Thus Spake Ramana

[Guest guest]

In dreamless sleep, there is no world,

no ego, and no unhappiness,

but the Self remains.

In the waking state, there are all these;

yet, there is the Self.

One has only to remove the transitory happenings

in order to realize the ever-present

beatitude of the Self.

Your nature is Bliss.

Find that on which

all the rest is superimposed

and you then remain

as the pure Self.

 

[from] Talks with Ramana Maharshi

[recorded May 19th, 1936]