Thus Spake Ramana

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Why should one think of birth and death?

Are you really born?

.....all these are only of the mind.

So long as the body is considered,

birth is real. But the body is not " I " .

The Self is not born, nor does it die.

There is nothing new.

The Sages see everything as being

in and of the Self;

there is no diversity in it,

Therefore, there is neither birth nor death.

 

[from] Talks with Ramana Maharshi

[recorded Aug 29th, 1936]