Thus Spake Ramana

[Guest guest]

The world is not external.

The impression can not have an outer origin,

because the world can only be cognized by

consciousness.

The world does not say it exists;

it is your impression.

Even so, this impression is not consistent

and not unbroken.

In deep sleep,

the world is not cognized;

and so it does not exist

for a sleeping man.

Therefore,

the world is the sequence of the ego.

Find out the ego.

The finding of its source is the final goal.

 

[from] Talks with Ramana Maharshi

[recorded June 15th, 1935]