Liberation or Enlightenment or Self-Realization

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"The individual being which identifies its existence

with that of the life in the physical body as "I"

is called the ego.

The Self , which is pure Consciousness, has no ego-sense about it.

Neither can the physical body , which is inert in itself , have

this ego-sense about it.

 

Between the two , that is between the Self or pure Consciousness

and the inert physical body , there arises misteriously

the ego-sense or "I" notion , the hybrid which is neither

of them , and this flourishes as an individual being.

This ego or individual being is all the root of all that is futile

and undesirable in life.

Therefore it is to be destroyed by any possible means ;

then That which ever is alone remains resplendent.

This is Liberation or Enlightenment or Self-Realization.

 

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The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi

Arthur Osborne

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