Swami RamTirth:Who am I& How to realize it?

Vedant
(In Woods of God Realization-Vol 1-pg 448)

Vedanta says render unto Caesar the things which

are Caesar's, and so render unto llama or Divinity
the things which belong to Divinity. These desires,
this false self should be taken at its own worth and
realised to be nothing. Assert your Divinity; feel
yourself to be the God of gods, the Lord of lords,
the Infinite One, then what desires have I. I am
everything. He can desire who is not in all time. He
will desire things which come to pass in seven
years. To the true Self there is no desiring, for the
true Self everything is. Everything is within you.
Verily, all objects, all joy, riches, everything man
can desire am T. Feel that and chant Om, and try to
feel that. You must realize that. You have always
thought yourself to be the body, and the body you
have become. Think Divinity, live in Divinity, andwhere is then any
room for desire? This Vedanta
makes you a magnet, the positive and negative
poles are separated and the body is magnetized.
Here is now something very important. People
make a mistake in saying that such and such a
speaker has great personal magnetism about him.
That is not the only magnet you desire. There is one
man who.wants to be a magnet to attract thought;
another wants to be a magnet to attract richer;
another wants to be a, magnet of personal charms,
beauty; other people want to be magnets of other
kinds; but the secret of all this magnetism is
Renunciation; mark these words, pure renunciation
and nothing else. You need not waste your time in
printing books to teach perfect health. If you can
remember these words and act according to them,
you are a great magnet. Rama tells you these things
from personal experience, and you may try them.
In order to become a magnet of thought, so as to
attract all sorts of knowledge to us, will it do to
pray to God? To say”O Lord Almighty, give me
Light. O Thou who art Light, give me Light.”O, will
this make you light, it won't do.”O let me have Light.
”Remember, just as we think, so we become.
If your thought is of this kind,”Let me have
light,”what will the result be? The realization of
this thought in you will result in your being in a
position from which light is always away? This
thought”Give me Light”of imparting light, in
asking and begging for Light, places you at a
distance from Light, and the result will be that
Light will never come, it will always be away.
Rama says, mark the man born of rich parents, his
birthright you say is Pen Million; but when does he
get his birthright? O, he must wait a long time. He
is always wishing for the death of his mother so
that he may get his birthright. So when we pray to
God and say,”O Lord, I am your disciple, and being
your disciple, O Lord, let me have this and
that,”then you will have to wait till God dies. God
never dies, and you will never get your birthright.
This is not the way to get Light or Knowledge from
around us. Never did man get anything by praying,
by begging, asking or seeking.

This is an astounding statement. Philosophy proves

it. What is Might? Might is to give up the desire for
even Light. So long as you desire Light, it eludes
your grasp. Sh.ill I ask Light to come to me? By the
act of asking or begging you shut out light. The
very act of asking or begging closes all light upon
you.