Who am I?

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The One Self,

the Sole Reality,

Alone exists eternally.

 

Reality is at once Being and Consciousness.

To know That is to be That,

in the Heart, transcending thought.

 

Absolute surrender to the Supreme Lord,

whereby the 'I' and the 'mine' are destroyed,

is the one means to realize immortality.

 

The Supreme Being,

the one ultimate Cause of the universe,

manifests himself as many

which do not exist apart from Him.

To destroy the ego and Be as the Self,

is the Supreme method of attainment.

 

To him who is one with the formless Self,

everything is formless,

Existence of the world is merely relative.

 

That knowledge alone is real

which ever remains changeless.

Worship under name and form

is only a means to realize

one's absolute identity

with the Nameless and Formless.

 

Self-Knowledge in which both relative knowledge

and phenomena fall off,

is alone True Knowledge,

because the Self is the Source of all.

To know all else except the Knower,

is but ignorance.

The Self being Absolute Knowledge,

it is neither knowing nor not knowing.

 

The Self being one and universal,

knowledge of diversity is but ignorance

which too is not apart from the Self.

 

-Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi-