Thus Spake Ramana

[Guest guest]

" Again, consider it from another point of view:

You create a dream-body for yourself in your

dream and act with that dream-body. That

body is falsified in the waking state. At present,

you think you are this body and not the dream

body. In your dream, this body is falsified by

the dream-body. So that, you see, neither of

these bodies is real since each of them is true

for a time only and false at other times.

That which is real, must be real forever.

But you say, " I. "

This " I " consciousness is present throughout

all the states. There is no change to it.

That alone is Real. "

 

[from] Talks with Ramana Maharshi

 

-recorded, Jan, 17th, 1937-