Thus Spake Ramana

[Guest guest]

Are you not the Self?

Why trouble yourself about other things?

Take the essence;

reject other learned theories as useless.

 

In what does superiority or inferiority consist?

Achievement of the Real alone matters.

Identity of the Self with the body

is the real bondage.

Leave off the false notion

and perceive the Real intuitively.

That alone matters.

 

The seeker ultimately reaches the Self

and there finds unity as the prevailing note.

 

[from] Talks with Ramana Maharshi

[recorded Feb 4th, 1935]