Thus Spake Ramana

[Guest guest]

The ultimate Truth is so simple.

It is nothing more than being in the pristine state.

This is all that need be said.

Still it is a wonder that to teach this simple Truth

there should come into being so many religions,

creeds, methods, and disputes

among them and so on!

Oh, the pity! Oh, the pity!

 

Because they want something elaborate

and attractive and puzzling,

so many religions have come into existence

and each of them is so complex,

and each creed in each religion

has its own adherents and antagonists.

 

Mature minds alone can grasp

the simple Truth in all its nakedness.

 

[from] Talks with Ramana Maharshi

[recorded, Nov 13th, 1935]