The Individual Being...Ramana

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

Consciousness and the inert physical body, there arises mysteriously 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 at 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.

 

>From The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi...by Arthur Osborne pg. 21