the search for the Self

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Because the individual self,

which is nothing but the mind,

has lost the knowledge of its identity with the real Self,

and has enmeshed itself in bondage,

its search for the Self, its own eternal primal nature,

resembles that of the shepherd

searching for a lamp

which all the time he bears on his own shoulders.

 

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from Ramana's Self-Enquiry

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