From The Garland:- 132-137

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132

Why do people call me learned?

What is the mark of real learning?

Learning that all garnered knowledge

Of things is empty ignorance

And that true knowledge is the search

For the knower.

133

He, who by questing inward for

The knower, has destroyed the ego

And transcended so-called knowledge

Abides as the Self. He alone

Is a true knower, not one who has

Not seen the Self and therefore has

An ego still.

134

Those who, learning to forget

Completely all objective knowledge,

Turn inward firmly and see clearly

The truth, abide serene. Those who

Try to recall forgotten things

Pine bewildered, fretting over

False phenomena.

135

Poor fellow, you who are so proud

Of your omniscience, when you are questioed,

'You who know all things, do you know

Who you are?' you collapse disgraced,

Discomfited, O man of genius,

May this your ego-mind dry up

As dust and perish utterly.

136

When knowledge marred by doubt and error

Disappears in true Awareness

Clear and pure, one thus established

Firmly in Self-Being, free

>From falsehood, has crossed over to

The further shore of the river of knowledge.

137

He who, his ego gone, knows as it is

'I', the First Person, subject substantive,

Combined with 'AM', the predicate of being,

He alone is the true, honest knower.

(Sri Muruganar's The Garland of Guru's Sayings - Trans. Prof. K. Swaminathan,

Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai; 1996)