Thus Spake Ramana

[Guest guest]

The gods and sages

experience the Infinite

continuously and eternally,

without their vision being obscured

at any moment.

Their minds are surmised by the spectators

to function, but in fact they do not.

Such surmising is due to the sense of individuality

in those who draw inferences.

There is no mental function

in the absence of individuality.

Individuality and mind functions

are co-existent.

The one cannot remain without the other.

 

[from] Talks with Ramana Maharshi

[recorded June 18th, 1936]