The Practice
The practice of understanding yourSelf clearly starts with Self-knowledge and ends in Self-inquiry. These practices are the mechanism in which false-knowledge transcends into Truth: how ego-attributes dissolve into Self. The approach is likened to a Logic & Reasoning 101 class where Self-knowledge (illuminating) is similar to the lecture portion of the class, while Self-inquiry (eliminating) is comparable to the lab portion.
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Love Outpouring will never ask you to believe in anything, assume something, acquire anything or become someone you are not. Any Self-realized knowledge will come directly in the form of inherent-knowing and/or direct-experience, which are both prior to any knowledge or understanding your mind can comprehend or intellectualize.
"When you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable, must be the Truth."
-Sherlock Holmes-
To see mySelf in everybody, and everybody in mySelf, most certainly is love.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj-
Self-knowledge
(Illuminating)
Self-knowledge dispels false beliefs and concepts of how you perceive the world, i.e., how you take yourself and the objects in the world to be physically real and separate from one another, and to deliver the world back to you in its actual One seamless-form.
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Self-knowledge removes you from the misconception that the multiplicity of objects you witness in the world are independent material-based things with their own separate existences, and moves you into the One-Reality where there is no separation amongst the multiplicity. By knowing yourSelf directly you know the One-Reality, in which a One-Reality equates to the loving wholeness of ever-present happiness.
Your glory lies where you [ego] cease to exist.
-Ramana Maharshi-
Self-inquiry
(Eliminating)
Self-inquiry is the effortless practice of absolute attentiveness to yourSelf, to such a point where yourSelf only recognizes and knows only itSelf, thereby abandoning the ego-attributes and leaving You standing alone as yourSelf: permanent peace, happiness and love.
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Self-inquiry effortlessly relinquishes the outward-moving egoic tendencies that create human suffering. By relinquishing your lifetime of outward-moving tendencies and rescinding back inward to Self, your true-Self is re-gained. The more willing you are to effortlessly let go of your outward-moving tendencies and relax back into the stillness of Self the more ever-present happiness is experienced.