Thus Spake Ramana

[Guest guest]

The mind is only a collection of thoughts

To whom are the thoughts?

If you try to locate the mind

the mind vanishes,

and the Self alone remains.

 

What could be more real than the Self?

It is within each one's experience every moment.

Why should he try catching something outside,

leaving out the Self?

Let each one try

to find the known Self

instead of searching for

the unknown something beyond.

 

[from] Talks with Ramana Maharshi

[recorded Oct 15th, 1935]