherishing them to be so special and so holy when in fact they are all simply crap.Throw them all away. You can read holy book after holy book and meditate until your turn blue. That won't change anything. Only remove ignorance with understanding. That is all that needs to be done. So simple. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Forget spiritual and religious scriptures, books, holy people and religious stories it is all pure garbage. Spirituality and religions are the poison, not the cure. They are all based on myths and full of lies. Of course if you consider yourself a spiritual or religious person, well then you are doomed to worship illusion. It all works in reverse. The more spiritual, religious and holy the more false, illusory and phony it will be.

You, being the Self (consciousness), want to know how to attain the Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What you Seek is what you are naturally this very moment. Being alive. You are already the Self i.e. consciousness. You are always abiding as your true nature. The Reality is always present as the actuality of existence itself.To be or not to be! So funny. If you are alive and aware of being.Voila! You are so called Enlightened or Realized. So simple. That is IT. Being the Self is simply being alive and aware just as you are this very moment. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ Present within your own dwelling. Life is the Reality. Closer than close. Self-shining naturally as your own undeniable existence. As your own being. Everyone alive is always the Self. Being alive and awake from sleep is the experience itself. Only because they do not know this simple Truth. People foolishly Seek to acquire something new far away. The Self is at once beating your heart naturally and self-shining through your very eyes. Seeing is being the Self. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self is nothing new or spiritual whatsoever but simply what you are naturally everyday. So plain, so common and so ordinary. Alive-ness, living-ness, beingness, 'I' am-ness. That is all it is. So simple. People always want more. Be content with 'I' am. One's own existence is the Divine. To simply be alive is to be the Self. Full stop! That is it. What are you waiting for? Call off the Search. There is nothing new or different to find. You are already there!Being as you are. Nothing new, special, different or spiritual.

What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ As with water and ice. Life is consciousness present. Consciousness present is just another name for Life. Veiled and ignorant spiritual and religious people want to see the Self as something new. But it is nothing new. Life is the Self. That is all that needs to be understood. Being alive is the experience itself. So simple. Existence is what is naturally happening even while people are busy chasing illusion. Consciousness is existence. Life, consciousness, awareness is simply being. Present awareness is 'I' exist or 'I' am. Simple changeless being. Being is always certain and unchanging as the knowing that you are present or 'I' am. You do not have to repeat 'I' am, 'I' am, 'I' am ,'I' am, 'I' am all day long to know that you are. Simple changeless being is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ No matter what you say, think or do. You must be aware first and foremost don't you? Present awareness. Look at yourself. You know that you are alive and you like it. Awareness present is the Self. Knowing that you are is being the Self. If somebody calls your name you will answer 'I' am here! You know that you are present. Present awareness is 'I' am and the Reality. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be alive and aware of being oneself naturally everyday is consciousness i.e. the Self. 'I' am is the knowing that you are. The undeniable fact of your own being. Nothing new, spiritual or special about being oneself. So simple. Everybody knows and says 'I' am all day long. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

'I' am is always with you so to speak. You are and remain aware of being yourself all day long. The Self is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well as your own affectionate being. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Some foolish spiritual people want to believe that they do not exist or that there is no one present. Oops! Paradoxically the fact is that they are the One and existence itself. So screwed up they are these spiritual people. They have read too many spiritual books and sat with too many holy Gurus. That does it. It works in reverse and gets these foolish people deeper into ignorance. Freedom is very easy.It takes no time or effort. Freedom is only the removal of ignorance with understanding. The Natural state of being. What is it? Are you alive? Are you aware of being present as yourself? You know that you are. That is IT. Being alive and aware of being oneself needs no proof. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What else do you want? Be content with being. Everyone alive likes to be. The experience is always here and now. Joy de Vivre. Whoo Hoo! Being alive everyday is the so called "bliss of the Self". Existence is the same as bliss or happiness. Awareness of being is bliss. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Nothing new. That is the funny paradox. Reality is Life. Consciousness is simply the presence and activity of being alive. That is all it is. Being means existence. Consciousness is the real presence of existence some call the Self, that is all. Remove ignorance. There is no bondage and no liberation. Nothing new or special to be reached, attained or acquired.

Just remove the false notion that you are not the real Self and Free already. Whoever told you that you are not the true Self and totally Free simply lied to you. Understanding is the short cut to Freedom. After all, there is no bondage. One only believes that there is. Realizing that being alive and aware is to be the Self is the Realization. Awareness of being present is this presence of awareness itself. Awareness present is the knowing that you are. It is that 'I' am you know so well. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ What is awareness? Being your everyday self. Knowing that you are. If you know that you are not dead. You are aware of being. All you need is to realize that you are right now you are not unconscious. Being aware is the opposite of being asleep. If you are not asleep then you are aware. Being awake from sleep or being aware is this present awareness itself. The natural ordinary everyday activity of being aware is always being one's true nature. That is the Open Secret to Self-Realization. Being aware is being the Self. Awareness and the Self are One. Nothing new or special. Just realize that you are indeed aware and that is IT. That is the Self-Realization. Then you laugh at yourself for being so veiled, so ignorant about your real self and so foolish. All these self-appointed Gurus that pretend to have had a profound spiritual experience are just liars. They made up some story to entice the weak and the dumb and to sell them satsang, books, CD's, DVD's, etc. Phonies, scammers, posers and liars that only pretend to be special and holy for a fee. Just this and nothing else. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The experience is always here and now. Being awake or aware is the experience itself. Understanding that being aware is awareness itself is the so called SelfRealization. Understanding is Realizing. Nothing else is required for Freedom.

Everyone's true nature is always undeniably present and self-shining naturally and effortlessly as plain boring everyday awareness. Again not some mystical spiritual presence of awareness, but plain and ordinary everyday awareness. After all, what is special, spiritual or religious about aware-ness? Nothing whatsoever.It is simply sentience. That is the funny paradox! Zip, zero.Being aware is so natural to everyone. It is the natural state of being. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ If you ever wondered what the wise have been talking about for millennia as the Self, He, the Reality and pointed to as being one's thoughtless true nature. That is IT. Awareness is the thoughtless Reality. So simple. Sentience. Plain ordinary everyday boring awareness. You are aware right here and right now anyhow. Therefore you are only Seeking what you already are. Funny no! Call off the Search. What are you looking for? Do you know what you are Seeking?Seeking is the Trap. So near and so dear. Existence itself. Life or consciousness is the Reality people have been Seeking for millennia. Seeking it, is always missing it. Being alive and wakeful or aware everyday naturally is in fact being IT. Thou art that. That is all there is to realize. To be aware or conscious everyday is to abide as IT. You are that awareness itself. To realize that plain boring everyday awareness is the Self and one's true nature is the Realization. Awareness is nothing new. Everyday you are abiding as this unchanging awareness when you are awake from sleep. So plain and ordinary. The waking state is the so called Enlightened or Realized state. Funny or what? Wakefulness. That is what the Self is. Plain ordinary everyday common to all awareness. Nothing new or spiritual.The Self is what you are and have always been all along. Isn't it funny? It is like a fish always in the water crying that he is thirsty.

To know the Self, He, the Reality, it is very easy. Just realize that you are and remain aware all day. Sentient, wakeful. Being aware or aware-ness is what you always are naturally everyday. Being awake is consciousness or awareness. You don't have to try to wake up. Realize that you are already awake.Being awake. That is abiding as the Self. Just like space is always present but easily overlooked. Awareness is always present all day long with everyonealive as the natural state of being aware but simply overlooked because awareness is so plain, so familiar, so boring, stateless and unchanging. Get to know your thoughtless real nature. To know your true self. Know this awareness to be what you are. Wakeful-ness is aware-ness. Just realize that you are awake, you are and remain aware all day long. Nothing special. Being awake or aware is simply the natural state of being common to all. Awareness is nothing new to anyone alive. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be alive and aware is to abide as the Self, He, the Reality. That alone is the Sought-after Truth. Spiritual and religious people believe the false to be true and therefore always overlook the most obvious. The Self i.e the Reality is nothing new, spiritual or religious. It is simply the undeniable fact of your own being. The Self, He, the Reality is the most natural undeniable presence of existence you have always known as being alive. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ If you are not un-conscious. You are aware. Being aware is being the Self. That is IT. That is called awareness. Being awake from sleep naturally everyday is being the Self.So simple. That is all. If you are not dead, un-conscious or asleep then right here and now you are undeniably abiding as the Self. If you know that you are alive and aware of being awake or aware then realize that consciousness is indeed present. You are conscious. How else would do you know that you are present? Awareness of being is 'I' am. Present awareness is simply being alive and awake or conscious. That is

all. No biggy. To be conscious is consciousness. To be aware is awareness. That is what the fuss is all about!All and only about being alive and aware naturally everyday. What about keeping quiet, mental stillness, meditations, yogas etc? All crap given by idiots to other idiots. Once you get that there is absolutely nothing new to get, nothing spiritual or special whatsoever then you have finally arrived at the destination you have never left. Understanding is Realizing. Understanding that being conscious is abiding as this consciousness itself is the so called Self-Realization. Realize that being awake or aware naturally, ordinarily and effortlessly is always abiding as your true nature. Bondage and liberation for whom? You are already that awareness itself, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. See the false as false. Next time you come across a so called Enlightened spiritual being or Buddha on the Road you run that Mother Fu$%er down with a truck. Just a con artist pretending to be special and holy. A poser that will entice and confuse Seekers for either his or her personal selfgratification, money or service. Know the Truth! There are no special spiritual people. Only con artists pretending to be special for gratification or a fee. Ignorant Seekers turn to illusion foolishly believing it is Reality. How funny. To know the Self is super-duper easy. Look at yourself. You are that already. There is nothing spiritual about being conscious. Consciousness is simply being aware and remaining aware all day long or aware-ness. Freedom is easy! Remove ignorance only. Just this is required for Freedom from all bondage. Not reaching, attaining, acquiring or striving to become anything new, spiritual and holy. There is no becoming or attaining anything new, spiritual or special. There never was. Ignorance is the only cause of all mischief. Get rid of ignorance and voila! Of course if you want the Self to be either something new, something spiritual, religious or special, you cannot know the Reality. Simply because the Reality is nothing new, nothing religious, spiritual or special.

Spirituality and religions are only for the blind followers and worshippers of illusion. Present as the natural state of being. So obvious! Being alive is abiding as the Reality. That is IT. The Reality is at once being alive and being aware. There is nothing to attain or to cultivate. Just be! That is all. You are alive. You are that presence of consciousness itself that we call Life, existence or sentience. It is pure being. Look at your own ordinary everyday self. Are you aware this very moment? You undeniably know that you are? There you go sport. You are that awareness itself. Awareness of being is awareness. It is the knowing that you are. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be awake, conscious, sentient, cognizant or aware everyday is always being the Self. Same, same. So simple. There is no 'you' and awareness or duality. Being aware is being yourself.You and awareness are One. The One without two. Awareness is just another name for you. Being yourself is always being it. The natural state of everyday awareness or ordinary everyday sentience is one's true nature. Being aware and remaining aware is aware-ness. Wakeful-ness is awareness. Being aware is abiding as the Self, He, the Reality. So simple. Are you aware? That is IT!Just this. Full stop! Call off the Search. What did you foolishly believe awareness truly is? Something new, spiritual or special? Oops! Of course not. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Awareness is closer to you than your own breath. After all, aren't aware of being alive and also breathing? You can pause your breath but you cannot pause being aware of it. As another example. If you watch your thoughts or pause thoughts who is always present to be aware of it? Awareness of course. You are that. Awareness is being aware. The ultimate Truth is so simple. That is paradoxically the only difficulty. What are you looking for? What is missing? What have you lost? Aren't you aware right now? Hellooo!

If you are reading these words then you are not asleep or un-conscious. You are undeniably awake and aware. The one who Seeks awareness far and away or as anything new or spiritual is veiled by ignorance and stupidity. Did somebody appearing holy or a so called 'Buddha' on the Road sold you water by the River? Did you get taken? Holy people will always tell you all sorts of crap that people want to hear, but they will not tell you the simple Truth. There is no Truth in religions or spirituality. Why look there when it is all crap? The Truth is being as you are. Right here and right now. Simply being yourself. Nothing fancy, nothing new but simply being the plain good ol' everyday you. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Remove ignorance with understanding, that is all that is necessary. To be aware is awareness. Look it up in the dictionary. That is IT. Being aware is being the Self. So simple. Being aware or awake from sleep is abiding as the Reality. So funny.That is consciousness itself. Being conscious. That alone is the Sought-after Truth and absolute undeniable Reality. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be or not to be? Who is not aware of being? Awareness present is the knowing that you are present. Same thing. Present awareness is me, myself and 'I'. Awareness of being is 'I' is or 'I' am. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Are you laughing at the Joke of it all. Enlightenment is a Joke, just a religious hoax cultivated by religious phonies that are only pretending to be holy, usually for a fee. There is no such thing. Forget all about all religions and spirituality if you truly want to be Free. That is a must. You cannot have both. Illusion or Reality? One must choose wisely. One is a religious myth and the other is the undeniably Reality.

Forget all about God for it is fiction. Understanding consciousness is knowing one's true nature and the Reality. One can only point to this undeniable presence of consciousness. Once pointed out it easily recognized as sentience. Nothing special, spiritual or holy. Consciousness is at once the presence of Life itself and sentience. Understanding consciousness to be one's true nature is Freedom. It is very easy to understand. Why wait? Freedom is always here. Who waits dies ignorant of the simple Truth. There is no God to pray to. There is no one to meditate upon or anyone to worship Only ignorant people pray, worship, believe and Seek a fictitious God or illusion. There isn't any present anywhere. There never were a God and you. Look for God and he will never be found.Understand consciousness to be Life itself and then you know the true meaning of the 'Kingdom of God' is in you. He is Life itself. Consciousness is the natural living presence present in all sentient beings that we call Life. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart Veiled and ignorant Seekers foolishly believe that holy Gurus are spiritual or special beings but there are not. Any spiritual Guru, Teacher or Preacher is truly a con artist feeding on people's ignorance, that is all. Any so called Buddha is an ordinary person and an ordinary person is already a Buddha. Being alive and aware or sentient is the so called Realized state of Enlightenment. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ Who is not aware of being alive and kicking? You undeniably know that you are alive and you like it. Being alive is the bliss of the Self. Awareness of being is bliss.

To be or not to be? Life is the Reality that is Sought-after. Being means existence. Being alive is always being the Self, He, the Reality. That is all there is to Realize. Just this. Only the dumb, the veiled and ignorant spiritual and religious Seeker believes the false to be true and paradoxically these veiled and foolish spiritual or religious people will reject the simple Truth to be false. Simply because there is nothing new to be gained for Freedom. Only ignorance is to be removed with understanding, that is all Freedom simply is.The wise will only say what I am saying now. These ignorant people are called Fools. Gurus are just hypnotizing the simple and the weak to foolishly believe in their own acquired beliefs, that is all. And idiots will follow and spend years worshipping illusion when in fact they are already the real Self itself. Like religious people on T.V. put on a show. Any self-appointed Guru is just an actor putting on a show. The Self you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ See the false as false. There is nothing holy or spiritual to be found. Only self-appointed Gurus and religious people pretend that there is, but there isn't. Whatever spiritual and religious crap these S.O.B's fill people's head with, is the poison not the cure. A funny paradox. You only will find it the moment you stop Seeking it.You are IT.Being oneself is being the Self. The Self is nothing special or new to anyone. The Self is being aware and remaining aware or awake all day long. Once you get that there is absolutely nothing new or spiritual to get, you finally got it. That is the Joke of it all. Realize that you are present and aware of being. Present awareness or awareness of being present is 'I' am. There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained. You are the Self. You exist always. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness is the real presence of existence that we call Life. Life is the imperishable Self. Call off the Search. The Reality present within your own dwelling is your

own plain ordinary everyday being. 'I' exist is 'I' am. The Real-'I'-ty is the 'I' present in 'I' am. 'I' exist is the absolute Reality. The eternal imperishable Self. There never was anything to change, alter or modify about oneself. Being oneself is being the One Self. If you are alive and aware of being you are the Self. Know yourself to be the Self. No Dual-'I'-ty. That is all Self-Real-'I'zation is about. You are the One without two. There is no ego and all that non-sense. That you like it or not, realize that here and now you are that literally. Nothing new or spiritual about being. Being alive and aware of being oneself is 'I' am. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Whatever spiritual or religious beliefs and 'way' or practice you have acquired. Is paradoxically bondage. Why worship illusion? Holy scriptures and spiritual books are just made up stories, just this and nothing else. Only created to entice and confuse Seekers to become believers.People want to have a imaginary God to worship. That illusory concept of God makes them feel better about themselves to have an imaginary friend to cry and turn to. The more spiritual or religious a person is, the more ignorant of the simple Truth they become. The Seeker is paradoxically the Sought anyhow. The Search is itself the trap. It all works in reverse. It is all a strange paradox. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ The ones who pray, meditate, worship and practice spirituality will remain and die ignorant. Seeking spirituality is bondage. Understanding is all. Understanding is Realizing. The one who does not understand will never know Freedom. Take it for granted. Understanding is Freedom. There is no becoming anything. Everybody is already the Self, He, the Reality. There is no spiritual goal or anything religious to be found. Consciousness is everyone's true nature. We call it Life and sentience or awareness.

He, the Self or the Reality which are simply fancy words for one's true nature is nothing other than plain ordinary everyday awareness or common wakeful-ness. That is all it simply is. The natural state of being. So near and so dear. Being alive and aware is always abiding as the Self, He, the Reality. Awareness is simply the natural activity of being and remaining aware or awake or conscious all day long naturally i.e being conscious, sentient or awake is abiding as one's true nature and as the sought-after Truth and Reality. That is all there is to understand. Realize that being aware is being the Self. What can you do with that Realization? Nothing whatsoever. Just stop Seeking for illusion and understand what is the Reality simply all about. That is all Freedom is. Before and after chop wood and carry water. Only ignorance is removed. So plain, so ordinary and so common is everyone's true nature. That is what the fuss is truly all about. The Self i.e. awareness is nothing new, nothing mystical, nothing whatsoever spiritual or religious in anyway. It never was. Look at yourself here and now. Are you awake from sleep? Are you aware of being awake, conscious. That is it. Awareness is indeed present. Simply because you know that you are. Present awareness is awareness of being present. Again, Freedom has nothing to do with any religious God and all the spiritual concepts and religious myths attached to any religion and spirituality, but all and only about getting to know one's true nature. Everybody is always abiding as the true Self or present as unchanging awareness. They simply do not realize it. They may foolishly believe that the Self, He, the Reality is something new, special or spiritual, but it is not! Only self-appointed Gurus will sell water by the River to the dumb and the ignorant as being holy. If you ever see a holy being, enlightened Guru or Buddha on the Road Kill the Mother Fu@#er.Just an imposter. Always hiding their phoniness behind spirituality and religions. Some will even put on spiritual show. Wearing white robes for purity and staring into people's eyes for a transmission of holy crap.

Convincing the weak, the veiled and the ignorant that their presence is holy. How funny. Imagine all these idiots that worship and believe their spiritual Teachers and Gurus are so great when in fact these self-appointed spiritual Gurus A.K.A. holy beings are truly S.O.B's pretending to be holy. Some people are so dumb. So stupid are these people. Losers. That they will spend years waiting for so called Realization or to gain Enlightenment. When in fact they are already Realized. No one told them that there is nothing new to be gained. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Not knowing one's true nature is the only trouble. That to simply be alive and aware is to be the Self. There is no bondage and there is no liberation. Everybody alive is already the real Self and always ever-Free. Bondage is just like a mirage or optical illusion. It doesn't exist whatsoever but only in one's own false imagination. Spiritual and religious Seekers have hypnotized or brainwashed themselves to believe in stories and fantasy. To be alive and aware of being oneself everyday is the so called Realized state of Enlightenment. Remove ignorance. That is all that is required for Freedom. Nothing else. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Know the Truth about yourself because you are the Sought-after Truth. Being just as you are this very moment. Here and now you are that. The Seeker is the Sought. One's true nature is simple ordinary consciousness. Consciousness is nothing spiritual or holy. It is Life itself. Call off the Search. Everybody alive is already there. That is why to Seek it is to always miss it. The Reality present within your own dwelling is Life. Consciousness is the real presence of existence. To be conscious is this consciousness, that is IT. Laugh! What are you looking for? Being the Self is existence. Being alive is to always abide as the Reality i.e. Life. That is all there is to Realize. The ultimate Truth is so simple.

You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Consciousness is Life. The Reality is at once being alive and being aware. The Reality is in you so to speak. You are the consciousness present within the body. Realize that spirituality and religions are crap. The Truth is you. Your own existence is the divine. Ignorance is the only obstacle to Freedom. Get rid of ignorance by questioning, investigating, inquiring. Take a look and see. The false Gurus and all their spiritual crap or illusion cannot stand up to basic investigation. There never was anything special, spiritual or holy about consciousness. That is the Open Secret. Thou art that. Wake up and smell the coffee! Wizen-Up! Even though common sense is paradoxically not always common. Ego is not. There are no two selves. There isn't consciousness and you. You are this consciousness itself. Know yourself. Because you are the Self. Consciousness is just another name for you. Gee! yoU aRe yoU. That is all that is required. Not Seeking something new, spiritual or to acquire a special faculty. Just use basic intelligence to simply understand what is true and real about you. Know the simple Truth about yourself. Get to know your real self. Self-appointed Gurus do not want people to understand. There is no money in Truth. Only ignorance can be bought and cultivated. There is nothing spiritual to practice. Nothing to be learned or to be acquired from others. The Self (consciousness) is not something to be acquired from others. All that is necessary is to know its existence in you. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no blessing, there is no Grace and there is no God. God and Guru's Grace is crap. Spiritual carrots that are given to the followers. Forget all that religious and spiritual manbo-jambo. Understanding alone is Realizing. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation.

Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Understand what this consciousness or everyday living-ness is simply all about. Self-inquiry or know thyself. Question. Investigate. Who am 'I'? What is my true nature? Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Search for the Truth ends by getting to know you. Know yourself. That is all. It is very easy. To the veiled and ignorant it is believed to be hard, difficult and holy. To the wise it is natural and ordinary. One's true nature is always naturally present. Effortlessly, naturally. Consciousness is nothing new. Consciousness, sentience, cognizance, awareness. All are one and the same presence and activity. Consciousness i.e. the Self is simply being oneself. That is all it is. Awareness of being oneself or ordinary everyday 'I' am-ness is this consciousness itself. Everybody alive and conscious is always aware of himself. Wakeful-ness is this conscious-ness. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ After all, if you know that you are not dead, un-conscious or asleep then you are awake and aware. That is IT. That is the Self, He, the Reality. What else did you foolishly believe this consciousness was truly all about? To be awake from sleep is this present awareness or consciousness itself. So near and so dear. If you are aware of being alive and awake you are therefore the Self. So simple. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ People that have read too many spiritual books and sat with too many con artists veiled and forgot themselves. Remove all the crap you have acquired from spiritual people and voila! So ordinary is the Reality.

'I' am is always with you. Consciousness is pure awareness of being. Being aware of being. Present and unchanging all day long as the knowing that you are. Present as pure awareness. It is being aware. That is IT. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Consciousness is the undeniable activity of being and remaining aware. To simply be conscious. Seeing, hearing, thinking, feeling, smelling etc, is always abiding as the true Self or the Reality. That is what awareness is all about.All about knowing. All about being sentient. Being aware of all natural activities. Consciousness is the seer, the hearer, the knower, the thinker etc. The Open Secret to Freedom is so easy.Being aware is awareness. That is IT. To be alive and aware is the Reality being pointed to as one's true nature. Are you alive? Are you awake? Are you aware? That is IT. Awareness of being alive is the Reality. What can be easier than that? So simple. Either you believe the false to be true and have been worshipping and turning toward illusion or you simply do not want to know the simple Truth and therefore nothing can help you, but yourself. Only you can know yourself. You must want to know the Truth about yourself if you want to be Free. If there is a will. There is a way. Understanding is the shortcut and the fastest way. Remove ignorance. That is all that is required to know one's true nature. Consciousness is not some mystical presence or something special or spiritual. To simply be conscious naturally is this consciousness itself i.e. the Self, He, the Reality. What else did you expected it to be? Something holy? That is all crap given to the ignorant. No one ever fails to experience consciousness directly as existence itself. Being alive and awake from sleep is to abide as that. That is all there is to Realize. Sentience or plain ordinary everyday awareness are just other names for consciousness.

Don't you know that to simply be alive and awake from sleep everyday is to always abide as one's true nature i.e the Self and the Reality? That is IT. That is why spiritual and religious people paradoxically do not know the Reality, they are always looking away from it, so brainwashed to foolishly pray to and worship illusion while the Reality is always present naturally within their own dwelling not as God or something new not as anything whatsoever spiritual or religious in nature, but simply as Life itself i.e. consciousness itself. Leave the 'belief' in God to the believer. If you want Freedom get to know your true nature. Spiritual and religious people are ignorant people. The wise will only say what I am saying now. If you want to be free. Get to know your real self. It has no form, no appearance, no root, no basis, no abode,but is lively and buoyant. Therefore when you look for it, you become further from it. When you seek it, you turn away from it all the more. ~ Linji ~ Forget all religions and spirituality for they cannot help you, but sink you deeper into ignorance. There is no religious God or any spiritual presence present anywhere. The false notion of a spiritual God or that of some holy or spiritual being or some spiritual presence is only for idiots to worship illusion. That is all. Present here and now. The Reality is not a myth. It is Life itself. Existence is being.It is 'I' am. Being alive and awake or aware or sentient or wakeful is the so called state of 'Enlightenment'. That is IT. Understanding this consciousness is Freedom. Wisdom is Freedom. Ignorance is the only obstacle to get rid of. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ All there is present is consciousness and consciousness is simply the natural presence of intelligence we call Life. That is what the Reality simply is, one's own existence is the Divine, nothing new, special, spiritual or holy.

Omni-present. The natural living intelligence present in Nature is this consciousness itself.Nothing new. Everybody always witness consciousness expressing itself naturally. So obvious that it is overlooked. For example it is the growing presence and intelligence that grows Trees in the Forest. Plant a seed in the ground and voila, consciousness will grow it to a majestic Redwood Tree. Put a male sperm with a female egg and consciousness grows it too. He is Life itself. Nothing new. One's true nature is Natural. Nothing new or spiritual. So common, so familiar and therefore so plain and so ordinary. Consciousness is breathing you and taking care of your all needs naturally this very moment. It is the power within the body.It is living and expressing itself naturally as your body and as your own being. It is nothing new, spiritual or special but simply so near and so dear, it is camouflaged as that 'I' am you know so well. The most natural presence you have always known yourself to be. Beating your heart and shining through your eyes. Seeing, hearing, thinking, feeling, smelling, experiencing this and that etc. The cognizing presence is consciousness. Dead people do not say 'I' am. They will still have eyes but there is no one home to see through them. Seeing is being the Self. Consciousness is the Seer present. Present as awareness. Consciousness is the knowing or witnessing presence that is aware of all natural activities. He (consciousness) is the unseen seer, the unheard hearer, the unthought thinker. There is no other seer but He. No other hearer but He. No other thinker but He.No other knower but He. He is yourself. The inner controller, the immortal, the imperishable. ~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad~ You are He this very moment! Aren't you alive and aware of being? He is that 'I' am you know yourself to be. He is yourself. Everybody knows He as 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Who is not aware of himself and doesn't know and say 'I' am? 'I' am. 'I' am. 'I' am.

There you sport. You are that 'I' am. 'I' am that 'I' am is the Reality. Everybody knows 'I' am. 'I' am is first hand and needs no proof. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ 'I' am is the goal and final Reality. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The best definition is 'I' am that 'I' am. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The 'I' am being pointed to is not some holy or spiritual 'I' am or the name of some fictitious God. That is only crap given to imbeciles to believe the false to be true, only illusion and false imagination. The 'I' am being pointed to as the Real Self or consciousness is simply one's own everyday self and being. Remove ignorance and wrong acquired knowledge about yourself. 'I' am is you are. Awareness of being yourself is being conscious or being aware and remaining aware all day long. That is the Self or one's true nature. Conscious-ness is 'I' am-ness. Being aware is pure awareness of being. Everybody alive knows that they are alive. No one can deny one's own self and say 'I' am not. That knowing that you are alive is awareness of being. Being aware of being oneself is 'I' am or 'I' exist. There isn't anyone that does not say 'I' am all day long. 'I' am is always with you as the knowing that you are. Who am 'I'? After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. 'I' am is certain. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ There never was a holy 'I' am or spiritual Self present anywhere. That is the Secret to Freedom. So near and so dear. So plain and so ordinary. The Self is 'I' am or knowing that you are. Everybody knows 'I' am. Awareness of being. That is what the fuss is all about. Know yourself and you know consciousness or the Reality to be yourself. Same, same. The Self is yourself. Consciousness is the knowing that you are present. It is 'I' am. To be conscious is to be the Self. So simple. That is the conscious-ness itself.

There is nothing new, special, spiritual or holy about the Reality. There never was! Spirituality and religions are about myths. The only reason some people pretend to be holy or Enlightened is to entice and confuse veiled spiritual Seekers to believe the false to be true or illusion to be Reality. Forget all about spirituality and religions for they are all crap waiting to be flushed into the toilet.All lies. Once you are sick and tired of looking far and away for the Reality, then you are ready to look at your own self. Understanding that 'I' am is this consciousness itself is the Open Secret to Freedom. One's own self is the Real-'I'-ty. One's own plain ordinary everyday boring self or common natural being-ness or affectionate 'I' am-ness is the Divine. So, so, so simple and so easy. You are that. 'I' am is that consciousness itself and the absolute Reality. Same, same. After all, no one can deny his own being. Everybody knows and says 'I' am. 'I' am is nothing new. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ What effort do you have to make to be? Life is living iself as yourself. Enjoy the living dream! Nature and one's true nature is the exact same presence of Life or consciousness. Natural intelligence. Look at your own dwelling, it is running the entire show, growing cells and changing the old with the new. Your hair and finger nails, consciousness grows it all.It doesn't stop growing, growing old until the body dies. It is the natural living presence that grows things within the universe. Nothing new, here on earth we call it Life. For whoever seeks God (consciousness) in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He (consciousness) is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ Were you tricked to foolishly believe that the Self or consciousness is something new, special or spiritual? If you were told that God or consciousness was perhaps space or silence then you were mislead to believe lies. To be alive and awake from sleep or being conscious is to abide as one's true nature. Everybody is always the Self.

Consciousness is Life itself. Existence present is consciousness present. Being aware or awareness is being IT. Alive-ness, living-ness, conscious-ness, aware-ness, being-ness, 'I' amness all are synonymous with the Reality. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Knowing that you are alive is existence. Being is existence. The knowing that you are is at once consciousness and 'I' am. That is all. Knowing that you are present is awareness of being. Awareness of being is 'I' am. Consciousness is nothing new to anyone alive but simply the very core of one's being. As with water and ice. No consciousness present, no Life present, no 'I' am. Call it by any name, God, Self, the heart or the seat of consciousness, it is all the same. The point to be grasped is that this heart means the very core of ones being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ If you wish you could kiss this Beloved. You cannot! You are alive and conscious already. Understanding is all. How can you being always the Self kiss yourself? It is not something new or apart from you. It is you. So near and so dear. Everyone alive is this consciousness itself. That is IT. Nothing new, special or far away. Understanding this consciousness is so easy, that is was is so funny.Remove ignorance only. There is no becoming, attaining or achieving anything. Understanding is all. Only an idiot waits for Freedom and there are plenty of them worshipping and praying to illusion. The wise understands that consciousness is Life itself. He is Life itself. That is IT. Nothing else. Are you alive? Are you aware of being? See that is IT. Being alive is the Reality. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

Where and when? Here and now! Guess where Life is undeniably present? Present within your own dwelling of course. You are Life. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be alive is to be a 'Buddha'. Same, same. Realization or Enlightenment is so simple is that it is laughable. Like a big Cosmic Joke. One can only laugh at the joke of it all. Super duper simplicity. Realize that to simply be alive and awake from sleep everyday is to be aware of being oneself and that unchanging awareness of being is abiding as one's true nature i.e. the Self or God. You already are and have always been your whole life what you Seek to find. So natural. So simple. So common. So ordinary. Not knowing that simply being alive and awake from sleep naturally everyday is the Sought-after Truth and Reality is the only trouble. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The natural ordinary everyday common to all state of wakeful-ness or aware-ness is the so called Realized state or Enlightened state. Funny or what? Spiritual and religious people believe the false to be true. Why worship others believing them to be holy when that is all illusion? Any Guru lover is an idiot! There are no special holy beings, just fakes. All for pretend. Take it for granted. Who are these people pretending to be holy when there is no God? It is all for show to entice the weak and the dumb. Holy beings, Saints, Sages, Masters, Jnanis, Buddhas etc, are pure garbage and truly people that like the smell of their farts and they will share all kind of lies and spiritual crap with the simple, the weak and the dumb, some call that practice Satsang. Satsang is only for imbeciles, being with the Self is a hoax. One's own Self is the Self. That is all there is to realize. Whenever you hear spiritual or religious people pretending to be holy beings, Sages, Teachers, Masters, Buddhas and Jnanis etc, some writing book after book about a fictitious God and

others telling ignorant Seekers to do this or do that to become Free, Realized or Enlightened, laugh! They are only conning the simple and the weak to believe the false to be true. Some people are so veiled and so ignorant of the simple Truth that they foolishly believe they have to be in the holy presence of a Enlightened Sage, Teacher or Jnani to receive a holy transmission of Grace for Freedom. That is all garbage of course. Illusion will never give you Reality. Only crap can be transmitted or freshly acquired. Only idiots believe in Enlightened Sages, Masters, Gurus, Buddhas and Jnanis etc. Self-appointed Gurus are truly ordinary people that only pretend to be holy for gratification or a fee. Just a spiritual scam or carrot for the veiled and ignorant to chase after, makes them feel good about themselves. Of course the 'believer' will believe whatever religious and spiritual concepts he or she has been programmed to believe.Ignorant people will always go up in arms when their acquired spiritual or religious beliefs are pinched. Over time they have become so attached and self-identified to their acquired conditioning and programming. Freedom is not about believing anything in blind faith or waiting for something new, but all about knowing. To know oneself one must first question one's own acquired spiritual and religious beliefs. Paradoxically spiritual and religious beliefs are the only obstacle to Freedom. Spirituality and religions are the poison, not the cure.There is no Truth there. The more spiritual and holy, the more garbage it truly is. It all works in reverse. A paradox. Spiritual and religious people are the greatest illusion and the greatest liars you will ever come across. The simple truth is nothing religious or spiritual. But the most plain, common and ordinary presence we call Life. The Self is so plain, so ordinary. Nothing fancy or extra-ordinary. Being alive and aware all day long is being the Self or consciousness itself. Consciousness is Life. Life doesn't know death. It is immortal and the imperishable Self.

Only the pattern or the body that is simply made out of five elements returns to the five elements. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. Don't you say 'I' am this and 'I' am that all day long? Of course you do! Know yourself. Who are you? Are you what you appear to be? Are you a transient dying body? Are you? There is no one that does not say 'I' am. The wrong knowledge of 'I' am the body is the cause of all mischief. This wrong knowledge must go. That is the Realization. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ No one alive ever fails to experience the Self directly. It is so obvious. Consciousness or the Self is nothing new. Look at yourself! Are you conscious? Voila! That knowing that you are conscious is the Self or consciousness itself. So simple. To be conscious is consciousness. To be aware is awareness. That is what the Self is all about. Just this. The natural state of being aware and remaining aware all day long is the Sought-after Truth. Sentience. Plain ordinary everyday awareness is one's true nature. Remove ignorance with understanding. One must desire to know and understand this consciousness. No desire to know the Truth about oneself, no Freedom. Knowing and understanding consciousness is Freedom. After all, only ignorance is the veil and false notion of bondage. All that is necessary is to get rid of ignorance. Get to know your real self.Find out who am 'I'?That is all. The only way to know yourself is to investigate yourself. Have a look at that 'I' am you know so well. Understanding that 'I' am not the body but the consciousness or livingness present within the body is Freedom. Know your real self to be consciousness, not the body. After all, when you say 'my' body to whom does it belong to? Only wrong knowledge and false identification with the form is bondage. The body is not you. 'I' am is consciousness. Ignorant of this simple truth, innumerable methods under different denominations, such as yoga, bhakti, karma, each again with many modifications, are being taught with great skill and in intricate detail only to entice the seekers and confuse their minds. So also are the

religions and sects and dogmas. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ If you are into yoga and enjoy twisting your body like a pretzel or a faithful believer in spiritual accomplishments. If you are into worship and bhakti, a devotee doing good deeds to improve you Karma etc, you are doomed. If you are Seeking a spiritual Self or the holy presence of God's Grace and all that crap, good luck! Freedom is not found through any religions or spiritual practices but by turning within and getting to know oneself. People do not realize that all religions are Cults. Some have become mainstream because of politics of the time. Take Christianity. People do not realize that it is truly a Sect and that they are in fact worshipping a Guru or a dead Cult Leader that Christian foolishly believe is the son of God that does not exist. A funny paradox. All religions are alike. Reality has nothing to do with religions, spiritual Gurus or holy prophets etc. All Religions are based on illusion. All are born from myths, superstitious tales and stories. For example Hinduism, Zen or Buddhism cannot help you. Enlightenment is a Myth. There is no reaching or becoming anything. That is the Secret to Freedom. All that we need do is to remove the obstruction.That which is eternal is not known to be so because of ignorance. Ignorance is the obstruction. Get over this ignorance and all will be well. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Paradoxically Life doesn't know death. Life is that which is eternal. That is the Secret. Consciousness is the unborn. The unmanisfest. The eternal. Therefore to be alive is the experience itself. Awareness is always abiding as one's true nature. Being alive and aware is the state of pure being common to all. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Look at your plain boring existence here and now. Are you alive? Are you aware? There you go sport. That is IT. It is pure awareness of being.You know that you are alive, you know that you exist here and now and you like it.

That is all there is to realize. It is that 'I' am, you know so well already as your own self and being. So simple. So plain, so common to all and so ordinary. To be alive and aware is to be the eternal Self. That is all. Sentience, alive-ness, living-ness, aware-ness are at once the natural state of being common to all. Nothing new. Sentience is the natural activity of being conscious or consciousness. Everybody awake from sleep is always experiencing it directly. To be awake is awareness. Awareness is another name for the Self and you. Look at yourself! Are you aware? What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ That is IT. So simple.Freedom is so easy. One can only laugh at the simplicity. Being aware is awareness i.e. one's thoughtless true nature, the eternal Self and the Reality. Wakeful-ness. So common and so ordinary is the Self that people Seeking it are always missing it. Funny. Only self-appointed Gurus and spiritual Teachers will pretend it is something spiritual, special and holy for a fee. What about blazing lights and spiritual states you have read in story books? Just that, stories found in books. Throw away all the books. They are only full of lies. That is why the spiritual and religious person is so blind. The Self is yourself. Nothing new or spiritual. Realize that you are aware. That is all. Being aware is one's true nature. Being alive and aware of being oneself everyday naturally is being the Self i.e. the Reality. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Everybody alive is already the so called eternal imperishable Self, Realized and Free. They simply do not know it. Ignorance is the only obstacle to Realization. Remove ignorance with understanding and voila! Understanding is Realizing. Why turn to the false for the Reality anyhow? Remove ignorance only. Know the Truth! If it is religious or spiritual in nature it is garbage. Take it for granted!

Doesn't matter what Eastern or Western spiritual or religious denomination turns you on, it is all crap. How can anyone ever know the simple Truth about oneself while following, worshipping and listening to liars? Ask yourself this question! Any holy being, Guru, spiritual Teacher or Jnani is not your friend but only a con artist. The wise will say what I am saying now. Kill the holy Saint, great Sage, Master, Jnani or Buddha you see on the Road. Simply because it is the greatest illusion. There is no such thing. It is all and only for show. Just a deceiving act. That is all it is. Beware of these so called spiritual and religious people, because they are all fakes. Get to know the real eternal you. Who am 'I'?To know the Self. Investigate your own existence. That is all. What is the 'I' truly represents? Is the 'I' or me, myself and 'I' a finite self or ego limited to the body or the Lord? To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Freedom is easy! The Seeker is the Sought. Thou art that. The 'you' that you believe is bound and wants to know the Self is already the Self. How can you kiss yourself on your own lips? The Self is your own self. Your own self is the Self. There is no bondage and there is no liberation. Only understanding that you are consciousness itself is Freedom. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ On the inquiry of who is bound? The illusion or false notion of bondage and separation dissolves. You are that. Consciousness is just another name for the plain good ol' boring everyday you. There is no Freedom without understanding this consciousness for bondage is just like a mirage of water in the Desert. And just like the optical illusion of the mirage of water in the Desert, upon closer investigation it is revealed that bondage and separation never existed. Like an optical illusion, it is all and only false imagination.

What spiritual and religious people foolishly believe to be true are paradoxically all lies. Not true. Have a closer look at the 'I' self-appointed Gurus and spiritual Teachers camouflage to be a finite self or ego for in fact the 'I' is the Lord and that 'I' is your own everyday self and the Sought-after Truth and absolute Reality. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ One can only laugh at the so called state of Enlightenment or Realization. The Reality is nothing new. Plain and ordinary it is you. It is me, myself and 'I'. So near and so dear. Closer to you than your own breath. Who do you think you are? The 'I' or one's own plain ordinary everyday boring self is IT. Thou art that and that is that. Call off the Search. Only the Search for a holy self is bondage. The Self is simply being oneself. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You own Life or undeniable existence here and now is the Divine. That is IT. So simple. There never was anything new, anything special, different, holy or spiritual to be freshly acquired. Forget all spiritual stories you have read about Buddhas and holy beings, Gods and deities, it is all crap. Funny no! If you are conscious right here and right now then consciousness is indeed present. That alone is the Self or God. Understanding this consciousness is very easy. How much time does it take to know that you are alive? Consciousness is pure awareness of being. Consciousness is that 'I' am you know so well already. Everybody knows and says 'I' am all day long, consciousness is nothing new or special. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You will laugh at yourself when you realize that to simply be conscious is this consciousness itself that some call God. That is the Open Secret to Self-Realization. Being aware or conscious or sentient everyday is being the Self or God.

Nothing holy, special or spiritual about the Reality. That is the funny paradox. Who is not aware of himself? Consciousness present is simply being alive and being conscious and therefore aware of oneself. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self (consciousness). A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness present is the knowing that you are or pure awareness of being. God is 'I' am if you like. Nothing else. If you are alive and aware of being yourself then you are God. 'I' am is God. Existence present is 'I' am present. That is the Open Secret to Freedom and Self-Realization. You are already there and already That. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. If you know for certain that you are not dead or un-conscious but you are sure that you are in fact alive and awake then you are so called 'Enlightened'. Nothing more. That is all. Present awareness or awareness of being present is the Sought-after Truth and the Reality. So simple. Here is the Secret to Self-Realization! You are already that. The Reality is nothing spiritual or religious but paradoxically the most plain, common, familiar and ordinary. A funny paradox. Being is the Reality. Nothing spiritual or special or holy. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being.Can you say 'I' am not or 'I' do not exist? Of course not! Consciousness is indeed undeniably present as the knowing that you are present, that you exist. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ That is what the fuss is all about. Be happy with being alive and aware. Existence is happiness or bliss. Forget spiritual and religious concepts for they are all crap. That is the Secret to Freedom. The experience is always here and now. One's own undeniable existence is the Reality. Look at yourself. You know that you are alive and you like it. Awareness of being alive is bliss.

Nothing new, religious or spiritual about being alive. Being alive is true happiness, joy de vivre. Did you believe spiritual and religious people selling water by the River have acquired a special state? Spiritual and religious people are paradoxically liars pretending to speak the Truth. That is all they truly are. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What you Seek to find was never lost but always present as your own self. Can you deny your own self and say 'I' am not present right here and now? Hellooo! Only stupid fools would believe that they do not exist or that there is no one present. Idiots. 'I' am alive and kicking is the experience itself some call 'Enlightenment'.That is IT. Just this. Being oneself is being the One Self. No separation or duality. You are that. God is me, myself and 'I'. Freedom is very simple and so easy but paradoxically people Seeking it do not want simple and easy.What to do! It is like a Fish in the water desperately crying that he is thirsty. Know Thyself. Yes, have a closer look at your own plain ordinary everyday boring self. Not looking for some new, special, spiritual or holy self. You are that already. Simply get to know 'you'. That is all that is necessary to remove ignorance about yourself i.e the Self, He, the Lord, God and the Reality. The Self (consciousness) you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Looking for the Self or God? Don't look far away! Look at yourself. God is 'I' exist. Me, myself and 'I' is the Lord. That is IT. Thou art that. No difference whatsoever. No dual-'I'-ty. No one can deny one's own existence anyhow. 'I' exist is 'I' am. That is all being the Self or God is all about.

Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is nothing to be achieved, there is no goal to be reached. Here and now you are that. That is IT. Only remove ignorance with understanding and you have done all that needed to be done. Understanding is all. Realize that to simply be conscious is consciousness. Sentience. That is one's true nature. Knowing this simple Truth sets you Free. There is nothing more to realize. That is knowing thyself and the Self. The Realization is understanding that 'I' and consciousness are one and the same presence of existence. That is all. There is only one presence of existence or Life and that is simple ordinary everyday consciousness. No one ever fails to experience the Self or God directly everyday natural as sentience. Not knowing how close the Reality is, people foolishly Seek it far away. The waking state is the so called 'Enlightened' state or 'Buddha' state which is nothing other than the common ordinary natural state of being aware and remaining aware. Being aware. Aware-ness is another name for sentience, consciousness, the Self or God and is one's true nature. Get to know your true nature. Are you alive? Are you aware of being yourself? There you go sport. That is all 'Enlightenment' is simply all about. Knowing that you are. Just this and nothing else. What effort do you have to make to be aware? Look at yourself. Are you aware? Yes? Voila, that is the aware-ness itself some call the Self, He, the Reality or God. Wakeful-ness or simply being aware is the Sought-after Truth. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ So simple is the ultimate Truth that it is paradoxically hard to swallow for most people. They do not want the Truth to be so plain, so common and so ordinary. They do not want God to be so boring.

What else did you believe it was?The simplest description for God is Life itself. Being alive and aware or sentient is itself to be a 'Buddha' and God. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ Present within everyone's own dwelling, God or consciousness is simply Life itself.That is all it is. Nothing new. Understanding this, is realizing the simple Truth. There is nothing more to realize. That is IT. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ That is the Open Secret to the Sought-after Truth and the Reality paradoxically spiritual and religious people do not want veiled and ignorant Seekers to know. The ignorant believes in false imagination, myths, lies and superstitions, while being alive is being God. Wake up! Smell the coffee. Be wise and beware of any holy beings, spiritual Teachers, Sages, Jnanis and Buddhas for they surely will screw you in the name of a fictitious God and a false notion of bondage. It is all a paradox. Know the Truth! It is all and only psychological. There is no bondage and there is no liberation. As the saying goes, if you believe you are bound then you are only bound to your belief. One only imagines that there is bondage. It is all in one's own head. Nowhere else. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ There is no reaching, no achieving or becoming anything new or spiritual for the state of Realization. To be alive and awake from sleep everyday naturally is the so called Realized state. Funny no! That is all there is to understand or realize. Being alive is at once God and 'I' am.

People are looking away from the most precious, effortless and obvious. God is nothing new, special or hidden far away but in fact their very own self and being. Why should anyone Seek it when here and now you are that already without ever trying to be? Know Thyself by removing ignorance only. That is all that needs to be done. Closer than close. To the question who am 'I'? 'I' am is the answer. The 'I' or your own ordinary everyday self is the Real-'I'-ty and the Lord. Thou art that. There never was a spiritual God or religious God. Only ordinary everyday consciousness or Life is God. The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You are already there and already That. Being alive is the experience. One's own plain boring everyday natural existence is the Divine. That is the Open Secret self-shining naturally in plain sight. Call off the Search! There is nothing new, spiritual or different to be found.That is the Joke of it all. The veiled and the ignorant only foolishly imagine that there is. These are people that have read too many spiritual books and sat with too many so called 'Enlightened' or holy beings. Oops! 'Enlightenment' is only a religious myth that has been used to entice and confuse the simple and the weak. People will gladly screw veiled and ignorant Seekers in the name of spirituality, God and Freedom. It is all and only for show, gratification and of course with so many it is truly and only for a fee. Don't you know that Gurus and holy beings are simply ordinary people that like the smell of their own farts? Investigate, question, inquire. Find out what is real! The false cannot stand up to investigation. See the false as false. There are no great spiritual beings, no special people, no Enlightened Gurus and great Masters.It is all crap. There is no karma and there is no dharma etc. There is no God to fear or there is no God to love. It is all fiction born from false imagination and truly nothing other than illusion.

Why turn to illusion for Freedom? Can the water in the mirage make you wet? Only the false notion that 'Enlightenment' is some spiritual state is bondage. Forget all about spirituality and religions for they are paradoxically the poison, not the cure. The one who Seeks Freedom only believes that there is bondage when in fact the Seeker is the Sought. There is nothing to be gained afresh. Ignorance is the only culprit. Not knowing the simple Truth is the only trouble. Hypnotized by spiritual B.S. and filling themselves up with wrong knowledge about the Reality, veiled and ignorant Seekers are blind and therefore have no idea that they are already the real Self and Free. There is no goal to be reached, there is nothing to be attained. Being alive is being the Self. No difference whatsoever. Freedom is already here, it is not to be gained or achieved. Being alive and awake or aware is the experience. That is the so called Realized state. The natural state of being alive and aware is everyone's true nature. Only the idea of bondage is bondage. It is all and only psychological, just this and nothing else. A Buddha is just an ordinary person and an ordinary person is already a Buddha. There is no difference. Only ignorance is a bitch. Get rid of ignorance and voila! You will have a good laugh at yourself. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no bondage and there is no liberation. Only understanding. Understanding is Realizing.Remove ignorance and voila! The most veiled and the most ignorant Seeker foolishly believes that there is an imaginary 'mind' to go beyond and that there is some 'ego' present somewhere to get rid of. These people are simply the dumbest of the dumb for if they only took a few moments to investigate what 'mind' or 'ego' is there present anywhere, then mind and ego would be nowhere to be found

simply because they never existed. Just a foolish belief that has never been investigated. Of course these spiritual and religious people are so veiled and messed up with wrong acquired knowledge. In fact they haveaccumulated so much religious and spiritual crap over the years from holy books and from othersappearing holy.That they will never investigate what is Real and what is illusion and foolishly waste their whole lives striving to go beyond and get rid of something that was never there to begin with, but in fact is only and purely imaginary. How stupid is that? Crying over nothing because they only believe to be bound to false imagination or illusion. Just like a rope that appears to be a snake, upon closer investigation it is only revealed to be false imagination. There is no bondage and therefore there is no liberation either, one only foolishly believes that there is. Anyone that tells you otherwise is simply keeping you on a path of ignorance for their very own benefit. Usually selling some silent retreat or some spiritual practice, book, CD, video etc, scum bags pretending to be holy. Self-appointed Gurus pretend to be holy so that they can be taken care of by idiots that believe and worship them. Of course nobody has ever become, reached, attained or achieved anything new or spiritual for Freedom. The ignorant only believes that these people have reached a spiritual or holy state of 'Enlightenment' but that is all and only crap. Just for show, spiritual carrots used to entice the weak and the simple. A self-appointed Guru or spiritual Teacher is nothing other than an actor. Take it for granted. Just someone that plays the part of a holy being for self-gratification or a fee. That is all it is. See the false as false. People foolishly believe the false to be true, what to do! Freedom is always here. People are already the Self, they simply do not realize it. Spiritual Seekers cannot accept and handle the simple Truth.Never realizing that all along there never was anything new or spiritual to get for Freedom but only to remove foolish ignorance.

The one who strives to become Free is simply veiled and an ignorant fool. But the one who understands that there is no bondage is wise. After all, look for your chains and sure enough they will not be found. Bondage and liberation is all and only psychological.That is all it simply is.Didn't anyone tell you? Freedom is not the acquisition of anything new, spiritual, different or special,but only the removal of ignorance. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Why not test your own IQ! Find out if you are either wise or a dumb ass.It is actually very easy. If you have never investigated and tried to understand what the words Self, He, That, the Reality, Consciousness orGod are really about and what these words are simply pointing to, well now you know what category you belong to. There is no Freedom without understanding. Understanding is Realizing. Not striving to become anything new. Unless someone investigates and finally understands what this true consciousness and Reality is simply all about, how can anyone ever arrives at the destination they have paradoxically never left at anytime? Get the correct pointers and address, then you will laugh at the Joke of it all. After all, there is no waiting for Freedom. It is all a funny paradox. Understanding is Realizing that you were never bound. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The word God simply point to Life. The Kingdom of Life is the Kingdom of God. Your body is Life's temple and this Spirit of life is consciousness. If you are alive and aware of being then consciousness is indeed present. L'eveil or awaking to the simple Truth sets you Free. 'Waking up' means understanding. When you understand this consciousness itself to be Life itself then you have done all that needed to be done.

Ignorance is the only cause of all mischief. Not knowing what God is. Not knowing that God is simply the presence of Life itself is the only trouble. Present within your own dwelling. The Kingdom is in you, where else would it be? If you are alive and aware of being, you are God. Simple as that. God is that 'I' am you know so well already.Consciousness is the knowing that you are. Life, existence, consciousness and God, all are synonymous with being alive and aware or sentient. Look at your own being-ness or 'I' am-ness. Are you alive? Are you aware of being? Yes? There you go sport. You are the knowing that you are. Awareness of being is God or the Self or He and that alone is the Reality. Consciousness or God is awareness of being or that 'I' am you know so well. The Self is God. 'I' am is God. The Self (consciousness) is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is nothing new, spiritual or religious about God, that is the funny paradox. God is just a fancy word for Life, for existence and therefore one's own being. The word God and 'I' am are synonymous with being. Present closer to you than your own breath. Being alive and awake all day long is to be God or the Self. So plain, simple and ordinary is the simple Truth about one's true nature. Veiled and ignorant people cannot accept that there is nothing new or special about being. Forget everything you believe you know and voila! You are there! Being or one's own existence needs no proof. That is the Precious and true Beloved. After all, everybody likes to be. Awareness of being is bliss or happiness. Being alive is bliss. The experience is always here and now. Being is 'I' am. To be or no to be? 'I' am or 'I' am not? How much time does it take for you to know that you are alive? Take a wild guess! Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am.

The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Once you get that there is absolutely nothing new, special, spiritual or religious to get, you finally got it. Spiritual and religious concepts are just inventions, myths and mental creations. All crap. The Truth is you. Being yourself is always being the Self. That is all. The Self is Life. Life is consciousness. Being conscious is this consciousness itself. The Self is imperishable. Life paradoxically does not know death. Now what can you do with that realization? Nothing at all. Call off the Search. Just be yourself. Understanding is all. There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained. You are the Self (consciousness). You exist always. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The one who Seeks Freedom is only bound to ignorance.Just this and nothing else. Bondage is only psychological or floating in one's own head as a false 'belief'. That is all bondage simply is. A false notion foolishly 'believed' to be true. Get rid of ignorance and Freedom alone remains self-revealed. All that needs to be done for Freedom from all bondage is to simply remove the false idea of being bound. So simple. What can be any easier than that? Freedom is so easy. It is laughable. After all, one only 'believes' there is bondage. The Seeker is only bound to false imagination. Bound to an idea of being bound only, isn't that funny. Yet that is what the simple Truth about bondage and liberation is all about. Psychological. Just like the ignorant Seeker foolishly 'believes' that there is bondage, that same ignorant Seeker foolishly 'believes' that there is a God hidden somewhere. But that is all and only wrong acquired spiritual and religious knowledge and false imagination. The spiritual or religious Seeker has brainwashed himself to foolishly believe that they are bound. They have read it in a book or someone else appearing spiritual or holy told them and they believe them.

Freedom is not to be found in spirituality or in any religions. Understanding is Realizing. Wisdom alone is Freedom. Understanding is all. Understanding this immutable presence of consciousness itself is the so called Self-Realization. After all, only the false notion that Freedom is yet to be freshly acquired or attained alone is bondage. Freedom is always here, it is not to be achieved. Ignorance alone is the only obstacle to Freedom. Only the veiled and ignorant spiritual Seeker foolishly believes in bondage when in fact there is none. Wisdom is Freedom. That is what Freedom is all about. Only ignorance is the false notion of bondage. Get rid of the veil of ignorance camouflaging the simple Truth about yourself with understanding and voila! Know the simple Truth. You are already that. Understanding alone is Realizing. Understanding is all. There never was a spiritual or religious state of Freedom to be reached, attained or acquired. Spiritual and religious people made some up only to entice the weak and the dumb. All that we need do is to remove the obstruction. That which is eternal is not known to be so because of ignorance. Ignorance is the obstruction. Get over this ignorance and all will be well. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Now that you understand this consciousness or not is only your problem. No one can give you anything new. Seeking whatever you are Seeking will get you nowhere. Only removing ignorance is Freedom. Of course if you believe in Santa Claus, in Angels, in a Blue Man with a flute, a Flying Monkey or whatever, well then realize that you are so far out of touch with Reality.That it will be impossible for you to know the Truth. Which one do you truly want to know, illusion or Reality?You cannot have both. Therefore choose wisely. One is mystical, spiritual and religious and the other is plain, common and the most ordinary. All that spiritual and religious stuff are only myths, false imagination and illusion. Like emptying a garbage, all that non-sense must go.Empty yourself from all acquired religious and spiritual concepts and foolish beliefs.

It doesn't matter what holy books you have read and what religious denomination you have adopted that is all the false or garbage covering up the simple Truth about the Self, He, the Reality or God. The Reality is always present here and now only. It is not something to be reached or acquired. It is nothing new, spiritual or holy but simply what you are this very moment naturally. Closer to you than your own breath. The Self you Seek to know is truly yourself. You yourself are the Infinite Self itself you Seek to find.That is all that needs to be realized. The Seeker is the Sought. Nothing was ever lost, simply overlooking the most obvious. That is the Open Secret to Self-Real-'I'-zation. Thou art that. There is nothing to change, alter or modify about yourself. You already are and have always been the true Self itself, being as you always are everyday naturally is the Reality. There is no so called 'mind' to go beyond or some 'ego' present anywhere to get rid of, that is all false imagination. After all, what mind? What ego? Look for them and they will not be found. Simply because they never existed. Ignorant people only believe the false to be true. Upon investigation the false notion of bondage dissolves. There never was anything other than the Infinite Self or consciousness itself present as your own self. There are no two selves but only the One Self present as all selves, as all beings, as all 'I's. One's own self is in fact the One Self. The 'I' and the Lord are One. That is what this Oneness is all about. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Call off the Search. Thou art that already.Being yourself just as you are is itself the Reality. There is no bondage and there is no liberation . There is no spiritual goal to be reached or acheived. You being yourself are already the Infinite Self itself this very moment and have always been eternally Free. You, being the Self (consciousness), want to know how to attain the Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

After all, who told you that you were not already Free? You are He, you are the Self. There is no becoming anything new. What are you waiting for? The one who waits for Freedom dies ignorant. Life is Now only! Don't you know that consciousness or the Self is simply Life? Here is the Open Secret to Freedom. If you are alive you are the Self. He is Life itself. No amount of practice, meditation, sitting in silence, repeating mantras or worshipping the dead etc, will ever bring Freedom but paradoxically only perpetuate the false notion that you are not there already. You are already at the Destination. The Search itself is the Trap.Understand this consciousness itself. Consciousness is always present. It is nothing new or special to be reached, attained or acquired. Freedom is not the acquisition of anything new, but simply the removal of ignorance. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. Here and now you are that. One's own plain ordinary everyday existence is itself the Divine. God, consciousness or the Self is 'I' am. 'I' exist is the Reality. The Self is simply your own everyday affectionate ordinary self. Consciousness is existence.'I' exist is 'I' am. It is the fact of your own being. Therefore the 'I' present in 'I' am and consciousness itself are One. Being is existence. Can you deny being? Can you deny your own existence and say 'I' am not or 'I' don't exist? Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Remove the camouflage of ignorance.Know Thyself. Understand what this consciousness simply is. And you will laugh at yourself. To be alive and aware everyday naturally is to always abide as one's true nature or this consciousness itself.It is nothing new to anyone. The Seeker is in fact the Sought. There is nothing new, spiritual or religious to be gained. Consciousness is not a special, spiritual or religious state or something new or different to be experienced.

Consciousness is paradoxically what you always are and have always been naturally your whole life. To be conscious is this consciousness itself. Self-shining naturally as the knowing that you are. Everybody knows consciousness is undeniably present because everybody knows 'I' am. Consciousness present is that 'I' am you know so well already as your own being. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ One's true nature cannot be negated. It is impossible to deny this consciousness which is one's own existence. The true Self is always present and self-shining naturally with oneself as one's own self. All efforts are bondage. You do not strive to become, reach or attain the Self. You always are the true Self or this consciousness itself. You are already that this very moment. Understanding or Realizing consciousness is not becoming anything new, just recognizing what you always are. Consciousness is nothing new but the self-shining presence and natural activity of being aware of oneself. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. Look at that 'I' am you know so well already. That is IT. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ 'I' am or 'I' am not? If you are not dead or un-conscious but in fact alive and aware of being then you are undeniably abiding as the Reality.Consciousness is another name for you.'I' am is that and you.You are that. In no circumstance can you deny consciousness to be undeniably present and self-shining, you cannot deny being. Alive-ness, living-ness, being-ness, 'I' am-ness are all synonymous with the undeniable knowing that you are. Consciousness present is self-shining as pure awareness of being. As that 'I' am you know so well. There is no becoming consciousness just understanding that you are that. The false notion that consciousness or the Self is yet to be acquired is bondage. That false notion must go. The 'I' and consciousness are One. That is the

Real-'I'-zation. The 'I' is the Infinite Self expressing itself as yourself. The 'I' is that. Me, myself and 'I' is the Reality. Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Me, myself and 'I'. The Reality is not something new that is hidden far away but present closer than close to oneself. To be oneself is to always be IT. Therefore to Seek it is to look away from it. Know 'I' am is the Sought-after Truth and the Reality. Call off the Search for the Self that was never lost. After all, who is not aware of himself?Awareness of being. The 'I' present is 'I' am. 'I' exist is always certain. No one can deny being alive and say 'I' am not or 'I' do not exist. 'I' exist needs no proof and cannot be denied. There is no acquiring anything new or different. Free yourself from ignorance. That is all that needs to be done. You are and have always been the Self and the Reality which you Seek to find. People cry over nothing. The Self you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness is the core of your own being. Consciousness is existence. You cannot deny the fact of your own being. 'I' am is always with you so to speak. That knowing that you are or unchanging awareness of being doesn't come or go anywhere. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ There is no becoming, there is no attaining or reaching anything. Understanding is all that is required to remove the camouflage of ignorance. The false notion that Freedom as anything to do with the acquisition of something new or spiritual is itself bondage.

Whatever great 'Enlightenment' stories you have read in spiritual books or acquired from others appearing holy are just spiritual carrots that are used to entice and confuse Seekers to simply sell them water by the River. Realisation is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Self-appointed Gurus i.e. con artists will pretend to have acquired Freedom, Enlightenment and spiritual faculties, some even putting on a show by staring into people's eyes or putting their hand on Seeker heads and fooling them to falsely believe in spiritual or holy transmissions. Only crap or illusion can be freshly acquired from others. There never was anything new, mystical, spiritual or religious whatsoever to be freshly acquired. Only the veiled and the ignorant foolishly believes that there is. But the fact is that there is not. The false notion of bondage is itself bondage. Bondage is psychological, it is only a false belief. Forget all about acquiring anything new, special or mystical. Freedom is already yours. Understanding is all that is required. The Guru cannot give you anything new, which you dont have already. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Look at your self. Look at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Awareness of being is bliss or happiness. There is no becoming the Self.Understanding is Realizing. That is all that needs to be done. Ignorant people foolishly Seek and will worship illusion appearing special, spiritual and holy while the Sought-after Truth and Reality is always present naturally within their own dwelling. You are the Self already. Consciousness is Life and Life is what you are this very moment by simply being yourself just as you are naturally, you need not try to cultivate consciousness for existence to be. Live or consciousness is Living itself naturally and you are this imperishable Self, just being as you are.

One's true nature is Life or consciousness. Consciousness shines all day long as sentience. Being aware and remaining aware all day long is to always abide as one's true nature. To be aware is to be IT and therefore one can only be what they already are. Being aware. Awareness is another name for the Self and you. Understanding what this consciousness is, is Realizing the Self and Freedom. Understanding is all. There is no other way to remove ignorance but with understanding. To know the Self and understanding this consciousness are synonymous. Once understood, the Self i.e. consciousness is recognized as one's true nature. Consciousness or being the Self is simply everyday wakefulness, sentience or awareness. The Self is consciousness and being conscious is this consciousness itself. To look for this consciousness or the Self outside yourself is to always look away from it. No Guru or Buddha is the real Self but a lie. The true Self is yourself. Consciousness is another name for you. Of course if you have been told to look into stillness, silence or space to find the Self then you are screwed. Ignorant and veiled spiritual people have acquired a false notion of what the Self or true consciousness simply is. Any spiritual or religious person that Seeks Freedom as a spiritual or religious state is only a veiled and ignorant fool. The Self is always directly experienced as plain ordinary everyday awareness itself. Being aware is being the Self. As with water and ice, being aware and remaining aware is the activity of abiding as unchanging awareness. The Self, He, the Reality or consciousness is in fact nothing new or holy but the real unchanging you. Consciousness is not some spiritual or religious state but the natural state of being aware. Understanding is all. Nobody becomes the Self and Free. It is impossible. Only the notion of not being the Self already is removed with understanding. That is all. You gain absolutely nothing new, spiritual or special. After all nothing was ever lost but overlooked.

There is no Freedom without understanding the Self, simply because understanding is Realizing the Self. Understanding is removing the false notion of separation, duality and bondage, it is the end of all Seeking paths. That is what Freedom is all about, when you stop Seeking for what was never lost. All needs to be done for Freedom is to get rid of ignorance and that is called Wisdom. Understanding is Wisdom and Wisdom is Freedom.Then you have a good laugh at yourself. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

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If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Consciousness is the Self. Understanding this consciousness itself is very easy. After all consciousness is nothing new but the simply most obvious, common and ordinary presence to everyone. Consciousness present is at once existence and awareness, we call it Life. Are you aware of being? See! It is easy. Common to all sentient beings. So near and so dear. If you are alive, then consciousness is undeniably present and always shines naturally and effortlessly everyday as unchanging awareness of being. The 'I' and awareness are One. Who is not aware of being oneself and says 'I'? Being oneself is always being the Self. You are that consciousness itself. Consciousness present is 'I' am present. No difference whatsoever. Consciousness is always present as one's own being. Realize that whenever you say 'I' am this or 'I' am that, true consciousness is the only presence or real self you are referring to. There is no other self present with you. No finite self or ego but the One without two. Wakefulness is sentience and awareness of being. When you are aware of me, myself and 'I', aware of yourself simply realize that you are abiding as the true Self or true consciousness and Real-'I'-zed. That is all. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Remove ignorance. That is all that needs to be done. You are that consciousness itself that you like it or not.You are He, that or the Self. You cannot be anything else no matter what you think, say or do, 'I' am is always with you.

Consciousness is present as Life itself. Being alive and aware is this immutable presence of consciousness. The Self is yourself. Awareness is yourself. Awareness is the natural state of being common to all. The natural state of being aware is awareness itself and therefore being aware is to always abide as the Infinite Self, He, the Reality or God. Understanding this affectionate undeniable presence of consciousness is very easy. To simply be alive and aware naturally everyday is the experience itself, that is what the fuss is all about. Simply being aware and remaining aware or everyday wakeful-ness is the natural activity of consciousness. To recognize your true nature, simply notice that you are aware. Being aware is the Reality.That is IT. There is nothing more to Realize. That is the true Self. One's true nature is plain, ordinary everyday awareness. So near and so dear is one's true nature, that in fact you and awareness are indivisible. Therefore when you look for it you are only looking away from it. Now if you want to see awareness or the Self as something new, spiritual or holy. If you want bells and whistles or a blazing light then realize that you have read too many spiritual and religious books full of imaginary stories. All spiritual and religious stories in spiritual and religious books are only imaginary, just manufactured spiritual myths that are only used to entice and confuse Seekers to believe illusion to be Reality. The Self, God or consciousness is nothing spiritual or religious but simply Life itself. In other words to simply be alive and aware is to be IT. Consciousness, the Self, He, the Reality is nothing new to anyone alive but simply the very core of their own being. Everybody knows and says 'I' am. Sentience or being aware and remaining aware effortlessly all day long is at once wakeful-ness and the Self. Being aware is the presence of awareness itself that is being pointed to as one's thoughtless true nature. Awareness is an activity. The natural activity of cognizance or sentience. Just be aware that you are and remain aware.

You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To be awake is to be aware. That is the Self. Understanding this, is the Realization. Awareness is nothing new or special. Wakefulness is another name for this presence of awareness. Paradoxically the false acquired notion that awareness is something new, different or special is bondage. The Reality is already here. Being aware is being IT. There is nothing to be reached, attained or cultivated for awareness to be. What effort do you have to make to be aware? Being aware is the natural state of being. The ultimate Truth is so simple. You do not have to strive to become aware. Realize that you are already aware. Aren't you aware right here and now? Of course awareness is present because you know that you are. 'I' am aware is the knowing that you are aware. Awareness present is being conscious and thus knowing that you are. Present awareness or awareness of being present is the natural state of pure being common to all. The natural state of being. Being aware is the natural state of pure being common to all and always experienced directly by everybody as ordinary wakefulness or sentience. Being aware is awareness. Awareness is not a thought. Awareness is simply being conscious or sentience. Just like clouds come and go on the infinite Sky, thoughts will come and go but awareness always remains. If you want to know the simple difference between the transient and the permanent simply pause thoughts. What remains present and self-revealed without thoughts is pure awareness itself i.e. your thoughtless true nature. Be still and 'I' always remain present because the 'I' and awareness are one. Awareness is just another name for real thoughtless affectionate 'you'. Gee yoU aRe yoU. Thoughts will always come and therefore go but 'you' always remain present as unchanging awareness itself.

Awareness is nothing new, but simply what you have always been and always are naturally. Being aware or aware-ness is the ordinary natural state of being common to everybody. That presence of awareness itself alone is the Self and the Sought-after Truth. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The only illusion of bondage and separation is paradoxically a foolish belief that unchanging awareness is either something new, special, spiritual, different or holy. When in fact awareness is what you already are here and now and have always been naturally. Isn't that funny? Ignorance is the only obstacle to Freedom. Not knowing how close the Truth is to oneself, people Seek it far away. Get rid of ignorance and you have done all that needed to be done for Freedom. Like a burned rope or a mirage of water in the Desert, bondage is only illusory. Freedom is always here. Being aware is being the imperishable Self. Awareness is not something new, spiritual or special to be cultivated, meditated upon, to be reached, attained or acquired from a book, others or hidden somewhere far and away. Have a look at yourself. To know the Self get to know your self.Understanding is all that is required. Simply realize that if you are awake from sleep then you are aware. That is it. That is the awareness itself. Being awake or aware and remaining aware all day long is the natural state of pure being. That what the fuss is all about. Not about a spiritual state or experience, but the natural state of being. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi Being aware is awareness therefore to Seek it is to always miss it. To simply be awake or sentient everyday naturally is to always naturally be IT.

Being aware and remaining aware is awareness. Awareness is the natural state of being. Whoever said awareness or the Self was anything new, special, spiritual or holy simply lied to you. Awareness simply is the natural effortless ordinary state of being aware common to everybody. Consciousness, sentience, wakefulness and awareness are synonymous with being aware. Are you aware? If you know that you are aware it is because awareness is present. That is all it is. Awareness is one's thoughtless true nature and the Reality. If you are conscious or awake you are aware and that is IT. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Being aware is awareness and you are that presence of awareness itself. To be awake or aware all day long is to abide as one's true nature. To be aware is to be the Self. That is all there is to realize. That alone is the so called Self-Realization. Being conscious, sentient or aware is being the Self.There is nothing more to understand or realize. If you are not asleep realize that you are therefore awake and aware. Being aware is your true nature. If you are awake, you are aware anyhow. There is no need to try to acquire or become what you always are naturally all day long. Only the camouflage of ignorance is to be removed with understanding. Ignorant people want to see awareness as something new, something different, spiritual or special. But awareness is not anything new, spiritual, special or different. It is what you are this very moment. Remove ignorance only. To know one's true nature is very easy. Just realize that you are aware. Being aware is everyone's natural state of being and true nature. That is IT. Full stop! How simple is that? The Self is at once being yourself and awareness. Awareness is just another name for you. You are that. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

You and awareness are One. If you know that you are aware this very moment it is because awareness is present as the knowing that you are. The Self is NOT something new or a blazing light. Only a fool Seeks the Self as something new, special or spiritual. The Self you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ These fools are the veiled ignorant spiritual and religious people that are only bound to false imagination. The have read too many books and sucked up to too many selfappointed Buddhas and Gurus. Only blinded or veiled by their acquired spiritual and foolish imaginary religious beliefs. The ignorant and foolish spiritual or religious person is busy worshipping illusion and Seeking false imagination. Paradoxically the simple Truth about the imperishable Self, the Reality and one's eternal true nature is nothing new, spiritual, religious but in fact the most plain, common and ordinary. All that we need do is to remove the obstruction. That which is eternal is not known to be so because of ignorance. Ignorance is the obstruction. Get over this ignorance and all will be well. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ One's true nature is already there. Understanding that being aware is awareness is Realizing. Understanding is all that is required to remove the veil or camouflage of ignorance. Unless you understand that your true nature is simply being aware and remaining aware everyday. You will always miss it by foolishly Seeking it as something new or far away when in fact it is what you always are. No amount of spiritual practice, meditation, yoga or effort of any kind can bring upon Freedom. Simply because Freedom is not the acquisition of anything new, spiritual or different. But simply removing the false notion that you are bound.

Do not try to keep quiet, do not make being quiet into a task to be performed. Don't be restless about being quiet, miserable about being happy. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Do not be fooled by self-appointed Gurus and spiritual Teachers some even appearing spiritual and holy that will tell entice people to keep quiet. Some even selling silence to the dumb or convince them to worship a mountain, a monkey or a tree. These are disguised liars or con artists that will keep Seekers bound to ignorance for gratification or a fee. The ignorant will believe the false to be true and follow these false Gurus deeper into ignorance and confusion. Many veiled and ignorant Seekers are fooled by religious concepts like Satsang or the illusion and false notion of being with the Self. Foolishly believing that the Self is something spiritual that is yet to be acquired from others appearing holy. But that is only a ruse for self-appointed Gurus to sell water by the River to the ignorant. There is no such thing. The Self is not something to be acquired from others. All that is necessary is to know its existence in you. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Spiritual Teachers and self-appointed Gurus will fool Seekers to foolishly believe the false to be true. If you have been mislead to believe that the Self or consciousness is a spiritual state of Love, Peace and Happiness you have fallen for the trap of ignorance by chasing after spiritual carrots used to entice the weak and the dumb to believe the false to be true. Consciousness is the natural state of pure being. It is the activity of sentience. Awareness is empty and always remains the exact same. Like a mirror on the wall it is stateless in nature, free and untouched from any states of Love, Peace and Happiness. Seeking these states is only bondage, not liberation. Why Seek the transient and therefore the impermanent? One must choose wisely between illusion and the Reality. One is always transient in nature and the other eternal. Paradoxically the one who is in pursue of a state of happiness, a spiritual or Divine state of true Love and Peace,

will never know Freedom but foolishly spend their whole lives trying to find, reach or attain states and illusion. Illusion cannot make you whole, only knowing yourself as the Reality. What is not already present and unchanging with oneself is not worth Seeking. The Reality that is Sought-after is always present, unchanging and stateless. It is pure being. Freedom is not the acquisition of anything new, spiritual, different or special. Understanding is Realizing. Get to know your real self. That is all that is required to remove ignorance about one's true nature. Consciousness is not some new or spiritual state to be experienced. To be conscious or aware is the experience. Understanding is the fastest way or the best medicine to remove the veil of ignorance camouflaging one's true nature. Realizing means understanding that being conscious is consciousness, not becoming anything new. That is the Secret and shortcut to Freedom. The bird's way is understanding this consciousness itself, not foolishly Seeking and striving to become anything new. Being awake, sentient or aware is this presence of consciousness itself. Just like a cloud camouflaging the Self-shining Sun. Get rid of ignorance only. Consciousness is always present here and now. Simply overlooked because it is so near and so dear. Consciousness has never been anything new, special or apart from oneself but in fact the core of one's being. Consciousness is pure awareness of being. Knowing that you are present is 'I' am. Can you deny the knowing that you are? Can you deny being? Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ How much time does it take to know that you are? Awareness of being is 'I' am. Aren't aware of being? Can you say 'I' am not or 'I' do not exist? Is there anyone alive who is not aware of being? It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

To simply be alive and aware just as you are and always have been naturally everyday of your life is to always abide naturally and effortlessly as the imperishable Self or this consciousness itself. Pure awareness of being is the knowing that you are. That is what 'I' am represents. Life, existence is the Self. Consciousness is the real presence of existence that we call Life. Like a light bulb cannot shine without the power, your body cannot shine without consciousness. Freedom is simply realizing that this affectionate presence of Life within your own dwelling which is consciousness itself doesn't know death.Consciousness is one's true nature and the imperishable Self. Consciousness is not something new or spiritual that is hidden far away or to be acquired from others but simply the undeniable Living presence, intelligence and power within your own dwelling. Consciousness present is Life present. Experienced directly by everybody alive as awareness of being. Existence is consciousness. Being alive and aware is being IT. Existence is 'I' am. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ The Sought-after Truth, Reality or God is simply Life itself. There is nothing spiritual or religious to be freshly acquired. There never was. Just understanding that Life doesn't know death is Freedom. That is all. So simple. You do not look for it, strive to become it or try to reach it or Seek anything new whatsoever. You only and simply understand what this immutable presence of consciousness truly is. The eternal Infinite Self, the Reality and God is simply the Presence of Life itself. That is all that is required to know oneself. Look at yourself.Look at your own being. Consciousness is simply what you are. You are that this very moment. The Self (consciousness) is ever present. Each one wants to know the Self.

What kind of help does one require to know oneself? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Question,investigate and understand if you want to be Free. Simply because the false notion of bondage cannot stand up to investigation. Know thyself. Not by looking for yourself as something spiritual or special that is hidden far away but paradoxically by simply recognizing your true nature or this consciousness itself to always have been present closer to you, than even your own breath. You are IT. That is IT. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness is just another name for you. Gee! yoU aRe yoU. How can you kiss yourself on your own lips? You cannot kiss this true Beloved and Divine beauty because you are that. The experience is here and now. Are you conscious? Are you alive and aware of being? That is IT. Awareness of being is bliss or happiness. Call off the Search. So plain and so ordinary is this consciousness that most people Seeking it do not want it because it is no-thing. It is pure changeless being. A strange paradox. Simple changeless being is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Know your true self to simply the most boring and ordinary which is this plain presence of consciousness itself that is naturally and effortlessly self-shining in plain sight your entire life, as your very own plain ordinary everyday self and being. Consciousness is the stateless state of pure being common to all. One's own existence is the Divine. You are already the Self you Seek to know. It is you. you are that. Only the false notion or wrong knowledge that anything new, special or spiritual is in any way to be freshly acquired or attained for Freedom is the problem. Self-shining as plain ordinary everyday wakefulness, consciousness present is plain ordinary sentience. Just like a finger that points at the moon. Self-shining ordinary awareness is everyone's true nature.

To be aware is this awareness. To be conscious is this consciousness. That is what the Self truly is. The ultimate Truth is so simple. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Understanding this simple Truth is Freedom. The Self is self-shining as consciousness and yourself. You are that. If you are not content with this simplicity, well then that is too bad for you. What else is one to do but simply point to this immutable affectionate presence of consciousness itself? After all, one can only take a horse to the water but cannot make him drink. Therefore drink if you are thirsty. Understanding what is simply being pointed to as one's thoughtless true nature is all that is required. How else can you remove ignorance if you do not understand what the word That, Self, He or Reality truly represents? Just like the word water will not make you wet no matter how many times you repeat it or the word fire will not burn you,the word awareness or consciousness is not the actuality itself but simply a word or a label used to describe it and point to it in order to understand it and recognize it. Understanding what this consciousness truly is, is very easy.No time or effort is required to understand. There is no acquiring consciousness but simply recognize it present here and now as your own self and being. The Reality is not what you can see outside yourself or something new to be acquired from others but what you are. Consciousness present is at once everyday existence and plain ordinary unchanging awareness. Consciousness present is the natural state of being so common to everyone. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Understanding alone is Freedom. Only by understanding that the veil of ignorance is removed.

Freedom and understanding is synonymous.Realization and understanding is synonymous. There is no spiritual or religious state of Freedom. Freedom is only understanding what consciousness simply is. Once it is understood that simply being alive and awake everyday is to always abide as the Self, bondage for whom? Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Everybody alive and awake or conscious abides as the Reality. Only understanding this conscious-ness, is Freedom from all bondage. What is consciousness? The activity of being alive and aware of being oneself all day long. The words Self or God simply point to everyday consciousness or existence i.e. Life. To simply be conscious or wakeful is sentience and consciousness itself. Therefore the waking state is the Realized state. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What is Sought-after is what we always are naturally everyday. That is the Open Secret to one's true nature always self-shining in plain sight. Sentience is this consciousness itself self-shining everyday naturally as unchanging awareness. Wakefulness. Seeing is being conscious, awake and aware. Sentience is hearing, feeling, smelling, thinking etc. All these natural activities are the natural state of being and natural activity of consciousness and one's true nature. Consciousness present is the Knower present or the witnessing cognizing presence we call awareness or sentience. Get to know your Real Self. Who is always undeniably present to be aware of this or that? 'I' am of course. Consciousness is that 'I' am you know so well as your own affectionate everyday self and being. Everybody knows and says 'I' am. Realize that every time you say or think 'I' am you are in fact always talking about the Infinite Self and not your body. Whenever you talk about your body you will say 'my' body. Consciousness present is existence. Consciousness present is awareness of being.

Who is not aware of himself and doesn't say 'I' am? Knowing that you are not dead but in fact alive and well is 'I' am. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ 'I' am represents this consciousness self-shining as awareness of being. Not the body but the Life essence or Living-ness present within your own dwelling. 'I' am is this consciousness itself. The wrong idea that 'I' am is a body is the mistake. The 'I' present in 'I' am is the Infinite Self. The 'I' is consciousness itself. 'You' or the 'I' is that. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Infinite Self is not some special or spiritual 'I' hidden somewhere far away. But the plain good ol' everyday 'you'. The 'I' is 'you' and here and now 'you' are that. Just remove ignorance, that is all. You are only Seeking you. How can you kiss yourself? The Search is the Trap. There is nothing new to be freshly acquired.The Self is yourself and yourself is the Self. That affectionate ordinary immutable presence self-shining as pure awareness of being is simply the most plain and ordinary everyday living-ness, being-ness or 'I' amness and this plain ordinary everyday natural state of being so common to everyone alive and affectionately known to all as 'I' am, alone is the eternal Self. Knowing the simple Truth is Freedom. There is no goal to be reached. Only removing ignorance is Freedom. In fact spirituality and all religions will only point away from the simple Truth. Freedom, Mukti, Liberation etc, is not some new or special spiritual state that is yet to be reached, attained, acquired or achieved, but simply what you are and have always been naturally. Being alive and aware everyday is the Reality itself and the Sought-after Truth. That is IT. Nothing new.

The Seeker is the Sought. Call off the Search. What are you looking for? There is nothing new to be gained but only removing ignorance. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ People are only miserable because they are striving to be happy. A funny paradox. The miserable and unhappy person that does not like the way their life is, wish to escape Reality and often time will turn to alcohol, drugs, spirituality or religions to find relief from psychological suffering. Most Seeking desperately and frantically for a way out of this World when in fact they are already eternally Free. Why Seek a way out? Free yourself from ignorance only. Life just as it is unfolding naturally, is the Reality. There is nowhere else to go and nothing new to reach, attain or become. The experience is here and now. There is no bondage and therefore there is no liberation either. One only believes that that there is. After all, if you 'believe' you are bound well, then realize that you are bound to your 'belief'. What binds you? Look for your chains and they will not be found. Again bondage and liberation is found only in one's own head. False notion or false imagination.Psychological only. See the false as false. Realisation is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Only the false notion that Freedom is yet to be freshly acquired is bondage. There is nothing to be gained for Freedom.There never was and never will be. Get rid of ignorance only. Ignorant people foolishly believe that Freedom is the acquisition of something new, spiritual, religious or special. That false notion alone is paradoxically the veiled of ignorance camouflaging the simple Truth. Paradoxically spirituality and religions are in fact the poison, not the cure. The Reality and Sought-after Truth is nothing new or spiritual. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought

I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi Do not be fooled by illusion. Investigate and find out for yourself what is Real. Realize that nobody has ever acquired, reached or attained anything new, spiritual, religious or special for Freedom. Some people may pretend that they have, using spiritual concepts and religious ideology, but that is only for show. If you investigate you will discover that any spiritual Teacher, religious Sage, Guru, Jnani, Master or Buddha etc, are in fact the greatest illusion and charlatans. Simply con artists using the veil or camouflage of ignorance, religious concepts and spirituality only to entice and confuse Seekers in believing illusion to be the Reality. Dangling a spiritual carrot in front of ignorant and foolish people that have hypnotized themselves in falsely believing that there is bondage and a reward called liberation. But it is not true. The wrong knowledge acquired from spiritual books and others that there is bondage and also liberation is the cause of all mischief. It is all false. All acquired spiritual knowledge is the greatest ignorance. Freedom is always here. It is not to be achieved. Isn't it foolish to Seek Freedom when there is no bondage? It is like a Fish who is always in water foolishly crying that he is thirsty. The ignorant that Seeks Freedom is only bound to a false notion of being bound. There is no bondage and therefore no liberation either but only the removal of ignorance. What about spiritual Gurus, Masters and Teachers that appear and speak holy and all about Enlightenment? Just a bunch of crazy people that like the smell of their own farts and will entice others to follow them in ignorance. Enlightenment is just a spiritual carrot used to entice the weak and the simple. Just a religious concept and myth. Stupidity is for anyone that spends their entire life striving to attain Enlightenment, when there is no such thing. Forget all about spirituality and religions for they cannot help you for Freedom. It all works in reverse. Understanding alone is Freedom, get rid of ignorance and you have done all that needed to be done.

Freedom is not to be achieved. It is already here. Only the idea of being bound is to be removed. The Reality is Life itself. It is not anything new, spiritual or religious to be freshly acquired. Spiritual and religious people want to escape Reality and therefore cultivate false imagination. Know the Truth! There is no spiritual or religious God. One only believes that there is. All there is present is consciousness and consciousness present is Life or existence. To simply be conscious or aware is this consciousness itself. It is nothing new. Look at yourself. Are you conscious? Are you aware? There you go sport. You are aware naturally anyhow and therefore you need not try to be. Sentience, awareness, wakefulness is this consciousness itself. Nothing new or special about one's natural state of being. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ The simplest and fastest way to recognize one's true nature is to simply pause thoughts for a few moments. Just be still and you are instantly abiding as pure unchanging awareness. What happens if you pause thoughts? Nothing special, spiritual or holy happens of course. Only thoughts disappear and the Infinite Self or God is self-revealed as the natural state of pure being. Awareness is nothing mystical, spiritual or religious. That is the Joke of it all. Being aware is the awareness. Sentience is in fact plain ordinary everyday cognizance, wakeful-ness, being-ness, 'I' am-ness. Be still and voila! What always remains present without any thoughts present is pure awareness of being and that is one's thoughtless true nature or pure consciousness itself.Nothing spiritual or new. Be still and voila! You are there. How simple can Freedom be? It is laughable how easy. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The ignorant Seeker wishfully wants to foolishly believe that there is more to Freedom than that. But there isn't.

Freedom is not and never be what spiritual and religious people want it to be. Freedom is removing ignorance only. Spiritual and religious people from East and West only sell water by the River to the dumb, the veiled and ignorant. If you were mislead to believe Freedom was about becoming something new, spiritual or special you were lied to. Question all your acquired spiritual and religious beliefs for paradoxically they are the only obstacle to Freedom. Whoever said you were bound and in need to become Free lied to you and you foolishly believed them. You are already what you Seek to find. Get rid of the ignorance that makes you believe otherwise. That is all that is necessary for Freedom. Just remove the false notion that you are bound. Bondage is only psychological, just a false notion or false belief. Liberation is our very nature. We are that. The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Only a fool would Seek Freedom as a spiritual or religious state. Freedom is simply being what you already are and have always been naturally your whole Life.Nothing new, spiritual or religious about being alive and aware. Being aware and remaining aware all day long naturally is pure awareness itself and one's thoughtless true nature. Get to know your real self. If you are not asleep or un-conscious you are awake and aware. That is IT. Being awake or aware everyday is always abiding as one's thoughtless true nature. Are you awake or aware? Yes! Voila! That present awareness is the Reality. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Everybody is always the Infinite Self, He, the Reality or Godthey simply do not realize it. Not knowing how close the Truth is, is the only trouble. Ignorance is the only culprit.

What the Seeker Seeks is what they already are. One's own self is the Infinite Self. There is nothing to change, alter or modify about oneself for the Reality to be. To be alive and awake from sleep is this consciousness itself. It is not to be achieved, it is already here. Are you alive, are you awake or aware? To be alive and awake is to abide as one's true nature. Removed the veil of ignorance. Get to know the simple Truth. There is no so called mind to go beyond or an ego to get rid off.There never was. Only ignorance is to be removed. Paradoxically the concept of mind and ego is the greatest ignorance. If you seek the ego you will find, it does not exist. That is the way to get rid of it. Look for it and it will not be found. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Foolish people will spend their time meditating and trying to go beyond or get rid of illusion, funny no! Spiritual and religious people have invented false imagination to keep ignorant Seekers on a Seeking path. See the false as false. Investigate. The false cannot stand up to investigation. Can you show me your mind?Look for it and it will not be found. What binds you when simply being 'you' is already being the eternal Self, He, the Reality? You are egoless, formless consciousness. The natural state of being oneself is this consciousness itself. There is no bondage and no liberation. You are already ever-free. There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained. You are the Self (consciousness). You exist always. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The word Self or God simply point to ordinary consciousness or Life. Consciousness present is Life itself. The Kingdom of God or this Oneness is Life. The Infinite Self is simply Life itself. That is the Oneness present in all. One Life. One Self. Everybody alive always experiences it directly as pure awareness of being. Knowing that you are is 'I' am. 'I' am is consciousness. Thou art that.

'I' am is the Sought-after Truth and the absolute Reality. Being is 'I' am. The Self is simply being oneself. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Nothing spiritual or mythical about God or the Self. Life or consciousness is the so called "Diamond in your pocket". Are you alive and aware? That knowing that you are is present awareness. Awareness of being is at once 'I' am or me, myself and 'I' and this consciousness. The Self is yourself.Consciousness is not some fictitious God but ordinary existence. The Self is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness is yourself. Everybody knows and says 'I' am all day long. The Self is nothing new. Who is not aware of being? Everybody knows that they are. You cannot deny the knowing that you are. 'I' am is always first hand as awareness of being. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ 'I' am is the Reality or this consciousness itself. That is what consciousness simply is, the natural state of being. In other words if you know you are alive and awake from sleep you are 'Enlightened'. That is the cosmic Joke of so called 'Enlightenment'. There is no such thing. People only pretend to be holy for gratification and a fee. Being alive is the Reality. God or the Self is 'I' am. One's own plain boring ordinary everyday existence is the Divine. Nothing spiritual or new. If you have been Seeking and worshipping God or the Self your whole Life, you are only an ignorant fool. The Self is your own ordinary everyday self. That is God. Look at yourself. Look at your own existence. Have a look at your own being. That is IT. That is the Self. God is 'I' exist. It is 'I' am. Consciousness present is 'I' am present. Awareness of being is the Reality.

If you are alive and aware of being, you are God, He or the Reality. Nothing was ever lost. Who is not aware of being? Everybody knows 'I' am. God is that 'I' am you know so well already as your own plain ordinary everyday 'you'. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ After all, no one can say 'I' do not exist or 'I' am not and negate one's own being. There is no one that can deny one's own being and say there is no one or that they do not exist. It is impossible to say 'I' do not exist. You know that you are. Can you deny that you are? That you exist? Only an ignorant fool would deny his own existence and say 'I' am not or 'I' do not exist. 'I' exist is the Self, He, the Reality or God. God or consciousness is 'I' am. The 'I' is that consciousness itself or 'I' am that.You are the One and existence itself. Consciousness is the host present within your own dwelling. You are that. Guest come and guest go but consciousness or 'you' always remains. Know yourself! Know that the 'I' is not different from the Lord but in fact One and the same presence of existence. You are that or Thou art that. Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord . ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Nothing spiritual or holy about the Self or God. If you are alive, you are the Self. He is Life itself. That is the simple Truth. Nothing new or far away. Being alive and aware of being oneself everyday is the Reality. God is not some holy person, place or thing hidden far away. God is your own everyday self. Ignorant people have acquired all sort of religious and spiritual concepts about God. Never realizing that Life is in fact the absolute Reality being pointed to. Reality is all about being. All about Life, consciousness, existence.The Self is nothing new to anyone alive. That is all it is simply all about. Nothing more, different or special. Just being or existing is He, the Reality or God.

For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ People that pray, meditate, practice yoga or any other spiritual or religious rituals etc, cannot know the Self or God. They are paradoxically always looking away from it. Spiritual practices, rituals and concepts are the poison, not the cure. To Seek God or the Self in any spiritual way is to only gain the way. Whatever way or spiritual path you can come up with, it is only bondage. Reality is not found by any amount of practice or by Seeking it. Removing ignorance alone is all that is required. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Understanding alone is Realizing. Not becoming, reaching or attaining anything new. Understanding that ordinary sentience or awareness is consciousness itself is Freedom. Being conscious or aware is itself the Self being pointed to as one's true nature. Nothing new, spiritual or special about being and remaining aware. You are aware. That is present awareness and the Self. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Sentience. If you are not asleep, you are awake. What so special, spiritual or religious about being awake? To be awake or aware is wakeful-ness and that is abiding as the Self. A 'Buddha' is an ordinary person and an ordinary person is a 'Buddha'. All sentient beings are always abiding as the Reality. There is nothing more to realize. Being is awareness. The Self is awareness. Being aware is that presence of awareness we call God. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water.

Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ Didn't anyone tell you? Being aware is the awareness. Being conscious is this consciousness itself. Sentience is the Reality. Everybody alive always wakes up so called Enlightened, they simply do not know it. That is the Joke of it all. It is like a Fish in the Ocean Searching everywhere for the Ocean. Like having your sun glasses on the top of your head while searching everywhere falsely believing they are lost when in fact they are so close. Forget spiritual and religious crap, it cannot help you for Freedom. Understanding is all that is necessary to remove ignorance. Freedom is not to be achieved but only removing the false notion of being bound.That is the Secret. You know that you are. Awareness is undeniably present because 'I' am is certain. Being aware is knowing that you are. That knowing that you are is the Self. You are the knowing that you are. How simple is that? Awareness is another name for you. It is 'I' am. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Sitting in silence, repeating mantras or worshipping the dead is only for idiots. Who am 'I'? The answer to Life or existence or being is not found in the graveyard of the past. The experience is always here and now.Being or existence here and now is 'I' am and that is the Reality. Who am 'I'? After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. 'I' am is certain. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ One can only laugh at himself for frantically Seeking the Self when he is the Self. To simply be alive is the experience itself. That is the Self. Call off the Search. Consciousness is not a spiritual state but the natural state of being. Being alive is always abiding as the Self. God is 'I' am. One's own undeniable boring ordinary existence is the Reality.

The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Whoever told you that you were not already Free simply lied to you. Many believe the fasle to be true. Being oneself naturally is the Sought-after Truth and the absolute Reality. Nothing new is to be freshly acquired. Only the veiled and the ignorant foolishly believes that the so called state of Enlightenment or Self-Realization is a spiritual or religious state. These acquired spiritual and religious beliefs are only for the ignorant Seeker. Foolishly chasing after false imagination. These are ignorant people that will remain veiled until they die. The Reality is nothing new.It is already here naturally, it is not to be achieved. Forget everything spiritual and religious and understand what this consciousness is. That is all that is necessary if you want to know the Self or God the wise have been pointing to. One's own being or existence is the Divine. How can anyone negate God or the Reality? God is 'I' am. 'I' am is always certain. Consciousness is indeed always with you. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be or not to be. 'I' am or 'I' am not? The ultimate Truth about consciousness is so simple, it is laughable. Freedom is very easy. Being is the Self or consciousness and consciousness is being. Get rid of ignorance and voila! You are that either way. Nothing else is required for Freedom. Existence is the Divine. To be alive and aware everyday is to always abide as the Reality, the Self or God. Of course for the veiled and ignorant spiritual Seeker that is a shock," what! No blazing light or special faculties." Spirituality and religions are only mythical in nature, just myths and legends to entice the simple and the weak. Spiritual and religious people are superstitious people that believe in all sorts of crap to be true. Believing the false to be true and rejecting the simple Truth to be false. A strange paradox.

There is no spiritual or religious goal to be reached or to be attained for Freedom. Only get rid of the false notion that you are not already Free. That is all that needs to be done. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Only ignorant people that are veiled by their spiritual or religious beliefs want to believe in some spiritual state of liberation, but that is all fiction and a mental creation. The ignorant is only keep ignorant by spiritual people to be at their service physically and financially. Of course Freedom will never be paradoxically what anyone Seeking it foolishly believes it should be. No spiritual state of Enlightenment ever existed. Just a religious myth used as a spiritual carrot. Freedom is only a paradox. Nothing spiritual or religious about it. In fact any spiritual and religious notions about Freedom and beliefs are bondage. The false notion that Freedom is somehow spiritual or religious in anyway is bondage. Get rid of ignorance. That is what Freedom is simply all about. It is very simple. Not Seeking, striving or becoming anything new, special or different. Freedom is not some spiritual experience or event. Freedom is simply removing ignorance with understanding. All that needs to be understood is that one's true nature is nothing new or spiritualbut paradoxically the most natural state of being. The state of pure being common to all is everyday wakefulness or ordinary awareness. To be conscious, awake and aware is to abide as one's true nature. That is the Secret to Freedom. Why do people sell water by the River? Gratification, recognition and money! What else. There is no bondage and there is no liberation, only ignorance is to be removed. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound. ~ Ramana Maharshi~ Again a Seeker is only bound to the idea of being bound.

Most spiritual and religious Sheepos are dumb. Never pausing for a moment to have a closer look at their imaginary chains and investigate for themselves if their are really bound to anything other then the false idea of being bound. Questioning, inquiring, investigating and understanding is a must for Freedom. Question your beliefs. The false cannot stand up to investigation. The so called Realized state is simply being alive and aware everyday. There is nothing new, spiritual or special about being. What effort do you make to be? Look at yourself. You know that you are alive and you like to be. Existence is the Divine. Being is the Sought-after Truth and the Reality. Life is the Self. That is the Open Secret to Freedom self-shining in plain sight all along. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Life is Now only! Why wait?Spiritual and religious people are veiled by their very own acquired spiritual and religious beliefs. Seeking spirituality is the trap. Freedom has never been about achieving anything new or spiritual. Nothing is required for the Reality to be. Freedom is always here! Paradoxically religions and spirituality have nothing to do with Freedom. Freedom is only removing the false idea or false notion of being bound. Nothing else. That is all Freedom is. No biggy. You gain nothing new whatsoever. Nothing was lost to begin with. Understanding is Realizing. That is all. After all, how much time does it take to know that you are? Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You know that you are. What you Seek is what you are. Your own self is the Self. Same thing. No difference whatsoever.

Everybody knows that they are. Everybody knows me, myself and 'I'. That is IT. The Self is yourself. Remove the camouflage of ignorance with understanding, that is all. Whoever told you that you weren't the true Self and ever-Free already simply lied to you! Rejoice you are He, you are That! What else are you looking for?Some mental creation or fantasy? If you want to know so called God, the Self, He, the Reality, the Atman etc,simply understand that being alive andaware everyday is always being IT. God is nothing new or different but paradoxically what you are right now and have always known yourself to be naturally. Gee! yoU aRe yoU. Call off the Search. Thou art that. Freedom is so easy that it is paradoxically it is the only difficulty. Simplicity itself. That is the Open Secret. It is very easy for anyone to understand. There is no achieving, attaining or becoming anything. There never was. That is the funny paradox. Only the ignorant Seeker who is not happy with himself will always look to add to himself. Seekers are only sad pathetic whiners that are not happy with what they've got. Just like a fish in the water that is foolishly crying that he is thirsty.What is missing? Nothing! What did you loose? People cry over nothing. Ignorance is the only cause of all mischief. Get rid of ignorance and you will laugh at yourself for being so foolish. The Self you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Freedom is of course not for the religious, the spiritual or the blessed but paradoxically for the Godless and the non-believer.All religions and spirituality are the poison not the cure. One cannot cultivate, believe and worship illusion and expect to know the Reality. It is impossible. Religious and spiritual people always look away from the Reality and foolishly worship illusion.

Wisdom alone is Freedom. That is all it is.It is very easy.Remove ignorance. Forget all about God and Gods, Saints, Sages and Jnanis. Why should anyone Seek, turn to or foolishly worship false imagination or illusion when Freedom has absolutely nothing to do with spirituality or religions of any kind? Only the veiled and the ignorant falsely believes that it does, but paradoxically it does not. As the old saying goes if you see a 'Buddha' on the Road kill him, for there is no such thing as holy or spiritual beings. Holy beings are only a spiritual concept used in holy books to entice the veiled and the ignorant to chase after false imagination and worship illusion, often time for a fee. There is nothing different, special or spiritual to become or to be freshly acquired for Freedom. The veiled and the ignorant may falsely believe that someone has perhaps reached or attained a special spiritual state and therefore become a spiritual or religious being with great spiritual faculties, but that is no true. Gurus, Yogis, Saints, Sages, Masters and Jnanis are all scam artists using ignorance to entice and confuse Seekers. All that spiritual crap must be flushed down the toilet for Freedom. Not Seeking or cultivating spirituality. Paradoxically the Seeker that desires to see the Self as something new or spiritual is simply veiled. Nothing new, spiritual or different is to be freshly acquired for Freedom. Enlightenment is a myth. Freedom is not a spiritual or religious state. That is the Joke of it all. Only ignorance is to be removed. That is all. So simple. Didn't anyone tell you that Freedom is so easy? Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Once you realize that spirituality and religions from East and West cannot help you for Freedom then you are ready to understand and get rid of the veil of ignorance camouflaging the simple Truth. Again one cannot have both. One must choose wisely between illusion and Reality. Anyone can adopt a Religion, spiritual Teacher, Yogi or Guru, there is no shortage of them.

But none of this can help anyone for Freedom but in fact do the opposite and work in reverse. Ignorant of this simple truth, innumerable methods under different denominations, such as yoga, bhakti, karma, each again with many modifications, are being taught with great skill and in intricate detail only to entice the seekers and confuse their minds. So also are the religions and sects and dogmas. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Freedom has nothing to do with spirituality or religions. Paradoxically religions are dividing and the cause of all evil in this world. All religion can do for anyone is to turn them into blind brainwashed Sheepos. Forget all that non-sense if you desire to be Free and understand only. Don't go sucking up to some spiritual Guru or religious person foolishly believing that they have acquired spiritual Freedom and will give it to you, because it is impossible. The Guru cannot give you anything new, which you dont have already. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Everybody always abides as the Self itself.It is not something new, different or special but so common to all. After all, how far and un-familiar can one's true nature be? Closer than close of course and so familiar and ordinary. Closer to you than your own breath. In fact one's true nature is so plain, so common and so ordinary that people simply do not realize it that they already are and have always been the true Self naturally all along. One's true nature is so obvious and therefore subtle because it very affectionate and familiar to anyone alive and simply overlooked because it is always present and unchanging. People want to see the Self (consciousness) as something new. But it (consciousness) is eternal and remains the same all along. They desire to see it as a blazing light etc.How can it be so? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Just like space is always present but overlooked simply because it is nothing. One's true nature or consciousness is nothing new or special but paradoxically the most boring and ordinary. In fact spiritual and religious Seekers will reject the Self as being too simple because it is no-thing new or spiritual. Spiritual and religious Seekers are paradoxically the most veiled of all. So funny. Only bound to false imagination. These foolish spiritual people want to see the true Self as something new and therefore will always miss it. Seeking it, is missing. Only understanding is necessary to remove ignorance. To be alive and aware or sentient everyday is to be the Self, He or the Reality.That is one's true nature. Plain common ordinary and so obvious to all is one's natural state of being.That it is laughable. Instead of looking for something new, simply notice what is always present here and now. Nothing new or different in anyway is the Reality or the true Self but paradoxically always present naturally with everyone alive as one's natural state of being. The state of pure being. That is why it is called the natural state of being. Who is not aware of being? Being means existence. Existence is present because everybody knows 'I' am. Therefore everybody alive experiences the Self as his or her self all day long. Gee you are that already. Effortlessly present and self-shining naturally, one's true nature doesn't need to be cultivated. Just recognized and understood. One's true nature is so natural. Super duper ordinary and natural. Because one's true nature is most familiar and most ordinary of all, so effortless and natural. So simple isn't it! The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Forget all that spiritual crap or garbage you have acquired from books and others and get to know your real self. Everybody alive always experiences the Self or the Reality as pure awareness of being. Remove ignorance. Stop 'imagining' yourself to bound and voila! You are Free. Bondage is psychological only.

Of course self-appointed Gurus, Teachers and religious Leaders will never tell you the simple Truth. They need the Seekers to paradoxically remain ignorant for them to strive and survive. That is why so many of them will have a fee attached to Freedom. After all, spirituality and religions are simply a business. That is all they are. Freedom is already here.You cannot buy it or find it in a book. No one can give you anything you do not have already. Present within your own dwelling. Being alive and aware of being oneself everyday is the Reality. Consciousness present is being. It is 'I' am. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The natural state of being common to all. Freedom is not some spiritual state, but simply what we are. Not something new or special to to be acquired. Our true nature is Freedom. No amount of spiritual practice, time and effort will ever help someone for Freedom. Forget all yogas, meditations, pilgrimages to holy places, temples and ashrams. Worship and prayers. The Reality is always present within your own dwelling as Life itself. Immutable, indivisible, inseparable. Consciousness present is Life or existence and that is one's true nature. Being alive and conscious everyday is therefore the experience itselfthat some people have called the state of Realization or Enlightenment. Nothing foreign about one's true nature or consciousness. Consciousness is the most plain, common and ordinary presence to anyone alive. When you are awake and aware of being. Consciousness is the presence of awareness or wakefulness. Knowing that you are present is this consciousness itself present as wakeful-ness or pure awareness of being. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

If you ever wondered what is being pointed to as the Self or consciousness, it is very easy. Look at yourself. Are you conscious? Are you aware? You know that you are alive and therefore aware of being? There you go sport. You know that you are and that is it. That is the Self. Being aware of being is the Sought-after Truth and the Reality. Present awareness. Being and remaining aware is the consciousness or the Self being pointed to as your true nature. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Paradoxically simply being yourself everyday is always being it naturally. Consciousness is at once present as existence and self-shining as wakeful-ness, sentience or awareness. Nothing new or different about being aware and remaining aware naturally, everyday sentience or wakeful-ness. If you are sure that you are not dead, asleep or un-consciousness but lively and wakeful or aware of being yourself here and now, you are abiding as the Reality. Call off the Search. The Search is the only trap. You are what you Seek. To be aware is awareness.To be conscious is consciousness. Free yourself from ignorance only. Know thyself. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Reality is simply me, myself and 'I'. Are you laughing at yourself yet? If you foolishly believed the Self or the Reality was anything new or spiritual you have been conned. You foolishly fell for the trap of ignorance and therefore spend years Seeking nothing other than your own self. When me, myself and 'I' is present, it is consciousness itself self-shining as pure awareness of being. As 'I' am. So simple! Nothing new, special, religious or spiritual about being alive and conscious everyday is there? The Sought-after Truth and Reality is simply the natural state of being alive and aware common to all. The activity of being alive and aware is everyone's natural state of being and that is abiding as the Reality.

Consciousness is nothing spiritual or far away but paradoxically what we always are and have always been. The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something newor reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ That is the Open Secret to Freedom self-shining in plain sight naturally all along. Life is the Self. No one becomes Free or becomes the Self or the Reality. Only ignorance is removed for Freedom. Understanding consciousness is Realizing that there is nothing new to get but only remove ignorance. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Life or existence is the presence of consciousness itself. The Living power some call the Living God. Life is the Precious that is simply being pointed to by the wise as the Reality or God. To look for consciousness or God as anything new, spiritual, special or different is to always look away from it. To get to know this consciousness itself simply turn within toward that 'I' am you know. Have a good look at your own self and being. Realize that to simply be conscious, awake and aware of being is this consciousness itself. Awareness! To be aware and remain aware is abiding as the Reality. That is what the fuss is simply all about. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Consciousness is not something to be found far away. Realize that it is in fact what you already are here and now. Therefore there is no bondage and no liberation either. Being alive is itself being the Self, He, the Reality. Only ignorance is removed with understanding. That is all so called Freedom simply is.

After all, the one who Seeks consciousness will always miss it. Who is to find who in Omni-presence? But the one who understands this consciousness itself knows the simple Truth about himself. Life or existence or consciousness is the so called "Diamond in your pocket". Nothing new or far away. But paradoxically always present so near and so dear. Everybody alive always abides as the Self, He, the Reality but simply do not realize it. What can you do with Life? Nothing but simply being yourself naturally just as you are. You are being lived. Life is naturally living itself as yourself. Therefore you have no choice but to be. You are Life. You are that. You are He. You are the Self. You are egoless, choiceless consciousness itself. The word God is simply just another fancy name for Life and also for you. The Reality is existence or Life. One's own existence is the Divine. Consciousness is nothing new. Only the veiled and ignorant person believes in a God of religion, spiritual doctrines, blindly follows Gurus or sect leaders, becomes either a Christian, a Buddhist, a Zen, an Hindu, a Muslim or a Jew. None of that religious and spiritual acquired stuff has anything to do with Reality and Freedom. Veiled and ignorant people are superstitious people that created some fictitious God to pray to some will Seek a spiritual person, spiritual place or spiritual thing to worship and turn to. A self-appointed Guru or Sect leader eventually becomes the head of a new Religion. All main stream Religions from East and West are nothing other than Sects that have been widely accepted.Nobody is born religious yet everybody is born ever-Free. The only trouble lies with ignorance of what is simply being pointed to as one's true nature. Just like water in a mirage will never make you wet. One cannot acquired Reality from illusion. Know the Truth! Freedom has nothing to do with spirituality or any religions. Why should it?

Spirituality and religions are fiction or illusion. Nothing to do whatsoever with the Reality. If you have been a dedicated spiritual or religious Seeker for ten, twenty or thirty years you are paradoxically more ignorant of the simple Truth all and only because of it. It all works in reverse. A strange paradox. As the Search is itself the Trap. Acquired spiritual and religious knowledge is the greatest ignorance. Of course spiritual Teachers and self-appointed Gurus from East and West will never tell you that. Spirituality and religions are just businesses where people teach, sell and copyright the false as Truth. A spiritual person is only good to entice and confuse Seekers to worship, believe and remain on a Seeking path. Concerned about themselves they will screw people with a smile on their face in the name of God and Freedom. Any spiritual Guru or religious person of any denomination is not your friend but the greatest illusion. Understanding alone is Realizing, not becoming or attaining anything. After all, Freedom is always here, why should anyone Seek it? Seeking Freedom is paradoxically the only bondage. Understanding is all. If you found yourself here because you are Seeking self-improvement and to improve your life and your affairs, then you are in the wrong place. You are better off finding yourself a Shrink, a Guru, a Priest or a Book to make you feel better about yourself. Here I only point to consciousness, just this and nothing else. That you live or die in misery is only your problem. If your only desire is to know your real self, then you are in the right place. Again the key word is 'knowing'. Know thyself. Not becoming or acquiring anything new.

People want to see God as something new but it is impossible.Consciousness cannot be seen. One cannot see God i.e. consciousness as a 'thing' but simply see it's natural expression as Life itself.

Just like someone cannot see the wind but only see it's expression. Life is the natural expression of consciousness i.e. God. Consciousness is the Living God. Everything is no-thing. Reality is all a paradox. It all works in reverse. Therefore to look for true consciousness is to always look away from true consciousness. As an example of this paradox, the Reality or true consciousness is not what that can be seen but the Seer. The Reality or true consciousness is not what is heard but the Hearer.Not what is thought but the Thinker present. Not what is felt or experienced but the Experiencer or the Knower. Consciousness is the witness of all things. Everything is always attached to me, myself and 'I'. Who is present and aware of this and that? 'I' is or 'I' am of course. The Reality is your own self which is the 'I' that is the witness of all natural activities. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You are the Self or consciousness itself this very moment.The I' is that consciousness itself. The One without a second is 'you'.You are that. Therefore when you look for it, you are looking away from it. When you Seek it you turn away from it even more. That is the funny paradox. You already are what you Seek to find. To the veiled and the ignorant Seeker the 'I' or one's own everyday self is foolishly believed to be a finite Self or ego. The 'I' is what the Infinite Self or consciousness simply is. The 'I' present is the natural activity of knowing. The 'I' and the Father or the Lord are One and the same presence of consciousness. That is all. Here and now you are that. God or the Lord or the Infinite Self is me, myself and 'I'. Nothing new, nothing spiritual or special. God is the plain good ol' you. The Self you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Say 'IIIIIII'! See that is what God truly is. The 'I' is that. Closer to you than your own breath. The Seeker is the Sought. God is

you. That is the only difference between the wise and the ignorant. Between a so called Jnani and Ajnani. Only stupidity and ignorance is removed, Wisdom alone is Freedom. Know thyself and you know God to be you. Me, myself and 'I' is not different from the Lord. That is the Open Secret shared by the wise for millennia. Thou art that or the 'I' is that. Same, same. The 'I' and the Self are One, no difference whatsoever. Call off the Search. Here and now you are already that. Nothing different. Being oneself is always being the Real Self. There is nothing new to be acquired. Ignorance is the only culprit. Know the truth about yourself. Get rid of ignorance and voila. Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord . ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Life is another name for God and God is just another name for Life. This presence of existence common to all is consciousness.Breathing is consciousness present as Life itself. The unseen Living power and intelligence present within the body that we call Life is this consciousness itself or God. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ Consciousness or God is beating your heart, breathing you, feeding and changing all the cells in your body, digesting your food, growing your hair and finger nails and seeing through your eyes this very moment. Here and now you are that. You are Life itself expressing itself, God or He. That is all. Thou art that. Existence is the Reality. Nothing spiritual, religious or holy about being. Alive-ness, being-ness, 'I' am-ness. Life, consciousness or God is the natural state of being or existence common to all. God present is 'I' am. After all, who doesn't know God? Who doesn't know and say 'I' am? Everybody knows 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Consciousness is God. 'I' am is God. Call off the Search. What are you looking for? If you are looking for God. Stop Seeking and have a look at your own plain ordinary everyday self and you have found it. Say 'I' am to yourself, see! You undeniably know that you are and you like it. Consciousness is 'I' am. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ No one can deny or negate one's own self. 'I' am is always with you. In no circumstance can you deny your own being or existence and say 'I' do not exist or 'I' am not. 'I' am is always certain. 'I' exist is the obvious. One's own being-ness or 'I' am-ness or existence needs no proof. God is always present within your own dwelling as Life itself. Why should anyone Seek it? The Reality is at once being and consciousness. What are you looking for? Illusion or Reality? Only spiritual and religious people Seek a ficticious God.Simply because they are idiots. Only an ignorant person or a fool believes that God is anything other than Life itself. Ignorance is bondage. Brainwashed Seekers foolishly look for something new, spiritual, different or special and always miss it by Seeking it. If you want to be free. Get to know your real self. It has no form, no appearance, no root, no basis, no abode,but is lively and buoyant. Therefore when you look for it, you become further from it. When you seek it, you turn away from it all the more. ~ Linji ~ It is like a Fish inside the Ocean Searching everywhere for the Ocean. Freedom is already here. It is nothing new or different. Simply being alive is the Reality. That is all. Consciousness is not a new state. It is what you always are naturally. It is 'I' am. It is being yourself. Being alive and conscious everyday is the Reality. That is all there is to realize. Consciousness present is lively and buoyant. Existence is consciousness. It is pure awareness of being. That is the Open Secret Self-shining in plain sight. Existence is the Divine. To be or not to be? What effort do you have to make to be?

The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Being is the experience. One's own existence is the Sought-after Truth. What is Lost? The experience is here and now. God is Life itself. Being alive is being God. The natural state of being. To know the Self or consciousness to simply be Life itself is to know the Truth. The spiritual and religious Seeker believes the false to be true and the simple Truth to be false. Another paradox. Spiritual and religious people are paradoxically the most ignorant of all. That is just the way it is. Not knowing the simple Truth but paradoxically veiled by their acquired spiritual and religious concepts and beliefs. That is all a spiritual or religious person truly is, an ignorant veiled person, a foolish believer or blind Sheepo. These people are so veiled, that they have no clue whatsoever what the word 'God' simply represents. Even when they are told the simple Truth about 'God', they do not want the Truth to be true. Attachment and Love for the false or illusion is so strong, that nothing can help them. If one wants to be Free, one must forget all about religions and spirituality and simply understand what is being pointed to as one's true nature or consciousness. That is the trade off. Paradoxically someone cannot be spiritual or religious and know the Reality. One goes against the other. There is no God and you. You are God or consciousness itself. You already are the One without two. Spirituality and religions are simply illusion and being alive and aware is in fact being the Self and the Reality. Spirituality and religions are always acquired when consciousness or Life is that which always is present with oneself. One is pure garbage or bull crap and the other is simply the undeniable actuality of being alive and aware or sentient. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~

So near and so dear is the Reality. Consciousness is the most plain and ordinary. Only ignorance is to be removed. An ordinary person is already a 'Buddha' and a Buddha' is nothing other than an ordinary person. Know yourself to be consciousness itself by simply being alive and aware of being and you know God. Consciousness is nothing new, spiritual or special but simply the fact of your own being. Are you alive? Are you aware? There you go sport! That is IT. God is that 'I' am you know so well. 'I' exist is the Reality. As they say, 'I' think therefore 'I' am. How many thoughts can you be aware of, if you are not present and aware or conscious? Don't you see? The 'I' must be present first and foremost in order to be aware of anything else. 'I' am is first hand and needs no proof. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ 'I' am is always first hand as primary consciousness. Awareness of being oneself is therefore the absolute Reality. God is 'I' exist. That is what 'I' am represents. Awareness of being. Therefore one's own existence is the Divine. That is all there is to realize about one's own self. That 'I' am represents at once being and consciousness. Know that 'I' am is God and voila! The Search for the Self that was never lost is over. What else do you want? Be content what you are sure of right here and now and that is 'I' exist. Awareness of being is bliss. Existence is the same as true happiness, pure joy or bliss. So simple and subtle. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ That is what the fuss is all about. That is what so called self-Real-'I'zation is all about. All about being. Existence is the Lord or God. That is IT. Laugh! We call this Divine Beauty Life. That is the so called "Diamond in your pocket". Simple ordinary everyday existence is the Sought-after Truth. You cannot kiss this Beauty. How can you kiss yourself on your own lips?

No one denies ones own existence any more than one denies ones eyes, although one cannot see them. The trouble lies with your desire to objectify the Self (consciousness), in the same way as you objectify your eyes when you place a mirror before them. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The 'I' cannot see itself. One's own plain ordinary everyday affectionate self is the true Self. The 'I' is the Lord. Funny paradox isn't it? Thou art that. Tat tvam Asi. The 'I' is that. Know thyself. To know yourself is so easy. Who ever said it was hard or difficult? It is simplicity itself. Another paradox. Realize that you are already that anyhow. Nothing new or different whatsoever. That is all there is to realize. Nothing new, spiritual, special or different to acquire or to add on to oneself for the Reality to be. Look at yourself here and now. Look at your own being. Are you alive? Yes! Voila! Present-awareness. Present here and now as sentience. Consciousness present is the knowing that you are present. If you know that you are not dead or un-conscious then you are undeniably awake and aware of being. The experience is simply being alive and awake from sleep. Nothing new or special about being. That is IT. What are you waiting for when being yourself is itself the experience? So simple! What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The Reality is you are. Consciousness present is 'I' am. Being alive and aware is at once being yourself and being the Self, He, the Reality or God.Same, same. Therefore the Sought-after Truth is not found by Seeking it, simply because paradoxically the Seeker is the Sought. Only by understanding that the veil of ignorance is removed. That understanding or realization is called Freedom.

Wisdom is Freedom. To know thyself doesn't mean to reach, attain or become anything new. Know your true nature or real Self by simply removing the camouflage of ignorance. Only to remove ignorance with understanding is the end of all Seeking paths. After all, what you Seek is what you are this very moment naturally. Life or alive-ness is the undeniable Reality. What else did you expect the Self, He or God to be? It is that 'I' am you know so well as your own being. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ To know one's true nature, no time or effort is required. Only understanding is necessary to remove the veil of ignorance. Know that no spiritual practice or religious ritual will ever bring upon Freedom. Simply because all spiritual and religious concepts are only for idiots told by liars and con artists. Want to know God? So easy. Look at yourself. Are you alive? Are you aware? That is IT. That is what God truly is. God is that 'I' am you know so well. God is nothing else but this awareness of being. Knowing that you are or 'I' am is God. One's own plain ordinary everyday self is God. 'I' am-ness is consciousness. One's own being-ness, 'I' am-ness or ordinary existence is the Soughtafter Truth and the Real-'I'-ty. Everything else you have heard, read or have been told by religious people, Sages, Jnanis and Gurusis crap. False, lies, deception and ignorance told by con artists and professional liars pretending to be spiritual and holy. The Sought-after Truth is nothing new, spiritual or religious but paradoxically the most plain, common and ordinary. All religious and spiritual concepts, beliefs and ideology have only been created for power and political control. There is no Truth in any main stream religions either for all are truly Sectarian in nature and in fact dualistic as the most dividing and greatest cause of suffering in the history of this planet. A paradox.

These foolish beliefs in an ideology of a fictitious God or Gods that do not exist have nowadays been widely accepted as main stream religions around the world, where veiled ignorant people turn to, pray and will worship the false or illusion believing it to be true. Never questioning what is Reality. That is all a religion simply is. Just this and nothing else. Just another Cult or Sect with a spiritual leader, prophet or Guru that ignorant people foolishly worship and follow blindly to nowhere. Spirituality and religions cannot help you for Freedom. It is impossible. Question your acquired spiritual and religious beliefs simply because they are all false. Saints and Sages, Prophets and Buddhas are all imposters. How can anyone get the truth from liars? That is paradoxically why ignorant spiritual people desperately Seek and wait for Freedom to happen some day. Religions and spirituality is the poison, not the cure. All that spiritual and religious garbage acquired from holy books and others pretending to be holy does not help someone know the simple Truth about God but paradoxically foolishly always looking away from the Sought-after Truth and God. That is the funny paradox. If you want to be a blind Sheepo and spend your entire Life miserably Seeking Freedom, adopt a Religion or a Guru. Freedom is not to be found by Seeking something new, spiritual or religious but paradoxically only by removing ignorance and getting rid of all spiritual and religious concepts. Freedom is always here. Only knowing the simple Truth about 'I' am is Freedom. That is all. Know thyself. Nothing spiritual is to be freshly acquired. Everybody knows and says 'I' am. Know that 'I' am is God. Freedom is not something new, special or different to be gained. Removing ignorance is Freedom. It is very easy but paradoxically veiled ignorant Seekers do not want easy. A strange paradox. As they say, one can take a horse to water but cannot make him drink. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Only removing ignorance is Freedom. Nothing else. There is no Grace of God, no holy transmissions, no becoming, no achieving,

no reaching or attaining anything new, different or special and most of all, spiritual or religious. If Freedom could ever be acquired as anything new, spiritual or special it will only be illusion, take it for granted. Who is bound? Remove ignorance and voila! Freedom is already here, it is not to be achieved. How do you remove ignorance? Simple, by understanding was is being pointed to as one's true nature. Understanding is the best medicine, some call understanding the Bid's way, others the Short Cut to Freedom. No time and no effort is required for Freedom. It is already here. That is the Open Secret. Thou art already that. Only understanding is required to remove the false notion of being bound. Get to know your own everyday self. Who is not aware of himself? Everybody knows that they are. 'I' am is always first hand.Me, myself and 'I' is the Self. Awareness of being oneself is 'I' am. Know yourself or that 'I' am you know so well as your own self is in fact God. Not some holy 'I' am-ness or spiritual being-ness but paradoxically the plain good ol' ordinary everyday you. That is the Open Secret Shining in plain view. Gee! yoU aRe yoU. What does someone get from Freedom? Nothing new or different whatsoever! Only the false notion of being bound is removed with understanding. That is all Freedom simply is. No biggy. Nothing was ever lost to begin with. The Self is your own everyday self, only ignorance is the cause of all mischief. One could ask; "What is the point then if you get absolutely nothing new or different from Freedom?" Well you at least know your true nature and therefore you call off the Search for the Self that was never lost, that is a plus. You know yourself to be the imperishable Self, ignorance and the false notion of bondage vanishes. To know your real nature only self-investigation and understanding what is being pointed to, is all that is required. If you get the right pointers or the correct address so to speak, you will easily realize that you already are and have always been what you Seek and therefore already at the destination you have paradoxically never left. The Self you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten

foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What are you looking for? You already are what you Seek or what you Seek is what you are this very moment. Either way, the simple Truth will always point right back at your own everyday self. Look at yourself. You are that. There is no becoming anything new. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Just get rid of ignorance. The removal of ignorance with understanding is itself Freedom.Nothing else. Unless you understand that simply being alive and aware everyday is consciousness, the Self or God. You will falsely believe yourself to be a finite separate self or ego that is Seeking to become whole and complete. Veiled by ignorance only, you will always paradoxically and foolishly look away from your real self, which is you. What you Seek is your own self. Being alive is consciousness. Being awake or aware is this consciousness itself. That is all there is to understand, to recognize or realize. Lively and buoyant, it is pure awareness of being. Do not be fooled by falsely believing that consciousness is silence or space, because it is not. Consciousness is pure being. Existence is consciousness itself. We call this unseen presence of existence Life. Therefore one's own self, being and existence is the Divine. Living-ness, existence or conscious-ness is alive-ness. One's true nature is consciousness i.e. Life. You are Life itself. Being alive is itself the experience. That is IT. If you are alive and aware of being, you are so called 'Enlightened'. Being alive and aware is being IT. All there is present is always consciousness. Nothing else exists but this. Present as oneself. Consciousness present is 'I' am. Whoever said that the Self, the Reality or this consciousness was anything new, anything special, spiritual or far away? Being alive is consciousness. God is Life itself.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Wisdom is Freedom. The greatest Wisdom is that Freedom cannot be found by Seeking it or by looking to any religions or spirituality. If it is religious, spiritual or special in nature it is in fact false, fiction, illusion and crap. Just this and nothing else. Why Seek illusion when the Reality is already present within one's own dwelling and self-shining as one's own self? The one who believes in God is veiled.There never was and never will be a true God of religion. Just a myth. If someone is stupid enough to foolishly believe that by worshipping someone else will bring upon Freedom. Oops. Foolish people are religious people, mostly superstitious and fearful of a fictitious God born of old myths and stories. There never were holy beings walking the Earth. Only within people's false ideologies because religions are illusion. Spirituality and religions from East and West are only for blind and ignorant Sheepos. Just this and nothing else. There is absolutely no Truth in any religions, spiritual doctrines or dogmas etc, but paradoxically only lies. If you want to be a dumb ignorant fool then turn to spirituality and religions, that is guaranteed. Paradoxically if you want to be Free. Turn within by having a good look at your own self. Not hidden far away but paradoxically always present closer than close. The Truth is you. You are that. Liberation is our very nature. We are that. The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Only by understanding that the veil of ignorance is removed. Didn't anyone tell you that simple Truth? Perhaps you have turn to false Buddhas or self-appointed religious Gurus and spiritual Teachers that were in fact more concerned about themselves, then to tell this simple Truth to the earnest Seeker. After all, the honest pointer knows you need nothing for Freedom, but to only remove ignorance. That is all.

Don't you know by now that no one can ever become Free by striving to become Free? It all works in reverse. The effort is itself the bondage. Only removing ignorance with understanding is real Freedom. That is the simple Wisdom shared throughout the millennia.Get to know your real Self. Know the simple Truth about yourself and that self realization alone sets you Free from the false idea or false notion of bondage. Who told you that you were not already Free anyhow? Have a good laugh at yourself. Only remove the veil of ignorance with understanding and voila. That is what Freedom is all about. The experience is always here and now. Being alive and awake from sleep or aware is being the Reality. That is the Open Secret to Freedom. Thou art that already. Nothing new, special, spiritual or holy about the Reality. The Reality is not some holy or spiritual presence or anything special. But paradoxically the plain good ol' you. Be still and know that 'I' am is God. Have a look. Get to know your real self. What remains present if you pause thoughts? Isn't there an obvious, natural, plain ordinary and subtle unchanging and undeniable awareness of being present as yourself? Only thoughts disappear for a few moments. In other words you didn't stop being aware of being yourself. Look at your true nature. Did you stop Seeing? Did you stop hearing? Of course not! Awareness always remains present regardless of thoughts or no thoughts. Unchanging like the Sky. Thoughts are just like passing clouds always coming and going but unchanging awareness or the Real 'you' always remain present and unchanging. You are that awareness. In that simple pause or ordinary moment of mental stillness you simply remain present and aware. You are that. That is your thoughtless Reality. Abiding effortlessly as pure awareness or the Self. As God itself if you like. Awareness is the natural activity of being aware. Being cognizant is your true nature. This plain ordinary everyday natural activity of being aware is at once being yourself and being God.

You are awareness. There is no difference whatsoever between you. Awareness is just another name for you. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Remove the veil of ignorance. Understand what is simply being pointed to as your true nature. Once you realize that God is nothing spiritual but just a fancy name for being alive and aware, you laugh at yourself. So near and so dear. So ordinary. So familiar. Be still and voila! You are that presence of awareness itself. Never changing, coming or going anywhere. Awareness is pure changeless being. Awareness is nothing new, nothing spiritual, religious or far away. Awareness is simply being yourself naturally everyday. That is all it simply is. To be aware is awareness. Awareness is not a thought. Awareness is pure changeless being. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ All that is required to know the Self or one's thoughtless true nature to be unchanging awareness is to be still. Be still and voila! Being aware is God or the Self. That is your thoughtless true nature. So simple. The natural state. Nothing special about being aware or awareness. Aware-ness is simply being just as you are right here and right now and have always been naturally. Being aware and remaining aware is simply being yourself naturally. Just this present awareness is to be recognized. Freedom has nothing to do with anything special or some fictitious spiritual or religious states. Freedom is to simply recognize one's natural state of being alive and aware everyday to be the Infinite Self. There is nothing spiritual you have to do for Freedom. Make no effort. No practice. No mediation, no mantra or prayer, etc. Just be still and voila! You are there. Being and remaining aware is being the Self or God. Make no effort, your effort is the bondage. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier

than that? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ It is all so simple and so effortless that paradoxically it is the only difficulty. Ignorance is the only culprit and the only false notion of bondage. The Reality is always present here and now. So near and so dear. The only trouble is not knowing how close, familiar, plain and ordinary the Reality simply is. You are and have always been what you Seek to know. Nothing different or special is to be freshly acquired. Only ignorance is to be removed with understanding to know thyself. That is all that is required. There is nothing new, nothing spiritual or religious whatsoever to accomplish for Freedom. Just understand. Wisdom alone is Freedom. Flush all and any spiritual and religious concepts and beliefs down the toilet. Understanding is Realizing.That is IT. That is the Open Secret to Freedom. Just this and nothing else. Not striving to reach, attain or become anything new, different, spiritual, religious or special. Spiritual and religious Seekers are paradoxically the most ignorant of all. They are so brainwashed, stuck to their religious and spiritual ways, veiled by their acquired spiritual beliefs and religious doctrines. Programmed to worship the false and Seek illusion, that unfortunately nothing can help them. I laugh when I hear that self-appointed Teachers, spiritual Gurus and religious people will even charge veiled and ignorant Seekers a donation or a fee for Freedom. Some will even sell silence to the dumbest of all. How funny. Realisation is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ See the false as false. Remove the veil and camouflage of ignorance. Only understanding is required. Wisdom is Freedom. If you were told silence had anything to do with the Reality you were lied to. If some idiot pretending to be holy told you to keep quiet your were con by a false Buddha.

The Self, He, the Reality, the Oneness or God will never be what veiled spiritual Seekers would expect Reality to be. Ignorant people Seeking the Reality have acquired a false notion or wrong idea of what the Reality simply is. The Reality is nothing new, nothing spiritual or special. But paradoxically the most plain, simple and ordinary. Being alive and aware of being oneself everyday naturally is the Reality.Thou art that already. Nothing new. Only the false notion of being bound is bondage. That is all bondage simply is. Just a false notion. Understanding that being oneself is the Sought-after Truth is all that is required. That what is called Freedom. There is no becoming or achieving anything new. Only ignorance is to be removed with understanding. That simple understanding or realization is itself called Freedom from all bondage. Know the truth! That is all that is required to remove ignorance. Paradoxically the one who believes in God cannot know God. To know the Truth one must be 'Godless'. Having no religious beliefs of any kind is a must. Open to simplicity and empty of any religious conditioning, concepts and beliefs. Simply because any religion and spirituality are the poison not the cure. There are no spiritual or religious fictitious God or Gods present anywhere anyhow.There never was. There is only a Living presence that we call Life or consciousness i.e. the imperishable eternal Self and the Reality. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Consciousness is beating your heart and shining through your eyes. The Sought-after Reality is consciousness and consciousness present is Life itself. Plain good ol' ordinary existence is the Self. That is the Oneness present in all sentient beings. To know 'I' am to be consciousness itself and therefore one's true nature is Freedom. Consciousness present is simply the knowing that you are present.Same, same. Awareness of being. Thus the answer to who am 'I', is 'I' am. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

Consciousness is God. God is 'I' am. Being conscious is this presence of consciousness itself. That is all. Nothing religious or spiritual whatsoever about being aware and remaining aware. 'I' am is plain and ordinary everyday being-ness. Everybody alive is already the imperishable Self and ever-Free. Paradoxically the spiritual or religious Seeker simply doesn't know it. Have a look at your true nature. Forget everything for a moment. Voila! You are there. You remain present and aware. Simple changeless being is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Did you know that to know one's eternal true nature is super duper simplicity? What is one's true nature? Simple! Consciousness AKA Life is everyone's true nature. Is it something new, perhaps spiritual or hidden far away?Nope! Therefore where can you find this Living-ness or presence of consciousness? It is so near and so dear. Turn within. Look at yourself. Look at your own existence. Are you alive and aware of being? That is IT! Consciousness is indeed present because 'I' am. Consciousness present is the knowing that you are present or pure awareness of being. In other words to simply be alive and aware of being oneself is consciousness itself. That is what the fuss is truly all about. Nothing new, spiritual or special. Simply being what you have always been and are naturally. Say 'I' am to yourself. See! You undeniably know that you are and you like it. Awareness of being is bliss. To be conscious is conscious-ness. So simple. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Who is not aware of being? Existence is the so called "Diamond in your pocket". Existence is being. Is there anyone alive who is not aware of himself? Each one knows the Self.

Note that the word Self or God are only other names for consciousness, for existence, for Life. God or the Self is nothing religious, special or spiritual. That foolish belief is only for idiots. God or the Self is Life itself. That is the Secret shining in plain sight. It doesn't matter what name you call Life. Call it God, the Self or consciousness. What needs to be understood is that this God or Self is only the core of one's own being or existence. Call it by any name, God, Self, the heart or the seat of consciousness, it is all the same. The point to be grasped is that this heart means the very core of ones being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ 'I' am is always first hand. Primary consciousness is 'I' am. That is the knowing that you are. Un-conscious there is no 'I' am. You must be present first and foremost as 'I' am or consciousness in order to be aware or witnessing all natural activities. Consciousness present is the witness of all things. Consciousness present is the true Thinker, the true Seer, the true Hearer, the true Knower etc. He (consciousness) is the unseen seer, the unheard hearer, the unthought thinker. There is no other seer but He. No other hearer but He. No other thinker but He. No other knower but He. He is yourself.The inner controller, the immortal, the imperishable. ~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad~ You are He. Rejoice! He is yourself. You are consciousness itself this very moment. Here and now you are that. 'I' am is that consciousness itself. That is all that needs to be understood, realized or recognized about one's true nature. You and consciousness are One and the same presence of existence. Who are you? 'I' am that 'I' am and voila! 'I' am is first hand and needs no proof. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Consciousness present is 'I' am. Present awareness or awareness of being present is 'I' am. God or the Self is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well.

Being is consciousness. The Self-Realization is that 'I' exist. The 'I' is the Lord. No one can deny one's own existence and say 'I' do not exist or 'I' am not. That is all. Freedom is so simple. Nothing new or special about being. Existence is the Divine. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ After all, all you can be sure of right now is 'I' exist or 'I' am. Life or consciousness present is the undeniable knowing that you are. Freedom is super duper simplicity that it is all like a cosmic Joke. Sooo simple. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ You are what you Seek this very moment. You are that. There is nothing new to be freshly acquired. The Seeker is the Sought. The Sought-after Truth is you are or 'I' am. Say 'I' am. See! That is IT. It is yourself. 'I' am is always with you. You cannot negate that knowing that you are and say 'I' am not. The Open Secret is that being yourself is always being the Self i.e consciousness. Nothing new, nothing different, spiritual, religious or holy. Consciousness is just another name for 'you'. The plain ordinary everyday 'you' is that 'I' am you know and the Self. Everybody knows and says 'I' am. Nothing new. Yet that is the so called Self-Real-'I'-zation. To simply realize that 'I' am is the Lord, He, the Self. Not some foolish holy or spiritual Godly B.S 'I' am. Simply 'I' am as the plain good ol' ordinary everyday you Always remember that spiritual or religious concepts about God, Reality or the Self are the poison not the cure. Know that the true Self is nothing other than the 'I' present in 'I' am. Here and now 'you' are that or Thou art that. Let foolish religious and spiritual people 'Believe' what they will, who cares!They are only worshipping illusion. This is all and only about 'Knowing' yourself by removing ignorance. Not believing spiritual crap to be true.

Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Who am 'I'? What is 'I'? What is my true nature? You are consciousness itself. You are He, you are That, you are the Self. Here and now you are the One without a second. God or the Self is me, myself and 'I'. You are egoless, formless consciousness itself. The Self is yourself. No duality or separation. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Always remember that Freedom is not about becoming anything new, spiritual or gain special faculties. You do not acquire anything new that you do not have already. You already are the Self anyhow. An ordinary person is already a 'Buddha' and a 'Buddha' is simply an ordinary person. Nothing different or special. There are no special holy beings and Enlightened people that have walked, walking or ever will walk the Earth. That is only spiritual crap given to imbeciles to foolishly believe the false to be true and worship illusion. After all, only veiled Sheepos follow Religions. But Freedom is nothing spiritual, religious or special. Freedom is simply about removing ignorance.That is all Freedom simply is. Wisdom is Freedom. Knowing one's real identity with self-inquiry. One must question, inquire, investigate to remove the 'veil' and get to know the Truth about oneself. Not become anything new. The one who waits for Freedom only dies ignorant. It is just the way Life is. The Self-Realization is that me, myself and 'I' is the Lord. That is all. No two selves ever existed. Thou art that. Me, myself and 'I' is the Infinite Self. The One without two. The imperishable Self is the 'I' present in 'I' am. Ignorant people foolishly believe that the 'I' is ego or a finite self when in fact the 'I' is the Infinite Self. A funny paradox. They won't tell you that simple Truth in holy Books, Satsangs, Ashrams, Churches and Temples. That simple Truth about true consciousness can only be discovered by turning within. Nowhere else. Get to know you. Know Thyself. So near and so dear. Simply turn within toward that 'I' am

you already know so well as your own affectionate everyday self. That is IT. All blessings come from within. Turn within. To that 'I' am you know. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Gee! yoU aRe yoU. You already are that which you Seek to know. Therefore the so called Self-Realization is 'I' am that 'I' am. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Everybody knows and says 'I' am. Nothing new, spiritual or special about being. 'I' am is being. 'I' am is Life. 'I' am is consciousness. 'I' am, 'I' am, 'I' am. Voila! 'I' am that 'I' am. That is all there is to Realize. Consciousness present is 'I' am present. Same, same. No difference whatsoever. 'I' am is always abiding as your true nature if you like. Knowing that you are present is consciousness. Knowing that you are present is the undeniable fact of your own being. 'I' am is at once being and consciousness. Not some holy or spiritual 'I' am but the good ol' plain ordinary everyday boring you, 'I' am. 'I' am is the presence of consciousness or Life that is undeniably present within your own dwelling or body. Just like a light bulb cannot shine without electricity. 'I' am represents the Living Power within the body. The Living intelligence and presence of existence which is consciousness itself i.e., Life. Consciousness is the core of your own being. You are this Living-ness, conscious-ness or 'I' am-ness. God, He, the Atman, the Lord, Reality or the Self is simply that 'I' am you know so well as your own everyday self. You are that 'I' am. The Self or the Reality is at once being and consciousness. You are that consciousness itself. It is 'I' am. No consciousness, no you. No consciousness present no 'I' am present. Consciousness is indeed present because everybody knows 'I' am. Nothing new! Everybody knows and says 'I' am this or 'I' am that all day long. 'I' am is being oneself.

'I' am is always with you. Only wrong identification with the body is the cause of all mischief, that is all. There is no one that does not say 'I' am. The wrong knowledge of 'I' am the body is the cause of all mischief. This wrong knowledge must go. That is the Realization. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ It is all so simple. That is the funny paradox. Of course if you are a religious or spiritual idiot you will only Seek some fantasy or imaginary Reality. But if you are wise then you will only Seek true consciousness. Not as anything new or special but as your true nature. The Open Secret is that being conscious is this consciousness itself. What about that! Isn't it being conscious or being aware and remaining aware the most plain and most common, ordinary presence you have always been and are? What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The Self, He, the Reality is consciousness. What effort do you have to make to be conscious or aware? Being aware or aware-ness is always abiding as one's thoughtless true nature. Another name for the Self or the presence of awareness is sentience. The waking state is the state of pure being that is always experienced directly by everybody. So ordinary. So plain and therefore so common that most people overlook the most obvious. Being aware. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The Self is awareness.What is awareness? Being aware! Being awake from sleep is cognizance or sentience. That is the Self. Funny no! What else did you foolishly believe was being pointed to as your thoughtless true nature? That is IT! So simple. Knowing that you are aware and remain aware all day long is awareness. That is the presence of awareness itself simply being pointed to as the thoughtless Reality. Being aware is aware-ness. Who ever said the Self was anything new, spiritual or special?

Awareness is already here, paradoxically closer to you than your own breath! Again have a look at yourself. Are you un-conscious or conscious right now? Are you aware of being aware? Yes! Voila! You are therefore abiding as your true nature. What else do you want the Self, He, the Reality or everyone's true nature to be? A blazing light? Consciousness is present in all and known to all as 'I' am. The natural state of pure being or existence we call Life. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You gain absolutely nothing for Freedom.Why should you?You are the Self already. Only ignorance is removed, that is all Freedom simply is. So simple. What is born must die. Your body lives and surely will die but Life doesn't care. You are the essence or presence of Life itself. Consciousness is no-thing. Just like when a light bulb breaks, electricity itself doesn't care. Therefore do not hold on to the 'light bulb' for it must eventually expirebut get to know the real eternal presence of existence and unseen Living power to be this consciousness itself. So near and so dear. Consciousness or Life is nothing new to anyone alive. Look at your own existence. Aren't you alive and aware of being? That is IT. What can be more obvious and precious, what can be simpler and easier than that? Aren't you alive and aware of being anyhow? Look at yourself here and now! 'I' am is certain. Voila! Consciousness present is that 'I' am you know so well already. Nothing new or special. But so plain and so ordinary. Here and now you are that. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Aren't you laughing at yourself yet? After all, it is all a Joke! How can you kiss yourself on your own lips? You yourself are what you have been looking for all along.Funny no!

Nothing new, nothing whatsoever religious, spiritual or special is to be freshly acquired. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be or not to be? 'I' am or 'I' am not? 'I' exist or 'I' do not exist? Which one are you certain of, that needs absolutely no proof? 'I' exist, 'I' am is certain of course. No one can deny one's own being. Everybody knows and says 'I' am. One's own being is the Sought-after Truth. The Search starts and the Search ends with you. Plain good ol' everyday you. Nothing new is to be found when you are the Self that was never lost. Call off the Search. The Search is the trap. Only understanding this consciousness to simply be the presence of Life itself is Freedom. Didn't anyone tell you? There is no becoming, no attaining or achieving anything new. There never was. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Here and now you are that. There is nothing to practice. There is nothing is to be reached or to be freshly acquired for Freedom. Bondage is only psychological. Spirituality and religions are the poison not the cure.Do yourself a favor and flush all that crap down the toilet. Only understanding that the natural activity of being alive and aware is the Self or consciousness itself is Freedom. Free yourself from ignorance only. Know the simple Truth about your own plain ordinary everyday self. Just this and nothing else is all that is simply necessary for Freedom. After all, the Self you Seek to know is your own self. The Self you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Call off the Search! What is lost and what is in desperate need to be found when the Seeker is in fact the Sought? Isn't it funny? Thou art that or Gee yoU aRe yoU. Therefore you can only look away from it when you Seek it. The Seeker is the Sought. Same, same. One cannot become, reach or attain anything new, spiritual or special.That is the funny paradox! You already are and have always been naturally all along the Self you Seek to know. Nothing was ever lost. Only remove ignorance. That alone is Freedom. You, being the Self, want to knowhow to attain the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Understanding alone is Realizing. After all, there is no bondage and there is no liberation. One only imagines that there is. Just like a mirage that is illusion. For example, did you know that thinking is being the Self? That is right! There never was anything wrong whatsoever with thinking. That is the Open Secret. Thinking is being the Self. Therefore nothing is wrong anymore. Do not try to keep quiet. Do not try to practice, meditate or strive for stillness or silence. Just be yourself just as you are. He or consciousness is the Thinker present anyhow. The One without two. Therefore why worry? Understanding this is Freedom from psychological suffering. Forget everything you have been told by spiritual Teachers and religious Gurus. It is all garbage only used to entice and confuse Seekers. Freedom is easy. That is the funny Paradox. You are already Free. Understanding is all that is necessary. Remove ignorance only.Understanding this consciousness is so easy. Just this is necessary. That is all the so called Realization is truly all about. No practice, time or effort. Just remove ignorance by understanding consciousness. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You gain absolutely nothing new for Freedom. Zip. Zero. Nada! Only ignorance is removed with understanding. Freedom is so simple.

No Teaching, no Guru, no practice, no time or effort is required whatsoever. Freedom is very easy. So simple is Freedom that it is laughable. Just simple understanding is Freedom. Just this and nothing else. Ignorant of this simple truth, innumerable methods under different denominations, such as yoga, bhakti, karma, each again with many modifications, are being taught with great skill and in intricate detail only to entice the seekers and confuse their minds. So also are the religions and sects and dogmas. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ That is the Open Secret to Freedom from all bondage that paradoxically all spiritual and religious people pretending to be special, spiritual and holy do not want the earnest Seekers to know. Do nothing! Make no effort! Only remove ignorance. Wisdom is Freedom. Understanding is all. Understanding alone is Freedom.That is all. Not striving to become, to reach or attain anything new. That is paradoxically bondage to ignorance. After all, no matter what you do for Freedom it will only and solely perpetuate the false notion and illusion of separation, duality and bondage. That you can take for granted or to the bank. The Self is consciousness. Consciousness present is Life. That is all this consciousness truly is. The so called 'Living God' is simply Life itself. If you know that you are alive it is paradoxically because consciousness or Life is itself present. Present awareness is 'I' am. Therefore 'I' am alive is Life itself. 'I' am is consciousness. 'I' am is God. The Self, consciousness or Life is God. He is life itself. Therefore 'I' am is God. One's own existence is the Divine. The Self is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Lord is me, myself and 'I'. How simple is that? You are formless, egoless consciousness this very moment. You are He. You are that. Consciousness present or the Lord is that 'I' am you know so well as your very own self and being.

You are the One without a second already. You are already the Reality. That is the Secret. You are He. Isn't that funny! You are and have always been the One, the Self and ever-Free. The false notion or idea of being bound alone is bondage. That is all that needs to be removed. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Understanding is Freedom. While the ignorant, the stupid and the dumb waits for Freedom,the wise understands. That is the Secret and the 'trick' to Freedom. Some call understanding the Bird's way or Short cut to Freedom. Only ignorance is to be removed, just this and nothing else is Freedom. Understanding is all. The Natural State. Being alive and being awake from sleep everyday is everyone's natural state of being or existence. That undeniable activity of living-ness, being-ness or 'I' am-ness is always abiding as one's true nature. The ultimate Truth is so simple. Being alive is the natural state of being common to all that is always experienced directly by everybody as plain ordinary everyday existence. After all, no one can deny one's own being. Everybody knows and everybody says 'I' am. One's own affectionate undeniable plain ordinary everyday existence is the Divine. We call this affectionate immutable presence of Life, existence or consciousness, God, the Divine, the Infinite Self, He, the Lord, the Atman, the Oneness, the Reality, etc. Just many different names are used to point to this exact same presence of existence. Some will call this simple realization Enlightenment, others Freedom. Of course nothing new, spiritual or special is freshly acquired. Only ignorance is removed.

Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Ignorance is the only culprit and the only false notion or illusion of bondage. Understanding is Realizing. Wisdom is Freedom. Just this and nothing else. That is the Open Secret. The Reality is always present naturally here and now as Life itself. Most people worship the dead, while the wise realizes that being alive is being the Self, He, the Reality. The Reality is always present here and now within your own dwelling as Life, consciousness or existence. It is not to be found anywhere else but naturally present here and now as Life itself. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Don't you know that the natural activity of being or existing is God. That God is 'I' am? Don't you know that your body is Life's temple? God is simply Life itself. That is all God simply is. That is all Freedom is simply all about. Just this. Realizing that God is Life itself, there is nothing else to be realized.That is IT. What can you do with that realization that simply being oneself is in fact being the Self, He, the Reality. Nothing! Just call off the Search. Being alive is being the Self, consciousness or God. That is all. That is the Secret to God, He is Life itself. And then you stop crying over nothing. Because nothing is wrong anymore. Chop wood and carry water, nothing changes, only ignorance is removed. Ignorant people want to see the Self or God as something new, spiritual or special, but it is not. Being oneself is already being IT. Nothing new or special is to be freshly acquired. Being alive is the experience itself. Existence is the Divine. Knowing the Self (consciousness/God) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence.

No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Are you looking for some fictitious imaginary God sitting around somewhere on a cloud? That religious concept is only a spiritual carrot used to entice the ignorant to worship illusion. Life is the Self, consciousness or God. Nothing more. God is nothing new, special, spiritual or far away. Knowing that you are alive is the presence of Life itself. The Self is selfawareness or awareness of being. God is that 'I' am you know so well already.Existence is 'I' am. Be still and know that 'I' am is God. That is all. Everybody says 'I' am. The Self (consciousness) is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What is new, spiritual or so special about being? Nothing at all. That is the funny paradox.Once you get that there is nothing new to get, you finally got it. He is Life itself. Rejoice! You are He this very moment. Call off the Search. The Search alone is the trap. You are alive and therefore the Self or God itself this very moment. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ Freedom is very easy. In fact Freedom is so simple that it is laughable. Paradoxically if you are a spiritual or religious person you cannot know Freedom, it is impossible. You must throw all the spiritual and religious garbage you have acquired and carried around all these years like stinky crap stuck to your shoes down the toilet, that is a must. Forget everything and just like that you are there. What can be simpler and easier than that? Who ever said Freedom was hard or difficult? After all, did you have a good look to make sure you are really bound? Wouldn't it be funny that bondage is just like a mirage of water in the Desert? Just like the optical illusion of a blue Sky? What if there is no bondage but only Freedom?

Did you inquire? Did you ever question your beliefs? Did you investigate what is Real? Did you? On enquiry 'who' is bound? The notion of bondage vanishes and so does that of liberation. The one eternally free alone remains self-revealed. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ If you did you would be laughing at yourself. What bondage? What liberation? You are already ever-Free! Can you show me your chains? Look for them and they will not be found. That is simply how you get rid of them. The false cannot stand up to investigation. After all, only the false notion of bondage is bondage. That is all it simply is. Funny no! Bondage is all and only in one's head. All and only psychological. That is the Open Secret. I bet they don't tell you that in holy books! That is the simple Truth self-appointed Gurus and religious people do not want you to know. Like a mirage in the desert bondage is only false imagination. What binds you? Find out! We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Forget everything and voila! You have arrived at the destination you have never left. Perhaps you believed someone else outside yourself telling you that you were bound and that by doing this or doing that you will eventually become Free. If you were that stupid to foolishly believe them, you disserve to be crying over nothing. See the false as false and you have done all that needs to be done. There is no bondage and of course there is no liberation. The Seeker is the Sought. Thou art that. You already are the Self you Seek to know this very moment. That is the Secret to Freedom. You are already Free. Only the false notion of bondage is the only obstacle to Freedom. All in one's head, so funny! Get rid of the idea you have not yet Realized and you are Realized.

If you believe you are bound then you are bound. If you know you are Free then you are Free. So simple. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What about all these spiritual and religious Gurus and Teachers out there? Just people perpetuating the false notion that they have got something you do not have already. Kill the Buddha you see on the Road for it is only a Fraud. What else? Did you believed he or she was holy? Whenever you hear some stupid idiots trying to convince themselves and others that some holy Guru transmitted holy Grace or some holy Enlightened presence to them by either breathing on them or staring intensively for awhile into their eyes or putting their hand on their heads, laugh. That is just pure ignorance and foolishness speaking. Just this and nothing else. No holy Guru can ever give you anything new simply because only crap can be freshly acquired from a holy Guru, what else! The Guru cannot give you anything new, which you dont have already. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Of course self-appointed Gurus or Teachers need people's ignorance to survive. Who are the idiots that will take care of them financially? So they will tell them otherwise. They will keep enticing the simple, the weak and the dumb to foolishly believe the false to be true. Misery likes company.Spiritual and religious Seekers are just whiners that are never happy with what is. Seeking Love, Peace, happiness and all that crap, never realizing that simply being alive is being God. Being alive is the bliss of the Self. We call it Life. That is the true Beloved and the Precious. Consciousness. The stateless state of being. The Diamond present within your own dwelling is Life. What did you expect God to be?He is Life itself. Just this and nothing else.

Here is a hint.Being alive is the experience itself. One's own everyday self is the Divine. That is all that needs to be understood or Realized. You are consciousness itself. You are Life. What can you do with it? Nada, nothing whatsoever, just be what you are.Be yourself. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Just like all waves on the Ocean come and go but the Ocean always remains the same. Then one day your body will die and this consciousness remains the same. Never coming or going. Only the form disappears but the formless remains. Consciousness is the imperishable Self. The immortal. The eternal. You don't take the body with you so don't get too attached to it. It is doomed, your body has absolutely no future but food for worms or ashes. Know your Real Self to be Life itself.You are formless egoless consciousness i.e. Life. Consciousness or the Self is the Living Power and Intelligence we call Life. Paradoxically Life itself doesn't know death. The experience is always here and now. Beating your heart and shining through your eyes this very moment. It is the plain ordinary everyday witnessing presence within the body or awareness. Consciousness is that 'I' am you know so well. Nothing new, spiritual or holy about one's own being. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Can anyone deny consciousness and say 'I' do not exist? Can anyone deny the Infinite Self and say there is no one present or 'I' am not and negate one's own being? Only idiots could foolishly believe that. I' am is always certain. One's own affectionate existence needs no proof. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is

your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ 'I' am that 'I' am. To be, to exist is the Self.That is what true consciousness simply is. That is the Secret Self-shining in plain Sight all along.He is Life itself. No one can become more alive.Understanding that Life is what is truly happening and that undeniable fact of existence or actuality of Living-ness in the present moment is the only Reality is Freedom. What else do you want? There is nothing to get. You are already the Self or consciousness itself. There is nothing to achieve. There is no waiting for Freedom. You are already there. The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ God, the Reality or the Infinite Self are just different words for Life. The experience is here and now. Life is the true Self, He, the Reality or God. That is IT. Just this is the Father, the Lord, the Self, the Reality being pointed as one's true nature. 'I' am is that Life. After all, look at yourself here and now. You know that you are and you like it. Existence is the same as happiness, therefore awareness of being is bliss or happiness. The natural state of being alive and being aware of being alive is the Sought-after Truth and Reality. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Did you know that being aware or awake from sleep it to be the Self? The stateless state of being aware everyday or wakefulness is the so called Realized state of Enlightenment.

That is all that needs to be realized or understood for Mukti, Freedom or Enlightenment. So simple. Want Moksha? Want Freedom? Then simply realize that being awake, conscious or aware is to natural abide as the true Self, He, the Reality or God. Then you laugh. Laugh! It is all a big Joke! Freedom, Mukti or liberation is a cosmic Joke.Period end. There is no bondage and of course there is no liberation either. You are already there. You gain zero! Nothing whatsoever simply because you are already that which you Seek to know. To be simply alive and aware all day long naturally is to always abide as one's true nature. That is all. So simple. Nothing new is to be freshly acquired. Only ignorance is removed with understanding. Understanding is Realizing that you are already the Self or consciousness itself, He, the Reality or God. That is all. It is all so easy to remove ignorance only. Nothing else is necessary for Freedom from all bondage. That is IT. Understand if you want to be Free. No understanding. No Freedom.Understanding is Realizing. After all, bondage is only the idea of being bound. Just this and nothing else. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Did some self-appointed spiritual Teacher, some so called Enlightened, Realized or Religious Guru tell you that you cannot understand the Self? That is only because they are a con artist's mantra used to confuse Seekers and keep them bound to ignorance. Of course anyone can easily understand consciousness. That is what Freedom is truly all about. What else? There is no becoming anything. After all, you cannot become what you have always been and are. Realisation is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Ignorance is the only culprit. Ask any Seeker what are you Searching for? They will have no clue. Did anyone tell you that Freedom is always here? After all, what binds you? Find out! It is like a Fish in the water foolishly crying that he is thirsty.Being alive is being the Self, consciousness itself or God. That is the simple and plain ordinary Reality undeniably present within your own dwelling. He is Life itself. Life is one's true nature and God. That is what the true Self, He or the Reality simply is. Nothing new, spiritual or special about being alive and aware. The presence and activity of consciousness is at once Life and awareness. Rejoice! All living sentient beings are already so called Buddhas, most people do not know it, that is the only trouble. Call off the Search. You are He, you are that this very moment. Simply being alive and aware is to be the Reality. Here and now you are that. Life is the so called "Diamond hidden in your own pocket" so to speak. Life is the Self and true Beloved. Understand that you were never bound and voila. Freedom is so simple. The experience is always here and now. One's own undeniable plain ordinary existence is the Divine. Full stop. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ Understanding is all that is necessary to remove the veil of ignorance. There is no bondage and therefore there is no liberation either. Existence is consciousness. That is the Open Secret to Freedom. Being is the Reality. Nothing new.Nothing special, spiritual or religious about being alive and aware. What did you expect? A blazing light? One's own plain ordinary everyday existence is the Divine. So near and so dear. Closer to oneself than one's own breath is the Reality. Consciousness is Life itself. It is beating your heart, breathing you, digesting your food, growing you hair and finger nails. It is Life itself. It is the very core of one's own being. Consciousness is the Power and intelligence present that we call Life.

So simple. To be or not to be? 'I' am is certain and that awareness of being or existence needs no proof. One's own existence is the Self or consciousness. That is all. Consciousness present is known to all as 'I' am. Realize that 'I' am is that. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Enlightenment as any spiritual state, experience or event is Hoax, a Myth and so are the so called Gurus and Teachers preaching it.Don't you know that the spiritual, special or holy Buddha you see on the Road is a fake? A self-appointed spiritual Guru, religious Teacher is only a con artist selling water by the River to the ignorant. People will pretend to have reached, acquired, experienced or become something new, spiritual, religious or holy and even write book after book about illusion and sell to the ignorant as Reality or Truth. A funny paradox. There is nothing new, spiritual or religious to be reached, nothing whatsoever different to be attained or acquired. Only an ignorant fool believes that there is. Just remove the veil or camouflage of ignorance and voila! Freedom is to simply understand or realize that there is no bondage.So simple. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self is me, myself and 'I'.That is the Open Secret shining in plain Sight. That is the Joke of it all. The Seeker is the Sought. So simple. Thou art that. The Self you Seek to know is you.Gee! yoU aRe yoU. What else do you want? Know thyself and you know the Self to be Thou. What about the spiritual crap and religious concepts people have wrote so many books about? It is all garbage of course! That is the funny paradox. The Self is nothing new, spiritual or religious. That is why any spiritual and religious Seeker, devotee, disciple, student etc, cannot know Freedom. These ignorant people foolishly look away from the true Self, He, the

Reality or consciousness when they are frantically Seeking it. How dumb and stupid is that? Funny no! Stupidity is the only bondage. Call this dumb ignorance foolishness. After all, how can you kiss yourself on your own lips? When you already are what you Seek. Call off the Search. The Self (consciousness) you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Search is the only Trap. Tell Seekers call off the Search, you are He, you are that this very moment and they do not want it. They want to foolishly acquire something new, something so called spiritual or special instead. But there is nothing new, nothing so called spiritual or special to be found. There never was. One only foolishly believe that there is. That false notion is the only bondage. Ignorance. Get rid of ignorance and all is well.Nothing is wrong anymore. Being alive and aware of being oneself effortlessly everyday is the Reality. It is 'I' am. There never was anything else to be understood, recognized or realized. Thou art that already. Life, consciousness or the Self present is simply plain ordinary everyday awareness of being. Everybody knows and everybody says 'I' am all day long. That is IT. 'I' am is IT. That is the Real-'I'-zation. Understanding is Realizing that the true Self is one's own plain ordinary everyday self. Same, same. Me, myself and 'I' is the Reality or Real-'I'-ty. That is the so called SelfReal-'I'-zation. The Self (consciousness) is ever present. Each one wants to know the Self. What kind of help does one require to know oneself? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness is the real presence of existence that we call Life. That is everyone's true nature. Nothing new or special whatsoever about being alive.

Alive-ness, being-ness, 'I' am-ness is at once being and consciousness or present awareness. That is the Joke of it all. Are you alive? Are you awake from sleep or aware? There you go sport! That is what the Self, He, the Reality or God simply is. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ God or the Self is the plain good ol' boring everyday you. Ha! Ha! Ha! the Joke is on you. Just being oneself naturally, smiling, thinking, farting, spitting, nothing new or holy whatsoever. Don't you know that holy people are really con artists putting on a show to entice the veiled and the ignorant? Forget all these Mother F#$@ers! Their followers and disciples are only idiots who believe the false to be true. These people will screw you with a happy smile on their face in the name of spirituality and religion. There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained. You are the Self (consciousness). You exist always. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Most people are so disappointed when they hear the simple Truth. One's own everyday plain boring everyday self is the Real Self. Voila! That is IT. There is nothing new to be gained when nothing was ever lost. Freedom is always here. Only blind ignorant veiled spiritual and religious people foolishly believe there is something new, something special, something different or spiritual to be found.But there isn't. That is the Joke of it all. Freedom is so easy. So simple that it is laughable. The Secret to Freedom is that understanding is Realizing. There is no achieving or attaining anything new for Freedom. Only the idea of bondage is to be removed. Remove the veil, cloud or camouflage of ignorance with understanding only. That is all. You are already the true Self or consciousness itself and eternally Free this very moment. Only the idea 'I' have not realized the Self is the obstacle to Freedom. There is nothing new to get. Just get rid of ignorance.

All that we need do is to remove the obstruction. That which is eternal is not known to be so because of ignorance. Ignorance is the obstruction. Get over this ignorance and all will be well. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Understanding is all. Remove the only obstacle to Freedom. Ignorance is the only obstacle to get rid of with understanding. Understanding is Realizing. The word 'God' is nothing spiritual, nothing whatsoever religious and all that B.S. God is just another name for Life, for consciousness, for existence, for being. Present in all is Life or consciousness. Same presence of existence. Same unseen Living power and intelligence. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ The Kingdom is in you. Your body is God's temple. No one ever says 'I' am body. Because 'I' am is not the body. 'I' am represents the consciousness present within the body. Know your real self to be this natural presence of consciousness itself. Not the body but the Life essence or Living-ness undeniably present within the body. So near and so dear. It is beating your heart and shining through your very eyes this very moment. Consciousness is the true Seer. Consciousness is the true hearer. The Knower, the thinker and experiencer. The unchanging witnessing presence within the body that we call sentience or awareness and known to all as 'I' am. He (consciousness/the Self) is the unseen seer, the unheard hearer, the unthought thinker. There is no other seer but He. No other hearer but He. No other thinker but He. No other knower but He. He is yourself.The inner controller, the immortal, the imperishable. ~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad~ Who did you think you are? A body, an ego or a mind? Heck no! You are awareness, you are consciousness. You are Life itself. You are the Oneness. You are God.

You are the imperishable Self. You are the Infinite Self. You are the eternal Self. You are He. You are that. That is the Secret Shining in plain sight. This livingness or consciousness we call Life is God. Therefore one's own affectionate plain ordinary everyday existence is the Divine. After all, who doesn't know and say 'I' am? There is no one that does not say 'I' am. The wrong knowledge of 'I' am the body is the cause of all mischief. This wrong knowledge must go. That is the Realization. ~ Ramana Maharshi To the wise God is 'I' am. Life or consciousness is God. 'I' am is God. God is just another name for Life or existence. That is all it is. One's own existence is the Self.The 'I' and the Self or the Lord are One. To the ignorant God is some fantasy somewhere in a cloud. A bunch of crap believed to be true. One cannot be a spiritual or religious person blinded by religious faith and countless years of religious crap or conditioning and know the simple Truth about God. It is impossible. These religious nut cases cannot realize the simple truth that God is simply Life itself. Spiritual and religious people are so veiled by their spiritual conditioning that they foolishly believe that there is them and that there is God watching over them. Separation and duality. When in fact God is me, myself and 'I'. Not something hidden far and away. Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Not some higher Self or lower Self. Not some big 'I' or small 'I'. God is me, myself and 'I'. Thou art that. You are the One without a second. All there is ever present with oneself is only consciousness. Just this and nothing else. Consciousness is just another name for plain ordinary everyday you. Nothing new. The trick to Freedom is to simply realize that there is no ego present. No personal independent self or entity. The experience is always here and now. Here and now you are that.Being yourself just as you are.

There is nothing to change, alter of modify about oneself. Simply remove ignorance. That is all that needs to be done. So simple. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Aren't you tired of swallowing crap from self-appointed spiritual Teachers and Gurus? They are all liars anyhow. That is the funny paradox. People foolishly believe the false to be true and therefore reject the simple Truth to be false. Yet Freedom is very easy and the ultimate Truth is so simple. Understanding is Realizing. That is all. Make no effort. There is nothing you have to do for the Reality to be. Ignorance is the culprit and only obstacle to Freedom. Nothing else. Get rid of ignorance and voila! Wisdom is Freedom. Understanding consciousness is very easy, yet only a rare few have had a closer look to what this consciousness itself truly is and therefore understood it. Most ignorant Seekers are foolishly striving to become what they already are. How foolish is that? We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Once you understand that to be alive and conscious or being wakeful naturally everyday is to be the Self. You have done all that needed to be done. That is the so called SelfRealization. You know Thyself and the Search for the Self that was never lost is over. Then you laugh at yourself. Nothing new, nothing special, nothing different, spiritual or religious whatsoever about the Self. That is the Paradox! Being oneself naturally is always abiding as the Self and that alone is the state called Realization. That is all. You gain nothing because nothing was ever lost. Only ignorance is removed. Just this and nothing else. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

What about stories of great Sages and Saints written in spiritual and holy books? That is what they all are! Stories used to entice and captivate people to believe in illusion. Present here and now. Reality is not some story found in a book but being alive and aware of being. That is what Freedom is all about. All about Life, existence, consciousness, being. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The simple Truth about 'Enlightenment' is that there is no such thing, it doesn't exist. Just a Hoax or religious myth used to entice the weak, the simple and the dumb. People worship ignorance. Tell a long time ignorant spiritual Seeker that the Self, He, the Reality or God that is Sought-after is simply being alive and awake from sleep or conscious everyday naturally and they go up in arms, screaming "Oh no, that is not it! My beloved Guru told me so, he or she says that this is not it, that it is much more than that". Paradoxically tell the wise that understood consciousness, that simply being awake from sleep or being aware and remaining aware all day long is to always abide naturally as one's thoughtless true nature, as the Self, He, the Reality or God and they simply agree with you. Only because being aware is awareness. Being conscious is the presence of consciousness itself that some call the Self or God. The ultimate Truth is so simple. Being aware is being the Self. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Here and now is the Reality. How much time does it take to know that you are? The one who Seeks God, the Self or consciousness is a plain idiot. Ignorance is the only culprit.

Only the veiled and ignorant Seekers strive to go beyond a mind that doesn't exist. Isn't it stupid? Yet these stupid people believe the false to be true. Never pausing for a moment to investigate what is Real. What mind? Can you show me your mind? Can you point it present anywhere? Or is it just a phantom, an illusion? The trick to Freedom is to investigate and see that bondage, separation and duality is just bunch of B.S. There is no bondage. Everybody is already the True Self or true consciousness itself and ever-Free, already beyond a so called mind. They simply do not know it and therefore realize it. Investigating and understanding what Freedom is truly all about alone is Freedom. Freedom is not at all what people have been reading in spiritual and religious books. Understanding alone is Realizing. Not striving to reach, attain or become anything new. What is the true Self, the imperishable, He, the Reality, the Infinite, the Lord or God? Plain ordinary everyday consciousness. That is all it is. Nothing new, spiritual or special. There is no Seeking consciousness when being alive and conscious is this consciousness itself. That is all there is to Realize for Freedom from all bondage. So simple that it is laughable. Present in all as Life itself. The true nature of all beings and all things is consciousness. It is the unseen living presence, intelligence and power that we call Life. That is all there is, just this is the Reality. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ You are the livingness naturally present within your body. Life or consciousness is the Self or God the wise have been pointing to. Nothing new or spiritual but so plain, so common and most of all so ordinary. Being alive and awake from sleep or conscious is being the Self, He, the Reality or God. To be alive naturally. That is the Secret shining in plain sight. That is all there is to realize or recognize.

Understanding is all. Being awake from sleep or wakeful is present awareness. That is abiding as the Self. There never was some holy or spiritual presence of awareness to be reached, to be attained or acquired. Plain ordinary everyday awareness is the Self.That is all that needs to be understood, realized or recognized as one's thoughtless true nature and stateless state of pure changeless being. So simple. Realize that all Gurus are simply con artists that will make ignorant people or veiled Seekers foolishly believe that awareness is something new, something spiritual or special, but it is not. Beware of holy Gurus and any kind of spiritual people simply because they are liars. As they say kill the Buddha you see on the Road. Because it is only a fraud. Why turn to and worship the false or illusion? Isn't it foolish? Like a Diamond hidden in your own pocket. Life is the True Beloved.What is born must die. Patterns will form and will also disappear, but the essence of Life itself always remains. Consciousness or Life doesn't know death.It is the imperishable or the immortal. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To be alive and aware of being oneself is to be the Self. That is all. Only by understanding that to be conscious is consciousness itself i.e the Self or God that someone gets to know Freedom from all bondage. Understanding this is the Realization. There is no becoming or reaching anything new for Freedom. Being alive and aware is the Self. Nothing new or special about being the Self. Nobody becomes a special spiritual being with new faculties. Realize that all spiritual and religious stories have nothing to do with Freedom and the Reality. Life is what is truly happening here and now. That is IT. This very moment of existence is the Reality.

What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Abandon all spiritual and religious stories and fantasy. There is no becoming the Self. Being alive and aware of being oneself is the Self. Look at yourself here and now. You know that you exist. You know that you are. 'I' am is certain. Freedom is not to be acquired or achieved. Freedom is what you already are naturally everyday. That is all. To be alive and awake from sleep is the so called state of Enlightenment. There is nothing more to Realize. Realisation is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness is Life itself. Being awake is being aware. That is the present awareness being pointed to as the Self. So simple. Understanding is all. Life or consciousness is synonymous with simply being, synonymous with one's own existence. It is 'I' am. You are that, you are He, you are the Self or God simply means that you are consciousness. That you are Life. One's own undeniable plain ordinary everyday existence is the Divine. Life is consciousness. Life is the Divine, the Father or the Lord. So simple. Aren't you alive and aware of being? You undeniably know that you are alive and you like it. Awareness of being is bliss. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Everybody alive is always abiding as the Self. Life is the Self.Consciousness present is 'I' exist, it is 'I' am. The 'Kingdom' is in you. Life is the Oneness being pointed to. That is what the fuss is all about. All about being. Seeking consciousness as any kind of spiritual or religious state, experience or event is only for dumb asses. Call off the Search. There absolutely is nothing new to get.The Self or God is sentience.Plain and ordinary.

The Self present is 'I' exist, it is 'I' am. To be the Self is to be alive, conscious and therefore aware of being. The Reality is what you are and have always been your entire life naturally. Being alive and aware. Awareness of being is 'I' am. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ That is the Joke of it all. There is nothing new, nothing spiritual or holy about abiding as one's true nature. There never was, only con artists will entice the simple, the weak and the dumb to believe in fantasy. The Self or consciousness is simply the natural effortless activity of being alive and awake or aware. To be awake, wakeful or aware everyday naturally is awareness, the Self, He, the Reality. Aware-ness or being aware. That is everyone's thoughtless unchanging Reality. Child-like simplicity. The experience is always here and now. Being aware is IT. You are aware anyhow. You need not try to be. Realize that you are not asleep but awake and that wakefulness is present awareness. That is all. Understanding is Realizing. To be aware and remain aware is to be the Self i.e awareness. The Realization is that to simply be awake from sleep everyday naturally or plain ordinary everyday wakefulness is pure awareness of being. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To know one's true nature is so easy that it is laughable. So simple. Just realize that you are awake or aware and that you remain awake or aware all day long. That is what the so called Self-Realization is simply all about.If you are awake, then you are and remain aware. To be awake or aware and remain awake or aware all day long is this consciousness itself self-shining as awareness. Then you laugh at yourself for Seeking the Self i.e. awareness. It is nothing new, nothing spiritual or far away. After all, how far and how foreign can one's true nature be? So near and so dear of course.

You are aware or awareness itself this very moment. Awareness is already here. Look at yourself. Aren't you aware? To simply be aware is to be the Self or awareness itself. You do not acquire it, gain it or loose it. You are IT. One could ask what about Satsang? Satsang is a scam. A religious concept used to entice the veiled and the ignorant Seekers by self-appointed eastern religious Gurus and western spiritual Teachers which are nothing other than disguised stinking con artists pretending to be holy. The Self is yourself. Period end. It is not a person, place or thing to associate with outside yourself. There is no association or disassociation with one's own being, Livingness or Life. The Truth is never coming or going anywhere. 'I' am is always with you. You are that 'I' am-ness or being-ness. What is Real is ever-present with oneself and remains the exact same or permanent. 'I' am that 'I' am is therefore the best definition of one's own being.The Self is 'I' am. You are that. 'I' am represents the Self. 'I' am represents Life, existence, consciousness, constant unchanging awareness of being. Know the Truth! That 'I' am is the Truth. That 'I' am is Life.That 'I' am is consciousness.That 'I' am is God. The best definition is 'I' am that 'I' am....The Self is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What about being in the presence of the Enlightened ones, Guru's transmissions, Guru's Grace etc? Simple! That is just spiritual and religious garbage or make believe given to the veiled and ignorant Seekers. Spiritual and religious crap given to imbeciles to entice them in worshipping illusion.Only idiots foolishly believe that some holy self-appointed Guru, spiritual person, Sage, Buddha or Jnani has reached, became or attained some holy or spiritual state of consciousness or awareness. Only crap could be transmitted and freshly acquired anyhow. Simply remove all camouflage with understanding by simply investigating what is Real. Like a cloud covering up the Sun.Being and consciousness is Life, He, the Self and the Reality.

Freedom is always here. Why wait or foolishly believe that consciousness can be acquired from others? The Self (consciousness) is not something to be acquired from others. All that is necessary is to know its existence in you. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Why Seek the false, the impermanent or illusion? Just like someone throwing a bone to a dumb dog. Guru's Grace, holy presence and transmissions are just concepts given to dumb people and ignorant Seekers. Some self-appointed spiritual Gurus like the smell of their own farts so much and want to be worshipped. You will always have a bunch of veiled Sheepos sucking up to them and ready to wipe their assess. These bunch of idiots are told that to be at the Service of the Guru financially and physicallyis good Karma and that is the fastest way for them to become Free, to become Realized or Enlightened. How funny. Because of ignorance these foolish Seekers are bowing down to illusion and being conned with a smile on their face. The dumber, the more veiled, stupid and ignorant the Seeker, the closer to the Guru.That is how it works. Not knowing the simple Truth, that all that is required for Freedom is to simply remove the false idea or false notion of being bound. That is all Freedom truly is. There is no bondage but only a false notion of bondage. One 'believes' that there is bondage and therefore seeks liberation. But the fact is that there is no bondagebut only liberation. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Understanding is Realizing. That is the Short cut to Freedom.The bird's way. Like a finger pointing at the moon. Awareness is the moon that is being pointed to as the Reality. Now you know what is simply being pointed to as present awareness or one's true nature. So simple isn't it? Who ever said that awareness was yet to be reached, to be attained, to be cultivated, to be meditated upon or to be freshly acquired? Only the veiled and the ignorant believes awareness is something new or spiritual. Being aware is being the Self. That is IT. That is the awareness. Nothing new, spiritual or special about awareness. Simple changeless being.

Remove ignorance by flushing all acquired spiritual and religious crap down the toilet. Awareness is just the natural effortless activity of consciousness or Life. That is all it simply is. Awareness present is Lively and Buoyant. Stillness and silence are only for the dead. The Self is yourself. Awareness is another name for you. Here and now you are that. Awareness is nothing new but what you are right now by simply being awake, conscious or aware. What can you do with this presence of awareness? Zip! Just being awake from sleep is always being IT. Everyone alive and awake from sleep always abide as the Self or awareness, they simply do not realize it. There is no reaching, no becoming, no attaining or cultivating awareness. No teaching, no preaching, no praying, no meditating, no transmitting, no learning, no acquiring, no nothing, just being awake is being aware naturally all day long and that is IT. Being awake is being aware or aware-ness. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be aware is awareness. Understanding is all. It is all so simple and so easy. There never was some holy presence of awareness to be reached, attained or cultivated. Simply being aware is the awareness itself being pointed to as one's thoughtless true nature. Awareness is Self-shining like a Sun all day long as sentience. Being awake from sleep is being aware and remaining aware all day long naturally. That is the Self being pointed to. Nothing new, spiritual or far away. Plain and ordinary everyday. The natural activity of being awake from sleep all day long, to be sentient or conscious-ness is aware-ness. Sentience, cognizance is this presence of awareness itself. It is the activity of pure registering and pure knowing. Being aware is pure knowing. Awareness is the knower of what is just as it is.

The witnessing or cognizing presence that is registering whatever is. Thinking is being aware. Feeling, seeing, hearing, smelling etc, is being the Self. All these natural activities are cognized by unchanging awareness only.That is what Sentience simply is. Who is the witness of all these things, who is always undeniably present to be aware of this and that? 'I' am of course! Awareness is the real witness of all that is. Just as it is. Present awareness is that 'I' am you know so well already. One's true nature is at once being and consciousness. So lively and buoyant, we call it Life. That is the Reality present within your own dwelling. What about the holy books and scriptures talking about going beyond a mind or to kill an ego? It is all crap. Just wrong knowledge people have been reading and foolishly believing. It is all religious crap or B.S. Just this and nothing else. After all, what mind? What ego?Look for them and they will not be found. If you seek the ego you will find, it does not exist. That is the way to get rid of it. Look for it and it will not be found. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You already are whole and complete just the way you are. There is nothing to change, alter or modify about oneself for the Reality to be. Only ignorance is to be removed with understanding. Nothing else is necessary. Understanding is simply another word for Realizing. Realize that you are awareness. That is all that needs to be done. Here and now you are that. Be still and know that 'I' am is at once being and consciousness. Know Thyself. Know 'I' am. Freedom is not about becoming or acquiring anything new or a new faculty. To be alive, to exist naturally is to always be the Infinite Self, He, the Reality or God. He is Life itself. In no circumstances can you negate the knowing that you are, the knowing that you are is 'I' am. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

Freedom is what you are. You are that. It is the core of your own being. It is that 'I' am you know. There is nothing to achieve or attain. Freedom is only getting to know one's real nature. To know the Self is so easy. Aren't you awake, conscious or aware right now? Of course you are. Understanding what is one's real nature is so easy. It is laughable. If you are not dead or un-conscious you are therefore undeniably awake or aware. The Power is ON so to speak! Like switching a light on. Wakefulness present is when awareness is present. To be aware of being is to be conscious or awake from sleep. So simple. Laugh at yourself. That is your real nature. The Self is nothing spiritual or religious. Just a fancy word for your real nature or awareness. To be aware and remain aware or wakefulness is awareness. That is all. Wakefulness is this presence of consciousness itself or the Self, He, the Reality. To be awake from sleep or wakeful everyday is the so called state of Enlightenment. Seeking the Self or awareness is only for idiots. Who wants to be a fool or an idiot? Call off the Search. Awareness is already here. Hellooo! It is not to be reached, attained or acquired. Understanding the Self or present awareness is so easy. That is all that is required for Freedom. Being awake or aware naturally everyday is absolutely effortless. It is everyone's natural state of being. Wakefulness is the so called Realized state of Enlightenment. The natural state of being aware is awareness itself. Closer than close. Awareness is nothing new or far away. Nothing special, spiritual or religious whatsoever. Awareness is self-shining all day long as simple wakefulness, as pure awareness of being oneself or 'I' am. So near and so dear. Awareness is closer to you than your own breath. Aren't you aware right here and now anyhow? Of course you are aware because you are awake. That is the Self or the present awareness being pointed to. To be awake is to be aware. To be awake or conscious is to effortlessly abide as the Self, He, the Reality.

So simple and so laughable, it is like a cosmic Joke. One can only laugh at the Joke of it all. Who ever said that Freedom was hard, difficult or for the rare and the few. Remove ignorance and voila! Boy! Do people disguised as holy beings and Gurus sell water by the River to imbeciles pretending it to be holy. If Seekers only knew the simple Truth, they would be laughing at themselves for frantically Seeking the Self. If you are alive and aware of being yourself or awake from sleep then you are indeed abiding as the Self. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ It is all a big Joke! Awareness is lively and buoyant. It is to be awake from sleep. To be conscious or awake from sleep is to always abide as the Reality. So simple. To be aware is consciousness, sentience, cognizance, awareness of being.Awareness present is 'I' am. No awareness present no 'I' am present.One can only be aware of being oneself when awareness is itself present. Some people will spend years striving, meditating, practicing, seeking, praying, looking to silence to reach some holy state of awareness or consciousness, not realizing that all along simply being awake or consciousis the very presence of awareness itself they have been foolishly striving to find, to reach or attain all this time, how funny. If you know that you are not dead or unconscious here and now then congratulation you are aware of being aware. Aware-ness. So simple that it is laughable.That is the only so called SelfRealization. Just this and nothing else. The word Self, He or the Reality etc, are just fancy words for ordinary everyday wakefulness or awareness. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The state of being conscious is consciousness. The state of being aware is awareness. That is all. So simple. Simply realizing that to be aware and remain aware all day long is the natural activity of consciousness. That alone is effortlessly and always naturally abiding as the Self, He, the Reality or God.

Nothing new, nothing special, nothing spiritual or religious about being. Spiritual and religious concepts from East and West about the Reality are all crap and lies. Forget all that garbage. Just remove ignorance by understanding or realizing the simple Truth. Realize that to be and remain aware or awake or conscious all day long is to always abide as the Self. Not knowing that to be alive and conscious naturally is the Sought-after Truth is the only trouble. Removing ignorance about one's true nature and real identity is all that is required. How do you do that? Simple. Understanding is Realizing. That is the Open Secret to Freedom. Self-appointed spiritual Gurus do not want the earnest Seekers to understand the Self i.e. consciousness. These people are so afraid that if people see the false as false, their B.S. will be revealed and that their business of selling lies, deception and ignorance will collapse. They are all so in love with donations and money. Everyone's true nature is consciousness.Same presence of Life. The state of being alive and conscious naturally everyday is this presence of consciousness. There is no achieving, no reaching, no becoming anything new, spiritual or special. There never was. Freedom is only getting rid of ignorance and throwing away all the spiritual and religious crap down the toilet. Understanding this consciousness is very easy. No time or effort is required to know the Self. Just look at yourself here and now. Are you aware? Are you conscious? Yes! Voila. You are the knowing that you are. Present awareness. To be awake from sleep is pure awareness of being.It is the knowing that you are. It is 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed present because everyone knows and say 'I' am all day long. Consciousness present is that 'I' am you know so well already as your own self and being. So near and so dear. Nothing new or different whatsoever, simple changeless awareness of being. Get rid of ignorance with understanding and that is Realizing. Ignorance is the only obstacle to Freedom.

Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness is the real presence of existence. One's own immutable existence is the Sought-after Truth. So near and so dear. To be alive and aware of being is the experience. No blazing light. Nothing new, nothing spiritual, different or special to be experienced. Present with oneself as oneself.Understanding is all that is required to know one's true nature. All that is necessary for the so called Realization is to remove ignorance. That is all. Understanding is all that is necessary to remove the false notion of being bound. There never was any goal to be reached or Freedom to be attained. Liberation is our very nature. We are that. The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Did you know that any spiritual or religious person Seeking Freedom will never know Freedom? It is all a paradox and it all works in reverse. Simply because Freedom from all bondage has absolutely nothing to do with any kind of Spirituality or any kind of Religion. That is the joke of it all. Any Religion or spiritual concept that anyone can come up with is pure garbage and bondage. Spiritual and religious people are truly con artists pretending to be holy and worship a fictitious God. What is sought-after as one's true nature is nothing spiritual or religious in any way, but ordinary consciousness. True consciousness is simply the natural state of being aware and remaining awarethat is so common to all and always effortlessly experienced directly by everybody alive as plain ordinary everyday wakefulness. Any spiritual state of consciousness that is yet to be reached or acheived is only a mental concept for veiled ignorant spiritual idiots and religious dummys, simply because there is no such thing, it is only illusion.

To know that to simply be alive and effortlessly awake from sleep everyday is to always abide as one's thoughtless true nature is to know the Truth. The ordinary everyday state of being conscious is the Sought-after Reality. That is all there is to Realize for Freedom from all bondage. To simply be conscious is consciousness itself. There is no need to reach, to attain or cultivate it. Simply look at yourself here and now. Are you conscious? Voila! That is what consciousness simply is, the knowing that you are or present awareness. Consciousness is not some spiritual or religious state. It is the natural state of being. It is to be aware and remain aware. So simple. Why should anyone Seek it? Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To be conscious is consciousness itself. That is all. Freedom is not the acquisition of anything new, different, special or spiritual. It never was and never will be. It is only the removal of ignorance. Wisdom is Freedom. Have a good laugh at yourself. Everyday you have spent awake or conscious, you have always been abiding as the Self or consciousness. The so called Realized state is not some holy or spiritual state to be reached or attained but simply the natural state of being conscious you have always known as pure awareness of being. Awareness of being. Consciousness or wakefulness present is 'I' am present. The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The natural state of being. Everyday everyone wakes up so called 'Enlightened', always abiding as the true Self or consciousness itself, they simply do not realize it. How funny.

Not knowing that to be awake or aware everyday is to abide as the Self or consciousness is the only trouble. To understand that to simply be conscious is consciousness itself or the Self is Freedom. That is all. Knowing the Self is not becoming the Self but simply being conscious. Realize that being conscious is consciousness itself or the Self and voila. You know yourself and the Infinite Self to be consciousness itself. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness is nothing new, it is simply what we all are. Who doesn't know and say 'I' am? Call off the Search. Freedom is simply the realization that to be conscious or being aware naturally everyday is to be the Self. Nothing new or spiritual about being. That alone is the only SelfRealization. Freedom is so simple that it is laughable. No meditation, mantra, practice or method is required for Freedom. There is nothing spiritual to be done, to be achieved or to be freshly acquired. Only removing ignorance about one's thoughtless Reality is necessary with understanding. Realizing that to be conscious is to always abide as one's true nature, the Self or consciousness itself. Any spiritual concepts and religious ideology about consciousness or the Self is only for the veiled and ignorant spiritual and religious Sheepo. There is nothing new or spiritual whatsoever about Freedom. So simple. Freedom is paradoxically child-like simplicity. Any spiritual and religious concepts about Freedom do not exist. They never did. Just religious stories, myths and spiritual carrots only used to entice the veiled and the ignorant. That is all. Do not look to spirituality or any religions for Freedom simply because you will not find it there. Present here and now. Freedom is always here. It is not to be freshly acquired. Get rid of all that spiritual crap camouflaging the simple Truth with understanding. Then you know the simple Truth about the Self. That true consciousness

is not some far away special happy place or some spiritual state to be reached, but simply what you have always been and are. The ultimate Truth is so simple. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Only ignorance is to be removed. Just this and nothing else is called Freedom. There is no bondage and therefore no liberation either. Just like a carrot is to an Ass. Spirituality and religions are to the ignorant Seeker. Self-appointed spiritual and religious Teachers, Gurus, Enlightened Sages, Buddhas, Jnanis, etc, etc, etc will disguise, pretend, camouflage and make plain ordinary everyday consciousness, wakefulness or awareness appear and sound so desirable, so spiritual, so special and holy, when in fact it is not. It never was and never will be. Enticing ignorant Seekers with spiritual stories, pretending to have reached, attained or became something spiritual. These people are simply and only selling water by the River to the veiled and ignorant Seekers. That is all. Don't you know that the Buddha you see on the Road is only the greatest illusion? It is all a funny paradox. It is all a big Joke. It is all and only for show, for self-gratification and most of all for so many it is truly for a fee. After all, when Enlightenment is only a religious myth, what do you guess the Buddha or so called Enlightened person you could ever see in front of you, would truly be. Illusion or Reality? A phony of course, a lying mother F$@#er or con artist only pretending to be spiritual and holy! What else? Some people will even stare into people's eyes pretending to transmit some holy grace or presence, perhaps evenwearing white robes, giving themselves religious or spiritual names to look even more believable and holy. Paradoxically the Reality is nothing spiritual, religious or holy. It is Life itself. Being or existence is the experience. All spiritual and religious Teachers and so called Enlightened Gurus are only horses asses pretending to be holy.

Ask them if you do cannot accept it to be true. Find out! Investigate what is real for yourself. That alone is called Wisdom. The false cannot stand up to investigation. Know the Open Secret to Freedom if you desire to be Free. There never was anything new, spiritual or religious whatsoever about Freedom. Only removing the false idea of being bound is Freedom itself, just this and nothing else. Ignorant people only believe Freedom to be something spiritual and holy. But that is all false. The imperishable Self is nothing new. It is nothing special or spiritual whatsoever but paradoxically always naturally present with everybody alive as simple consciousness, existence, being-ness, 'I' am-ness. Just like space is ever-present but simply overlooked because it is nothing new or special. Being alive and aware everyday naturally is always abiding as the Imperishable Self. Nothing new, but simply being oneself naturally is always being the Self. Call off the Search. One's own existence is that consciousness. Consciousness is the natural state of being common to all. Who is not aware of being oneself? Everybody knows and says 'I' am. One's true nature is present as sentience or ordinary awareness. In other words the common state of wakefulness is the so called Realized state. Ignorant people and self-appointed spiritual Gurus, Sages, Jnanis and Buddhas have sensationalized the most plain common to all everyday ordinary state of being. The natural state of being aware. Wakefulness is the state of being and remaining aware and that alone is the Self i.e. awareness. Present closer to you than your own breath and just like you can pause your own breath. Pause thoughts for a few moments and awareness alone remains selfrevealed as one's thoughtless true nature and unchanging Reality. Be still and you are there. So simple.Nothing new, special, spiritual, just simple changeless being. To be conscious is consciousness. To be and remain aware is awareness.

All that is required to realize the Self (awareness) is to be still. What can be easier than that? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Who ever said Freedom was hard or difficult? Just be still and voila! You are that present awareness. People have been brainwashed to foolishly believe in fantasy when the Reality is simply the most plain, the most common and ordinary. How funny. There is no attaining, achieving or becoming anything new.There never was. The Reality is not some bogus spiritual or religious state of consciousness that is yet to be experienced or to be reached through some spiritual or religious practice, yoga or meditation. Any spiritual and religious concepts, ideology, theology about the Self or true consciousness are all crap. Consciousness as it is define in holy books and religious scriptures as some spiritual or religious state, is pure garbage.It is only illusion. Nothing else. True consciousness is sentience or awareness. The natural presence of Life itself within your body is this consciousness itself. Here and now you are that. Everybody is that. The Self is present in all. It is the simply the presence of existence we all like to be. That alone is the Oneness. Life or consciousness is the Oneness or Omni-presence.So simple. Therefore it is running the entire show. Some call it God. Consciousness is the father, the creator, the inner and outer governor, the doer, you name it. All there is present within and without is always consciousness. The Self is in all beings and all beings are in the Self. Life, existence, consciousness, same, same. That is the One without two. Life is living itself. That is what it likes to do. Existence is the bliss of the Self. Life is present within everybody. Everybody is that egoless consciousness. Therefore everybody is being lived. Life is the choice maker, the inner controller and the doer. Consciousness is nothing new. It is the Reality present within your own dwelling. Being alive is being it. You are the experience itself this very moment.

How can you kiss yourself? You cannot either acquire or negate your own being. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You are Life.Get to know your real self or true nature. Not as a changing body, but as the Living-ness present within the body. Consciousness is the Living Power and intelligence present within everybody. Consciousness present is 'I' am. Consciousness is always undeniably present with everyone alive and self-shining naturally as pure awareness of being. It is 'I' am or the knowing that you are. To simply be alive and aware of being is this presence of consciousness itself some call the Self and others God. Understanding is Realizing. You gain nothing new for Freedom, only get rid of ignorance. Understanding what is simply being pointed to as one's true nature is Freedom. Not striving to reach, to attain, achieve or become anything new, different or special. To be conscious is consciousness itself i.e. the Self. So simple.It is simply the activity of being aware. Aware-ness. Realize that you are awake, wakeful or aware and remain aware all day long naturally. That is all the fuss is truly all about. What else did you expected this consciousness to be? How much time does it take to know that you are? If you are not dead or asleep, then consciousness is indeed present as 'I' am. Reality is always here. It is nothing new to be freshly acquired. It is what you have always been and are. To be alive and aware of being oneself everyday naturally is this consciousness itself i.e. the Self. That is all the Self simply is. Nothing special to be excited about or to foolishly strive for. Consciousness or the Self is yourself. It is that 'I' am you know so well as your own plain ordinary everyday being. You are that. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

That is IT! How do you like that? Didn't anyone tell you Freedom is that easy? The Seeker is the Sought! Why should anyone Seek false imagination, and strive to attain or achieve a religious myths and illusion? There is no such thing as Enlightenment. It is total B.S. just like a carrot is used to entice an Ass, any spiritual state of Enlightenment is simply a religious concept and a spiritual carrot used to entice the veil and ignorant Seeker. Do yourself a favor and Flush all that religious and spiritual crap down the toilet. What about all the great Sages, Gurus and Jnanis out there, pretending to be holy and Enlightened? Simple! Just a show. Some people like to be worshipped and they pretend to be spiritual, special holy beings. Makes them feel good about themselves to be worshipped by bunch of religious or spiritual idiots that are veiled. Life is consciousness itself. One's own everyday existence is the Divine. Freedom is always here. Consciousness is not to be attained. Everybody alive is already a living 'Buddha'. The ignorant simply doesn't know it. Ignorance is the only obstacle to Freedom. There is no becoming or reaching anything new or spiritual. Get rid of ignorance only. That is all that is necessary for Freedom. So simple. Ignorant spiritual and religious people worship illusion and are always looking away from the Reality. Like praying and looking up to the Sky while the Reality is present within their own dwelling. Remove ignorance only. Get to know your real self or true nature. To know the Self or consciousness is very easy, look at yourself, at your own being. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ Life is the Oneness, that is the imperishable Self, God or consciousness present in all sentient beings. Nothing new. Know yourself to be this presence of Life, existence or consciousness itself and you know the Oneness.

Being yourself is always being the Self. 'I' am is that consciousness itself. Thou art that. Tat Tvam Asi. Nothing new, religious, spiritual or holy, but the simple fact of your own being. Everybody knows and says 'I' am all day long. Nothing new, special or spiritual about consciousness or the Self. 'I' am is always with you.No one can deny one's own being and say 'I' am not. Closer to you than your own breath. Say 'I' am yourself! See, you already know that you are and you like it. Everybody knows 'I' am. That is IT. The Self (consciousness) is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Discerning between illusion and Reality. What did you expect God to be?Some old Fart sitting on a cloud? That is all and only fairy tales and erroneous ideology. God is simply Life itself. Nothing else. Life is the natural presence of consciousness that is undeniably present in all, that is the Omni-presence. All sentient beings are always abiding as that natural presence of consciousness itself that we call Life or God. God is Life itself. Therefore everyone alive is God. That is all. The natural state of being alive and conscious everyday is in fact one's true nature. Consciousness is the real presence of existence that is naturally present in all and so common to all, it is the Reality. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Realize that if it is in anyway new, special, spiritual or religious it is only false imagination and illusion. The only trouble for the ignorant Seeker is wanting the Self or consciousness to be something new, special, different or spiritual, but it is not. What to do? Understanding alone is Realizing. Not becoming anything new. That is all the fuss is truly all about. All about being aware and remaining aware all day long. All about unchanging awareness AKA wakefulness or consciousness.

Understanding is all. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Know Thyself. You are awareness itself. The imperishable Self. Get to know your real nature. Freedom is simply knowing oneself to be consciousness itself or the Self. Realizing that simply being alive and aware of being oneself is at once 'I' am and God. God is that 'I' am you know so well already as yourself or you are that consciousness itself. Get to know the simple Truth about your own everyday ordinary self and that alone sets you Free from ignorance. After all, only an idiot Teaches Enlightenment and only an ignorant fool would want to Learn Enlightenment and foolishlystrive to acquire, reach or attain it. Simply because there is no such thing as Enlightenment, it is just and only a spiritual carrot used to entice the ignorant. It is pure crap and total B.S. If you truly desire to be Free, simply get to know your real nature or true Self. That is all. Then you will simply realize that your true nature is formless, egoless consciousness. Some call this presence of consciousness, living-ness or existence the Self. Others simply call it Life. Just different names for the same presence. How can you kiss this beauty? If you are alive, you are the Self. That is all. Just this and nothing else. That is the Secret shining in plain sight. You know that you are and you like it. Being alive and aware of being oneself is at once 'I' exist or 'I' am and the Self. So simple. If you know that you are not un-conscious or asleep, then you are in fact undeniably awake or aware. That presence of awareness itself or the natural state of being and remaining aware is one's true nature. That is the consciousness that is simply being pointed as the Self, He, the Reality or God. Call off the Search and understand this simple Truth about the Self if you want to be Free. To simply be conscious is consciousness. To be awake or aware is this awareness itself.

What else do you want. Look at yourself here and now. Aren't you aware anyhow? Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Realize that if you are awake or aware, you are therefore undeniably abiding as the Self or this consciousness itself. Sentience, cognizance or everyday wakefulness is consciousness. The Self or the Sought-after Truth is awareness. Not some holy spiritual presence to be experienced as something new, but plain ordinary everyday awareness. That is the Open Secret shining in plain sight. To be aware and remain aware is always abiding as one's true nature. That plain ordinary common to all everyday presence of awareness is the Self being pointed to. Nothing new. Awareness is nothing new or special but in fact what you have always known yourself to be naturally. To be or not to be? How else can you know that you are if you are un-conscious? Awareness is present first hand and self-shining as the knowing that you are. Sentience, cognizance, awareness are all synonymous with the natural state of being. If youwere mislead to foolishly believe that the Self was something in any way religious or holy, you were conned. To be sentient, conscious or aware everyday naturally is to always abide as one's true nature. To know oneself is so easy. You are that self-shining awareness itself. You are that. It is all so simple. That is all there is to understand or realize. Seekers believe the false to be true and the simple Truth to be false. It all works in reverse. Whoever Seeks to attain 'Enlightenment' or Liberation is paradoxically bound to ignorance and anyone who realizes that simply being alive and sentient or aware is being the Self or God is a 'Buddha'. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away.

What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ Awareness is nothing new, nothing whatsoever spiritual or to be discovered hidden far away but paradoxically so common to anyone and so familiar that it is in fact always undeniably present closer than close. To simply be aware is awareness. To be conscious is this consciousness. That is all. Voila! What else did you foolishly expect the Self, He, the Reality, awareness or God to be? Something new, something special, something spiritual or extraordinary? Nope. All that spiritual and religious crap in only found in spiritual and religious books. Realize that paradoxically Freedom is nothing whatsoever spiritual or religious, that is the funny paradox. Who told you that it was? People that created this and that religion all started out as a Sect or a Cult, that is what the core of any religion simply is. A worshipping Sect or Cult that over time has simply been accepted as main stream for power, money and control. People fear and worship illusion or a God that doesn't even exist. Ignorant of this simple truth, innumerable methods under different denominations, such as yoga, bhakti, karma, each again with many modifications, are being taught with great skill and in intricate detail only to entice the seekers and confuse their minds. So also are the religions and sects and dogmas. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Don't you know that any Great Saint, Enlightened Sage, holy Guru, religious Buddha, Yogi and Jnani appearing spiritual and holy has never been what he or she appears to be? Like a Magic show. It is just and only for show. Illusion pretending to be Reality only to entice and confuse ignorant Seekers to believe the false to be true. Some people like to be worshipped as holy or special beings and others are too lazy to get a regular job, so they will sell silence and spiritual B.S. to the dumb ignorant Seeker and the weak for a fee. Some are so veiled that they will even worship a tree, a mountain or a monkey.

For Freedom from all bondage all that non-sense must go. Freedom is understanding only. There is no becoming anything new anyhow.Ignorance is the only culprit. All that we need do is to remove the obstruction. That which is eternal is not known to be so because of ignorance. Ignorance is the obstruction. Get over this ignorance and all will be well. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There never was anything new, anything different or spiritual in any way to be acquired for Freedom. Remove ignorance only. Get to know your real nature to be Life, consciousness or awareness itself. Understanding is all that is necessary. Awareness present is that 'I' am you know. Nothing new. Look at yourself here and now. Are you sure that you are alive, present and aware of being? There you go sport, you are so called 'Enlightened'. So simple isn't it? That is paradoxically the only difficulty. Everybody knows and says 'I' am. Awareness present or present awareness is simply the undeniable knowing that you are present, that you are undeniably alive and aware that you exist. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ No one can deny one's own existence and say 'I' am not. Everybody knows 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed present because 'I' am present. So simple.'I' am is that consciousness itself. The Self is what you are and have always been your entire Life.Nothing new, different or special. To be aware and remain aware all day long or plain everyday wakefulness is to be the Self itself. Common to all, one's true nature is sentience. That is all this present awareness simply is. Awareness is an activity common to all. It is not something holy or spiritual to be reached, attain or cultivated, but simply being what you are naturally everyday. It is the natural state of being awake, conscious or aware. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

That is all the true Self, unchanging present awareness or one's thoughtless true simply is. Being aware is awareness. You and that awareness are one and the same presence of consciousness. You already are and have always been all along naturally, what you have frantically been Seeking all this time. So near and so dear. Unless clearly pointed to, this immutable present awareness is simply overlooked. Awareness is just another name for you. Are you laughing at yourself yet? The ultimate Truth is so simple. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Freedom is so easy. Just remove the idea that you are bound. Why do people foolishly Seek the Self that was never lost? Simple! They have read too many spiritual and holy books or sucked up or worshipped too many holy Gurus, Enlightened Masters, Great Sages, Spiritual Teachers, Jnanis and Buddhas. Seekers want to see the Self as something new, something extraordinary, special or spiritual, but it is not. It never was anything new or spiritual. They have picked up that false notion from a spiritual book or from a spiritual person, when in fact the Self is plain, common to all and ordinary, nothing new or special whatsoever. The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self is awareness. To realize that to be aware is awareness is the so called Self-Realization. Call off the Search simply because Seeking it is always missing it.The Search is itself the Trap. The Self is always present closer than close. Nothing was ever lost and nothing new is to be freshly acquired. Don't you know that only understanding is Realizing? It is impossible to become anything new or spiritual. How can anyone ever become, reach or attain what they already are and have always been? Life, consciousness, existence, awareness of being and 'I' am are all synonymous with being the imperishable Self.

Life is the so called 'Diamond in your pocket' or the true Beloved or the Precious that is frantically Sought-after. Everybody knows it so well already. Life or consciousness is the Reality present within your own dwelling. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You already are what you Seek. You already are the Self. Here and now you are that. See the false as false. Only the ignorant Seeker foolishly believes that the Self, He, the Reality or God is something new, special, spiritual, religious or holy. Wrong acquired knowledge from holy books, prophets, Saints, Sages, Buddhas and Jnanis, but is all false. In fact one's true nature is God. Life is itself the Self, the Oneness or the God that is being pointed as consciousness. There never was any spiritual or holy God and all that spiritual nonsense. Never was and never will be. Just everyone's own undeniable affectionate existence is itself the Divine. He is Life itself. Just like with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Consciousness is the real unseen presence of existence and that is one's true nature. Common to all and always experienced directly by everyone alive as plain ordinary everyday awareness itself. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Remove ignorance. Whoever said Freedom was something new, spiritual or holy was a simply liar or con artist if you like. Did you foolishly believe that some holy spiritual being will tell you the Truth? How foolish! It is paradoxically like asking a thief disguised as a policeman to try to catch a thief. All anyone simply needs for Freedom is to understand what is being pointed to. Understanding is all. What is sought-after is consciousness. Understanding is Realizing that everyday wakefulness is this consciousness.

Consciousness is the Real presence of existence that we call Life. Present here and now. The Self is nothing new but in fact what you are naturally. 'I' am or 'I' am not? Who is not aware of himself. Who doesn't know and and say 'I' am all day long? Nothing new, spiritual or holy. Being oneself is always abiding as consciousness, it is that 'I' am you know. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self you Seek to know is yourself. Consciousness present is 'I' am. Say 'I' am to yourself. See! You undeniably know that you are and you like it. Consciousness present as wakefulness is sentience and the knowing that you are. Wakefulness is simply being aware and remaining aware all day long. Present awareness. That is IT. The natural state of being common to all. Awareness is nothing new, special or holy but plain and ordinary. Wakefulness is that consciousness itself. To be awake or conscious is consciousness itself or the Self.That is all. Why should anyone spend any time or effort striving to attain or cultivate it? Isn't it foolish? Awareness of being. To be awake from sleep and therefore aware is to know that you are. Knowing that you are present as yourself is at once consciousness and 'I' am. That is all. So simple. Understanding this consciousness is very easy as long as you are paradoxically not looking for anything new. God is that 'I' am you know so well already. Not some holy or spiritual 'I' am but the plain good ol' everyday you. You are that or Thou art that. 'I' am is the knowing that you are alive and undeniable fact of your own being. To exist is to be the Self. Life is the presence of consciousness itself. So simple. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ God is you are. That is all. You are that 'I' am you know so well as your own affectionate everyday self and being.

You are that. The Self is nothing new or spiritual. The Joke is on you! The Self is just another name for you. Look it up in the dictionary. The Self you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Seeker is the Sought.Thou art that. Tat Tvam Asi. You are what you Seek literally. The Self is your own self. How can you kiss yourself on your own lips? Gee! yoU a Re yoU. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ There never was anything new, spiritual or holy to be found, that is the Secret to Freedom.Only remove ignorance, nothing else is necessary. To foolishly Seek for the Self, He or the Reality as anything new, special, spiritual or holy is to always be busy looking for illusion and always overlooking the plain, ordinary ever-present Reality. To know God is so easy. Look at yourself. Look at your own existence. Look at your own being and voila! You are IT. To be alive and sentient, conscious or aware is to be the Self. That is all. So simple. Aware-ness. That is all there is to realize. Just this and nothing else. Nothing spiritual or special about being. So near and so dear. Life AKA consciousness is undeniably present closer than close as what you undeniably are. You are that already. You can only be what you are.Nothing else. Simply being oneself is the Self. To know the Self is to be yourself. Me, myself and 'I'. Consciousness is indeed always undeniably present simply because one cannot say 'I' do not exist. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Here and now is the Reality. Living-ness, alive-ness, being-ness or existence is the Divine.

The experience is here and now. The Self is Life itself. There is no becoming or attaining anything. Present awareness is 'I' am. 'I' exist. Awareness of being alive is consciousness itself or the Self. That is all. Call off the Search. What are you looking for or waiting for? The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Nothing to change, alter or modify about oneself. No mind to go beyond or some big bag ogre or ego to kill. That is all spiritual crap only given like a carrot to the veiled and ignorant spiritual Seekers to keep them busy chasing after illusion. Being oneself is the Self or the 'I' is not different from the Lord if you like a so called spiritual twist. Thou art that. Full stop! Being oneself or one's own existence is the experience itself. So simple. You know that you are and you like it, period end. That realization is the end of the Search. One's own existence is itself the Divine. Why want more? There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained. You are the Self (consciousness). You exist always. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You are He, you are that, you are the Self. Be yourself.That is all. Nothing new, nothing special or different whatsoever about one's true nature. Freedom is understanding that being alive and conscious is consciousness i.e. the Self. There is no God hidden somewhere in the Sky or some special place where you will go after you die if you pray, worship, practice and follow other people's belief and all that non-sense. Spiritual and religious concepts, stories and beliefs are the poison not the cure. Ignorant people that are veiled by spiritual and religious B.S. want to see the Self as something new, a new sensation or blazing light. Perhaps Seeking to have an extraordinary spiritual experience or religious event.

The ones who claim to have seen holy beings, experiencing and hearing voices urgently need to go to the loony house. Who ever told you the Self was something new or spiritual, simply lied to you. You got taken and sold water by the River by some con artist appearing special, spiritual and holy. Many ignorant people are easily fooled by the holy Buddha they see roaming on the Road shopping for Seekers. As they say, misery likes company. Going the same direction, many veiled people foolishly crying over nothing will fall for some spiritual Sect lead by some holy being, spiritual Teacher, Enlightened Guru or Buddha. Self-appointed Gurus like to gather Seekers like cattle, for Seekers are the cash cow. Don't you know? Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Understanding is all. Nothing else is necessary to remove ignorance. That you know it or not. The Self is your own self. You are that consciousness. The Self is 'I' am. To be alive and aware of being everyday or wakeful is always abiding as the Self. Here and now you are that consciousness. 'I' am is always with you. To be or not to be? No one alive can deny one's own being. Being alive is the Self. To be is 'I' exist, it is 'I' am. Can you deny the knowing that you are? Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ No one can ever become Free, simply because everyone is already Free. Freedom is always Here! Make no effort. Any effort for Freedom is paradoxically bondage. There is no reaching, there is no attaining or becoming anything new whatsoever, there never was. Freedom or the so called state of Realization is not an event or an experience but simply being just as you are. The natural state of being alive and aware everyday naturally is the so called state of 'Enlightenment'.

Nothing new or special. The waking state or simply being awake is the so called Realized state. Whoever Seeks a blazing light or to become something new, will only die an ignorant fool. Why wait for anything new when simply being oneself is always being the Self? Call off the Search. Not to be Found hidden far and away, the Sought-after Truth is present closer to you than your own breath. Paradoxically what you frantically Seek to find is what you have always been and are naturally all along. Funny no! There is no bondage and of course there is no liberation either. Veiled ignorant spiritual and religious Seekers only imagine themselves to be bound and therefore have created a false imaginary state of liberation. But bondage and liberation is all and only psychological, just this and nothing else. Just like the optical illusion of a mirage of water in the desert or a blue sky, bondage and liberation do not exist. Just false notions that are only believed to be true. Get rid of ignorance. If you believe you are bound then you are bound, if you know you are Free then you are Free. Nothing new, nothing special, spiritual or religious whatsoever about the Self.Some people only imagine that there is. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Consciousness is always naturally present as plain common to all ordinary everyday being-ness, alive-ness, living-ness. It is that 'I' am you know so well already. If you have been told by some Enlightened Guru, Sage, Master or Jnani that the Self was something new, spiritual, religious or holy. You have been sold water by the River. So near and so dear. Everybody knows and everybody says 'I' am. Nothing new. One cannot deny one's own existence and say 'I' do not exist because 'I' am is certain.

Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ One cannot negate oneself or deny the simple fact of one's own being. Being is 'I' am. 'I' am is oneself, the Self, consciousness or God. Whoever told you you weren't the Self or God already? The Self (consciousness) is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To simply be alive and aware of being,is the Self. That is the Open Secret hidden in plain sight. He is Life itself. Wisdom is Freedom. Only the one remaining ignorant of the simple Truth is believing in the illusion of separation and bondage. There never was anything new or different to be reached or acquired. Freedom is understanding only. All spiritual and religious rituals and practices are for nothing other than to cultivate ignorance. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Why wait for Freedom, when simply being alive and naturally aware of being oneself everyday is being the Self? Once you understand what is simply being pointed to, you will have a good laugh at yourself. It is so laughable. You do not reach, you do not attain or become the Self, because you are the Self already. What you Seek is what you have always been and are naturally your whole Life, how funny isn't it! At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Naturally present with everyone alive as the natural state of being. Consciousness is not some new, special, different or spiritual state, it simply is what we are. It is our real nature. Expressing itself naturally all along through everybody as Life and awareness. No one alive ever fails to naturally experience the Self directly as one's own being. Understanding is all that is necessary to remove the veil of ignorance about one's true identity. One's true nature is always effortlessly self-shining as the presence of plain ordinary everyday awareness.

The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self is always present as plain ordinary everyday awareness common to all which is always experienced directly by everyone alive everyday as simple changeless being. Being aware or awareness present is 'I' am. Awareness is nothing new, special or far away. If you ever wondered what the heck does the words God, Self, He, Reality, Oneness, Brahman etc are truly pointing to, that is IT. Now you know. If you ever wanted to know your real self. Then Realize that simply being aware and remaining aware is your real nature. Awareness is unchanging and always remains the same. It doesn't come or go anywhere. It cannot be raised or decreased. Acquired or denied. Gained or lost. Awareness is pure changeless being. One cannot do anything with awareness but to simply be it. You do not meditate, you do not gain, strive to attain or cultivate awareness, but simply be that presence of awareness by being aware and remaining aware. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Awareness is no-thing. Nothing special whatsoever to get excited about. The Self is plain boring stateless ordinary everyday awareness. That is all. So simple. So common and so ordinary. That is the reason why people Seeking it are missing it all this time. Get rid of all the spiritual carrots you have acquired over the years from Holy Buddhas, Great Sages, Masters, Teachers and Jnanis if you truly desire to be Free. You cannot have both. You cannot hold on to and worship illusion and know the Reality. Awareness is yourself. That is all it is. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

To be awake or aware everyday naturally is present awareness itself, sentience, cognizance, that alone is in fact the so called state of 'Enlightenment' or 'Realization'. Full stop. So funny. That is IT. The awareness being pointed to as one's true nature is the natural activity of being conscious or wakeful-ness. There never was some holy spiritual presence of consciousness and all that bull-crap. Being alive and aware of being oneself everyday is at once consciousness and 'I' am. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Freedom is not something holy to be found in any religions or spirituality, but only by removing ignorance. People may blindly worship some blue man or pray to a flying monkey, but that is only illusion. Fairytales that only the simple and dumb will believe to be true. Question your beliefs. All acquired spiritual knowledge is paradoxically the greatest ignorance. Remove ignorance only. Know Thyself. It is so easy that it is laughable how simple and how easy Freedom truly is. It is not hard or difficult. No time or effort is required whatsoever to realize that you are aware. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Being aware is awareness. Are you aware? There you go sport! That is present awareness itself. How hard and how difficult is it to simply recognize one's true nature as being aware? You cannot experience awareness as something new or different because you are the experience itself. Awareness is what you are and have always been all along naturally your whole life, nothing new. It is simply the natural state of being aware and remaining aware. That is all. Who ever said that the Self was anything new, spiritual or holy? Thou art that already. Awareness is not some new, special or spiritual state, it is stateless. It is pure changeless being. Awareness is the state of pure being common to all and always experienced directly by everyone alive

as the undeniable knowing that you are. Awareness present is 'I' am present. The 'I' and awareness are One. Why do people Seek awareness as something new or special when simply being awake or aware is the awareness? Who knows? Ignorance is the only culprit that seemingly creates a false notion of separation, duality and bondage. Awareness is not to be reached or attained, awareness is what we always are naturally everyday, plain and ordinary. Only ignorant people who are veiled desire to see awareness as something new, different or special some even wish to be given awareness to them as some holy illusory transmission, how funny. Awareness is simply present as the knowing that you are present or present awareness. In other words to simply be conscious, awake or aware is awareness itself. That is all. Everybody knows and says 'I' am. Being aware of being oneself everyday is awareness. So plain, so common and so ordinary is this presence of awareness. Question your beliefs. Simply because awareness is nothing new, nothing spiritual or holy. Beliefs are acquired from books and others but awareness is not, it is always present as your own self and being. Just like it is impossible to separate oneself from space, it is absolutely impossible to separate oneself from awareness Who ever told you that awareness was something new, something spiritual or holy simply fooled you to foolishly believe the false to be true. Awareness is simple changeless being. The presence of awareness is being-ness. Self, God, He, the Reality or whatever name turns you onare only words pointing to the state of being aware. Aware-ness is the natural state of being and remaining aware all day long or wakeful-ness common to everybody. That is it. That is the Open Secret. The mystery about one's true nature is revealed as being awareness. One's thoughtless unchanging true nature is plain ordinary everyday common to all boring awareness. There never was anything special about awareness. Nothing new or different to get excited about. That is the funny paradox You will only laugh at yourself for Seeking the Self i.e. awareness.

After all, if you know for certain that you are not dead or un-conscious. There you go sport, you are aware. You can only know that you are alive and conscious simply because you are aware, aware-ness is present. Awareness present is 'I' am. Awareness of being is the Sought-after Truth and the undeniable Reality. Didn't anyone tell you that what you Seek is what you already are? Awareness is undeniably present because you know that you are present, funny no! You and awareness are One.No difference whatsoever. It is the core of one's own being. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The natural state of being aware is awareness itself. Awareness is simply being aware or conscious. Same, same. Know the simple Truth! Awareness is simply being aware. Full stop! Right here and now you are already that. Aren't you aware right now anyhow? People will Seek awareness as something new, spiritual or special, their ignorance about the true Self is so funny. That is what happens to people that read too many spiritual books and have seen too many Enlightened Gurus, they will start to believe in fantasy and illusion to be the Reality, never realizing that all along the Self is nothing other than the simple fact of their own being. It is 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Can you ever say 'I' am not? Of course not. 'I' am is always with you. Awareness of being never changes. No one in any circumstance can say 'I' do not exist and negate one's own being. There you go, 'I' am is always certain and one's own being-ness or 'I' amness needs no proof. That is it. 'I' am that 'I' am is the so called Self-Real-'I'-zation. Being is awareness itself i.e. the Self. That is all. Who am 'I'? After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. 'I' am is certain. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

Everybody knows and says 'I' am. Nothing new, special or extra-ordinary about the Self or the Reality. In fact a spiritual or religious Self or God is only found in story books that some believe are holy as some fantasy with extra-ordinary stories that we call religions and that some people wish to believe in. That is why they are still waiting for God to show up some day. Another name for the Self, He, the Reality is wakefulness. To know oneself to be this natural presence of awareness itself is the Realization. Wakefulness. To be awake or to be conscious is to be lively and buoyant. Sentience, cognizance, awareness. Everyone awake from sleep or undeniably conscious is always abiding as the Self, they simply do not realize it. Consciousness or wakefulness is 'I' am. You are that. The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Freedom is not something new to be freshly acquired, but only removing the idea of being bound. There never was anything spiritual or religious whatsoever about awareness. Simply being aware is the Self. To be aware and remain aware all day long is the Self and one's true nature. It is what you are and have always been. Like a Fish in the water crying that he is thirsty. What is foolishly believed to be lost and needs to be found? Why should anyone Seek awareness as something new, when simply being aware is awareness itself? It is the knowing that you are. Present awareness is that 'I' am you know so well. The only mistake is to Seek awareness as something new, different, special, spiritual or holy. Remove ignorance only and you have done all that needs to be done for Freedom. The Open Secret shining in plain sight is that simply being aware or conscious is itself abiding as one's true nature. Nothing new, special or different. Everyone's unchanging true nature is simple, plain ordinary everyday awareness. Always experienced directly by everybody every single day as simply being aware and remaining aware.

That is all there is to recognize or realize. To be aware and remain aware is this presence of awareness itself. That is what the fuss about awareness or the Self is truly all about. Being aware or awake or conscious or sentient. Of course to the ones who sell water by the River, awareness is packaged to look, smell, taste and feel like something new, spiritual or special. It is much more enticing that way than with just some plain no-thing. Spiritual carrots are used to entice spiritual and religious Seekers, just like a carrot on a stick is so enticing to an Ass. What about all the great spiritual and religious beings, Saints, Buddhas or Enlightened Masters that walk the Earth sharing a beautiful message of truth, love, compassion and humility? Simple, it is all crap. As the wise old saying goes, if you ever see a holy Buddha on the Road, run him over with a truck, it is only for show. Spiritual Gurus and Religious Teachers are only for show, just for entertainment purpose and appearance only. Do not take my words for it. Investigate and prove it to yourself. Open your own eyes, for it is very easy to see. Get to know the simple Truth. Investigate, because the one who waits for Freedom only dies ignorant. The one who foolishly believes that the word 'God' points to something somewhere in the Sky is veiled. Don't you know that the Self, consciousness or awareness as some spiritual presence doesn't exist? Veiled superstitious people have created a so call God out of ignorance and illusion. People look up to the Sky like if there was something there. How funny. Just some imaginary fantasy for them to turn to and to worship. That is all what main stream religions are truly all about. And so are all Sects run by spiritual Gurus, Saints, Sages and Jnanis etc. Of course you will always have the self-appointed Guru, spiritual Teacher, Yogi or Jnani bragging about their spiritual experiences and great accomplishments. Some will even write an entire book about it. A spiritual Guru from the East or religious Evangelist in the West, there is absolutely no difference whatsoever. After all, how many people would worship someone else, follow them and even create a religions after them, unless they blindly and foolishly believed their Guru or Teacher had something special that they didn't have already?

Nowadays when someone likes the smell of their own farts so much so that they will write a book about it, they will get some satisfaction and validation from others that they have so called arrived somewhere or perhapsattained or experienced something spiritual, religious or special and decided to share it with others for recognition and a fee. Yet one can have many experiences and seeking to validate them, but no experience will ever be the Reality. It is absolutely impossible for whatever happens afresh to ever be the Reality.Whatever is gained will be lost. Many are fooled by falsely believing illusion to be true or the Reality. Therefore the rule of thumb is easy, the more spiritual, the more religious and holy, paradoxically the more ignorance and further from the Truth it will truly be. It is just the way it is. It all works in reverse. Just like comedians are very sad people camouflaging their sadness and shrinks mentally disturbed. Self-appointed Gurus and spiritual Teachers are simply people Seeking validation from others some will even place flyers in health food stores and advertisements in spiritual magazines with a strong desire to be sought, then discovered and worshipped by ignorant Seekers. Makes these people feel better about themselves by pretending to be a special being. Usually they will even put on a smile on their face to look happy or blissful. But that is all and only for show, there is nobody special.Just someone pretending to be for a scam. Simply because an ordinary person is already a Buddha and a Buddha is simply an ordinary person only pretending to be a special being or Enlightened being, just to entice the ignorant Seekers to be at their service. In fact the so called state of Enlightenment is just a mental creation, a spiritual and religious concept or Myth. It doesn't exist. One only believes in Enlightenment just like others will believe in Santa or the Tooth Fairy. The answer to who am 'I' is not found in holy books as a spiritual ideology or fantasy. Realize that paradoxically to know one's true nature and Freedom is very easy.

Do not be fooled. It is not a spiritual event, state or experience. Nothing new is to be gained afresh. Therefore there is absolutely no Seeking experiences and nothing spiritual or religious you have to do or turn to. There is nothing whatsoever spiritual or religious to be taught for Freedom. Understanding alone is Realizing. Don't you know that the only Freedom, Mukti or Liberation is to simply free oneself from ignorance? Knowing one's true nature has nothing to do with some spiritual or religious bull-crap. Simply because the Self or one's true nature is nothing new, spiritual or special, it never was and never will be. Only the spiritual or religious Seeker believes that Freedom is something new to be freshly acquired. But it is not. Self-appointed spiritual Gurus and religious Teachers do not want people know the simple Truth about Freedom. These people have build careers and even legacies by feeding false promises, lies and ignorance to Seekers. Many will Teach some ideology around the world and sell books full of lies pretending that it is Truth. After all, you cannot have both Truth and a Fee. If Freedom isn't Free. It is only lies disguised as Truth only. Open your eyes. Wake up! Smell the coffee. Have a look for yourself and see. Remove the veil of ignorance.Investigate. Lies, illusion or the false cannot stand up to investigation. Find out what is true about yourself, find out what is Real. What is the real unchanging you that doesn't come and go anywhere? Freedom is very easy if you only want it bad enough. After all, it is already here. One only believes that there is bondage, just a false notion, belief or idea. Know the simple Truth. There is no bondage and there is no liberation either. Just like a Fish in the water crying that he is thirsty.Who is bound? On enquiry 'who' is bound? The notion of bondage vanishes and so does that of liberation. The one eternally free alone remains self-revealed. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is nothing to be done for Freedom, any effort to become Free is itself bondage,

but only to remove the idea of being bound is Freedom itself, that is all. Just this and nothing else. Be wise and do not fall for the holy spiritual being or so called Buddha you see on the Road for he will not help you. When ever you hear self-appointed spiritual Gurus and religious Teachers talking about going beyond a mind or kill an ego to discover freedom,realize the simple Truth, that these people are only lying to their disciples. There is no mind and there is no ego to go beyond or to get rid of. One only believes that there is. Just like a mirage of water in the desert, upon investigation it is nowhere to be found. Don't believe me, have a look for yourself and see. Can you show me your mind? Mind and ego are just a dualistic concepts, that is all.Words pointing to something that doesn't exist. Why should anyone spend a lifetime striving to go beyond something that is not even there, isn't it foolish? If you seek the ego you will find, it does not exist. That is the way to get rid of it. Look for it and it will not be found. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Remove ignorance if you want to be Free. Nothing else. You are already the one you Seek to know. There is no duality or separation, but Omni-presence. Consciousness is the Omni-presence that we call Life, nothing more is to be realized. Simply present as being-ness. No amount of effort can bring upon Freedom, but in fact effort only paradoxically perpetuate the illusion of bondage. Know that no amount of time or practice of any kind can help anyone reach or attain Freedom. It is impossible. To make any effort is paradoxically bondage. To understand is to instantly remove the veil of ignorance. Free yourself from the false notion of being bound.Understanding is all that is necessary. Remove ignorance only. That is all that is required for Freedom from all bondage. Know the simple Truth and it sets you Free from the false idea of being bound. There is no bondage other than a false notion of bondage.Funny paradox. One only believes that there is. Bondage is only psychological. That is the Secret to Freedom. You are ever-Free.

Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What are you looking for? Freedom is always here. Only an ignorant fool waits for Freedom. Did you know that the end of all Seeking paths is to simply remove ignorance with understanding? After all, there is no becoming, no attaining, no achieving or reaching anything new or different whatsoever. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Many ignorant self-appointed spiritual Gurus and misleading spiritual Teachers alike keep Seekers bound to ignorance by telling them that they cannot understand this consciousness, when in fact all there is to be done for Freedom from all bondage is to understand this consciousness. Isn't that a funny paradox? Well there is a reason for it and it is pretty obvious. Self-appointed spiritual Gurus and religious Teachers do not want Seekers to know the simple Truth. After all, who is going to buy some Guru a Rolls Royce, pay their Rent or their vacation but an ignorant Seeker. They want Seekers to be at their service. There is no money in Freedom, only ignorance can be bought and acquired. Know the Truth. Freedom has always been about removing ignorance with understanding.Just this and nothing else. Not about transmissions of this and that of Guru's crap. There is nothing special about knowing one's true nature. Understanding consciousness is child-like simplicity. To be alive is the presence of consciousness AKA Life. To be conscious is consciousness itself AKA the Self. That is the Soughtafter Truth and one's true nature. Many people have mystified the Self for profit as something mystical, spiritual or holy. But that is false. Realize that spirituality and religions are a scam that have absolutely nothing to do with Freedom.

Seekers turn toward self-appointed spiritual Gurus and religious Teachers for Wisdom and paradoxically only will gain ignorance camouflaged as Truth. Any spiritual or religious concepts you may have read or acquired about the Self, He or the Reality from either Eastern or Western spiritual Gurus and religious Teachers is simply crap. None of it will ever be true. Many use spiritual and religious concepts only to confuse and entice ignorant Seekers to believe the false to be true. People will camouflage themselves as spiritual beings only to sell water by the River to the ignorant Seeker. There is absolutely nothing whatsoever spiritual or religious about the Self. That is the Secret, there never was. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Ignorant Seekers want to see the Self as something new, a blazing light or something extra-ordinary, but it is not. Don't you know that the Self is awareness? To simply be aware and remain aware all day long is consciousness. Common to all and always experienced directly everyday naturally by everyone alive as the waking state. Being aware all day long is being the Self. How simple can knowing one's true nature be? Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Being aware or awareness is everyone's natural state of being. Awareness is sentience. Awareness is everyone's thoughtless true nature. Meaning if you pause thoughts for a few moments only awareness itself will remain present. Therefore what remains present without any thoughts present is always one's unchanging true nature. One can spend an entire lifetime reading spiritual book after spiritual book, go from Guru to Guru etc, endlessly. The simple point to be grasped or understood is that simply being aware naturally everyday is itself the presence of awareness called the Self and that is one's true nature.

Get to know your real self. Have a look at your true nature. It is so easy. To recognize awareness present as the thoughtless unchanging you, simply be still for a moment and voila! That is IT. What remains present and self-shining as plain ordinary awareness itself is the Self. Realize that even if you pause thoughts you are and remain aware anyhow. Nothing whatsoever changes or happens. Just like clouds, only thoughts will disappear for a few moments but you yourself always remain present and aware. Whenever you pause thoughts for a few moments, the clouds disappear. Your changeless true nature is always self-revealed as the real changeless thoughtless you. Just like when clouds disappear, the Sky always remain. Awareness always remains present and unchanging. Realize that thoughts come and thoughts go exactly like they are supposed to, but you yourself always remain. Present as pure changeless being. This affectionate immutable present awareness doesn't come and go anywhere. Freedom is to simply recognize one's true nature to always be present and unchanging with or without thoughts. That is the fastest and easiest way to discern between unchanging awareness and transient or changing thoughts. All that is required to realize the Self (awareness) is to be still. What can be easier than that? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To recognize awareness to be one's true self is so easy. Just be still and voila! So simple.That is all. Pause thoughts and what naturally remains present without thoughts present is one's thoughtless true nature. Awareness is the most natural and the most plain ordinary presence to anyone alive that people simply overlook it. Awareness or the Self is nothing new but in fact what you have simply always known yourself to be naturally. Awareness is not and will never be something new, special or different to be reached, to be attained or cultivated. The only Trap is to strive to become or attain what you already are and have always been all along naturally. How can you kiss yourself? You are the Self or awareness itself this very moment simply be just as you are. You, being the Self (awareness), want to knowhow to attain the Self (awareness)..... You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are

awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Present here and now naturally with all sentient beings. Nothing new or special. To simply be aware is awareness. That plain, common ordinary presence of aware-ness itself is the real Self and one's thoughtless true nature. There is no becoming awareness. Simply being aware is awareness itself i.e. the Self. Present closer to you than your own breath. Why should anyone Seek it? Look at yourself and you have found it. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Awareness is the effortless primary cognizing presence that always remains present and unchanging as sentience. Always present here and now with anyone that is awake and aware as sentience, wakefulness or awareness itself. After all, how many thoughts can someone be aware of, if they are not conscious but un-conscious? None! The Self is naturally present as awareness itself. Awareness is selfshining. Undeniably present and unchanging. Awareness is not a thought. Awareness is the Real unchanging you that is present and aware of thoughts. Awareness is nothing new, spiritual or far away. It is paradoxically always present closer than close. Freedom is not at all about being a blind believer of spiritual and religious concepts and ideology. But all and only about understanding what is simply being pointed to as one's true nature. After all, how far and foreign can one's true, real, unchanging everpresent nature be from oneself? Awareness is nothing special but simply the natural effortless activity of being sentient, cognizant. It is nothing other than simply being aware and remaining aware all day long. Awareness present is the knowing that you are. The Sought-after Truth is at once being alive and being aware. Nothing new, spiritual or special but simply what you have always been and are. Know the Truth. Self-appointed Gurus and spiritual Teachers sensationalize awareness camouflaging this plain ordinary everyday presence common to all as

something special, spiritual or holy, but that is all false. Using spiritual and religious concepts just like a carrot on a stick to only to entice Seekers. Nothing new, special or spiritual to be acquired.Remove ignorance only.Nothing else needs to be done. The natural state of being awake or aware is the Reality or unchanging awareness itself. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ One can only laugh at the simplicity. Freedom is so simple. Understanding is all. What you Seek is what you have always been and are right now. Nothing new or special whatsoever. Wisdom is Freedom. Only ignorance needs to be removed. Being awake from sleep, conscious, sentient, cognizant or aware is the Self. That is all. That alone is the presence of awareness being pointed as one's thoughtless true nature and Reality. There never was anything new, anything spiritual, religious or special about the Self. It is the natural state of being. The ignorant spiritual and religious Seeker who is veiled by acquired beliefs only believes that there is. Awareness present or present awareness is simply being oneself naturally everyday.Nothing new or far away. To be aware is awareness. Natural, common and ordinary. That presence of awareness is the Real Self. Awareness present is everyone's natural state of being. Awareness is always present with everyone alive as one's true nature. If awareness wasn't already present and unchanging with oneself, how could that be the Reality? Anything new, different, spiritual, religious or special is not awareness or the Reality but in fact transient illusion. Subtle and changeless. The Reality present as one's true nature is plain and ordinary awareness. Awareness is wakefulness. Nothing new or special about being aware. Who is not awake or aware everyday? Everyone already knows the Self or this present awareness so well already as one's natural state of being. Who doesn't know and say 'I' am? Being aware or awareness present is undeniably knowing that you are. Sentience, cognizance, wakefulness, awareness are just different names

synonymous with the Self. Awareness is nothing new or special but what we have always been and are naturally. To recognize one's true nature is very easy. Look at yourself here and now. Are you aware right now and absolutely certain that you are not asleep? If your answer is yes 'I' am! Then you undeniably know the Self to be present. You are the knowing that you are, the presence of awareness itself. Don't be fooled. The Self is not some holy presence or something new or spiritual to be freshly acquired from others. Any acquired spiritual and religious concepts and beliefs that awareness is anything new, spiritual or special are false. Everybody always experiences the Self. Not as anything new or special but as plain ordinary everyday awareness. Seeing is being aware or the Self. Hearing is being aware or the Self. Thinking is being aware or the Self etc. All natural activities are always registered or cognized whenever you are awake, sentient or aware. To be alive, conscious or aware everyday is always abiding as one's true nature. To simply be alive and aware of being oneself everyday naturally is to be the Self.That is all. That is what 'I' am truly represents. Consciousness itself. Present as the knowing that you are present. Consciousness is 'I' am. The simple fact of your own being. 'I' am is consciousness or the Self, He, the Reality or God. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be conscious is consciousness i.e. the Self or God. How simple can Freedom be? You are He, you are IT, you are That this very moment naturally without ever trying to be. Look at yourself. Consciousness is indeed present. Aren't you undeniably aware of being yourself? Free yourself from ignorance only! Understanding is Realizing. Freedom is very easy. No time or effort is required whatsoever. Simply get rid of ignorance. Understanding is all. What can be easier than that?

You won't become a holy spiritual being, an Enlightened Sage or a great Jnani etc, that is all crap. You simply remove the idea that you have not yet realized, that is all. Nothing more. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Remove ignorance and you have done all that needs to be done. Only ignorant spiritual Seekers foolishly believe that Freedom is about becoming, reaching or attaining something new, different or spiritual. But it is not. One only believes that there is bondage. Get rid of the false notion of bondage and voila! That is all. You have done all that needed to be done from Freedom. It is so simple that it is laughable. After all, you cannot negate the knowing that you are. You cannot say 'I' do not exist. Freedom is very easy. No time or effort is necessary to know the Self or consciousness to be undeniably present as one's true nature. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Just look at yourself. You only know that you are present or are undeniably aware of beingpresent here and now, simply because consciousness or the Self is itself present. Just like water and ice, there is no ice without water. Consciousness is just another name for you. It is what you are right now and have always been naturally all along. The Self is always present as your own self. It is your own being. Present as that 'I' am you know so well already. Consciousness is the real presence of Life or existence, immutable, indivisible, it is the very core of one's being. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The only reason many spiritual and religious Seekers have spent years studying religious scriptures and got absolutely nowhere is simply because all religious scriptures and

holy books are only about fantasy, about imaginary stories and misinterpretations. Paradoxically spiritual and religious books cannot help you discover Freedom. Simply because they are not pointing to the simple Truth whatsoever. That is the paradox. After all, who ever told you that you were not already Free? You are He, you are That, you are the imperishable Self this very moment. What you Seek is what you already are. How can you kiss yourself on your own lips? All concepts about this Oneness, about this consciousness are simply pointing to the presence of Life itself. You are Life.Life is the so called Living God. You are that Living-ness this very moment, simply being just as you are. The Self (consciousness) is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Being is Life itself. No one alive can deny one's own existence. 'I' am is certain and needs no proof.Nothing is to be acquired to know that you are. 'I' am is always with you. Know that 'I' am is this presence of Life or consciousness and that alone is God. Life, consciousness, existence, being and 'I' am are synonymous with God. Same, same. He is Life itself. Life is the Omni-presence some people have come to call God. Life is the Beautiful Mystery we all like to be. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ What you Seek is what you have always been naturally. Being alive is the experience itself. Only remove ignorance. How can you kiss this Beauty? It is effortlessly beating your heart and naturally self-shining through your own eyes. You can only be what you have always been and are naturally. Consciousness is the real presence of existence or Life. Do not get confused by foolishly believing that consciousness has anything to do with space or silence. Know the simple Truth that keeping quiet or seeking silence will never bring upon Freedom. Self-appointed Gurus and Teachers will sell silence to the ignorant for a fee. But that is only for making a profit.

Life is consciousness. Lively and buoyant. It is not space or silence. It is the Reality undeniably present within your own dwelling. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Just like a light bulb cannot shine without electricity. The Self or He or God is the natural presence of Life itself within the body. Life is just another name for consciousness which is present in all sentient beings or God. Call it God, the Self, He, the Reality, the Oneness, consciousness etc, it is all the same. Same, same. God and Life or consciousness are synonymous. You are Life, you are God, you are consciousness. Here and now you are that. After all, aren't you undeniably alive and aware of being? If you are not dead but alive, you are God. Your body is itself Life's temple. Consciousness is the power and intelligence naturally present within the body as pure being. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The only Freedom, Mukti, Liberation etc, is simply understanding that there is no bondage. So simple. Not striving to become, reach or attain anything new or different whatsoever. Ignorant spiritual and religious people are the only ones that believe they are bound so they will waste their whole life foolishly Seeking God knows what. Chasing after spiritual carrots. All that we need do is to remove the obstruction. That which is eternal is not known to be so because of ignorance. Ignorance is the obstruction. Get over this ignorance and all will be well. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ God is not found in a book. He is present within your own dwelling. Life doesn't know death. Life is the imperishable Self. Understanding is all. Not becoming or achieving anything new. Just get rid of ignorance by getting a clue to what God truly is. That He is Life itself.

Again there is no bondage and there is no liberation. You are already what you Seek to find here and now. Only ignorance is to be removed with understanding. Nothing else is required. Freedom is so easy. You gain absolutely nothing new, nothing spiritual or different whatsoever for Freedom.Because nothing was lost. It is like a Fish in the water that cries he is thirsty or a Fish in the Ocean Searching frantically for the Ocean. The best analogy is like having some precious sun glasses on the top your head and searching everywhere for them falsely believing that they are lost, when all along they are always present so near. Nothing new or different is to be freshly acquired. Freedom is not reached. Freedom is what you already are naturally. Consciousness is Life. Consciousness is indeed undeniably present because 'I' am present. Look at your own self. The only reason you know that you are or are aware of being is only because consciousness is itself present as pure awareness of being. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Who doesn't know that they are alive. Who is not aware of being? 'I' exist is 'I' am. Present awareness or awareness of being present is consciousness. In other words whenever you are awake from sleep or are conscious naturally everyday you are indeed abiding as the Self. That is all. Freedom is so simple. That is the funny paradox. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Freedom is very easy. It is laughable, there is nothing you have to do or achieve for consciousness or the Self to be. Obviously spiritual and religious people will never tell you that.How can they sell water by the River when all along everyone alive and kicking is already the Self, He and the Reality? Understanding this consciousness itself is all that is required. Realize that consciousness is not a spiritual or religious state. Consciousness is what we are.

What is Sought-after as the Realityis paradoxically what we have always been and are naturally everyday. The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something newor reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The so called Realized state is not a spiritual achievement or religious experience but simply being what you are. Understanding that being alive and conscious or aware everyday is abiding as the Self, itself is Freedom. Self, consciousness, Life or God are just different names for the same presence of existence. To be alive is itself to be the Self. To be alive and aware of being is at once 'I' am and God.The Self is yourself. That is the Secret to Freedom that self-appointed spiritual Gurus and Religious Teachers don't want Seekers to know. The ultimate Truth is very simple but spiritual Gurus and Religious people need to keep Seekers Seeking. They will tell their disciples to keep quiet, to meditate in silence and not to try understand. To do something to become something, how funny! Have a look and see. How many self-appointed Gurus keep Seekers in the dark, bound to ignorance only by simply discouraging them to understand what the Reality simply is. Some will stare in people eyes pretending to transmit some holy spiritual presence and others will sell silence. Many will pick up a practice to be performed, a meditation, a mantra or yoga, all cultivating bondage to ignorance. Ignorant of this simple truth, innumerable methods under different denominations, such as yoga, bhakti, karma, each again with many modifications, are being taught with great skill and in intricate detail only to entice the seekers and confuse their minds. So also are the religions and sects and dogmas. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ It doesn't matter what you do, it cannot help you. No amount of effort or practice of any kind can bring upon Freedom. Only by understanding what consciousness truly is, that the veil of ignorance is effortlessly removed.

Always remember that understanding is Realizing. There is no becoming what you have always been and are. To be alive and aware everyday is to always abide as one's true nature. It is nothing new or special. One's own everyday existence is the Divine. The Reality is at once being and consciousness. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ There is nothing new to be gained or to be acquired whatsoever for Freedom. There never was. Why imagining to reach, to attain or achieve something new, spiritual or special, when it is only fantasy? There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained. You are the Self (consciousness). You exist always. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The so called Realization is not to be achieved.It is already here. You already are at the destination you have never left. Religious and spiritual Seekers have acquired the wrong address or wrong knowledge about the imperishable Self from others, from scriptures and holy books. Whoever told you that you have to do this or have do that, to someday become Realized was either an idiot or a liar. Many self-appointed spiritual ignorant people and con artists alike disguise themselves as holy beings to entice ignorant Seekersto foolishly believe the false to be Reality. Freedom is always here. Only remove ignorance, that is all. So simple. The Self or consciousness is always present effortlessly as Life itself. It is the living power and natural intelligence present in the body. Thou art that. What can you do with this revelation? Nothing at all. Just be as you are. That is being the Self. Always remember that you will never know Enlightenment for it is only a Myth. There is no such thing. Enlightened people only pretend to be. Just for show to entice the weak, the simple and the dumb. Enlightenment is just a religious concept. Just this and nothing else.

When ever you see some imbecile bowing down to their beloved Master, Guru or Teacher's feet. Laugh! These are ignorant fools that believe someone outside themselves is God among man, that will grant all their wishes and manifest all their desires. Know the Truth, a holy being, Sage, Guru or Jnani is no more Enlightened than your neighbor's Grand Mother. The Self (consciousness) is not something to be acquired from others. All that is necessary is to know its existence in you. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ No one ever fails to experience the Self as consciousness. To be conscious is consciousness.To be awake or aware is awareness. To naturally be conscious or wakeful or aware or awake everyday is to be the Self. Consciousness present is self-shining naturally everyday as wakefulness or unchanging awareness. To be awake from sleep is to be the Self. To be awake from sleep is consciousness. To be awake from sleep is to be aware and remain aware or awareness. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ That is all. So simple. One can only laugh at the Joke of it all. There never was anything new, spiritual or special about the Reality. Ignorant spiritual Seekers believe awareness to be something new, spiritual and holy. Nope! Just realize that you are aware and remain aware all day long, that is IT. That is one's true nature. Understand this consciousness. It is so easy to know one's ever-present true nature. The Guru cannot give you anything new, which you dont have already. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Life or consciousness present is known to all as pure awareness of being. The knowing that you are present is 'I' am. Look at your own being. Are you alive? Are you conscious? Are you aware? Yes! Voila. You are that Living-ness.

Consciousness is the unseen Living presence or Living power within the body. It is nothing new but Life itself. The Self is not something new, spiritual or holy to be acquired from others or from some holy Guru etc. It is only to be recognized always present naturally as Life itself, as consciousness, as existence. Awareness of being alive is itself the Reality. Knowing that you are alive is 'I' exist, it is 'I' am. Everyone alive is always the Self. Being alive is the experience itself. The Self is Life itself.To be alive is to be IT. Are you alive? Nothing new, spiritual or special is to be freshly acquired for the Reality to be. Why remain ignorant? Understand! That is called Freedom. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To be alive is to be God. To be conscious is consciousness and that is the Self. To be aware is awareness. Knowing that you are alive is pure awareness of being. Knowing that you are alive is 'I' am. The understanding is that the 'I' is not different from God. No dual-'I'-ty. Don't you know yourself? Don't you say 'I' this and 'I' that all day long? Of course! Who is not aware of himself? Everyone alive is undeniably aware of being. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Present awareness or awareness of being present. You cannot negate that knowing that you are. 'I' exist is the Self-Real-'I'zation. So simple. Call off the Search! Full stop. Only the Search is a Trap. After all, what are you looking for? Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Lord, God or the Self is simply one's own self. That is all. Nothing new or special about being oneself is there?

The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Nothing to change, nothing to alter or modify whatsoever about oneself. That is what it truly is to be the Self and the so called state of Realization. Funny no? Call off the Search. The Seeker is the Sought. That is the funny paradox. There is nothing new to reach, attain or aquire. You are that already literally. There is nothing to gain whatsoever. Ignorant and foolish people only believe that there is. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought 'I' have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Ignorant Seekers believe that the 'I' is ego or a finite self or whatever concept they have been brainwashed to believe. People believe all sorts of crap to be true. To the wise that flushed all the religious and spiritual crap down the toilet, the 'I' is simply the imperishable Infinite Self and God. The 'I' or one's own self is that. The 'I' is that. period end. Nothing spiritual or religious about God.Call it being. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The 'I' is one's own self. The 'I' is that. The 'I' present in 'I' am is the Lord. In another words God is the plain good ol' everyday you! Here and now you are that. What effort do you have make to be alive and aware of being?None! Present here and now naturally. Alive-ness, living-ness, being-ness is the experience. God is Life itself. So simple. If you are not dead but alive this very moment then you are so called Enlightened. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~

To be alive is to be the Self. That is the Secret. One's own being-ness is nothing new, spiritual, religious or holy. Throw away all the spiritual and religious books. Simply because they cannot help you. The ignorant spiritual and religious Seeker expect the Self to be something new, different or special. But it is not. Understanding this consciousness, being-ness or Living-ness is all that is required.It is nothing new or special. After all, if you are conscious, awake or aware you are therefore undeniably abiding as the Self. That is all. There never was anything new or spiritual whatsoever about the Self. Some only believe that there is. That is the only trap. Believing that God is something spiritual or holy when in fact God is simply Life itself. There is no heaven and there is no hell. No past life or future life. This very moment of existence is the only Reality. Present here and now as Life itself. The Self or consciousness is nothing new to anyone alive. Spiritual and religious Seekers are only ignorant fools that simply do not know that being alive is being the Self. Remove ignorance only. Just this and nothing else. No one ever fails to experience the Self or this consciousness everyday as the natural presence of awareness. The Self i.e. consciousness is simply the natural state or the natural activity of being conscious. That is all. The Self is sentience. Cognizance or awareness. To be aware is awareness. This present awareness is the Self. You are the presence of awareness you already know so well as your own affectionate everyday self and being. Another name for this unchanging presence of awareness is wakefulness. To be conscious or wakeful is to be aware. So simple. That is all there is to realize. To be awake from sleep everyday, to be conscious or sentient is the awareness. That is all. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Self-awareness is knowing that you are.Present awareness. Awareness is just another name for the true Self, for He, the Lord, the Reality, God or the real you. God is 'I' am or me, myself and 'I'. Same, same. The 'I' is not different from the Lord.

Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Me, myself and 'I'.No one can deny one's own self. The 'I' present in 'I' am is the Self. The 'I' present in 'I' am is you. Gee! yoU aRe yoU. Only the veiled and ignorant spiritual Seeker believes that the 'I' or oneself is anything other than God. Me, myself and 'I' is God or the Imperishable Self or the Lord. So simple. Call off the Search. Thou art that already. God is not some stupid religious concept or spiritual belief. God present is being alive. The experience is always here and now. Being alive is the experience itself. How can you kiss this beauty? No one can deny one's own existence even though one cannot see it. 'I' am is always certain and needs no proof. No one denies ones own existenceany more than one denies ones eyes, although one cannot see them. The trouble lies with your desire to objectify the Self (consciousness), in the same way as you objectify your eyes when you place a mirror before them. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be or not to be. 'I' am or 'I' am not. 'I' exist or 'I' do not exist? Which one are you absolutely certain of that needs no proof. Can anyone alive deny one's own existence? Only a few idiots want to believe that they do not exist or that there is no one etc, these people are just dumb asses. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ 'I' exist is 'I' am. Knowing that you are alive is being God or the Self or the Reality or whatever name turns you on. Nothing new, spiritual, religious or special about being the Self, simply plain ordinary everyday awareness of being. To be awake or wakeful naturally everyday is to be aware of being and abide as the Self, He, the Reality or God. The Self is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Who is not aware of himself? Say 'I' am to yourself. That is it! You undeniably know that you are, that you exist is certain regardless that you say 'I' am or not. That is all that is to be realized or understood. 'I' am is at once being alive and therefore present as consciousness.

Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Free yourself from the idea of being bound only! Forget spiritual and religious crap. It cannot help you. People appearing holy and spiritual tell garbage to others and Sheepos believe their crap to be holy. Paradoxically Freedom is not about anything spiritual or religious but all about being yourself. Forget everything for a moment and you are there. Just be still and 'I' am remains present. Not some spiritual or holy 'I' am. But plain good ol' awareness of being yourself. Whoever said Freedom was the acquisition of anything new, spiritual or religious lied. Spiritual and religious people, Gurus and Teachers are all a bunch of liars. Nothing spiritual or religious can ever help anyone discover the Self. Simply because the Self is always present as the very core of one's own being. He is Life itself. Life, existence, consciousness is always undeniably present with oneself as the simple fact of one's own being. Why should anyone Seek it? You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Reality is Life itself. Life is nothing new to be found tomorrow. If you are alive here and now then you are the Reality. The experience is always here and now. It is known to all as pure awareness of being. Who doesn't know 'I' am? Who does not say 'I' am. Each one knows. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Forget all spiritual and religious stories you have read about, they are all crap. Carrots to entice the weak. When ever you hear or read some stories of spiritual Gurus Grace or holy transmissions, laugh!

Satsangs are a scams used to entice the ignorant to believe illusion to be the Reality. Some idiots will even sit for ten, twenty or forty years by some selfappointed holy Guru waiting eagerly for Freedom. Others will sit in Ashrams for years worshipping the graveyard of the past or dead people's pictures praying for Liberation. How funny. Life is Now only. Why wait for anything new? Be wise! Don't go suck up to some spiritual or holy being foolishly believing they have got something you don't. The Reality is not something new, nothing spiritual or religious to be acquired. Freedom is already here. Present a Life itself. Consciousness is just another name for Life. Same presence of existence. Present closer to you than your own breath. Life is the Beloved, the Divine Beauty you wish you could kiss. Naturally present within your own dwelling. Don't you know that your body is Life's temple? The Kingdom is in you. Life is the same shining presence present in all. One Life. Consciousness is not space, it is not silence. It is Life. The Spirit of Life is the presence of consciousness. That is the Self and Omni-presence. To be alive and conscious is this consciousness itself. So simple. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Can you separate yourself from your own existence? Hellooo! The Living God present in all is simply Life itself.Living-ness is consciousness.That is all. Simply being alive and conscious naturally everyday is being God. That is what 'I' am truly represents. If you are absolutely certain that you are not dead but alive, voila! You are undeniably so called Enlightened. The only difference between the wise and the ignorant is knowing this simple Truth. Nobody becomes anything new, spiritual or special. Didn't anyone tell you? Being alive is being the Self. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~

Wisdom is Freedom. Remove ignorance by understanding only. Seeking is only for dummies. Seeking it is always missing it. Understanding is all. Freedom is so easy. One can only laugh at the Joke of it all. Once you get that there is absolutely nothing new to get, then you finally got it.Funny no? The simple fact of your own being is this consciousness itself or He, the Self, the Reality or God. No one ever fails to experience the Self directly. Consciousness present is simply being conscious, awake or aware. To be aware and remain aware. That is the natural knowing that you are present or present awareness. Who ever said Freedom was something new, something spiritual, hard or difficult to be achieved? Only removing the false notion of bondage is Freedom. Remove ignorance. That is all that is necessary. The Guru cannot give you anything new, which you dont have already. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Freedom is nothing new. Everybody alive is always abiding as the Self itself. Freedom is only removing the idea "'I' have not yet realized", that is all. Being alive is the so called state of Enlightenment. That is the Open Secret Self-shining in plain sight. That is the Open Secret self-appointed spiritual and religious Teachers and Gurus either do not know for themselves or do not want others to know. After all, how can someone sell a book about nothing or water by the River, but by creating fantasy. Enlightenment is a Myth. Buddhas are only con artists pretending to be holy. An ordinary person is already a Buddha and a special Buddha is only an ordinary person. Some people like the smell of their own farts and play the holy Guru to be worshipped by ignorant seekers. Like the old saying goes if you ever see a holy Enlightened being or Loving Buddha somewhere on the road smiling and all, wanting to help you out of compassion to find Freedom, Moksha or Liberation.

Kill the Mother F*&#er. It is only for show to entice the ignorant Seeker to fall for illusion. Forget all that crap. Anyone that pretends to be a spiritual being is an idiot. Anyone that pretends to be religious and holy is a con artist. Know the simple Truth! Life is the Self, He, the Reality. To simply be alive is to be God. That is all. Freedom is so simple. Understanding that Life is consciousness is all that is required. 'I' am is being alive, conscious and therefore aware of being oneself. That is the Self i.e. consciousness. Everybody knows one's own self. Everybody says 'I' am all day long. Awareness of being is bliss or happiness. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Call off the Search. To simply be alive is to be the Self. So simple. Nothing spiritual or religious about being whatsoever. There never was anything spiritual or religious about Freedom anyhow.That is the Secret. Only veiled and ignorant spiritual and religious Seekers foolishly believes that there is. Funny no? Spiritual and religious concepts and beliefs of any kind are in fact the poison, not the cure. It all works in reverse. Some ignorant spiritual and religious Seekers want to find a Guru, Sage or Jnani to suck up to and fall in love with. These people are veiled and will never know Freedom by foolishly turning toward illusion believing it to be the Reality. Gurus and Teachers are all liars and con artists, they are not your Friend but garbage only to throw away in the trash. That you can take it to the bank. Forget all these phony spiritual liars and self-appointed religious con artists. Remove ignorance by understanding only. Nothing else is necessary. Freedom is so simple. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Not knowing the simple Truth about one's true identity. Ignorance is the only bondage.

That is the Secret self-appointed spiritual Gurus do not want Seekers to know. Understanding is all. Nothing else. Why Seek, suck up and worship illusion? When all along the Self is simply being yourself. That is all. Not becoming anything new or spiritual, just being yourself naturally everyday. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is nothing to Teach and that is nothing to learn.It is all and only about being alive naturally and effortlessly. To be alive and awake from sleep everyday is to be aware of being oneself and that is the Self, He, the Reality. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To be awake or conscious is itself consciousness. So simple. Being aware is present awareness itself i.e. the Self. Awareness of being oneself or present awareness is knowing that you are or 'I' am. 'I' exist is always first hand. Everybody knows and says 'I' am all day long. 'I' am is first hand and needs no proof. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ 'I' am is always with you. No one alive can deny his own being. Everyone knows that they are alive. No one can say 'I' do not exist.One's own affectionate plain ordinary everyday existence needs no proof. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Like a Fish in the water that is crying that he is thirsty. You yourself are the experience. Are you alive? To be or not to be. Are you aware of being? Yes? Voila! Thou art that. It is pure awareness of being, simply knowing that you are alive is being the Self. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Freedom is so easy. One can only laugh at the simplicity. Simply remove the idea that you are bound. So simple. That is all that is required for Freedom. Realize the simple Truth, that there is no bondage whatsoever. There is no bondage and there also is no liberation. Gurus want to appear special and only pretend that there is. Therefore what are you waiting for when you are already there naturally without ever trying to be? Know the simple Truth! Being alive naturally is always being the Self, He, the Reality. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Understanding is realizing that simply being alive naturally is always being the Self, He, the Reality or God. Not becoming anything new, spiritual or different. Only a fool wants to buy water by the River, believing it to be something special, spiritual or holy. Wake up and smell the coffee. The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something newor reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Open Secret self-shining naturally in plain sight everyday is that Life is itself the imperishable Self. Why worry when what is born and what must die is the body only. Life or consciousness doesn't know death. Who are you really? Are you a body or are you the Life essence, the consciousness or livingness present in the body? Get to know your imperishable true nature if you desire to be free from the illusion of separation and duality. Didn't anyone tell you? Freedom is already here. Make no effort! There is nothing to become, reach or attain. Freedom is only removing the false notion of not being the imperishable Self already, the One, the Eternal. It is very easy. Simply understand or realize that being alive and conscious is consciousness. The word Self, consciousness, Life, existence, God are all synonymous with pure awareness of being.

God is Life itself. Being alive is being the Self or God. One's own self is the One Self. God is 'I' am. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To be or not to be. If you are sure that you exist this very moment with certainty. If you know that you are.That is being. Congratulation you are Enlightened. That is all Enlightenment is truly all about.All about being. If you are alive and aware of being, you are a Buddha without knowing it. Simple changeless being is one's true nature. That is all. What else do you want the Infinite Self to be? Nothing special whatsoever. So common, natural and simple, that it is laughable. Simple changeless being is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Don't you know that spiritual and religious concepts, whatever they may be about the Infinite Self or God are crap? Ignorant people foolishly believe that the Infinite Self is either something spiritual, religious or special. Nope! Being alive and conscious is consciousness i.e. the imperishable Self. One's own existence is the Divine. Being alive and awake from sleep everyday naturally is in fact being a Buddha. How simple is that? One can only laugh at the Joke of it all. Call off the Search. What is missing? All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ Ignorant people falsely believe that so called Enlightenment is a spiritual or religious state. How foolish. Did you know that spirituality and religions have nothing to do with Freedom? That is the funny paradox. That is why spiritual and religious people always wait for Freedom, in fact most Seekers die waiting but the wise understands that simply being alive naturally is itself being

God. So simple. Only ignorance is removed. Nothing else. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Just like a mirage of water in desert will never make you wet. Bondage is only found in one's own head. Psychological. It is just a false notion foolishly believed to be true. After all, look for your chains and they will not be found. Investigate. That is how you get rid of ignorance. On enquiry 'who' is bound? The notion of bondage vanishes and so does that of Liberation. The one eternally free alone remains self-revealed. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no bondage and there is no liberation. Spiritual and religious books are only full of lies. To simply be alive and awake from sleep everyday is to be the Self.Enlightenment is simply being. Nothing else. Existence is one's true nature. Are you alive? Are you aware of being yourself right here and now? Voila! It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To be or not to be.Who is not aware of himself?Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny one's own everyday self and say 'I' am not. Can you honestly say that you are dead or that you do not exist? Of course not! No one can deny one's own existence and say 'I' do not exist. The Self present is 'I' exist or 'I' am. Knowing the Self (consciousness) is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ It is all about being, how simple can that be?Being meaning existence. Only some idiots go around foolishly believing that they do not exist or that there is no one present, but these people are just loonies. To be aware of being oneself all day long is the experience. That is all. 'I' am is always with you as the knowing that you are or present awareness. Say 'I' am to yourself. See! You undeniably know that you are.Present and aware of being yourself.So simple.

Consciousness is indeed present as pure awareness of being. You cannot deny yourself. You are the knowing that you are. The knowing that you are present or plain awareness of being is consciousness i.e. the Self. No one can say 'I' do not exist. No one can deny one's own plain ordinary everyday self and say 'I' am not. Being alive and aware of being oneself everyday or present awareness is the Self.Everybody knows and says 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Consciousness is 'I' am. Not some holy, spiritual or religious 'I' am,but plain ordinary everyday awareness of being common to all. The Self, He, the Reality or God is that 'I' am you know so well already as your own plain ordinary everyday self. Beware of self-appointed Gurus, holy Sages, Buddhas and Jnanis, they are all con artists.You can take it to the bank. Enlightenment as a religious or spiritual state is a Hoax. To be alive and aware of being is the Reality. Joy de vivre. Awareness of being is bliss or happiness. That is all. Being happy with simply being. What effort do you make to be alive? Existence is everyone's natural state of being. So simple. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Any person you will met on your journey of self-discovery that looks holy and that pretends to have reached, acquired, experienced or became something spiritual, religious or holy in anyway is a crook. Easily spotted with phony spiritual names and following a long line of traditions. Some will even sell silence to idiots. How funny. Freedom is always here. Closer than close. Like selling water by the River, Gurus sell books, give talks and Satsangs for nothing. The only bondage is not knowing the simple Truth about the Self, He, the Reality or God.

Ignorance is the only obstacle to Freedom. Ignorance is all that needs to be removed with understanding. The wise understands consciousness, the ignorant waits in silence for a transmission, a blazing light etc. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Understanding is Realizing. Freedom is very easy. Nothing special is required. Remove ignorance. Only understanding is Realizing. That is all. Simply because the Self or the Reality or one's true nature is always present. The Self or consciousness is not something new or different to be freshly experienced. It is in fact what you have always been and are. Present as everyone's natural state of being. Consciousness cannot be experienced simply because it is your true nature. It is what you always are. You are that presence of consciousness itself this very moment.It is that 'I' am you know so well. You yourself are the experience itself. It is nothing new but the simple fact of your own being. Present here and now as Life itself.Consciousness is the Sought-after Truth and the Reality. Here and now you are that. Don't you know the simple Truth about the Reality? If it is spiritual or holy it is crap only. That is the funny paradox! One's true nature is present as awareness i.e. to simply be awake, wakeful and therefore being aware. To simply be aware naturally everyday or ordinary wakeful-ness is consciousness present as pure changeless being. Aware-ness or the natural ordinary activity of being sentient, conscious, cognizant or wakeful-ness is being the Self. The Self is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ That is all. Mystery solved. God is 'I' am. To know one's true nature is so easy. Just realize that you are and remain aware all day long

and that immutable plain ordinary presence of awareness is itself the knowing that you are present or 'I' am. No time or effort is required to be aware. If you are awake from sleep, you are undeniably aware. Awareness is not something new, something special, spiritual or religious to be reached, attained or cultivated. Just being aware naturally or being awake from sleep everyday is being the Self, He, the Reality or God. So simple. Looking for awareness or the Self as anything new, different, spiritual or special is bondage. You are already there anyhow. Awareness is always indeed present simply because you are aware of being. That is the Joke of it all. The Self people seek to know is the natural state of being aware so common to everyone. Awareness present is what 'I' am represents. That presence of awareness alone is everyone's natural state of being. The Self or consciousness is common to everyone alive as present awareness or awareness of being present. Did you know that spiritual Enlightenment is a religious Myth? A Hoax!False and illusion. It is only a spiritual carrot used to entice the simple, the weak and the dumb to foolishly believethe false or illusion to be the Reality. Another scam is called Satsang. Buddhas are con artists. Gurus are liars. Sages and Jnanis are horses asses. Why believe the false to be true? Don't you know that being alive is itself being a Buddha? God is Life itself. God or the Self present is simply being oneself naturally. Why suck up to illusion? Self-appointed Gurus will tell their disciples to keep quiet and keep them bound to ignorance. Others will point toward silence like if silence had anything to do with being alive and aware. How funny. The Reality has absolutely nothing to do with all that crap. Being alive and aware is the experience itself. The Self is yourself. There is nothing else to realize. One's own affectionate everyday existence is the Reality. It is 'I' am. After all, who is undeniably always present to be aware of silence? Who is present to be aware of thoughts? You are. That is present awareness and the Reality. You are is 'I' am. Awareness is just another name for you. You are that.

To be oneself naturally everyday is unchanging awareness. That is all that needs to be realized.So simple. Nothing new, simply being awake from sleep is to be the Self or consciousness itself. That is one's true nature. Being aware of this and that is present awareness. Being aware. What else did you expect one's true nature to be? The Self is awareness. Being aware is nothing new, spiritual or holy. It is simply being oneself naturally. Being just as you are naturally without ever trying to be anything spiritual, different or special. That is the Joke of it all. You already are the Self. Didn't anyone tell you? Remove ignorance only. Nothing else is necessary. Freedom is removing all the spiritual and religious garbage camouflaging the simple Truth. Unchanging awareness has nothing to do with stopping thoughts or silence. It is the natural state of being aware. That is all the Self, He, the Reality or God simply is. Being what you always are and have always been naturally. No one can deny one's own self. No one can deny being aware. Being aware is knowing that you are present. Present here and now. How much time does it take to know that you are present and therefore aware of being? That present awareness is 'I' am and the Self. It is plain ordinary everyday awareness of being. Nothing new. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Sought-after Truth and Reality is simply being oneself naturally. That is all.So simple. Spiritual and religious people are only bound to their spiritual and religious beliefs. Funny no? Selling water by the River to the ignorant. The one who sells Truth cannot tell you the Truth. Acquired spiritual and religious knowledge is paradoxically the greatest ignorance. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Freedom is so easy. Child-like simplicity really.One can only laugh at the Joke of it all. Know the simple Truth about the Infinite Self if you want to be Free. Nothing else is necessary.

Freedom has absolutely nothing to do with either Eastern or Western Religions and spirituality. Zip, zero. A spiritual and religious person will never know Freedom from all bondage, it is impossible. Take it to the bank. Simply because Freedom is to simply realize or understand that being alive is being the Self, He, the Reality or God. Freedom is an understanding, a realization and not the becoming or attaining of anything new, spiritual or religious. Tell any spiritual or religious devotees, disciples, believers and worshippers that Freedom is simply understanding that being alive is itself being a Buddha and that God is simply Life itself and they go up in arms screaming. "What about the blazing light and special powers and faculties I read all about in holy books?" Ignorant spiritual and religious Seekers are like hypnotized people believing the false to be true and the simple Truth to be false. A strange paradox. Religious and spiritual acquired beliefs and ideologies whatever they may be, arethe poison that will always point away from the simple Truth and camouflage it. There is no answer there because you yourself are the answer. Sought-after Truth is foundby not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ One's true nature is present closer than close. You always are what you Seek. You are the Living power undeniably present within your own dwelling as Life or consciousness. Life doesn't know death. Life is the imperishable Self. Your own self is that. Being just as you are naturally. The Truth is so simple! Simply being alive naturally is in fact being the Self is the simple Truth.Thou art that. Nothing religious or spiritual about being alive. You are the essence of Life itself living itself naturally as yourself. Paradoxically Freedom is only the removal of the false notion of not being already Free. That is all Freedom is. Only the false notion of being bound has to go. Nothing else is necessary. There is no becoming anything. Understanding is the medicine for removing ignorance. The one who doesn't understand will simply remain ignorant of this simple Truth. No understanding. No Realizing. Both are one and the same.

What are you looking for when the Reality is already present here and now? Call off the Search. It is not something new, something special or in anyway different whatsoever to be freshly acquired, reached, attained or achieved. That is the Funny paradox. To simply be alive and awake from sleep everyday naturally is to be God, the Self, He, the Reality. How simple is that? That is all there is realize. Being alive and aware is the experience. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To be conscious is consciousness. To be awake is awareness. So simple. That is the Sought-after Truth, one's true nature and the Reality. The Self is plain ordinary everyday common to all simple changeless awareness. The natural state of being aware or being wakeful common to all that is always experienced directly everyday by everyone alive as consciousness is present awareness. Awareness of being present is present awareness. It is simply to be alive and awake naturally. Sentience. Wakefulness is consciousness. The Self is consciousness. To be conscious is this consciousness. That is all. Full stop! Consciousness is to be awake or aware-ness. To be aware and remain aware is one's true nature. Who ever said that Freedom was hard or difficult? Freedom is child-like simplicity, that it is laughable. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Make no effort! What effort do you have to make to know that you are? Leave all meditation, practices and efforts to the fool, the veiled and the ignorant. To know one's true nature is so easy.No time or effort is required to know yourself. If you are seeing, hearing, knowing, thinking etc, you are indeed not asleep or un-conscious. You are undeniably aware. That is IT. That is Self. God. The Oneness. Awareness is everyone's true nature.

Awareness is pure being. Awareness is knowing that you are present. It is 'I' am. Present awareness. Awareness is God, the Self, He, the Reality, therefore 'I' am is God, the Self, He, the Reality. Awareness is nothing new or different. Awareness is another name for you. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ One's changeless true nature is simply unchanging awareness itself. After all, unchanging awareness is simply being aware and remaining aware. That is all. Nothing holy or spiritual about being aware. It is natural. Awareness is everyone's natural state of being. Just realize that you are aware right now and remain aware. That is one's true nature. Nothing new. Only spiritual and religious people will fill people's head with spiritual and religious garbage. Only to entice and confuse Seekers. To know the eternal Self is very simple. Awareness is what you have always been and are. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ In order for you to know that you are alive and not dead. Awareness must be present. How else could you possibly know that you are? Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Awareness is always present as the knowing that you are present. Selfawareness is 'I' am.. He, the Self, God, the Lord or awareness is not something new to be reached, attained or cultivated. If you know that you are not dead, asleep or un-conscious. Then you are undeniably aware. That is awareness. Awareness is nothing new, different or special. It is pure being. People are always surprised to find out that the Self or awareness is

nothing new, spiritual or special but simply what they have always been and are naturally and effortlessly. Any acquired spiritual and religious concepts whatever they may be. East, West etc, are obstacles to Freedom. The ultimate Truth is so simple that one can only laugh. Freedom is so easy. No time or effort is required. The funny paradox about God, He, the Self the Oneness or the Reality is that IT IS NOT something spiritual or religious in anyway. It is simply Life itself. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Didn't anyone tell you? The Self is what you always are naturally everyday. Nothing new. Life, existence, consciousness, awareness of being is the so called "Diamond in your pocket". How funny! The Reality present within your own dwelling is simply your own affectionate plain ordinary everyday existence. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ How can you kiss yourself on your own lips? Nothing was ever lost. You being the Self wants to know how to attain the Self. The Seeker is the Sought. Don't you know that you already are what you Seek to find this very moment? You are already at the destination you have never left. The Reality is your own affectionate everyday self and being. Didn't anyone tell you? Thou art that! Remove ignorance only. That is the only cause of all mischief. The plain ordinary you that Seeks to know the Self is the Self already. Funny no? Who is not aware of being oneself? Who doesn't know and say me, myself and 'I'. Therefore when did you ever loose yourself? Helloo! Closer than close. Closer than your own breath. The you that believes the Self is lost is in fact the Self itself. Funny paradox. You already are what you Seek to find. The Self you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was

never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Get ready to go up in arms! Especially if you have been a long time spiritual Seeker or Sucker. Call off the Search. That is the Open Secret. Thou art that already. The Self you Seek to know is simply yourself. Just as you are. Nothing spiritual, religious or holy. The Self is nothing new! It is you. You are that. That is all. Nothing new, far away or apart. Simply being oneself naturally is the Self. The wise will say what I am saying now. Only the ignorant foolishly believes that the Self is something new, spiritual and holy. Something special or different that is yet to be achieved. So busy chasing after spiritual carrots. The one Seeking the Self is already the Self. A funny paradox. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ So simple. The Self is present and shining in plain Sight.Who is not aware of being oneself? Who doesn't know 'I' exist right here and now. Who doesn't know 'I' am present right here and now. 'I' am is always with you. The 'I' represents at once one's own affectionate every self and the Infinite Self. No Dual-'I'-ty. No Individual-'I'-ty but only Real-'I'-ty. Simply being yourself. You are the One without a second. The Self is nothing new, spiritual, religious or holy. It is simply what you have always known yourself to be. Plain good ol' everyday you. Nothing new or different. Simply being yourself just as you are. Being oneself is always being the One Self. That is all there is to realize. One's own self and existence is the Divine. Existence is being. Being is 'I' am. The Self or consciousness is the natural presence of existence itself. We call it Life. You are Life. You are the Self. You are He. Without trying to be. It is simply being alive and aware of being. The Self is your own plain ordinary everyday self. You are that. Just this and nothing else. Some self-appointed Gurus and spiritual Teachers may confuse Seekers and make them foolishly believe

that the 'I' is a finite self or ego. But that wrong knowledge is a mistake and that ignorance alone must go. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ By pretending to be spiritual, religious or holy and putting on a show to entice the ignorant. Many self-appointed Gurus and Teachers will entice and confuse their disciples for their own self-gratification. Beware of self-appointed Gurus and spiritual Teachers. Many are ignorant people simply making a living. People are only bound by wrong acquired knowledge about themselves picked up by listening to others. Ignorant people only problem is not knowing themselves. They believe that the 'I' is not the Infinite Self already. Everybody knows and says 'I' am all day long. The 'I' undeniably present in 'I' am is the Infinite Self itself. The 'I' present in 'I' am is at once one's own affectionate everyday self and the Lord. You are the Oneness. Everything is always attached to the 'I'. The 'I' is always present first hand as primary consciousness. Who am 'I'? The 'I' is that. That is IT. Know yourself to be the Self. Here and now you are that. You are the Infinite Self itself that you like it or not. To be alive and aware of being oneself is the Self. It is nothing new but simply what you always are. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ If you know that you are not dead, you are undeniably aware of being. That is all. 'I' am is knowing that you are. 'I' am is always first hand. No one can deny one's own plain ordinary self. No one can say there is no one present. No one smart can say 'I' am not or 'I' do not exist. One's own plain ordinary self is itself the Sought-after Truth. You may also perhaps come across some imbeciles that believe that there is no one or that they not exist. These are just veiled and ignorant people that are out of touch with the Reality. Knowing the Self is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Existence is being. Being oneself is existence itself. Can anyone deny one's own self? Can anyone say 'I' do not exist right now? One's own existence is the Divine. The Precious and Beloved you wish you could kiss. To be alive is to be God. Everybody loves to be. Awareness of being is bliss, happiness is being. Remove ignorance. The Self present is simply being. Being is existence. Existence is the Self, the Reality. So simple. The experience is always here and now. Being is the experience itself.One's own existence needs no proof. What effort do you make to be? Existing is being the Self. In other words 'I' am is God. That is all. Are you alive? Do you exist? Yes? Voila! You know the Self to be your own affectionate self. If you cannot deny that you exist right now, deny that you are present, you know the Self to simply be that 'I' am you know so well already as your own being. The experience is here and now. One cannot deny ones own self. Existence is the same as happiness and happiness is the same as being. Why should one seek it? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Present as your own being. The Self is Life itself. No one can become what they already are and have always been. No one can become more alive. Being alive is being God. Being alive is the experience. Call off the Search! Why should you Seek your own existence when it is already present here and now? What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Remove ignorance. That is all that is necessary for Freedom. It is all a Joke! The simple Truth about the Self, He, the Reality is comedic. The only reason someone would assume that there is separation and bondage is

only because they have no idea that to simply be alive is to be the Self, He, the Reality itself. The Self, He, the Reality is nothing new or special, but what you always have been and are naturally. The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To simply be alive and aware naturally is one's true nature. Consciousness present is 'I' am present. It is pure awareness of being. Nothing new, different or special. Wakefulness is the presence of consciousness. Not knowing this simple Truth about one's true nature is the only false notion of bondage. Like a fish always in water crying that he is thirsty. Everyone alive is always the Self, He, the Reality. Freedom has never been about becoming, attaining, achieving or reaching anything new, spiritual or special. So near and so dear. The Self that is Sought-after is paradoxically the most common and ordinary presence of all. To simply be conscious naturally and effortless everyday is consciousness. To simply be aware is awareness. That alone is one's unchanging true nature, that natural state of being is the true Self and the Reality. Sentience, cognizance, awareness are all synonymous with simply being alive and conscious. Simply put. Being oneself everyday naturally is always being the One Self. No Dual-'I'-ty. Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Whoever told you that you yourself are not the true Self naturally and already ever-Free, simply lied to you. Who ever told you that the 'I' is a small finite self or an independent self or some ego present, lied to you. Who ever told you that there is no one present or that you do not exist, also lied to you. Paradoxically many spiritual Teachers and self-appointed Gurus are liars. Know yourself meaning who am 'I'? Who am 'I' simply means what is the 'I' present in 'I' am real identity and true nature.

The 'I' you already know so well as your own affectionate everyday self and being, is the Infinite Self. You are the One without two already. Egoless, formless consciousness is your true nature and real identity. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ So many ignorant self-appointed Gurus and spiritual Teachers will entice and confuse Seekers with all sorts of crap. Beware of Gurus and Teachers. Many will use confusion to entice Seekers and keep them on a Seeking path to nowhere, so that there spiritual scam remains concealed and not revealed, fearing the simple Truth to come out. The ignorant foolishly believes that the so called Realization is something new for the rare and the few. If only they knew how wrong they truly are. They would be laughing instead of crying. Being oneself is the experience itself. That is all there is to realize. The state we call Realisation is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Anyone that tell you otherwise is probably selling you a silent retreat, a lecture or a book and wants to be seen as a spiritual Teacher, as a Guru, or special spiritual being to be worshipped. But these people are just frauds. Con artists using people's ignorance for they very own self-gratification. Simply because the Truth is not something new, different, spiritual or special to be freshly acquired. But simply being just as you are. All that is necessary for Freedom is to simply remove the idea of being bound. The Secret to Freedom is that you are already Free. Get rid of ignorance only. That is all Freedom is truly all about. The feeling that 'I' have not realised is the obstruction to realisation. In fact it is already realised, there is nothing more to be realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Didn't anyone tell you? The Reality is already here. It is not something new, spiritual or special to be achieved. Freedom is paradoxically realizing that there is no bondage.That is all it truly is. Just this and nothing else.

Forget all about spirituality and religions simply because they cannot help you, but in fact hold you back. For example Guru lovers, worshippers and Seekers keep looking away from the Reality and turning toward illusion foolishly believing illusion to be the Reality. Funny. Many sucking up to others. Beggars of illusion as they are called. Wanting to attain or acquire something new. The Guru cannot give you anything new, which you dont have already. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The ignorant wants to see or experience the Self as something new or spiritual. Some even foolishly believe that the Reality can be transmitted by some holy Guru. How funny. These are the foolish ignorant and veiled people that will have a tough time understanding this simple Truth. Reality is not a spiritual or a religious state or something new to be experienced. If the Reality can be acquired, it will also be lost. Only illusion is transient. What comes will surely go. It is impermanent and not real. Nothing new or spiritual is to be freshly acquired.That is the funny paradox.Only understanding. Remove ignorance only. The Self is your own everyday self. That is all, nothing new or different whatsoever. Everybody alive is always abiding as the true Self, as the Reality itself. It is Life itself. It is one's own plain ordinary everyday affectionate existence. That is all. That is the Open Secret. If you know that you are not dead. You are He. You are That. You are the Self itself this very moment. Knowing the Self is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Like a fish in the water crying that is he is thirsty. People cry over nothing. Everybody wants to know the Self. You are the true Self here and now already, this very moment. Just as you are.

God, He, the Self, the Reality, the Oneness, one's true nature is simply being oneself. There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained. You are the Self. You exist always. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The point to be grasped is that Life doesn't know death. Consciousness is the presence of Life itself. That is the Oneness or Omni-presence present in all. No one alive ever fails to experience directly this presence of consciousness as the presence of Life itself. To simply be alive and naturally aware of being is this consciousness, that is one's true nature and eternal Reality. Nothing new under the Sun. Your transient body is only a temporary Temple for this consciousness itself. This Spirit of Life lives itself as you. You are that Livingness or consciousness right now. To simply be alive and conscious everyday naturally is to always be IT. Thou art that already. Know thyself. So near and so dear. Consciousness is nothing new. Closer than close. The Self is me, myself and 'I'. You are the Self. You are the Oneness. Not some holy, special, spiritual or different self. But simply your own ordinary everyday self. Call off the Search. You are the Self already.Self is just another name for you. Thou art that literally. The Self you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Before chop wood, carry water. After chop wood, carry water. Nothing changes whatsoever. Nothing new, different or special is freshly acquired for Freedom. Only ignorance is removed, that is all. You already are the Self you Seek to know. Being yourself naturally everyday is always being the eternal Self. Consciousness is nothing new but simply being yourself naturally. Remove ignorance only and voila. Understanding is Realizing. Seeking is only for the ignorant that doesn't understand this consciousness.

If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Being oneself naturally and effortlessly everyday is always being the Self. That is the so called Self-Realization. Didn't anyone tell you? There is no becoming the Self. Understanding is all that is required. The so called Self-Realization is to simply remove ignorance. That is all. Just this and nothing else. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Nothing new, spiritual or holy whatsoever. Freedom is always here. It is not to be achieved or acquired from others. To simply be alive is to abide as the Self, He, the Reality or God. Remove ignorance. That is all Freedom is all about. Nothing was ever lost. The Search is the Trap. Simply because the Self you Seek to know is truly yourself. Consciousness or the Self is what you have always been and are naturally all along. Nothing new. You are always the Self. Never apart from it even for an instant. It is your own everyday self. Understand what the word Self truly represents. The Self is consciousness. To be alive and aware of being everyday naturally is this consciousness. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The ultimate Truth is so simple. If you are conscious, you are therefore aware of being.Awareness of being is consciousness. Knowing that you are present as yourself all day long is consciousness itself. It is that 'I' am you know so well. The natural effortless activity of being aware and remaining aware all day long is at once being and consciousness. Who is not aware of being alive and therefore conscious?Life, existence, consciousness present is 'I' am. The Self is simple changeless awareness of being common to all as the

waking state or wakefulness. To be conscious is consciousness. To be awake is awareness. That is the knowing that you are. No one ever fails to experience consciousness first hand. Sentience is not stillness or silence,but paradoxically lively and buoyant. To be alive and aware of being is the Self. It is an activity.It is the natural state of being. Nothing spiritual, religious or special. One's own undeniable plain ordinary existence is the Divine. The Self or one's true nature is so plain, so ordinary and so common to everyone alive that it is laughable. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What is consciousness or the Self? Plain ordinary everyday wakefulness. So simple. The activity of being aware and remaining aware. That is all. The Self is naturally present as plain ordinary awareness. The activity of seeing is being the Self. The activity of hearing is being the Self. The activity of knowing is being the Self. The natural activity of being aware is being the Self. Know the simple Truth. A holy being, Buddha or Guru is no more Enlightened than your neighbors Grandmother. The so call Self-Realization is to simply be oneself naturally. That is all Freedom is all about. Get to know the simple Truth about your own affectionate everyday self. Remove ignorance only. Then you will laugh at yourself! After all, what did you expect your true nature or the Self or consciousness to be? We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Get to know your real Self. Have a look at your true nature. Are you conscious? Are you aware of being present as yourself right here and now? To simply be conscious and therefore aware of being is to abide as the Self, He, the Reality.

That is all there is to Realize. No blazing light or spiritual experience of any kind. Just realize that you are aware and remain aware. So simple. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Who ever said Freedom was anything spiritual, religious and holy lied. Freedom is to simply remove the false notion of being bound. That is what the fuss is simply all about. Only self-appointed Gurus and spiritual Teachers from East and West will con, confuse and entice ignorant Seekers by pretending to have reached, attained or have become something new, something spiritual and holy. Usually they will have books, CD's, DVD's, retreats, offering practices to be performed or even sell silence etc. Some people have found an easy way to make a living by selling water by the River to the ignorant. After all there is no bondage and therefore no liberation either. One only believes that there is. Like a Fish in the Ocean searching everywhere for the Ocean.Everybody is always the Self. They simply do not know it. Bondage is only ignorance. Nothing else. All that we need do is to remove the obstruction. That which is eternal is not known to be so because of ignorance. Ignorance is the obstruction. Get over this ignorance and all will be well. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Freedom is not the acquisition of anything new, special, spiritual or different whatsoever. Freedom is to simply understand that you are already the true Self and therefore eternally Free right now. Only the false notion of not already being the True Self has to be removed for Freedom. That is all Freedom is. The Self is always present as Life itself. Just like with water and ice. There is no ice present without water. Consciousness, Life, existence is always present with oneself as one's own being. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To simply be alive and aware of being is the Self. Consciousness is that 'I' am you know so well.

Do not be fooled by ignorance. God or the Self is NOT some spiritual or religious 'I' am. But simply the knowing that you are present. It is pure awareness of being. Awareness of being present as oneself naturally is the Self. You know that you are alive and you like it. The simple fact of one's own being is the Reality itself. God, the Self or consciousness is simply 'I' am. Who doesn't know and say 'I' am? Everybody knows that they are. No one can deny one's own being. Can anyone deny one's own existence and say 'I' do not exist? All you are sure of and know for certain right here and now is that you are. That is IT. That is the Self. That is He, the Reality.'I' exist here and now is 'I' am. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Obviously many Seekers will not be content with this simple Truth. Who waits for Freedom dies ignorant.That is guaranteed! Most Seekers are not informed that only understanding is all that is required for Freedom. Not striving to achieve or become anything new. That is the Open Secret to Freedom that self-appointed Gurus do not want their disciples and Seekers to know. Freedom is very easy for anyone who is open to super duper simplicity and the most plain, common and ordinary. In fact it is so easy. One can only laugh at the simplicity. It is all so simple that it is paradoxically the only difficulty. After all, what binds you? Have a look. Look for your chains. See if you can find them. And you will realize that nothing binds you whatsoever other than the idea itself of being bound. Bondage is just psychological. A false notion of separation, duality and bondage 'believed' to be true. All and only because this idea of separation or false notion of bondage was never investigated. On enquiry 'who' is bound? The notion of bondage vanishes and so does that of Liberation.

The one eternally free alone remains self-revealed. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You are the true Self already.Here and now you are that. That is all there is to realize for Freedom. Nothing new is to be freshly to acquired. Who ever told you that you were not already Free anyhow? Who ever told you that crap, lied to you. Ignorance is the only culprit. That is the only cloud or veil camouflaging the simple Truth. There is no bondage and there is no liberation either.You are already the true self and Free naturally. After all, can you separate yourself from your own existence, from your own self and affectionate being? Liberation is our very nature. We are that...It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ This is Open Secret about the Reality that self-appointed spiritual Gurus and religious Teachers will never tell you. Freedom is not a state. It is what you are naturally. Life is itself the eternal Omni-presence being Sought-after. Why go from forest to forest when the Reality is always present naturally within your own dwelling? The ignorant fool is the one who waits for Freedom. Paradoxically these are the people that will die ignorant. The ignorant fool will meditate, sit in silence or go to satsang waiting for something special to happen. Freedom is not reached, acquired or transmitted from others. Only remove the false notion of being bound. That is all that is required. No time or effort can ever bring Freedom anyhow. Only understanding is Realizing. That is the Secret. Get rid of ignorance.See the false as false. Realize that spirituality and religions are the poison, not to cure. Call off the Search. The answer that you Seek is not found in spiritual books, or any religious scriptures but naturally present within you own dwelling as your own affectionate everyday self and plain ordinary being. Remove the veil or camouflage of ignorance with understanding only. Understanding is all.

Once you get that there is absolutely nothing new to get, that is called Freedom. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You gain new nothing for Freedom, simply because you lost nothing.Only ignorance is to be removed. The natural state of being alive common to everybody is the Self. Existence is the Reality. To simply be alive and aware of being oneself naturally is to always be the Self. That is all there is to Realize. Nothing new, special or different is to be freshly acquired. Too simple for complicated Seekers. A strange paradox. Freedom is so easy that paradoxically Seekers do not want it. They want something new, different or special. Not realizing that anything new, special or different in anyway, can only be illusion and not the Reality. The Self you Seek to know is truly your own plain ordinary everyday self. Nothing new. You are always the Self. Know the Truth! There is absolutely nothing to change, nothing to overcome or to go beyond for the Reality to be. Only the ignorant believes that there something other than the Infinite Self present as oneself, but there isn't. To be oneself is to always be the Self. Full stop! Voila. You are what you Seek this very moment. So simple. The Seeker is the Sought. What you Seek is what you are right now. Being yourself just as you are. Nothing new. Therefore to Seek the Self, He, the Reality is to always look away from it.It is a paradox. You yourself are the Precious Jewel you desperately Seek to find. You, being the Self want to knowhow to attain the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ How can you kiss yourself on your own lips? If you are conscious or wakeful right here and right now, you are undeniably alive and aware. It is 'I' am. The Self is Life itself. To be alive and aware of being oneself is God. God is that 'I' am you know so well already. Only an ignorant fool or an idiot believes the Self is anything other than simply being conscious or awake from sleep.

Nothing new, nothing spiritual or religious about being alive. So near and so dear. Remove the veil of ignorance. One's own affectionate everyday being is itself the Reality. It is 'I' am. Realisation is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Freedom has nothing to do with self-improvement or acquiring anything new. Stupid people wait for a transmission or some spiritual crap. No one can give you anything new anyhow. Why wait for anything new or different, when here and now you already are what you Seek? What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Call off the Search. Life is Now only! Why should anyone Seek it? The Self is the undeniable living power, presence and intelligence in the body. We call it consciousness or Life. How much time does it take to know that you are?Present awareness. Dead people are not aware of being. Life or consciousness present is knowing that you are present. It is pure awareness of being. God or the Self is 'I' am. That is all. Plain and simple. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ 'I' am is certain and needs no proof. No one can deny one's own existence. No one can say 'I' do not exist or 'I' am not. Being is existence. One's own existence is the Divine. The Sought-after Truth is consciousness. Look at yourself here and now. Are you conscious and aware of being yourself? Voila! To simply be alive and naturally awake from sleep everyday is to be the Self. That is all there is to Realize. Nothing new, spiritual, religious or holy about plain simple changeless awareness of being. Just being as you are.

Here and now you are He, you are that, you are God.Call off the Search. If you are alive then you are undeniably abiding as the Self. Life or existence is the Self. That is all.Full stop! Knowing the Self is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ You can only be what you are. Remove ignorance only. Bondage is just psychological. There is nothing new to get. You are He, the Self or God already. He is Life itself. Remove the idea of being bound only. That is all Freedom is truly all about. Of course some people will confuse and entice Seekers to chase after spiritual carrots, but the Truth is that simply being oneself is always being the One Self. No separation, no duality. You are the Oneness already. Spiritual and religious people are only for show. God is not spiritual or religious at all. That is the funny paradox. God or the Lord is present in all sentient beings as plain ordinary everyday existence. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ To be alive is to be God. He Life itself. He is the living power, presence and intelligence functioning,governing and expressing itself naturally through the body. He is the Living Power. 'I' am is not the body but the consciousness or livingness present in the body. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Nothing new, spiritual or special about being. Consciousness is indeed present. Everybody knows and says 'I' am. 'I' am is that presence of consciousnes itself. Knowing that you are is the Self. It is pure being. Same, same. There is no one that does not say 'I' am. The wrong knowledge of 'I' am the body is the cause of all mischief. This wrong knowledge must go. That is the Realization. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ No Self, He or God present, no Life present.One and the same, He is Life

itself. The experience is here and now. Like a Fish in the water crying that he is thirsty. Life is the Self. Existence is the presence of consciousness itself. That is all. Like a Diamond hidden in your pocket all along.Present closer than close. The Precious or the Beloved you Seek to know is what you have always been and are. To be alive is to be God. You simply are surprised to find out that you already are what you Seek. The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something newor reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self is yourself. Call off the Search. It is that 'I' am you know so well as your own affectionate everyday being. The only difficulty is that the Self, God, He, the Reality or consciousness is nothing new. Everybody abides as this consciousness naturally all day long. It is present as the waking state. To be awake is to be the Self. To be conscious is consciousness. To be awake is present awareness. Gee! yoU aRe yoU. Nothing new. Remove ignorance and voila! Nothing was ever lost but always present all along with you, as the most obvious, as your own self. The One eternally Free is self-revealed to simply be what you have always been and are. Yourself. Funny no? At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To know the Sought-after Truth is child-like simplicity really, that is what makes it all so funny. It is all so simple. People Seeking the Self have been looking in the wrong direction all along. These are the foolish people that have been brainwashed to foolishly believe that the Self was something new, spiritual or special that is yet to be reached or attained. Oops. The Self is nothing new, spiritual, special or far away. It never was. You are the Infinite Self itself you Seek to know this very moment. Non-

duality. You are the One without two. The Seeker is paradoxically the Sought. Thou art that. Many ignorant Seekers are suckers to spiritual and religious people. Believing them to be special holy beings with great powers and spiritual faculties etc. That is only crap for the weak, the simple and the veiled. Only the ignorant worships illusion. Spiritual and religious concepts about the Self, He, the Reality or Godas something new, special or different are only crap fed to the veiled and the ignorant to foolishly believe the false or illusion to be true. To know the Self or God is so easy. Are you alive? There you go. Life or God is consciousness. Consciousness present is knowing that you are. It is 'I' am. God is pure awareness of being. That, He, the Lord, God is that 'I' am you know well as your own being. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ You cannot experience the Self as something new or different simply because you are the experience itself.The experience is being yourself. Thou art that. You are the knowing that you are. Self-awareness. The Self, He, the Reality or God is pure awareness of being. You are the unchanging host within your own dwelling. Guest come and guest go all the time, that is what they do but the host always remain. Whatever you think, say or do, this presence of unchanging awareness or being-ness or 'I' am-ness always remain. 'I' am is always with you regardless. The Self or consciousness is always present as the effortless activity of being aware common to everybody. Realize that you are already aware this very moment. Therefore there is no need to strive to become aware. Awareness is always present first hand as everyday wakefulness or consciousness. That is all there is to realize. The experience is always here and now. Sentience, wakefulness, consciousness is the experience itself.That is IT. The Self or consciousness is an activity, the activity of being aware and remaining aware all day long.That is all. Self-shining as pure being. Seeing is being the Self. Hearing is being the Self. Being the Self is awareness.

Awareness is just another name for the plain good ol' you, for that 'I' am you know so well as your own being. If you are sure that you are not dead, un-conscious or asleep, then you are undeniably abiding as the Self. Awareness must be present first and foremost before you can ever be aware of anything else anyhow. After all, how many thoughts and feelings can you be aware of, if you are un-conscious? No consciousness. No awareness. Awareness of being oneself is consciousness. If your head is stuck in your ass with all sorts of spiritual and religious concepts and beliefs,well good luck for you will have a tough time understanding this simple Truth. Paradoxically because it is so simple. That is the funny paradox! The one who is concerned with mind, ego and Seeking something spiritual or religious will never know Freedom. All that is taught by spiritual and religious Teachers from East and West has nothing do with the Reality. One believes that there is bondage and therefore Seeks liberation. But there is no bondage. There is nothing to Teach and there is nothing to learn.The Reality is already here. Only remove ignorance with understanding, that is all. Nothing else is required. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Without trying to be. That you like it or not. Here and now you are already that. There is nothing to change, to alter or modify about oneself for the Reality to be.There never was. Only the ignorant foolishly believes that there is something other than the true Self present as oneself. How foolish. Due to acquired ignorance camouflaged as spiritual and religious knowledge, false acquired spiritual and religious beliefs become a false reference point.Paradoxically many Seekers will put Faith and trust blindly in some spiritual or special holy being and unfortunately die ignorant of the simple Truth. So and so said this and so and so said that and people fall for it. They believe it to be true.

All and only because some Jerko appearing spiritual, religious or holy told them so. How funny. Others will become Teachers themselves like their beloved Guru with the pretext that they have reached, achieved, attained or becamesomething new, special, spiritual, religious and holy themselves. As they say the apple doesn't fall far from the Tree. The Search for something new, something different, spiritual and holy to call Freedom itself becomes the Trap. Trapped in a cage of words and false acquired beliefs.Bondage and separation is only a false notion believed to be true. Psychological only. Nothing else. Know the simple Truth about yourself and it sets you Free. Seekers can spend an entire Lifetime foolishly striving to go beyond a mind and overcome an ego with innumerable acquired spiritual and religious practices, time and effort. That is called ignorance and bondage. To realize the simple Truth, that a mind and an ego is not present anywhere is called Freedom.There is no bondage. After all, just like a mirage in the desert is not real but illusion, look for a mind or ego and it will not be found. That is the simplest and fastest way to get rid of ignorance. Investigate what is real. Simply because the false cannot stand up to investigation. Freedom is always here.It is not to be achieved. Everybody is always the Self and Free. They simply do not know it. Only ignorance is to be removed. What mind? What ego? If you seek the ego you will find, it does not exist. That is the way to get rid of it. Look for it and it will not be found. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no me, mind or ego present anywhere to go beyond or get rid of. There never was. All there is present is always the Self, present as yourself.Therefore who is bound? See the false as false. Look for your chains and they will not be found. That is all that is required for Freedom. Remove the false notion of being bound with understanding and you have done all that needs to be done. Understanding is Realizing. That is the Secret to Freedom. Only the veiled ignorant Seeker believes

that Freedom is a spiritual state that is yet to be reached, attained or acquired.How foolish. This foolish ignorance is the only obstacle to Freedom. Just this and nothing else. In fact Freedom is only the removal of the false notion of being bound. When ever you see Seekers striving to become Free, laugh. It is like a Fish in the water crying that he is thirsty. There is no bondage and there is no liberation. Only ignorance is to be removed. That is all. The so called state of Enlightenment is to simply be alive and awake from sleep. Awareness is wakefulness. That is the undeniable presence of consciousness itself. To be conscious is consciousness and that alone is the Sought-after Truth, the Self, He, the Reality and what so called state of Enlightenment is all about. Are you laughing at the Joke of it all? Didn't anyone tell you? Enlightenment is Joke.Just this and nothing else. All sentient beings are already Buddhas. Being aware is the Self i.e. the presence of awareness. Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Freedom is easy! Just realize that you are aware. That is all so called Enlightenment or Self-Realization is truly all about. No blazing light. No spiritual state of bliss or ecstasy etc. Nothing new or different whatsoever. Just plain ordinary everyday awareness is the Sought-after Truth and Reality. That is all. So simple. To discern between the ever-present and unchanging Reality or the eternal and illusion is very easy. First one must realize that any spiritual or religious experience of any kind or state is only transient and illusion. Why Seek illusion or the impermanent when the Self is ever-present here and now and stateless or unchanging?

Know the Truth! There is no higher consciousness, nothing new or different whatsoever to be reached. Nothing spiritual or religious to be attained or to become. Only the ignorant believes that there is. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Self is already Realized. One's own being-ness is the Self. Do not believe me, instead have a look for yourself. Are you alive right now? Yes, you surely know that you are present? 'I' am present right here and now is certain? There you go sport! Present here and now. Life is the Self, consciousness, the Lord, the Almighty God. So simple. There is nothing easier than Freedom. Nothing whatsoever is more effortless and simple than being. Some holy beings, Great Masters, Enlightened Sages and Buddhas may want them to believe that there is more to it. But there isn't. That is all Freedom is simply all about. Who is bound when being alive naturally is being the Self? Perhaps you were not paying attention and hearing the same message over and over, but the Self is being yourself. If you were like most ignorant Seekers going to Satsang and sucking up to some holy being or Guru foolishly waiting for the Realization to happen or be transmitted. Oops. The joke is on you. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Any Guru, Saint or Sage have nothing to do whatsoever with the Reality. Present within your own dwelling. The Finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. Don't be a fool and go holding on to it foolishly believing that it is. Worshipping others and sucking up to holy Saints, Sages, Gurus and Jnanis dead or alive is only for ignorant fools. Don't you know that the Infinite Self is Life itself? To be alive is to be the Self. So simple. The undeniable Living presence, intelligence that is functioning, governing and expressing itself as oneself. That immutable presence of consciousness is present as Life itself in all living beings and that is one's true nature.

So near and so dear. The experience is always here and now. Being alive is being God. That is all. What else did you believe God was. Perhaps some old fart sitting on a cloud that is looking down on you? Didn't anyone tell you? Worshipping, praying, doing this and doing that, is bondage.There is no God and you. Doing anything remotely religious or any kind of acquired spiritual rituals or practices is only bondage. Who to pray to when you are the One without two? Worshipping and praying is egotistical. Any meditation, yoga, mantra, you name it. If it has anything to do with spirituality and religions,whatever it may be it cannot help you, but in fact bound you to ignorance. That is right! It all works in reverse.A paradox. Ignorance is to do something to become something. For Freedom do nothing, make no effort. Understanding is all. After all, all that is necessary to recognize one's true nature is to pause thoughts for a few moments. Did you disappear? Did you stop being aware? Of course not! Being and remaining aware is the Self or God. Have a look and see. Get to know your true nature.You are awareness, never changing. Be still! Only thoughts disappear but you yourself are not a thought. You do not come, go or disappear. You are always present. You are the Self. You are that presence of awareness itself, here and now you are that. Make no effort, your effort is the bondage. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What remains present if you pause thoughts? You remain present as your real self. Voila. The Self or awareness you Seek to know is simply yourself. Thou art that. Nothing new or a special. Take the Sky and clouds as a simple analogy. Clouds always come and go but the Sky always remains present. You are like the unchanging Sky and thoughts are simply just transient clouds appearing and disappearing on you. Thoughts come, thoughts go all day long naturally but you don't. Discerning between the transient thoughts or the impermanent and ever-present awareness as

one's changeless true nature is to simply pause thoughts. So simple. What happens? Only thoughts disappear. The unchanging Sky or unchanging awareness alone remains selfrevealed as your own affectionate everyday self. You are not a thought. You are unchanging awareness itself. It is that being-ness or 'I' am-ness you know so well. To realize the Self is super duper simple. Who ever said freedom was hard or difficult? Be still and know that 'I' am is that present awareness itself or God or the Self or the Reality. Be still and voila. Simplicity is the key to Freedom. Not striving to achieve or become anything new. Obviously if you desire something new, something perhaps spiritual or religious, then you are in trouble. You probably read too many spiritual and religious books, scriptures and stories or probably sat with too many spiritual Gurus and Teachers that like the smell of their own farts pretending to be holy. People pretending to be spiritual, religious and holy sell water by the river to the ignorant. After all, there is nothing to sell, nothing to teach or to be performed, because you are the Self already. Not knowing that simply being aware naturally is always abiding as one's true nature is the cause of all mischief. Ignorance is the only culprit. Remove the veil. Get rid of ignorance with understanding. Understanding is Realizing that there is no bondage. Freedom is always here. It is not something new or spiritual to be acquired from others or to become. It is so easy you will wonder why didn't any tell you how simple Freedom truly is. Pause thoughts and you are there. No time or effort is required. So simple that it is laughable. Just be still for a moment. Pause thoughts and you are Enlightened! How simple can Freedom be? Just like a background of pure changeless being. Realize that you are aware and remain aware regardless of what thought shows up and disappears on you. Thoughts come and go like they are supposed to,but you yourself always remain present and aware. That is what 'I' am represents. Unchanging awareness.

You are this unchanging presence of awareness that is knowing if they are thoughts present or not thoughts present. You are always present first hand as the awareness itself that is cognizing or registering all natural activities. The activity of Seeing is awareness present. Cognizing is the Lord. God is the Seer. God is the Hearer. God is the Thinker. God is the Knower. God is just a fancy name for the natural effortless activity of being sentient or aware. Seeing, hearing, thinking, knowing, feeling, smelling, even being aware of farting is God. Didn't anyone tell you? All that is cognized and registered through all the senses is by God only. He is the unseen seer, the unheard hearer, the unthought thinker. There is no other seer but He. No other hearer but He. No other thinker but He. No other knower but He. He is yourself.The inner controller, the immortal, the imperishable. ~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad~ Don't you know the simple Truth about your very own affectionate self and being? Ego is not! Being oneself is always being the true Self. Therefore who is bound? No one is bound. Everybody is He. Being yourself is being He. You are He this very moment. He is awareness. He is yourself. You are He, you are that. Being awake or conscious is to be God. The state of wakefulness is present awareness itself. Call this simple, plain ordinary affectionate everyday presence of unchanging awareness what you will. The Almighty, the Lord, God, The Self, He, the Infinite, the Atman, the Father, the One without a second, etc. The point to be grasped is that God or the Self is present in all sentient beings as awareness. 'I' am is that awareness. To be or not to be. If you know that you are not dead or un-conscious right now, then you are undeniably aware. To be aware and remain aware all day long naturally is effortlessly abiding as the Reality. He is yourself. The ultimate Truth is so simple. Paradoxically people wanting to know the Truth do not want the Truth to be simplicity itself, what to do. Ignorant spiritual and religious Seekers want to see awareness as something new or spiritual but it is not.

Everybody alive and naturally conscious or wakeful everyday is already a Buddha, they simply do not know it. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ So near and so dear. Awareness is nothing new or far away. It is what you have always been and are. Know the simple Truth and it shall sets you Free. To be awake from sleep is to abide as pure awareness itself. There is no becoming anything new. To be awake, conscious or wakeful is to be the Lord, the Self, God. So simple. As they say, if you are wise kill the Buddha you see on the Road.Gurus only pretend to be holy. Remove the veil or camouflage of spirituality and religions and the simple Truth about God is revealed. Paradoxically God or the Infinite Self is nothing new, spiritual, religious or special. It is simple changeless being. Simple changeless being is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Wakefulness is to abide as unchanging awareness. That natural presence of awareness common to all is the Sought-after Truth and Reality. Awareness is everyone's natural state of being. Seeing is being aware. Hearing is being aware. The Self or God is present in all sentient beings as sentience. Thinking is being aware. Knowing is being aware. Being is awareness. The Self is being oneself naturally. You are unchanging awareness itself. That you like it or not. You are that. To be aware is the awareness itself that is Sought-after as the ultimate Truth, so simple. To recognize the Self or awareness present is very easy. Are you aware? Voila! Awareness present is the knowing itself that you are aware. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ You are unchanging awareness. Nothing new or special but so plain, so ordinary and so common to all. After all, who is always present to be aware of this and that? 'I' am of course.

Awareness is that 'I' am you know so well as your own affectionate everyday self. 'I' am is awareness. 'I' am is the Self. 'I' am is God. The Self (awareness) is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no reaching awareness or the Self or praying for it. There is no becoming awareness or the Self anyhow. Simply because it is already there. Have a look and see. Are you aware? See! You know this presence of awareness or the Self so well already. No one becomes awareness. The Realization is that to be awake from sleep or conscious is this presence of awareness itself some people call God or the Self. It is very simple to recognize. Just realize that you are and remain aware. That is all the Self or unchanging awareness or one's thoughtless true nature is. Awareness is always present first hand.It is the natural state of being aware.It is nothing new. How much time does it take to know that you are? You must be aware in order to know that you are. Awareness of being oneself is the Self. Being aware is knowing that you are. So near and so dear. It is 'I' am. There is no reaching the Self. It is already here and now. Being aware is the experience. Remove ignorance only if you want to be Free.That is all. Awareness is nothing new, spiritual or holy but in fact what you have always been and are naturally everyday. It is the core of your own being. If you are un-conscious, there is no 'I' am. To be awake or conscious is this presence of awareness itself and that alone is the Self, God and 'I' am. The Self is yourself. Being yourself is awareness. Being aware is awareness and the Sought-after Truth and Reality. Freedom is so simple! It is laughable. It is a Joke. Nothing is more effortless and easy than so called Enlightenment. Remove ignorance about your true nature and voila! You gain absolutely nothing new because nothing was ever lost. Simply overlooked. No one can ever be apart from awareness. Awareness present is 'I' am or one's own being. To be present as yourself is awareness itself. The 'I' and awareness are One. indivisible. Inseparable.

All along you have always been naturally what you foolishly believed was lost. Funny no? The Self you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Bondage is only due ignorance. Just this and nothing else. Not knowing that simply being aware and remaining aware naturally everyday is being the true Self. Yet, can you drive a car or go to work or read a book if awareness is not present? Of course not! You must be awake, conscious and aware first and foremost.Wakefulness is the presence of awareness. Consciousness. Sentience. Cognizance. Knowing that you are present is awareness itself. That is alone is the Self. Lively and buoyant. Sentience is not silence or stillness but an activity. The natural activity of being aware or conscious is the Lord, God, the Self, He, the Reality. Hearing, seeing, thinking, knowing, feeling, being aware etc, is the natural activity of consciousness itself. Who is always present to be aware of this and that? 'I' am of course. You are that 'I' am. 'I' am that 'I' am is the Real-'I'-zation. In other words. Gee! yoU aRe yoU. Everybody says knows and says 'I' am all day long. Voila! Mystery solved. Who is not conscious and therefore aware of being?'I' am is first hand. Thou art that. 'I' am is at once being oneself and the One Self. No separation or dual-'I'-ty. The best definition is 'I' am that 'I' am. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Only get rid of ignorance and voila! Then you laugh at yourself. It is just like having your glasses on the top of your head and frantically searching for them everywhere believing they are lost. Awareness is so plain and so ordinary to anyone that it is simply overlooked. So many ignorant spiritual and religious Seekers take bondage so seriously. How funny! Being taught innumerable religious practices, mantras and bajhans to repeat, perform and memorize.

Some even become great yogis to bend themselves up like pretzels or try to reach Reality through meditation. The only trouble is that Eastern and Western spiritual and religious concepts, ideologies, stories and all their profound rituals and religious practices and whatever else is attached to it are the greatest illusion. People foolishly believe the false to be true and the simple Truth to be false. A strange paradox. Like dangling a shiny carrot at the end of a stick. Always miserable with themselves and with their Life just as it is Sad, complaining, un-happy people have been promised the end of suffering, a state of peace, happiness, bliss etc. These are the ignorant people that will turn to spirituality or religions to find self-improvement and Nirvana. Ignorant people always get the end of the short stick by turning to spirituality and religions for Freedom. When ever you see someone pretending to have reached Enlightenment or to have become something either spiritual or religious. Take a dump on his or her head. That is called Wisdom. There is no becoming Enlightened or a Buddha. That is all crap. Ignorant of this simple truth, innumerable methods under different denominations, such as yoga, bhakti, karma, each again with many modifications, are being taught with great skill and in intricate detail only to entice the seekers and confuse their minds. So also are the religions and sects and dogmas. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Freedom is so easy. It cracks you up. A funny paradox. Like a Fish always in the Ocean frantically Searching everywhere for the Ocean. 'I' am that 'I' am is the Self-Real-'I'-zation. Who doesn't know and say 'I' am this or that all day long? The Reality is not to be achieved. It is already there.Present as selfawareness or awareness of being. After all, no practice, no mantra, no meditation or yoga is required to know that you are present. 'I' am is certain. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am.

The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ No one can deny one's own being. No one alive can say 'I' am not or 'I' do not exist. Seekers confuse themselves with stupid countless spiritual practices and religious rituals. When all along to simply be aware of being oneself is God. 'I' am is God. There is nothing more to realize. There is no special place to go and no one to pray to. God is you are. God is that 'I' am you know so well already. Everybody knows 'I' am. The Oneness is the presence of Life itself. Life, existence, consciousness is God. No one ever fails to experience it directly as the simple fact of one's own being. What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Life is the Precious. The Divine Beauty you wish you could Kiss. Existence is the Divine. That is the Diamond hidden in your pocket. Life is IT. When did you ever lose it? Look at yourself. Look at your own existence. 'I' am is the Self. You are that. Everybody alive knows the Self so well already as one's own self and being. Say 'I' am to yourself. See! You undeniably know that you are alive and you like it. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To be alive naturally is the Reality. So simple isn't it? To simply be alive and aware of being oneself all day long is the experience. After all, 'I' am doesn't come and go. Therefore when have you ever lost yourself? 'I' am is always present here and now with you as pure changeless awareness of being.

No one can say 'I' am not. It is in fact impossible to deny one own self and therefore the Reality. Who is not alive and conscious and therefore not aware of being? The Self is being aware of being oneself. That natural plain ordinary everyday undeniable presence of awareness is pure changeless being. Wakefulness is pure awareness of being. Wakeful-ness is 'I' am-ness. Who ever told you that you are not the true Self and ever-Free already? You are He. You are that. You are awareness itself this very moment. The Self is what you are. You, being the Self (consciousness), want to know how to attain the Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The simple Truth is self-revealed only through self inquiry and understanding. Anyone that knows the simple Truth about the Self or consciousness has simply recognized that the true Self is always ever-present naturally and effortlessly as one's own affectionate everyday self. After all, there is no becoming the Self or awareness. It is already here. To be alive and aware is being it naturally. Understanding this simple Truth about the Self is all that is required to remove the veil of ignorance. Experienced directly as pure changeless being. The Self or consciousness is that 'I' am you know so well as pure awareness of being. 'I' am is always with you anyhow. No one can deny his own self and claim that they do not exist. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The wrong acquired knowledge that there is no one present or that 'I' do not exist or 'I' am not, is only for idiots. 'I' am the One without two right here and right now and pure existence itself is Wisdom and Freedom. The eternal Self is one's own self and being. One's own existence is the Divine. Knowing the Self is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Forget all self-appointed spiritual Gurus and Teachers with all their books, teachings and Satsangs. Bound only to wrong acquired knowledge about the Self, people Seek it far away, what a pity. Freedom is easy. Forget everything spiritual and religious and you are there. After all, there is no bondage other the idea of being bound. Just like a mirage or a burned rope has no reality. Bondage doesn't exist at all. All that is required for Freedom from all bondage is understanding. Understanding is the tool required to remove ignorance, that is all that is necessary. To simply realize that to be conscious naturally everyday or wakeful is the Self or true consciousness itself isto know the simple Truth about one's true nature and the imperishable Infinite Eternal Self. Freedom is so easy. No time, practice or effort is required. Understanding is all. Remove ignorance only. That is the Secret If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Who ever said Freedom was hard or difficult? Understanding this consciousness is easy. Understanding is Realizing. Not becoming or attaining anything. Just know the Truth and that alone sets you Free. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ Forget all the spiritual and religious concepts you may have acquired about the true Self or the Reality, probably picked up by reading books or sitting with holy beings, Gurus, Masters, Saints, Sages and Jnanis. After all, if it is in anyway holy, in anyway religious or spiritual in nature, it is all garbage. You can take it to the bank or for granted.

The false notion that Freedom is yet to be achieved and something spiritual or special only reserve for the rare and the few is only for idiots. Take that also to the bank. Present naturally within your own dwelling. Closer to you than you can imagine. So near and so dear is the Reality. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ The true Self, He, the Reality or God is simply the presence of Life itself. That is all this presence of consciousness simply is. Your body is God's temple. Consciousness is the living Power in the body. Just like a light bulb cannot shine without the Power present. Consciousness is the unseen Living presence, living Power and living intelligence or living God functioning, governing and expressing itself naturally and effortlessly as you. Life is another name for God. The Reality that is Sought-after is ever-present naturally as one's true nature. One's true nature is always present as the waking state or the state of being aware and remaining aware. To be awake from sleep is consciousness. Consciousness is the natural state of being common to everybody. The Self is not reached or attained. Everybody is already so called Enlightened, Realized, the true Self and Free, paradoxically they do not know it. How funny! Ignorance is the only cause of all mischief. Get rid of ignorance and voila! Then you laugh at yourself. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Not coming or going anywhere. The Reality is ever-present as one's own self. It is 'I' am. Whoever told you that you were bound simply lied to you. There is no bondage. What binds you? Find out for yourself who is bound. Prove it to yourself. Don't you know thatFreedom is not reached? It is already here and always here. Understanding is the best medicine for Freedom.Nothing else is required. After all, bondage is just ignorance. That is all it is. Just this and nothing

else. Not knowing what the true Self, He, the Reality or God simply is, is the only trouble. Wisdom is Freedom. Understanding this consciousness i.e. the true Self is very easy. Understanding is all that is necessary to remove ignorance. Removing ignorance is Wisdom and Freedom. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Nothing to go beyond or to get rid of and all that non-sense. Spiritual and religious beliefs, concepts, practices of any kind are the poison not the cure. There is nothing new, nothing spiritual or religious whatsoever to be achieved, attained or acquired. The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something newor reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To simply be conscious or wakeful effortlessly everyday naturally is the so called state of Enlightenment or the state of Realization that spiritual and religious Seekers are foolishly Seeking to find far and away. Isn't it funny? Did you wake up this morning and are you awake right now? Voila. That is all Enlightenment is truly all about. All and only about being aware. Consciousness is one's true nature experienced directly as the natural state of being. To be conscious or awake from sleep is to be the Self. To be conscious is consciousness. That is the true Self. Simply being oneself naturally is always being the true Self, to be awake is awareness and the Reality. Anyone who foolishly believes that the state of Enlightenment is something new, a spiritual or religious state to be reached or attained has been sold water by the River. Meaning they simply have been conned by someone appearing as a holy spiritual or religious being or a Buddha. Sentience. Cognizance. Awareness is one's unchanging true nature. Awareness present is simple changeless being. Undeniably present first hand as the knowing that 'you' are present or pure awareness of being. Life, existence, consciousness is always present here and now.

To be aware is to be the Self. Full stop. What else do you want? There is nothing more to realize. That alone is the Self-Realization. Me, myself and 'I' is the true Self. Same Oneness or Omni-presence present as oneself. Are you aware? Yes? Voila! You are that awareness itself. The ultimate Truth is so simple. It is laughable. It is all about you. You, you you! You are that and that is the SelfRealization. It is true! You are awareness itself.You are the Self. You are God. You are pure awareness. The witness of all things. You are awareness itself. Never changing. The Self is in all beings and all being are in the Self.... Know you are Free. ~ Ashtavakra Gita~ You are the One. You are the Self. You are awareness. You are that. You are Free. The Self is you, you, you and nothing else but you. Get to know you. That is all. Know Thyself. Awareness is just another name for you. Freedom is so simple! Wake up and smell the Coffee! Get to know the real you.You are awareness itself. Know you are Free. There is no bondage. Only a false notion of separation or duality is bondage. Know your real Self and if you know yourself you also know the Oneness or the Kingdom of God. To know the same Oneness that is present in all sentient beings, it is very easy. Nothing new under the Sun. Same timeless message of non-duality or Oneness shared for millennia. The Self is present here and now as awareness. Look at yourself. Are you aware? Realize the simple Truth, that simply being aware is being the Self. That is all unchanging awareness or the true Self simply is. Funny paradox. To be aware is the destination you have never left, or the real Self you have never lost. Freedom is so easy. There is no bondage. That is all there is to realize. Then you laugh at the Joke of it all. Due to ignorance and acquired spiritual and religious beliefs, one only imagines that there is. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free.

We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Understanding that simply being aware or wakefulness is the presence of awareness being pointed to as one's true nature is all that is necessary for Freedom from all bondage. Remove ignorance. The Self, He, the Reality is always present as plain ordinary everyday awareness. Just like a Finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.Forget the finger and take a look at the moon. The Moon, Self, God, He, Reality, Oneness etc, being pointed to. Is simply what you have always been and are. Awareness is nothing special, different or new. Just realize that you are and remain aware. That is IT. What else did you foolishly expected this presence of awareness or the Self to be? A blazing light? Something new or special to be freshly acquired or a new spiritual faculty. Oops. Call off the Search, simply because nothing new or different is to be freshly acquired. The Self is that 'I' am you know so well already as your own affectionate everyday self and being. Not knowing how close and how plain and ordinary consciousness simply is to everyone alive is the only trouble. Consciousness is nothing new or special. Not some spiritual or mystical presence at all. It is simply the presence of Life itself. Consciousness is always experienced as the natural state of being aware and remaining aware common to everybody. Everyone without exception knows and always experiences the Self or consciousness directly as the waking state. Have a look at yourself. Are you aware? Be content with simply being aware and voila! What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ How else can you know that you are present? If you are not dead or un-conscious, you already know without a doubt that you are aware anyhow, you no need to try to be. You are that

presence of awareness itself. Take a look and see. Have a look at your real Self. Who is always present to be aware of this and that? 'I' am of course. Awareness is being oneself. Being oneself is awareness.That is all there is to realize. 'I' am is the presence of awareness being pointed as one's true nature. Awareness is just another name for you. You can only know that you are because awareness is present. Knowing and awareness both are One and the Same. 'I' am means that you know that you are alive and present, therefore awareness is undeniably present as pure being. Awareness present is the knowing that you are present. Awareness of being is the Sought-after Truth and Reality. Now you know the simple Truth about the Self or the presence of consciousness that has always been pointed to by the wise for millennia, as one's ever-present thoughtless true nature and Reality. Only the foolish belief that consciousness should be something new, spiritual or special is the veil camouflaging the simple Truth about one's ever-present true nature and common real identity. Being aware and remaining aware is the Self. That is all. There is nothing more to realize. To be and remain aware is unchanging awareness. All that is required for Freedom is to simply remove ignorance. That is all. So simple. Not becoming or achieving anything new, spiritual, religious, different or special. After all, who is not aware of being? Consciousness is so common to everybody. No consciousness present. No 'I' am present. Who ever said Freedom was hard or difficult? Freedom, Realization or Enlightenment etc, is so easy. Before chop wood and carry water. After chop wood and carry water. Nothing whatsoever changes, simply because nothing new or different is freshly acquired. Only ignorance is removed. That is all. After all, how can anyone gets anything new when nothing was ever lost? Nothing new but simple changeless being is one's true nature. That is the Open Secret to Freedom.

Closer than close consciousness is always present within your own dwelling as Life itself. That is what God is. It is beating your heart naturally and self-shining through your eyes effortlessly as the presence of awareness. Awareness is the Oneness or Omni-presence present naturally in everybody. Awareness is always experienced directly as pure being. After all, dead people do not say 'I' am. Remove this Life essence from the body and you have a silent and still corps. Life, consciousness, existence present in the body expresses itself as pure awareness of being. Simply realize that here and now you are not dead or un-conscious but awake and aware of being. Being alive and aware is to be the Self. Me, myself and 'I' is this present awareness of pure awareness of being. You must be alive and conscious or aware to know and say 'I' am. Know yourself. Who am 'I'? 'I' am is that. Awareness is just another name for you. Once you get that there is absolutely nothing new whatsoever to get, you finally got it.It is so simple. The only difficulty for Freedom is how simple, how plain and ordinary the simple Truth about oneself simply is. Nothing new, nothing different or special whatsoever is to be freshly acquired. Here and now you yourself are that. Not reaching or attaining anything new for Freedom. Being aware is always being the eternal Self. So simple. Awareness is not to be attained or cultivated. You already are what you Seek. After all, who is not aware of being oneself? 'I' and awareness are One and the same presence. Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ How can you find the Self that was never lost? Realize that the Self is me, myself and 'I'. No difference whatsoever. No separation. No duality. Then you have a good laugh at yourself for Seeking the Self. The Seeker is the Sought.

After all, who wants to know Freedom? 'I' do! Who wants to know the Self? 'I' do! Who is Seeking the Self? 'I' am! To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Know yourself.How do you do that? Simple! Remove ignorance only. Nothing else is required for Freedom. To find the Self is so easy. No time or effort is required.Understanding is all. Then you laugh! The only difficulty for most Seekers is to comprehend this Simplicity. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ 'You' are what 'you' Seek. The one who wants to know the Self is the Self.Funny no? Only the ignorant who is veiled falsely believes that the 'I' is something other than the Real Self. Some believe the 'I' is a finite independent self, doer or ego. That foolish belief in Dual-'I'-ty is only ignorance. The Truth is the complete opposite. Everybody knows 'I' exist. 'I' am. Everybody says 'I' all day long. Everything you can come up with is always attached to the 'I'. 'I' is ! No 'I' present, no 'I' am.The 'I' present is the Self present.'I' is that or 'you' are that. Same, same. Who am 'I'? The 'I' is in fact the Lord, the Father or whatever. In other words the 'I' is Seeking itself. How can you kiss yourself on your own lips when you are the One without two? No dual-'I'-ty. You, being the Self (consciousness), want to know how to attain the Self (consciousness). ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Remove ignorance about your own self. If not, you are only wasting your time Seeking for 'you'. Freedom is easy!No time or effort. You do not have to strive to become what you already are. Only remove the idea that you are not that already. That is all. The Self, the Reality or God is always undeniably present so near and so dear to oneself. Who is not aware of himself?Who doesn't know and say 'I' am? The 'I'

present in 'I' am is the Lord. The 'I' represents the Self, the Reality, the Lord. Primary consciousness. Pure awareness of being. So simple. Say 'I' to yourself. See! Who doesn't like to be? The Self is just another name for me, myself and 'I'. The experience is here and now. You undeniably know that you are and you like it. There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained. You are the Self (consciousness).You exist always. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Key to Freedom is 'you'. Nothing new. Therefore when you look for it, paradoxically you always look away from it. When did 'you' ever lost 'you'? What are you looking for when you are already that? Gee! yoU aRe yoU. Here and now you are that. You are the One. You, you, you! You are the One without two already.There is no other Self that exists but the Real Self present as 'you'. Ignorance is the only trouble. Because 'you' don't know 'you'. Only 'you' can have a problem wasting time foolishly frantically searching for 'you'. Here and now you are Self. Call off the Search. You are awareness itself this very moment. Who ever told you that 'you' weren't the Real Self already anyhow simply being yourself? The Self is yourself. What 'you' Seek is what 'you' have always been and are. Don't you know your own affectionate everyday self? Remove ignorance if you desire to be Free. Nothing else is required for Freedom. You are already that anyhow. Awareness is just another name for 'you'. That is all. Freedom is easy. No more. No less. The natural state of being common to all. If you are alive and aware of being. Realize that you are already so called Realized. To be alive and aware of being oneself is the Reality. The Self is not some spiritual or special state to be achieved but what you are. Your true nature is awareness. Being aware is this awareness being pointed to as the Self. Understanding this is called Self-Realization.

After all, you cannot become what you have always been and are. Only realize that being aware is to be the Self. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Just like space for example is always present but also always overlooked simply because it is no-thing and cannot be objectified. One's true nature is also very subtle. The Reality which always is present and unchanging with oneself is very subtle and therefore overlooked. All and only because it is nothing new, nothing special or different. It is simply unchanging awareness. Awareness is always primary, unchanging and therefore unless it is directly pointed to, the fact that it is never coming or going anywhere and always present before everything else, it is also easily overlooked. The natural state of being awake and remaining awake all day long is the so called Realized state. In other words to be conscious is consciousness. To be awake is awareness. That natural effortless activity of being and remaining aware common to everyone alive alone is one's true nature, the Sought-after Truth and the Reality. Some have called this natural common to all plain ordinary everyday presence of consciousness, the Self or God. The Self, God or consciousness is simply the natural effortless state of being sentient that is always experienced directly by everyone alive as plain ordinary everyday wakefulness. We call this presence of awareness the waking state. The state of wakefulness is the presence of consciousness. That is all one's true nature simply is. Consciousness is another name for pure awareness of being or 'I' am. Consciousness is not some spiritual state to be reached or religious experience but what we are naturally. Wakefulness is abiding as one's true nature. Awareness is not something to be attained or cultivated.

After all, consciousness, the Self or the Reality is nothing new. Who is not aware of himself? To be awake is in fact at once the state of consciousness and awareness of being. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Self-appointed Gurus, religious and spiritual Teachers, Buddhas, holy Saints, Great Enlightened Sages and Jnanis etc, will always camouflage this simple Truth about the Self. Like selling water by the River. Everybody alive and awake already knows the Self as pure awareness of being. After all, if you know that you undeniably awake and not asleep, then consciousness is indeed present. The ultimate Truth about one's true nature is so simple isn't it? Know the Truth. Freedom from all bondage is not at all about becoming or be a more-on. But simply all and about removing all the spiritual and religious crap camouflaging the simple Truth. Have a look for yourself and get to know your true nature. Are you aware right now? Yes? There you go sport. The experience is always here and now. Being awake or aware is being one's true nature, the Self and the Reality. Nothing religious or spiritual about the Self. Consciousness is one's true nature i.e. the Self. So near and so dear. Everybody awake or conscious is always abiding as the Self. Consciousness is plain ordinary everyday wakefulness. It is nothing new. To know one's true nature is very easy. To be awake from sleep is wakefulness. Wakefulness is consciousness. To be awake from sleep everyday naturally is nothing other than the state of pure being common to everybody. To be awake or conscious is to be aware and one's true nature. The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

There is no reaching or attaining the Self. It is already present here and now as wakefulness. Without realizing it, everybody is always naturally and effortlessly abiding as the Self, as the Reality. Consciousness is one's true nature. That is what the fuss is all about. To be awake is to be the true Self. Nothing new, spiritual or far away. Wakefulness or consciousness present is pure awareness of being. Knowing that you are present or present awareness. Consciousness present is 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ If you were mislead to foolishly believe that consciousness was some holy presence or something new. Oops.Realize that you have simply been conned by someone that was pretending to be holy. Some people like to play the Guru and to be worshipped as holy being by the ignorant. Camouflaging this simple Truth about the Self to entice and confuse Seekers. After all, to be conscious or wakeful is to always be the Self. That is all. Consciousness is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. So simple. There is nothing more to realize. Who ever said Freedom was hard or difficult and yet to be achieved? Remove ignorance only. Nothing else is necessary. Then you laugh at yourself. No time, no effort or spiritual practice of any kind is necessary to realize the Self. It is all a big Joke! You will only laugh at yourself for striving to discover the Self. In fact the Self is already realized. If you truly want to be Free do not trouble yourself with Seeking.The Search is itself the Trap. To know Freedom only the idea of being bound has to go. A funny paradox. That is all that is required. Some Seekers may be told by holy beings, by great Saints, Sages, Enlightened Masters, Jnanis, Buddhas

Teachers and Gurus etc, to do something in other to become something, but that is only for idiots. The honest person who knows this simple Truth about himself will only say what I am saying now. Only the false idea, the false belief or false notion 'I' have not yet realized the Self has to go. Everybody is always the Self. Just this and nothing else. They simply do not realize it. Not knowing this simple Truth about oneself is the only bondage. Wisdom is Freedom. Just this and nothing else. Of course some spiritual and religious people will use this ignorance to entice, confuse and take advantage of others for either selfgratification or a fee. These are the holy beings, Gurus and Buddhas you may have come across on your journey of self-discovery. Doesn't matter how many you will worship or fall in love with, during this Life time of Seeking. The bottom line is that any spiritual and religious Buddha or Enlightened being you see on the Road are nothing other than the greatest illusion.It is all and only for show to entice the ignorant and the weak. Like selling water by the River. Ignorant and foolish Seekers believe what some spiritual Guru or religious Teacher says without ever investigating if it is in fact True. These ignorant people fall for the image of a great being or Guru and end up chasing spiritual carrots. People that have blind Faith in their Gurus, Teachers, Masters and Jnanis are only believing the false to be true. No one can give you or transmit Freedom and all that non-sense. It is impossible. Only point to look at yourself. Remove ignorance is you want to be Free.Simply because you are the true Self already this very moment. Foolishly believing that someone as attained or achieved something spiritual they do not have already. Only the Search to become something new, spiritual or holy is the Trap. That is the only trouble. They fall for illusion and perpetuate a false notion of not being there already. Kept on a fictitious spiritual path of becoming or attaining something new, they are only bound to Seeking.

The only bondage is simply the false idea of not being already the true Self and Free.That is all. Freedom is very easy but people do not want Freedom to be very easy. What to do? One can only take a horse to the water but cannot make him drink. There is no becoming or attaining anything new for Freedom. There never was. One only believes that there is. After all, no one can become anything new or different than simply being oneself but only remove ignorance. Nothing else needs to be done for Freedom. Know the Truth about yourself and that alone sets you Free. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Unless someone investigates for himself and realizes or understands that in fact there is no bondage other than a false notion or idea of bondage, how can they ever know Freedom? When that is all there is to realize. Realizing that there is no bondage is the Realization.Not striving to become something new, something different spiritual or holy, but to simply realize that you are the Self already. Here and now you are that already. Only the idea that 'I' am not already the Self is the illusion of bondage and separation. That false notion is all that needs to go. If you want to be Free find out what binds you. Bondage is just like a burned rope. It is all and only psychological. Just a false notion of being bound falsely believed to be true. The feeling that 'I' have not realised is the obstruction to realisation. In fact it is already realised, there is nothing more to be realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ It is all a funny paradox. It all works in reverse. Instead of striving to become Free. Simply realize that you were never bound. To know one's true nature, the Self, He, the Reality, the Atman or God is very easy. Anyone that knows this simple Truth will only say what I am saying

now. In fact it is so simple it is laughable. After all, did you know that what is Sought-after as one's true nature is awareness? All that is necessary is to recognize awareness to be present as one's true Self.That is all. How to recognize awareness present? It is very easy! Have a look yourself. Are you aware right now? Voila! That is what awareness simply is, it is the knowing that you are aware. That is awareness itself. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ The ultimate Truth about one's true nature is so simple. It is like a big Joke. One can only laugh. Paradoxically because of it's simplicity itself people Seeking it do not want it. Only because awareness is no-thing. It is not an object to be seen. Yet that is all Freedom is truly all about. The Self is already Realized. Seekers simply do not realize it. To realize that to be aware is to be realized is the so called SelfRealization. The only trouble for the ignorant Seeker is to believe the false to be true and reject the simple Truth as being false. Seekers want to see the Self as something new, as a flash of light or experience something spiritual or religious. That is all wrong acquired knowledge from holy beings, Sages, Jnanis and Gurus about the Reality. You need not pray, meditate, make any effort or spiritual practice and all that non-sense for awareness to be. You are aware right here and now anyhow effortlessly, therefore you need not try to be. Awareness is nothing new, but everyone's natural everyday state of being. How else can you know that you are present, if awareness is not present? How many thoughts and feelings can you be aware of, if you are unconscious? Awareness is being awake, being aware or sentience. To be aware is to be the Self, the Reality.

It is at once the knowing that you are present and the witness of all thoughts, feelings and all things. Who is present to be aware of this and that? 'I' am of course! Who else? 'I' am is that awareness. It is yourself. The Self is in fact what you have always known yourself to be. Nothing new. Awareness is just another name for you. Gee! yoU aRe yoU. Call off the Search. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ The only trouble for Freedom is the Search for Freedom. Just like common sense is not always common. The Search is itself the Trap. After all, prove it to yourself. If you have been a long time Seeker proud to have been on a spiritual path forperhapsten, twenty, thirty, forty or more years and still have no clue of what is simply being pointed to as the Self and Realitywhen it is already here, always present right now naturally. Well, then it may come a time in your life when you stop andsimply realize that perhaps you may have been looking in the wrong direction all this time. People always ask, what is Freedom? What is Enlightenment? What is Liberation?What is Realization? It is very simple! It is only when you finally get that there is absolutely nothing new to get. Then you laugh at yourself for foolishly striving, searching and seeking all this time to find the Self that was never lost . At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Ignorant spiritual and religious Seekers read too many books and sat with too many self-appointed spiritual and religious Gurus and Teachers. Believing the false to be true. Missing it by Seeking it. All along so near and so dear, the simple Truth is simply overlooked. Ignorant of this simple truth, innumerable methods under different denominations, such as yoga,

bhakti, karma, each again with many modifications, are being taught with great skill and in intricate detail only to entice the seekers and confuse their minds. So also are the religions and sects and dogmas. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Beware of holy Buddhas, Enlightened beings, great Sages and spiritual Teachers and Jnanis. Anyone who foolishly believes that the Self, He, the Reality or God is something new, something special, spiritual or religious will never the simple Truth.It is impossible. Simply because the Self is nothing new, nothing spiritual or religious whatsoever. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ That is the Funny Paradox! Many people sell water by the River to the veiled and ignorant. As it looks spiritual and holy, some even will sell them silence, isn't it funny? All that needs to be done for Freedom is to simply get rid of the false notion of being bound with simple common sense. Understanding is all that is required to remove ignorance. After all, what binds you? Look for your chains and they will not be found. Who said Freedom was hard or difficult? The Reality is nothing to be freshly acquired. One can only sell ignorance to the ignorant. One only believes that there is bondage.Just a false notion that has never been investigated. Like a mirage of water in the Desert. That is all the false notion or illusion of bondage simply is. The ignorant is the one who waits in vain for Freedom. The wise investigates what is Real. Upon investigation the false notion of bondage dissolves.

On enquiry 'who' is bound? The notion of bondage vanishes and so does that of liberation. The one eternally free alone remains self-revealed. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no God and you. Therefore there is nothing more egotistical than to worship and pray to God. What God? Present here and now. Look at yourself. God is 'I' am. Who is to pray or worship whom when 'I' am that 'I' am? Non-duality is realizing that you are God. Ignorant people worship a messenger while the wise hear the message. Why hold on to any messenger dead or alive. Isn't it wiser to hear the timeless message instead? No matter how much time you spend staring at it. The finger pointing at the moon will never be the moon. Ignorant Seekers believe a spiritual Guru is a special holy being or God among man with great power or faculties. That is all garbage of course. Know the Truth. There are no holy spiritual Sages, Jnanis, Gurus and Buddhas. A Buddha is only an ordinary person that simply realized that to be alive and aware everyday naturally is to abide as one's true nature.God is Life itself. One's own everyday existence is the Divine. That is all. Some people may put on a show to entice ignorant Seekers usually for a fee. But Freedom and the Reality is nothing spiritual nor holy. To know the Self is very easy. All that is required is to understand what is being pointed. God, the Self, He, the Lord or the Reality is awareness. Awareness or the Self is nothing new. Everyone alive without exception always experiences the Self directly as plain ordinary everyday wakefulness and therefore pure awareness of being. To understand or realize that to be awake or aware is to be the Self is the realization. Realize that you are and remain aware. Freedom is so simple isn't it? Many wonder why didn't anyone tell them this simple Truth.

The simple Truth Kept quiet. Many Seekers sat in silence with holy beings waiting for Freedom, when all along they were already the Self and Free but their holy Buddha never told them. Therefore they sat and waited until their beloved Guru died. Wondering when will they become Realized. Silence cannot bring upon Freedom. Only by understanding that the veil of ignorance is removed. No one told them that Freedom is already here.There is no waiting for Freedom.Who waits dies. Realization is not something new to be achieved. It is only the removal of ignorance. After all, when there is no bondage. How can there possibly be a liberation? Get rid of ignorance.Nothing else is necessary. Starting with the myth of the Guru and the B.S. of Grace and Transmissions. Did you know that the Reality cannot be acquired, transmitted or given to anyone? The Reality is not to be achieved. It is already there.No one can give you what you have always been and are. Again common sense is not always common.After all, if Reality was to be freshly acquired or transmittedfrom others it would imply that it is not already present with oneself and therefore permanent but impermanent or transient. If it is not already present and unchanging with oneself it couldn't possibly be called the Reality but illusion. Be wise and instead of striving to become something new, simply have a look at what always is present. That which is always present and unchanging with oneself alone is the true Self and Reality. No one can reach the Reality. It is impossible.It is a waste of time. One can only die foolishly trying. Only illusion can be freshly acquired anyhow. Reality is always right here. It doesn't come or go anywhere.

After all, if it wasn't already present here and now. It couldn't possibly be the Reality. Therefore why Seek to acquire what is impermanent. Isn't it foolish? It is impossible for anyone to get what he has not got already. Even if he gets any such thing, it will go as it came. What comes will also go. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Do not look for the Reality outside yourself.You won't find the answer there anyhow. Simply because you yourself are the answer itself. To the question who am 'I'? 'I' am is the answer. Self-appointed Gurus, Masters and Teachers tell their disciples that there is no one or that they not exist, when in fact they truly are the One already eternally Free and existence itself. They simply do not know it. To know the Reality simply be still and know that 'I' am is that. Reality is another name for you. Have a look and see. Just pause thoughts. What remains present without thoughts present? 'I' alone remain present as the Reality.Pure changeless being. Thou art that. Know the Truth! That the 'I' is not different from the Lord. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Present closer than close to oneself is the Reality. One can only laugh at the Joke of it all. The so called Self-Realization is that me, myself and 'I' is the Lord. No difference. Who knew! Therefore to Seek the Reality as something new or different is to always miss it. Who is bound when the Reality is yourself? Get rid of ignorance. That is all. Did you know that Freedom is NOT the acquisition of anything new, spiritual, religious, different or special? God is just another name for Life, for existence, for consciousness. That is the Open Secret. The Self or God or the Reality or consciousness present is to simply be alive and aware of being oneself. No one can deny one's own existence. Are you alive? Are you aware? You know that you are? 'I' am is certain?

Who is not aware of himself?Everybody knows that they are. God is 'I' am. 'I' am is God. Same, same.One own affectionate self is the Divine. Here and now you are alive and to be alive is to be God. That is all there is to realize. The ultimate Truth is so simple isn't it?Be still and know, that 'I' am is God. Nothing new under the Sun. God is not some spiritual state or some religious entity but simply Life itself. Knowing that you are alive, that you exist is 'I' am. God is pure awareness of being. No one ever fails to experience God directly as the simple fact of one's own being, as 'I' am. For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He is Life itself. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ Are you alive?That is the Secret to Freedom. Only the ignorant Seeks God as something new. Everybody knows that they are alive and yet they do not know God. How funny! Freedom is not reached. Freedom is simply what you always have been and are naturally all along. God is that 'I' am you already know so well as your own affectionate everyday self and being. That is all. Why should anyone Seek God when God is always present within one's own dwelling? God is Life itself. Existence is God. Being alive is God. God is 'I' am. No one is to worship some fictitious God. That is only bondage to ignorance. Only understanding that Life is God. That is all Freedom is about. After all, what effort do you make to be? To know God is very easy.No time or effort is required. Everybody alive knows that they are. The Sought-after Truth and Reality is at once being alive and conscious. Understanding that Life is God is all that is necessary.

What have you to wait for when it is already here and now? You have to only look & see. Look at yourself, at your own being. You know that you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all. Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ God is present within your own dwelling as Life itself. God is not found in the graveyard of the past. Why worship the Dead when the answer to existence is what is effortlessly happening right here and now? Looking for God outside oneself is to look away from God. Instead turn within toward that 'I' am you know. Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Only the ignorant foolishly believes that God is something apart. That is the only trouble. God is nothing new or apart but simply what you are. Ignorant people want to believe that God is a holy being when in fact God is Life itself. Falsely believing that God is something new, spiritual and holy. Some people spend an entire life time going from Guru to Guru, place to place and book to book. Striving to reach, attain or become something that they already are and have always been all along naturally. The Search is the Trap. It doesn't matter how many mountains you climb, how many Gurus you sat with. God is not something new to be found far and away or to be acquired from others. But what you are. Here and now you are that. Without even trying to be. That is all there is to realize. After all, are you alive? See! You know that you are and you like it. Did you know that one's true nature is consciousness? Due to acquired ignorance and a false notion of separation and duality, some people invented religious concepts and spiritual ideologies about consciousness.

Understanding that to be sentient, awake and therefore aware all day long is this presence of consciousness some people call the true Self, the Atman, He or the Reality is all that is required for Freedom. No one ever fails to experience consciousness directly. To be conscious is consciousness itself. There is no becoming anything new but simply recognizing what you always are. That is all so called Self-Realization is about. Everyone alive and awake from sleep never fails to experience the Self. After all, when was the last time you didn't wake up from sleep and abided as pure consciousness, your true nature or the true Self i.e. the natural state of being awake, aware or wakeful-ness all day long? Everyone awake or conscious is a 'Buddha', they simply do not realize it. Consciousness is nothing new and therefore very subttle. It is easily overlooked. Remove the veil of spiritual and religious ignorance camouflaging the simple Truth about the Self and you realize that consciousness is simply what you have always been and are naturally all along. Nothing new or different in anyway is to be freshly acquired. The state of self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no bondage and there is no liberation. There is only consciousness always present as Life itself. So many people have so many grotesque interpretation of what God truly is. Rare is the person that realizes that God is simply Life itself. That is the Oneness present in all. All sentient beings are essentially 'Buddhas'. As with water and ice, there is no ice without water. Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away. What a pity! ~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~ Life is not something new or apart. Life is the Oneness present in all that we all like to be. So near and so dear. God, the Self, He, the Reality is what you are this very moment. Here and now you are that.

Consciousness is nothing new or special but simply what we all are naturally. Life itself is this consciousness itself. Why should anyone Seek it? Seekers spend years foolishly studying, learning and memorizing spiritual scriptures believing that it is Wisdom. The funny paradox is that all religious beliefs and spiritual concepts about God are the greatest ignorance. Ignorant spiritual and religious people foolishly believe that by doing some kind of practice they will attain Freedom. That foolish notion is ignorance and in fact bondage. Freedom is always here. It is not to be freshly acquired. Do nothing for Freedom. Only remove the idea of not being already Free. That is all that is necessary. If someone desiring Freedom is told by some holy being, some Enlightened Guru, great Sage, Jnani or Buddha to do something to become something to reach Freedom, they have only been lied to. Mislead and conned. There is no reaching Freedom. There is no becoming or attaining anything new. Any kind of practice and effort for Freedom is paradoxically bondage. Like a mirage in the desert. Bondage is all and only a false belief in being bound. Just a false notion believed to be true. Remove the false idea of being bound and you are Free. Only the Seeker who believes in bondage is bound by his belief. Freedom is always here. It is not to be achieved. All that is required is to remove the false notion of being bound. The Guru cannot give you anything new, which you dont have already. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ No one can give you or transmit the Reality. It is impossible. Forget the story books. Don't waste your time looking for someone to stare into your eyes and pretend to transmit Guru's Grace or the Presence of God or the Self etc. That is all and only for show to entice the ignorant.

If you want to be Free do not concern yourself with the concept of a mind or ego. Do concern yourself with meditation, yoga or practice. There is absolutely nothing to change, to alter or modify about oneself for Freedom. There never was! Understanding is all that is required for Freedom.That is all Freedom is about. Know the simple Truth! Freedom is not the acquisition of anything new, spiritual or religious. It is simply the removal of the false notion of bondage. Not becoming or attaining anything. There is nothing new, spiritual or religious to get for Freedom. Not knowing this simple Truth about Freedom is the only trouble. Ignorance is the veil to be removed with understanding. That is all it takes. Only the veiled ignorant spiritual Seeker foolishly believes that to seek the Self is to find something new, something special or spiritual. That is all crap of course. Question your beliefs. That is all that needs to be done for Freedom. If the inquiry is made. The real Self is discovered ever-present as nothing other than simply being oneself naturally. To Seek the Self, God or the Reality as anything new, spiritual or religious is to always look away from it. To know that simply being oneself is the Self itself is to know the Truth. That is all there is to realize. Know yourself to be the Self and you know God to be you. Gee! yoU aRe yoU. So simple. That is all so called Self-Realization or Enlightenment is all about. Thou art that already. Call off the Search. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ There is no bondage and there is no liberation. Only ignorant spiritual and religious people believe that there is. Like a Fish in the water crying that he is thirsty. The Seeker is the Sought.

Only the false notion of not already be the Self is the only bondage. That false notion must go. All that is required for Freedom is to simply remove the idea of being bound.That is the Secret to Freedom. That is all the trick to Freedom is simply all about. Remove the false notion that you are not the true Self already. Veiled and ignorant Seekers only believe that they are not the true Self already. That false notion is the only trouble. Therefore they will spend year after year foolishly Seeking something new or special to be freshly acquired. Did you know that understanding and Realizing are synonymous with the removal of ignorance and therefore Freedom? Like a Fish always in the Ocean frantically Searching everywhere for the Ocean. Not knowing that there is no bondage is the only bondage.Isn't that a funny paradox? Leave the Seeking and becoming something new, spiritual or special to these foolish ignorant Seekers, who cares! If you are wise do not follow the crowd like a blind Sheepo. Instead understand the Reality. After all, for Freedom you get absolutely nothing new, nothing spiritual, special or different whatsoever. Paradoxically Freedom is very simple. You only get rid of ignorance. That is all Freedom is truly all about. If there is a will, there is a way. Anyone that is open to super duper simplicity and is willing to understand can easily remove the false notion of being bound with understanding. There is nothing to it. Freedom from all bondage is so easy. Who ever said that Freedom was something new to be reached or attained? Liberation is our very nature. We are that. The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

Remove ignorance and voila! Who is bound? No one. Freedom is very easy but the veiled Seekers do not want it to be easy. A strange paradox. Therefore they are only bound to the idea of being bound. How funny! Didn't anyone tell you?Here and now you are that. Freedom is so easy. Make no effort. Understanding is all. There is absolutely nothing to change, nothing to alter or modify about oneself for the Reality to be. No surrender, no keeping quiet, no practice, no effort, no Guru, no method or teaching of any kind. No trying to be in the moment, no meditation, no spiritual rituals or mambo jambo, no nothing. Leave silence and stillness for the dead. It has nothing to do with the Reality. Freedom is easy. No time or effort is required. Simply remove ignorance with understanding and abracadabra you have discover the Open Secret to Self-Realization. Understanding is Realizing. The mistake for the ignorant Seeker is to foolishly believe that awareness is something new, spiritual or special. When in fact being awake from sleep is the presence of awareness itself being pointed as one's thoughtless Reality. All that is required to know the Self is to realize that you are not asleep or un-conscious but in fact awake and aware. Just simply being conscious or awake is being aware and that natural activity of sentience, cognizance or awareness is the Sought-after Self, He, the Reality or God. That is IT. Nothing new or special but simply being what you have always been naturally every single day of your life and are effortlessly this very moment. After all, have a look at your real Self? Awareness is not to be achieved, it is already there! Aren't you aware? If your answer is yes 'I' am. Voila! You know that you are. Awareness is indeed present because you are present. You and awareness are One.

You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Only the ignorant spiritual and religious Seeker cannot accept this simple Truth.It is way too simple! Where is my blazing light? Where is the spiritual state and presence selfappointed Gurus have promised? Oops! Didn't anyone tell you? You already are at the destination you have never left.Here and now you are already that. Nothing new is to be freshly acquired. Only ignorance is to be removed. That alone is called Freedom. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Did you know that one's true nature is to be aware and remain aware i.e. unchanging awareness? To recognize one's true nature is super duper simple and effortless. Simply pause thoughts for a few moments and voila! What remains present without thoughts? You remain present and aware. That is IT. No blazing light!Nothing new, nothing spiritual or religious. To recognize one's thoughtless true nature and ever-present unchanging Reality all that is required is to be still. Pause thoughts and you are there. That is all. So simple. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that? ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ If you were told that Freedom was hard or difficult and only for the rare and the few. You have been lied to. Freedom is so easy.One can only laugh at the Joke of it all. Pause thoughts and you are there. What can be easier and simpler than that? Freedom is not the acquisition of anything new or whatsoever holy. Just realize that to be aware is to be the Self.

Just be aware that you are and remain aware. You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Sentience, cognizance, awareness. All are synonymous with one's true nature and the Reality. Are you aware? To be aware is awareness and therefore the Self. Just realize that to be aware and remain aware is the Sought-after Truth. There is nothing else to realize. Some people get confused. What about Grace, about Satsang. What about Guru's transmissions. What about being in the holy presence of an Enlightened being etc. That is simply all crap or garbage given to the weak, the simple and the ignorant to believe in. Not knowing this simple Truth. Some people chase after and worship illusion. So someone has to give them something to chew on. Reality has nothing to do with any of this. Simply realize that to be awake or aware is to be the Self. That is all. All that needs to be done is to remove ignorance only, just this and nothing else. To know the eternal Self or the Reality simply discern between the transient and that which always is. Not by some spiritual method or religious practice. Simply by pausing thoughts that the true Self is self-revealed. Get to know your real Self. To be aware and remain aware all day long or wakeful is to be the Self. Awareness is nothing new or far away. Look at yourself. Are you aware? Voila! That is IT. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Did you know that there is no bondage and therefore there is no liberation either for anybody. One only believes in the false idea of bondage, separation, duality, but that is only a false notion to be removed. No one is bound. Why Seek liberation when there is no bondage. Isn't it foolish?

Only ignorant Seekers foolishly believe that they are bound. That false notion must go, that is all. On enquiry 'who' is bound? The notion of bondage vanishes and so does that of liberation. The one eternally free alone remains self-revealed. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To the wise, me, myself and 'I' is God. To the ignorant me, myself and 'I' is believed to be a finite separate self or ego. There is no ego. All there is present is the Self and nothing else. That is all there is to realize. The understanding is that there is no other me, no other self or any other 'I' present other than infinite consciousness itself or God. That is called Oneness. To the ignorant the 'I' is the self limited to the body. To the wise, the 'I' is the Infinite Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Who is bound and in need to become liberated when God is present as me, myself and 'I'. No one becomes the Self. You are the Self already. Look at yourself. Here and now you are that. There is nothing more easy and simple than Freedom. Freedom is so easy. Make no effort. Do nothing. Look at yourself and voila. Thou art that. Once you get that there is nothing new, special or different to get, you finally got it and have a good laugh. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What binds you? Look for your chains and they will not be found. You are Free, you are He, you are that. Remove ignorance only. What else do you want? Realisation is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Understanding is Realizing that there is no bondage and also no liberation.You are already the Self and ever-Free. All there is ever present with oneself naturally is consciousness or God.Just this and nothing else.

You are that this very moment. Me, myself and 'I' is the Self.That is all. Therefore bondage and liberation for whom when you always have been the the One without two? Stop Seeking. Stop Searching. The Self is always present here and now. Look at yourself. Here and now you are what you Seek to find. Being yourself is being the Self. The Guru cannot give you anything new, which you dont have already. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self, only we dont realise it. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Know the simple Truth. No one holy can give you anything new. Only crap can be freshly acquired from a holy being, Sage, Guru and Jnani. Only the veiled and ignorant person believes in holy beings, spiritual Sages, Jnanis and Buddhas. The one who foolishly believes someone has reached, attained, acquired something new, spiritual or religious to be called God, the Self or the Reality is only veiled by ignorance and only fooled by the false and greatest illusion. Any spiritual ideology of some kind of holy being, unseen spiritual presence, transmissions and satsang are only spiritual and religious crap given to the weak, the veiled and the ignorant to chase after. All and only for some self-appointed Guru's self-gratification and many times for a fee. Question your beliefs. If do not question your beliefs then you will foolishly believe the false to be true and paradoxically reject the simple Truth to be false. A strange paradox.After all, understanding is all. The Self is not something new or spiritual to be acquired from others appearing spiritual, religious and holy, but simply recognized ever-present as you.Gee! yoU aRe yoU. Just like when someone is given a wrong address will never find the correct destination. Spiritual and religious Seekers are given wrong knowledge about God. Forget holy Gurus and holy books.It is all crap. When the ignorant Seekers hear this simple Truth they go up in arms screaming.

Attachment to the false is very strong with some people. They have fallen for illusion. A spiritual or religious person is only illusion. The ignorant Seeker turns to illusion for Reality. It is like turning to a thief that is disguised as a policeman to catch a thief. Spirituality and religions have nothing to do with Reality. Veiled and ignorant Seekers are told lies by self-appointed Gurus and spiritual Teachers and just like throwing garbage to a pig, they swallow it whole without ever questioning the Reality of their Guru. They believe that if a spiritual Sage, Jnani, Teacher, Master or Guru tell them this or that it must be true. How foolish. Acquiring lies instead of Truth, the Seeker foolishly believes the false to be true. The Reality is nothing spiritual or religious. It is nothing new to be freshly acquired. It is already there. Reality is simply what you are. It is that 'I' am you know yourself to be. 'I' am is that. Nothing new or spiritual. The Reality is only known to always be present naturally within your own dwelling as your very own being. Why Seek and worship the impermanent? Realize that the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. Just like following a pointer pointing to the toilet is not the destination. Be wise! Forget the finger and look at the moon instead.That is what truly matters. When you are ready to know the Truth about yourself and end the Search for the Self that was never lost. Simply look at yourself. Who are you? You are the true Self you Seek to know.You are that. Nothing new to get or overcome. Only the removal of ignorance is Freedom. Freedom is not the acquisition of anything new. It is what you are naturally. It is the simple fact of your own being. Spirituality and religions paradoxically point away from this simple Truth. After all, to look for the Self is to always look away from the Self. Only the ignorant Seeker wants to see the Self as something new, spiritual or special.

Don't you know? The Self or God is not some holy person, place or thing in front of you but what you are. Being yourself is being it. Thou art that. Not some spiritual or religious self. Plain good ol' everyday you is the Real Self. You are what you Seek. You yourself are the moon that is being pointed to by the wise. The Self is yourself. Just this and nothing else. Another word for the Self is Life itself. You are the unseen presence of Life in you. Nothing new. People have been conning and screwing others in the name of God and religions. How funny. The wise will only say what I am saying now. Kill the Buddha you falsely believe you are seeing on the Road. It is only a scam. Just this and nothing else. A Buddha is only an ordinary person that only pretends to be holy. The Self is not something to be acquired from others. All that is necessary is to know its existence in you. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Searching for something new, spiritual or special. Foolish ignorant spiritual Seekers believe the false to be true. Some foolishly even believe that the Self or the Reality is something spiritual or religious that can be transmitted or freshly acquired from others appearing holy, spiritual, religious or Enlightened. That is all a bunch of crap. Freedom is to simply remove the idea of being bound. The Self is yourself. Remove ignorance only. That is all there is to realize. There is no God and you. God or the Self is you are or 'I' am. You are that Oneness. There is no waiting or becoming anything new when the Reality is always present within your own dwelling. To know the Reality simply turn within toward your very own self and being. The Reality is present closer to you than you can imagine. Look at yourself. Voila! You have found it. The false notion that simply being oneself naturally is not already being the real Self is the only obstacle to Freedom. The Self you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men

who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Reality is nothing new, nothing special or spiritual.It is the natural presence of consciousness, existence, Life. Ignorant Seekers who are veiled want to see the Self as something new, something spiritual or special, perhaps as a blazing light, as a new spiritual state, feeling, experience or sensation. Some want to stop thoughts, others kill some imaginary ego or go beyond a mind to find the Self. How funny. What mind? What ego? Look for them and they will not be found. What truly binds you? Have a look and see. Everyone always abide as the True Self anyhow. There is nothing else present. All one needs to do for Freedom is to get rid of ignorance. Not strive to become anything new. Freedom is always here. The Self is the living power, presence and intelligence in the body. We call this affectionate presence of consciousness, existence or Life itself. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling. ~ Kabir ~ Therefore to be alive is to be the Self or God.The realization is that one's own existence is the Divine. The self is always present and experienced directly as the natural state of being alive and awareness of being common to everybody. Knowing that you are alive is the Self. After all, how much time and effort does it take to know that you are? Be content with what you are sure of. And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are. The only clue you have is your certainty of being. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To be or not to be. 'I' exist or 'I' do not exist. 'I' am or 'I' am not. Which one are you absolutely certain of, that needs no proof? 'I' am is certain of course.

You know that you are. No one alive can deny one's own existence and say 'I' am not or 'I' do not exist. God is nothing new, special or spiritual. Present here and now naturally. Existence is the same as being. Look at yourself. Look at your own being. You know that you are alive and you like it. Consciousness, God or the Self is 'I' am. Call it by any name, God, Self, the heart or the seat of consciousness, it is all the same. The point to be grasped is that this heart means the very core of ones being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Remove ignorance. Understand the meaning of the word Self, He, the Reality or God. How else can you know what you are looking for, if you have no clue what is being pointed to? The Self is present closer to you than your own breath. After all, you can pause your breath for a moment but you cannot pause being. Can you separate yourself from your own existence? What will happen when consciousness is no longer present within your own dwelling? What will happen if you remove this living power, presence and intelligence functioning and governing your body? The Reality present within your own dwelling is consciousness. That is what God truly is. He is Life itself. Why should one Seek it when to be alive is be IT? Never apart of far away from God for even an instant. The Kingdom is in you. Life is God. That is the Oneness present in everybody. Everybody always experiences the Self directly as one's own existence, as one's own being. Knowing the Self is being the Self, and being means existence, ones own existence. No one denies ones own existence. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ One only believes that there is separation, duality and bondage. Who said Freedom was hard or difficult? So called Enlightenment is so easy. Only remove the false idea that you are not that consciousness itself or the Self already. That is all.

Most people Seeking the Self are so veiled with spiritual and religious crap, they cannot handle this simple Truth. The only difficulty for the ignorant Seeker is paradoxically that the ultimate Truth is way too simple. Oh well too bad for them. What to do! One must be open to child-like simplicity. Like a parachute only works when it is open. The Self reveals itself to the ones who are open to child-like simplicity. Freedom is the simplest and most effortless. Paradoxically most people do not want the ultimate Truth to be so simple. As they say, you can only take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink. No one can give you anything new that you do not have already. Nothing spiritual, different or religious. The Self is ever-present naturally. Self-shining in plain sight all along. One can only point to what the Self is, you alone must have a look and see it for yourself. Only then can you see this consciousness ever-present naturally in you as you. Not as anything new or different but as what you have always been and are. The ultimate Truth is so simple. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Know the simple Truth about the Self, He, the Reality or God. It so simple that it is laughable. There is nothing new, nothing spiritual, nothing religious or special about the true Self or one's true nature. Being alive and aware is always being the Self. Awareness present is 'I' am. The experience is always here and now. Look at yourself. Are you alive? Are you aware? If your answer is yes 'I' am. Voila.'I' am is the Self. God is that 'I' am you know so well as your own being. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

Awareness of being oneself everyday is at once God and 'I' am. No difference. The Self you Seek to know is simply yourself. Who doesn't know and say 'I' am. Each one knows. Say 'I' am to yourself. Voila! You know that you are. You are Enlightened. Congratulation. Call off the Search. You can laugh at yourself now. Thou art that already. What you Seek is what you have always been and are. Closer than close. It is yourself. Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know the Self. A strange paradox! ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Obviously you do not have to repeat 'I' am all day long to know that you are. That you think about it or not. 'I' am is always with you. No one can deny one's own being. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Who ever said God or the Self was something new, something spiritual or religious and apart. No one wise. Only the ignorant believes that it is.Ignorance is the only obstacle to Freedom. Freedom is so easy. One can only laugh. Remove ignorance. Nothing else. Only remove the false idea of not being the Self or God already, that is all.That is the Open Secret. Know yourself and if you know yourself, you know the Kingdom of God or the Oneness to be consciousness or Life. Upon investigation the false idea of bondage dissolves and the simple Truth is revealed. Being alive is being the Self. Only the ignorant who is veiled wants to reach, attain or become something new, spiritual or special. To the wise Life is the Oneness. Consciousness is the presence of Life itself. Look at yourself here and now.The experience is always here and now. Are you alive? Are you conscious? There you go sport. That knowing that you are present as yourself is the Self, He, the Reality or God. Present awareness or awareness of being present as oneself is itself the

Self. No one can deny one's own self. Everybody knows 'I' am. The funny paradox is that the Sought-after Self, He, Reality or God is not something new, spiritual or far and away but in fact always present here and now closer to you than you have ever imagined, you are what you Seek. We are 'imagining' we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free. We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something, which we have always been and are. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ If you have been told and mislead to believe that you are bound in anyway, then realize the Truth, you have simply been lied to. One only falsely imagines that there is separation and bondage. Bondage, separation and duality is only a false notion. There isn't any. Like hiding the Precious that is Sought-after closer than close, the Sought-after Truth and Reality is that 'I' am you have always know so well as your very own plain ordinary everyday affectionate self and being. Not knowing this simple Truth about one's own everyday self is the only trouble. Like a Fish in the Ocean Searching everywhere for the Ocean. You already are at the destination you have never left. Nothing new. Nothing special or different in anyway is to be freshly acquired. The Self is yourself. Only ignorance is to be removed for Freedom from all bondage. Nothing is lost. Call off the Search.Look at yourself.You are that. The Self you Seek to know is truly your own plain ordinary everyday affectionate self. The Self you seek to know is truly yourself. Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief like that of the ten foolish men who grieved at the loss of the tenth man, who was never lost. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Didn't anyone tell you? Freedom is always here. The only bondage is only the false belief of being bound. Question your beliefs. That is all.

Freedom is to simply remove the false notion of being bound. Just this and nothing else is required. Like selling water by the River to the ignorant. Some people have been told to do this and others to do that with a false promise that some day they will become something new, something spiritual, different or special and liberated. It is all B.S. they only have been conned. There is no bondage and therefore there is no liberation. Only the ignorant believes that there is. Remove ignorance if you want to be Free. Freedom is not some spiritual or religious state. Wisdom is Freedom. There is no spiritual state of becoming Realized or Enlightened, that is only crap fed to the ignorant Seeker. Freedom is so easy. Get rid of ignorance. Nothing else is necessary. Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

There is no becoming anything new. Most people Seeking Freedom have no idea whatsoever that Freedom is all and only about the removal of the false notion of being bound with understanding. That is all. Freedom is not something new, spiritual or special to be freshly acquired or achieved, it is already present. There is no bondage but due to ignorance the ignorant foolishly believes that there is. Remove ignorance and voila! Nothing to it, understanding what is simply being pointed to as the Self, He, the Reality or God is all that is necessary. Then you laugh at yourself and at the Joke of it all. Freedom is so easy. Liberation is our very nature. We are that. The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired.

All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Wanna know what you can do for Freedom? It is very easy. Simply remove ignorance with understanding only.Understanding is all. That is the Open Secret. Wisdom is Freedom. Only ignorance is the false notion of bondage. That is all. Freedom has nothing to do with spirituality or any kind of religious rituals, practices and beliefs. Only remove ignorance with understanding. Nothing else is necessary for Freedom. Wisdom is Freedom. That is all Freedom is truly all about. Never far away or apart. One's true nature is ever-present naturally with everyone alive. Paradoxically it is nothing new, nothing spiritual or religious whatsoever. Nobody is born religious anyhow. Paradoxically everybody is born so called Realized, they simply do not realize it. Religions and spirituality are just fictitious myths, stories, false beliefs that created erroneous convictions. All religious convictions are nothing other than mental programming. Just this and nothing else. Freedom is so simple and so easy only a rare few have seen through the illusion. Only because most people are looking away from the eternal by looking for it as something new, something spiritual or religious. A strange paradox. Sought-after Truth is found by not seeking it. ~ Longchen-pa ~ It is all a paradox. Therefore realize the simple Truth that the more holy, the more religious or spiritual it appears, the more garbage it truly is. So many con artists will pretend to have reached, attained or have become something new, spiritual, religious or special all and only to simply entice the veiled and ignorant Seekers to foolishly believe the false to be true. No matter what story they tell others, the true Self is not something new or spiritual whatsoever. If you were mislead to believe that the Self or God is something new,

something spiritual, religious or special then realize that you have been simply lied to and ended up chasing after the false, fantasy or illusion. Freedom is very easy. No one becomes Free. Only the false idea of being bound is to be removed with understanding. That is all that needs to be done for Freedom from all bondage. Get rid of ignorance. Only remove ignorance. That is all there is to be done. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ What people call God or the Self is simply life itself. Consciousness is the only real presence of existence. We call it Life. Everybody alive is already the true Self, He, the Reality or God every moment. They simply do not know it. Ignorance is the only culprit and only obstacle to Freedom. All that we need do is to remove the obstruction. That which is eternal is not known to be so because of ignorance. Ignorance is the obstruction. Get over this ignorance and all will be well. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Make no effort. No time or effort is required. Any effort of any kind for Freedom is always going to be bondage. Remove ignorance. Nothing else.It is very easy, paradoxically most Seekers do not want Freedom to be easy. No keeping quiet, no meditation, no practice of any kind can ever help you realize this simple Truth. Nothing spiritual, nothing religious or holy can ever help you realize this simple Truth. Ignorant of this simple truth, innumerable methods under different denominations, such as yoga, bhakti, karma, each again with many modifications, are being taught with great skill and in intricate detail only to entice the seekers and confuse their minds. So also are the religions and sects and dogmas. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Seeking spirituality and religions cannot help you for Freedom. They all are the poison, not the cure. If you want to be Free, you must forget all spiritual and religious

concepts, ideologies and beliefs. Only understanding what is one's true nature is Freedom from all bondage. Just this and nothing else. If you don't understand this consciousness itself, then you are in bondage when you will understand what this (consciousness) is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ What is one's true nature or the Self?Consciousness. What is consciousness? Being awake from sleep. That is all it simply is. Being awake is being aware and remaining aware all day long and that is consciousness or the Self. No one ever fails to experience consciousness directly as the most natural, the most plain and ordinary everyday state of being aware and remaining aware or awake all day long.That is all consciousness truly is. To be conscious is to be the Self, what can be simpler than that? Nothing new or far away but present closer to you than you can ever imagine. Realize that being awake or conscious everyday naturally is in fact to be the Self or God. The waking state is the natural state of pure being common to everybody alive. Sentience, cognizance, awareness. This affectionate natural effortless state of being aware and remaining aware or this natural activity of being conscious common to everyone alive is the Sought-after Truth. Some people call it God, He, the Reality. Reality is at once being and consciousness. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ The Reality or Real-'I'-ty is at once being conscious and knowing that you are. Consciousness, being, 'I' am. Paradoxically spiritual and religious people are always looking away from this simple Truth. Doesn't matter what name you call Life, existence, consciousness. That is what the true Self, He, the Reality or God truly is.

Nothing new, spiritual or far away but always naturally present as the most common, the most familiar and affectionate natural presence common to everyone alive. God or the Self is the natural state of being common to all. Awareness of being oneself is this presence of consciousness which simply is plain ordinary everyday wakefulness. Awareness of being oneself is consciousness or wakefulness and that alone is at once being God and 'I' am. Know the Truth. There is no spiritual or religious God. There never was! Only the fool and the ignorant believes in that crap. Why seek, why worship and believe illusion to be the Reality? The Self, the Reality, the Atman, He, the Lord or God is indeed already naturally present with oneself simply because no one alive can deny one's own existence and negate being. 'I' am is certain and needs no proof. 'I' am is God. Not some holy presence, spiritual state or extra-ordinary faculty. But 'I' am as the simple fact of your own being. God is 'I' am. Consciousness or the Self is God. It is pure awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ To be or not to be?To be aware of being oneself is the Sought-after Reality that some people call God which is always directly experienced and known to all as one's own being, as one's own existence, as 'I' am. Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everybody knows 'I' am. No one can deny his own being. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ Nothing new or different. Everybody knows and says 'I' am all day long. No one can deny being alive. No one can deny one's own existence and say 'I' do not exist or 'I' am not. The Self or God is 'I' am or the consciousness itself present as wakefulness which is the real presence of existence. The Self is God. 'I' am is God. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~ To know the Self is very easy. To summarize the so called SelfRealization,there is nothing to it, simply realize that right here and right now you are aware, to be aware is

to be the Self. Super duper simplicity. That is the Secret shining in plain sight. To be aware and remain aware is to be the Self, He, God or the Reality. That is all what the Self or God truly is. No one is ever apart from awareness itself. Look at yourself. Here and now you are that. Wakeful-ness, aware-ness are just different names for God, He, the Self or the Reality. It is nothing new, nothing religious, spiritual or holy but in fact what you are everyday and have always been. It is the fact of your own being. To be conscious or awake is simply knowing that you are. Awareness of being present is consciousness. Consciousness present is 'I' am. If you know for certain that you are awake and not un-conscious or asleep this very moment that undeniable knowing that you are present as yourself or awarenessof being alone is to abide as one's true nature effortlessly and naturally. There is absolutely nothing holy or spiritual about being. Some people may write spiritual or religious books, give spiritual talks and pretend to be holy, they will only fool you to foolishly believe the Self is something new, spiritual or special, but that is all false imagination, lies and deceptions. Who is not aware of himself? Awareness present is the knowing that you are present. It is 'I' am. There is nothing more common, more ordinary than to be aware or awareness. To be awake or aware naturally everyday of your life is to be abiding as the Self itself. That is all there is to understand or realize. Nothing new, spiritual, religious or holy about awareness. The Self or consciousness is naturally present and experienced directly as plain ordinary everyday wakeful-ness. Everyone alive always experiences awareness directly as pure changeless being or simply being awake or aware.

Look at yourself. Are you un-conscious? Are you asleep this very moment? Or are you awake and therefore are you undeniably aware? Awareness or wakefulness is not something to be achieved or cultivated in anyway.It is what you are naturally. The Self is what you already are this very moment naturally. Consciousness is everyone's natural state of being. What you need is to be awareof being aware. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Who ever said Freedom is something new, hard or difficult? No one. Only some ignorant and foolish spiritual and religious people believe that it is. Freedom is so easy. Remove ignorance only. That is how you get to know your real self. You cannot become or attain the Self or awareness. It is impossible. Simply realize that you are aware anyhow. That is IT. To be aware is the awareness being pointed to. So simple isn't it? The ultimate Truth is so simple. ~ Ramana Maharshi ~

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