<P> According to Nisargadatta and others one of the main blockages to self - realization is identification with the body . </P> <P> "Once you give up your identification with the body, then you are all the time the Self, or Atman, only . For this, no effort is required . You only have to realize that you are not the body". </P> <P> A most suitable way to drop the identification with the body is to focus in the source of consciousness, the feeling "I am", which is not the body, the thoughts or anything observable . According to the sage of Mumbai whatever happens happens because "I am"; even if you doubt that, you have to be there to doubt . "Yes, sadhana (practice) consists in reminding oneself forcibly of one's pure' being - ness', of not being anything in particular". </P> <P> "Empty yourself", "surrender" or "give up everything" is the advice to many visitors . Whatever your path is it ends with complete surrender to the truth . </P>

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