Thus Spake Ramana

[Guest guest]

" One may seem to go out of the body,

but the body itself is not more than our

thought. There can be no body in the

absence of thought; no outgoing or in-

coming in the absence of body. However,

owing to habit, the feeling of going out

arises.

A particle of hail falling on the sea melts

away and becomes water, wave, froth,

etc, in the sea.

Similarly, the subtle intellect, rising up

as the tiny dot [ego] from the heart and

bulging out, finally enters into and becomes

one with the Heart-Self.

 

Or if you surrender yourself to God, you have

made yourself over to Him and you are His

and no longer yours. "

 

[from] Talks with Ramana Maharshi

-recorded, Jan 13th, 1937-