Where the "I" arises in your body..Ramana

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"I ask you to observe where the "I " arises in your body, but it is not really

quite correct to say that the "I" arises from and merges in the chest at the

right side. The Heart is another name for the Reality and this neither inside

nor outside the body. There can be no in or out for it, since it alone is. I

do not mean by "heart" any physiological organ or any plexus or nerves of

anything like that; but so long as a man identifies himself with the body or

thinks he is in the body, he is advised to see where in the body the "I" thought

arises and merges again. It must be the heart at the right side of the chest

since every man of whatever race and religion and in whatever language he may be

speaking , point to the right side of the chest to indicate himself when he says

"I". This is so all over the world, so that must be the place. And by keenly

watching the emergence of the "I" thought on waking and its subsidence on going

to sleep, one can see that it is in the heart on the right side.

 

Edited by Osborne.. The Teaching of Ramana Maharshi