Thus Spake Ramana

[Guest guest]

Be what you are.

There is nothing to come down

or become manifest.

All that is needed is to lose the ego.

That which is is always there.

The blank is seen by you.

You are there to see the blank.

What are you waiting for?

The thought, 'I have not seen,'

the expectation to see,

and the desire of getting something

are all the working of the ego.

You have fallen into the snares of the ego.

The ego says all that and not you.

Be yourself and nothing more!

 

[from] Talks with Ramana Maharshi

[recorded March 13, 1936]