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“The believer is just the ego, whose nature is to hide or distort the truth. ‘I

believe’ says the believer. To him the Sage says: “Find out the truth of this

I, the ‘believer’; then thou wilt know theTruth that transcends the mind, and

therefore cannot be contained in a creed....” "

 

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"We thus see that the ego is the primal seed of all this manifoldness — not

only of the world of objects, but also of the world of ideas. This is a logical

extension of the conclusion that we have arrived at in the last chapter, namely

that the world is mental. Since the mind has no existence apart from the ego,

it follows that the ego itself is both the mind and the world. This is just

what the Sage says in the following: “When the ego rises, then all the world

comes into being; when the ego is not, then nothing exists; thereforethe Quest

of the Self by way of the question ‘Who is this ego?’ or ‘Whence does he come

into being?’ is (the means of) getting rid of all the world.”*....”

....from Chapter Six, called "The Soul" in the book Maha Yoga by "WHO", Lakshmana

Sharma, who spent more than twenty years in association with Sri Bhagavan: the

entire book can be downloaded free-of-charge from the website of Sri

Ramanasramam.http://www.ramana-maharshi.org/

Notes: * Forty Verses on Reality, Verse 26.

For a structural analysis, click opn the following:

The_Deep_Forty/message/226

 

 

 

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John