Thus Spake Ramana

[Guest guest]

The mind is only a projection from the Self,

appearing in the waking state.

In deep sleep, you do not say whose son

you are, and so on.

As soon as you wake up,

you say you are so and so,

and recognize the world.

The world is only what is perceived.

Which is the eye that sees it?

That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically.

But you exist always.

Therefore--

that which lies beyond the ego

is consciousness--

the Self.

 

[from] Talks with Ramana Maharshi

[recorded Sept 29th, 1935]