Thus Spake Ramana

[Guest guest]

" You say you concentrate but do not succeed.

'You' means the 'Self.' On what do you concentrate?

Where do you fail?

Are there two selves, for the one to concentrate

on the other? Which is the self now complaining

of failure? There cannot be two selves. There is

only one Self, and That need not concentrate.

 

Find out the mind. If its " wandering " stops, it will

be found to be the Self -- your " I " consciousness

which is Spirit eternal. It is beyond knowledge and

ignorance.

 

The Self remains as the undisturbed substratum. "

 

[from] Talks with Ramana Maharshi

 

-recorded, Jan 17, 1937-