Self-Enquiry

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EGO AND THE SELFQuestioner: Up to what point should I carry out the

inquiry?Bhagavan Ramana: You must continue this demolition of wrong

ideas byinquiry until your last wrong notion is demolished. That is,

until theSelf is realized. The most valuable thing in the ocean lies

on its floor. The pearl is tiny and yet so valuable and difficult to

procure. The Selfis like the pearl; to find it you must dive deep,

into the silence, deeperand ever deeper, until reached.>From the

section: "EGO AND THE SELF" (page 34) in the book, "MORE DOUBTSAND

100 MORE ANSWERS ," compiled and edited by A.R. Natarajan.

Publishedby Ramana Maharshi Centre for Learning, Bangalore,

India.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

PS: Please don't forget: "you must dive deep, into the silence, deeper

and ever deeper, until reached."

 

If there are doubts to be destroyed or ideas and notions to be

demolished, what is meant by Sri Ramana?

As far as I understand he meant the wrong idea of being an idividual

Ego which exists apart from the Self and with an own idendity - that

is the "wrong idea" - nothing else. You may doubt everything else -

but you cannot doubt your true Self. Or in other words: the only

thing that one cannot doubt is "being", is the I-I. If one is going

deeper into Self-Enquiry, everything appears more and more

questionable. So far my limited experience.

Love

Gabriele