Ultimate reality - as explained by Shri Ranjit Maharaj.

There is a very beautiful page put at The InnerQuest Website - Meeting Ranjit Maharaj. I had a good fortune of meeting Maharaj several times - at Mumbai, at Panchagani etc. He would put things in such a simple manner; sometimes you wonder "How can reality be so simple?" He said - "Close your eyes, and world ceases to exist. Open them, and it shots back. Who is perceiving all this?"

From this page:

"If you want to follow a practise, you have to follow someone who is realised. Methods are full of frustrations and give no real satisfaction. Reality has no method. Illusion has many methods, many problems and many concepts. To overcome illusion, or concepts, one should ask, "From where does all this thinking arise?" Thinking is always of other things. To know the thoughtless Reality, no thinking is required. It is where there is no thought. Whatever thing you think of doesn't exist. Everything is He only, and apart from Him there is nothing in the world. Whatever is thought of, makes Him something other than what He is. When thinking ends, what happens? You go to zero.


Awakening is nothing but a complete, thorough understanding. A clear cut understanding of a thing is awakening. Reality is not to be achieved, it is there. After this thorough understanding, nothing is required.

And we expect "awakening" to be some great, mysterious happening! "Reality is not to be achieved, it is there" says it all.