Lucy Cornelssen- Thus Spake Ramana #1

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You see, the one eliminates all the not I cannot eliminate

the ‘I’. To say ‘I am not this’ or ‘I am that’ there must be the ‘I’.

This ‘I’ is only the ego or the ‘I’-thought. After the rising up of

this ‘I’-thought, all other thoughts arise. The ‘I’-thought is

therefore the root-thought. If the root is pulled out, all others

are at the same time uprooted. Therefore seek the root-‘I’,

question yourself ‘Who am I?’, find out its source. Then all

these will vanish and the pure Self will remain over. (Talks,

197).

 

Only the annihilation of ‘I’ is Liberation. But it can be

gained only by keeping the ‘I’-‘I’ always in view. So the need

for the investigation of the ‘I’-thought. (Talks, 139).

There is only one ‘I’ all along; but what rises up from

time to time is the mistaken ‘I’-thought; whereas the intuitive

‘I’ always remains Self-shining, i.e., even before it becomes

manifest. (Talks, 139).

 

The ‘I’-thought is only limited ‘I’. The real ‘I’ is unlimited,

universal, beyond time and space. They are absent in sleep, and

before seeing the objective world, there is a state of awareness

which is your pure Self. That must be known (Talks, 311).

Soul, mind and ego are words. There are no real entities

of the kind. Consciousness is the only truth. (Talks, 245).

Just on waking from sleep and before becoming aware of

the world there is that pure ‘I’—‘I’. Hold it without sleeping or

without allowing thoughts to possess you. If that is held firm it

does not matter even though the world is seen. The seer remains

unaffected by the phenomena. (Talks, 196).

 

How is the ego to be destroyed? Hold the ego first and

then ask how it is to be destroyed. Who asks this question? It is

the ego. Can the ego ever agree to kill itself? This question is a

sure way to cherish the ego and not to kill it. If you seek the ego

you will find it does not exist. That is the way to destroy it.

(Talks, 615).

 

Your duty is to be; and not to be this or that. ‘I AM THAT

I AM’ sums up the whole truth. The method is, summed up in

‘BE STILL’. What does stillness mean? It means ‘destroy

yourself ’. Because any form or shape is the cause of trouble.

Give up the notion ‘I am so and so’. (Talks, 363).

The ego is like one’s shadow thrown on the ground. If one

attempts to bury it, it will be foolish. The Self is only one. If

limited, it is the ego; if unlimited it is the Infinite and is the

Reality. (Talks, 146).

 

‘I am that I am’, ‘I am’ is God... not thinking, ‘I am God’.

Realise ‘I am’ and do not think ‘I am’. ‘Know I am God’... it is

said, and not ‘Think I am God’. (Talks, 354).

The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating it from its

restlessness; give it peace; make it free from distractedness; train

it to look inward; make this a habit. This is done by ignoring

the external world and removing the obstacles to peace of mind.

(Talks, 26).

 

Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot

kill itself. So your business is to find the real nature of the mind.

Then you will know that there is no mind. When the Self is

sought, the mind is nowhere. Abiding in the Self, one need not

worry about the mind. (Talks, 146).

 

Mere book-learning is not of any great use. After realisation

all intellectual loads are useless burdens and are thrown overboard

as jetsam. Jettisoning the ego is necessary and natural. (Talks, 28).

It is in the mind that birth and death, pleasure and pain,

in short, the world and ego, exist. If the mind is destroyed all

else are destroyed too. Note that it should be annihilated, not

just made latent. For the mind is dormant in sleep. It does not

know anything. Still, on waking up you are as you were before.

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