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RAMAKRISHNA ANANDA

Overcoming the False Sense of Self

Want to experience spiritual liberation? Find out how you can.

Spirit is trying to express through us but our false sense of self, the ego, blocks its full expression. Sri Ramakrishna taught that a person is liberated when he (she) knows they are not the doer but, rather, that God is working through them. As we realize who the doer is, we become free to live in Spirit.

Essential Life Skills, Ego, Soul/Inner Self

God is Doing Everything

Sri Ramakrishna:  “Only an ignorant person feels that he or she is the doer. A person truly becomes liberated in life if she or he feels, ‘God, Spirit, is doing through me. God is doing everything; I’m doing nothing.’”

  • Our ego, our false sense of self, often doesn’t allow our spiritual nature to express through us
  • Sri Ramakrishna says if we realize we are not the doer and then allow Spirit to freely and fully flow through us, we can become liberated
  • We can release worries and sufferings by knowing we are not the doer
  • By being aware of the true self, the Atman — unattached, beyond nature, Spirit within us — we can sense that God alone is the doer and we His instruments
  • A realized person knows that even the leaf moves only because of God’s will

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