Ramana Maharshi says we are never anything but the Self

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Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi says Time and space cannot affect the Self. They

are in you. So also all that you see around you is in you. There is a story

to illustrate this point. A lady had a precious necklace round her neck.

Once in her excitement she forgot it and thought that the necklace was lost.

She became anxious and looked for it in her home but could not find it.

 

She asked her friends and neighbors if they knew anything about the

necklace. They did not. At last a kind friend of hers told her to feel the

necklace round her neck. She found that it had all along been round her neck

and she was happy. When others asked her later if she had found the necklace

which was lost, she said, `Yes, I have found it.' She still felt that she

had recovered a lost jewel.

 

Now did she lose it at all ? It was all along round her neck. But judge her

feelings. She was as happy as if she had recovered a lost jewel. Similarly

with us, we imagine that we will realize that Self some time, whereas we are

never anything but the Self.

 

Source:

http://bhagwan-ramana-maharshi.blogspot.com/2009/02/bhagavan-ramana-maharshi-you\

-are.html

 

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Om namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

Prasanth Jalasutram