Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Be As You Are: Ramana Mharshi, Quotes

"'I exist' is the only permanent self-evident experience of everyone. Nothing else is so self-evident as 'I am'. What people call self-evident, that is, the experience they get through the senses, is far from self-evident. The Self alone is that. So to do self-enquiry and be that 'I am' is the only thing to do. 'I am' is reality. I am this or that in unreal. 'I am' is truth, another name for Self."


"The mind is nothing other than the 'I'-thought. The mind and the egoare one and the same. The other mental faculties such as the intellect and memory are only this. Mind [manas], intellect [buddhi], the storehouse of mental tendencies [chittam], and ego [ahamkara]; all these are only the mind itself."

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