Ramana " Who Am I" a superior direct method

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Who am I? is a different technique from the meditation - 'I am Siva' or 'I am

He'. I rather emphasize Self-Knowledge, for you are first conscerned with

yourself before you proceed to know the world or its Lord. The 'I am He' or I

am Brahman' meditation is more or less mental, but the quest for the Self of

which I speak is a direct method and is superior to it. For the moment you get

into the quest for the Self and begin to go deeper, the real Self is waiting

there to receive you, and then what ever is to be done is done by something else

and you, as an individual, have no hand in it. In this process all doubts and

discussions are automatically given up, just as one who sleeps forgets all his

cares fo the time being.

 

from The Teachings of Ramana Masharshi edited by Arthur Osborne. page 22.