3. The Path of Self-Knowledge.

'IMAGINE THE ABSURDITY OF TWO FISH SWIMMING ABOUT IN THE OCEAN,


ARGUING VERY ANIMATEDLY BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THEMSELVES


AS TO THE EXISTENCE OF WATER!'

Nacreous Clouds

It seems extraordinary,  that we so roundly ignore the very basis and cause of our EXISTENCE.

And yet we do.  We ignore it almost every moment of every day of our lives!

Like the example of those two fish, absorbed in their endless and equally worthless discussions and debates, while all the time,  we live and move and have our BEING in THAT.

We can no more separate ourselves from what WE ARE,  than we can live in this world with out air.

We always think of ourselves from the perspective of being alive and aware in a body, and yet exactly the opposite is true.

The body and all that constitutes our sense of ourselves, is alive and aware in AWARENESS.

'SELF- KNOWLEDGE IS AN EASY THING, 

THE EASIEST THING THERE IS.' 

                                                      

                                                                 Ramana Maharshi.