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RAMAKRISHNA ANANDA

Your Personal Journey — Part 2

How to move from self-awareness to spiritual awareness

The self-awareness stage is the individual’s early contact with soul and Spirit. Sri Ramakrishna’s teachings help move us from self-awareness to spiritual realization. Being open to these beautiful words can inspire and aid in your personal journey.

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  • Discovering the true self is life’s great challenge
  • The individual self is like the needle of a compass and the supreme self is a magnet. You must first wash the dirt off the needle in order to find and contact the supreme self
  • Realizing the self, all doubts disappear. You are certain
  • To say it another way, gold is hidden under a few basketfuls of earth and you must remove the earth in order to gain the gold

Soul and God Realization

Sri Ramakrishna gives advice for entering into and abiding in soul and God realization. It’s a progressive journey in which you gradually let go of your separateness, your false sense of self. One day you find Spirit within you – your essence. Then, in time, you discover Spirit surrounds you. Months later, you’re absorbed in Spirit everywhere. Eventually you learn to allow Spirit to express in your thoughts, feelings and sensations. You enjoy experiencing the flow of life force in the activities of your physical body.

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Which of these is part of the triple transformation?
1. The true self replaces the false self
1. The true self replaces the false self
True, but there is a better answer
2. Love, light, bliss, and knowledge descend on you
2. Love, light, bliss, and knowledge descend on you
True, but there is a better answer
3. Your consciousness moves from mental to spiritual
3. Your consciousness moves from mental to spiritual
True, but there is a better answer
4. All of the above
4. All of the above
Correct

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