How can any thougt know what I am?

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Once Sri Bhagavan asked someone:

"How do you know that, you are not realised?

If you ponder over it, you will find that this question

is like an earthquake. Who says so indeed?

It is the person, a mere habit of thought, that

says it is not realized. How can a habit of

thought, or, for that matter any thought at all

know what I am? On the face of it, it seems

extremely humble and it is certainly most acceptable

to say: "Ah, poor me, I am not realised, no, no, far

from it". In reality it is lunacy to believe that thought

could ever know what 'I am'. It is the arrogance,

the vanity of thought, to imagine the unimaginable

and to have opinions about it.

 

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taken from: Walter A. Keers

In: Ramana Smrti

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