Thus Spake Ramana

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Bliss is not something to be got.

On the other hand, you are bliss.

This desire is born of the sense of incompleteness.

To whom is this sense of incompleteness?

Inquire. In deep sleep, you were blissful.

Now you are not so.

What is interposed between that bliss and this bliss?

It is the ego.

Seek its source and find you are bliss.

 

For whom is this ignorance?

It is the ego.

Trace the source of the ego.

Then the ignorance is lost and bliss remains.

It is eternal.

You are That, here and now.

Search the source of the ego,

and the Self is revealed.

That alone remains.

 

[from] Talks with Ramana Maharshi

[recorded Nov 29th, 1935]