Lao Tse was a non-dualistic teacher. He had a realization and he had a lot of students. But he doesn’t write anything. So, the King of that country that time in Japan had told him to write down whatever he was teaching. That would be useful for people. Lao Tse would say, what is there to write down. There is nothing to write down.
Then, the King threatened him, “If you don’t write down, I will kill you! I will cut your neck”. Then Lao Tse said, “Ok! I can’t stay in this kingdom because you are threatening me. But allow me to go without my neck being cut. So, I will write down my teaching”.
Then, they will take him to the border of that kingdom. There, he wrote down his teaching on one page and he ran away. What he had written was, ‘The great existence. There is no way’. Because if you ask what the way to the sky is, you show your side, it is there. Right side if you also show it is there. It is there, in all the directions. That was the first line, he wrote. In one page, he wrote everything and vanished.
Like that, spiritual teachings are essential, very core teachings. Ramana Maharshi’s teaching is also like that. ‘Who you are?’, ask the question, ‘who are you?’, that’s all, over. Find out and nothing more. So, you go to the core of your being. If you ask Ramana Maharshi, he will not talk a lot about theory or anything else. Just get to the core.
Like that, I have told you my teaching. ‘I am not the body, mind or intellect. I am pure Consciousness’.
naanu naanembudu naanalla
ee deha mana budhi naanalla
sachidananda atma shiva naanu naane
shivoham shivoham shivoham
Over! That’s it! Find out yourself now. For that, you have to go inwards. For that, there is a process called Self-enquiry
Pranams
Prabhuji
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