I'm enjoying your presence, Swarupa. I've been reading your posts and I dig your avatar, that sweet mountain, Arunachala.

I spent some time there many moons ago and a blessing it was. Was it the mountain or Ramanashram and it's atmosphere or the spirit of Ramana? Was it my effort and/or my availability that created a space of openness in my being?

I just don't know. I feel a fondness for the mountain and the paradox of my relationship now to the eternal. The mountain flickers in my mind's eye as an image of that eternal Self. I love the last quote you put up from the Ribhu Gita. That so beautifully captures the wisdom of "whatever you come to, go beyond that" that I remember from reading Nisargadatta.

That one simple phrase keeps coming up for me. And that too is another place to let go.

Something that seems to me essential is what I saw you write in another post. Ramana said "Jnana and Bhakti are one." That is a beautiful meeting of two strains of two aspects of our nature.

I appreciate your presence here and your honesty very much. Thanks.