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Tuesday, August 28, 2001 1:20 AM

[RamanaMaharshi] ......the Self is only one?

Q: As the bodies and the selves animating them are everywhere

actually observed to be innumerable how can it be said that the

Self is only one?A: If the idea "I am the body" is accepted, the

selves are multiple. The state in which this idea vanishes is the

Self since in that state there are no other objects. It is for

this reason that the Self is regarded as one only. Since the

body itself does not exist in the natural outlook of the real Self,

but only in the extroverted outlook of the mind which is deluded

by the power of illusion, to call Self, the space of consciousness,

dehi (the possessor of the body) is wrong. The world does not

exist without the body, the body never exists without the mind,

the mind never exists without consciousness and consciousness

never exists without the reality. For the wise one who has known

Self by divining within himself, there is nothing other than Self

to be known. Why? Because since the ego which identifies the form

of a body as "I" has perished, he (the wise one) is the formless

existence-consciousness. The jnani (one who has realised the

Self) knows he is the Self and that nothing, neither his body nor

anything else, exists but the Self. To such a one what difference

could the presence or absence of a body make? Realisation is

nothing to be gained afresh; it is already there. All that is

necessary is to get rid of the thought "I have not

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