Letter #35 Sri Ramakrishna Saranam


Dear,

        Our soul i.e. the Self is always constant. We cannot deny our Self because it is non-imaginable, that without 'I' others are existing. At every moment we first accept or feel me, and then we feel others.

        The body and the soul cannot be the same. Because whatever we use cannot be the user. So, the Soul uses the body and that is why, the Soul is entirely separate entity. As in the case of a coconut the Real essence is quite separate from either the water or the outer periphery.

        So, Soul is the only Absolute Reality. Horns of a Dilemma begins from the inception; "Who am I?" – it should be a question and must be solved, if we try to answer that "I am such and such", then I can only point out my body or the mind or the intelligence which is not at all the real explanation of "I" or the Soul. Because in reverse we do not use the body at all. Then in Deep Slumber we become ignorant of our body, mind, intelligence i.e. every thing which we use in our so called conscious state. So this sort of conscious state is no consciousness. Consciousness is always consciousness and cannot be felt. What we feel, that is state. We feel these states as conscious - it is maya or illusion. Absolute Consciousness i.e. Consciousness cannot be a state. State is a passing phenomenon. The real Consciousness i.e. Atman which is one without second is always without any state either Dynamic or Static. Relativity or Non-Relativity is applicable only to one Reality i.e. the Subject. Consciousness, Soul and Real ‘I’ are one and the same.

        Try to meditate in this line.