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RAMAKRISHNA ANANDA

The True Self

Do you yearn to be free of limitations?

Continuing Swami Vivekananda’s teachings on jnana yoga, we seek to open ourselves to an ongoing awareness of the true nature of reality. As manifested beings, we appear to be separate from our Source but, in reality, we are one. There is only one being, one existence — the ever-blessed, birthless, deathless Self. We are Spirit. Strive to realize this inner light and allow it to shine in your life.

Spiritual Development

Live in an Awareness of Spirit

From the mental level it is hard to understand what it is like to live in Spirit. The mind is a product of Spirit but is incapable of understanding its Source.

In reality, you are neither coming nor going. Your essence has not been born nor is it going to die. Your true self is infinite, ever-present, beyond all causation and ever-free. You are Spirit. Your body and personality are manifestations of the omniscient, omnipresent being. There is only one Self but It has many forms, bodies and minds. This is the true nature of life as viewed from Spirit. Open to the possibility of this vision and realization.

  • The limited mind is incapable of understanding Spirit
  • Beyond our body, mind and emotions lies the true self, the atman
  • The true self is eternal, beyond the law of causation and ever-free
  • Even though the body dies, the atman is eternal and omnipresent
  • There is only one being, one existence — the ever-blessed, birthless, deathless Self

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