Thus Spake Ramana

[Guest guest]

The Self illumines the ego,

the predispositions,

and also the gross senses,

whereupon the predispositions

appear to the senses

to have materialized as the universe,

and become perceptible to the ego,

the reflection of the Self.

and the result of this inadvertence

is dark ignorance

and the misery of the present life.

 

The only reality is the Self

from where the ego appears,

and runs through thoughts

which manifest themselves as the universe...

 

[from] Talks with Ramana Maharshi

[recorded Jan, 19th, 1935]