Ramana also said: ‘Since with the rise of the ego all else rises and with its subsidence all else subsides, to destroy the ego through self-inquiry is alone true renunciation.’ So it’s the ego that gives rise to the appearances of things that we take to be real. Think how many times we’ve made mistakes – misjudging people, misjudging situations, misjudging ourselves. With the ego all of this arises, but when the ego subsides and eventually just disappears like a puff of smoke, then all of this false reality, construction of the false self – all of the misjudgements, the misinterpretations, the misreadings that give rise to conflict, anger, lust and all this false world – disappears as well along with the ego. It’s this which is the real meaning of renunciation.
| ( Finding Oneself 1 Laurence Freeman ) |
