Thoughts on Ramana Maharshi

This one was a little bit harder to understand at first. I had to read some of the lines over again, and sit there for a minute to try to understand what it was saying. But when i understood, it made sense.

At first, i didn't understand the ending when it said "When you pray for God's grace, you are like someone standing neck-deep in water and yet crying for water. It is like saying that someone neck-deep in water feels thirsty, or that a fish in water feels thirsty, or that water feels thirsty." But after i read it about 3 times, it finally got through to me.

I interpreted it as... God has already given you his grace. It's up to you to learn how to discover it yourself, and once you discover it, you'll know it was there all along.

I'm not quite sure what else to say about this reading... I felt as if it was a little too "look within yourself"... i mean, i believe in that too, but there are other things in life that make me happy and bring me joy... other people and things and situations. I believe God is in us, but I believe He's also in other things.

I felt that the example of "an ordinary Christian will not be satisfied unless he is told that God is somewhere in the far-off heavens, not to be reached by us unaided" isn't exactly true. At least not for all Christians. I believe that we can "reach" God whenever, wherever, through ourselves. We can pray on our own and talk to Him on our own n ask for forgiveness on our own, and not have to go through a priest, or someone "high" in the chruch. I believe God sees all, knows all, and everything else. Maybe I'm not the "ordinary Christian". lol.