Thus Spake Ramana 10

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THUS SPAKE RAMANA - 10

 

You say that this is the 'age of reason' and that the teaching must be in

accordance with reason. I ask: 'Whose is the intellect?' You must answer

'My intellect'. So the intellect is your tool. You use it for measuring

the variety. It is not yourself nor is it something independent of

yourself. You are the abiding reality, while the intellect is just a

phenomenon. You must find and get hold of yourself. There is no intellect

in dreamless sleep. There is none in a child. The intellect develops with

age. But how could there be any development or manifestation of the

intellect without the seed of it in sleep or childhood? Why go to history

to discover this fundamental fact? The degree of truth in history is the

same as the degree of truth in the historian.