Thus Spake Ramana 52

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THUS SPAKE RAMANA - 52

 

Knowing the Self is being the Self, and being means existence - one's own

existence - which no one denies, any more than one denies one's eyes, although

one cannot see them. The trouble lies with your trying to objectify the Self,

in the same way as you objectify your eyes when you place a mirror before them.

You have been so accustomed to objectify that you lost the knowledge of

yourself, simply because the Self cannot be objectified. Who is to know the

Self? Can the insentient body or mind know it? All the time you speak and

think of you 'I', 'I', 'I', yet when questioned you deny knowledge of it. You

are the Self, yet you ask as to how to know the Self!