self-enquiry - #15

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Questioner: This `I " -thought rises from me. But I do not know the

Self.

 

Sri Ramana Maharshi: All these are only mental concepts. You are now

identifying yourself with a wrong `I', which is the `I'-thought.

This `I'-thought rises and sinks, whereas the true significance

of `I' is beyond both. There cannot be a break in your being. You who

slept are also now awake. There is no unhappiness in your deep sleep

whereas it exists now. What is it that has happened now so that this

difference is experienced? There was no `I'-thought in your sleep,

whereas it is present now. The true `I' is not apparent and the

false `I' is parading itself. This false `I' is the obstacle to your

right knowledge. Find out from where this false `I' arises. Then it

will disappear. You will then be only what you are, that is, absolute

being.