The liberated one is liberated from maintaining liberation||Acharya Prashant,on Raman Maharishi 2015

Question: Sir, at one point Ramana Maharishi says, “When the praarabdh is exhausted, the ego is completely dissolved without leaving any trace behind.” And at another point he says, “You can experience the Self right now.” So how will this *praarab*dh change or break at a certain moment? How can it be possible?

Speaker: See, till the time you have a belief in moments, you will have to live in moments. Your question is – “On one hand Maharishi is saying that realisation or emancipation is something that will happen in future, when the load of all your past karmas, praarabdh is exhausted. On the other hand he is saying that realisation is possible right now. How can these two be possible?”

There is no discrepancy in these two statements. If you can give up on the feeling of time, this instance itself, you are liberated. But if you keep believing in time, then you are believing in liberation that will come in ‘time’.

What else is ‘future’? ‘Future’ is a hope. ‘Future’ is a hope, ‘future’ is liberation postponed in time. If you can be so immersed, that time seizes for you, then you are liberated, your praarabdh is exhausted. You are probably feeling like asking, “Will that continue? I might be immersed this moment, but will that continue?” Continue in…?

Listeners: Time.