Sri Ramana Maharshi
Although the concept of "I" ness or "I am" ness is by usage known as aham-vritti, it is not really a vritti like the other vrittis of the mind. Because unlike the other vrittis, which have no essential interrelation, the aham-vritti is equally and essentially related to each and every vritti of the mind. Without the aham-vritti there can be no other vritti, but the aham-vritti can subsist by itself without depending on any other vritti of the mind. The aham-vritti is therefore fundamentally different from other vrittis.
So, the search for the source of the aham-vritti is the search not merely for the basis for one of the forms of the ego, but for the very source itself from which arises the "I-am"-ness. In other words, the quest for and the realization of the Source of the ego in the form of aham-vritti necessarily implies the transcendence of the ego in every one of its possible forms.
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Note: vritti refers to "thought".
Although the concept of "I" ness or "I am" ness is by usage known as aham-vritti, it is not really a vritti like the other vrittis of the mind. Because unlike the other vrittis, which have no essential interrelation, the aham-vritti is equally and essentially related to each and every vritti of the mind. Without the aham-vritti there can be no other vritti, but the aham-vritti can subsist by itself without depending on any other vritti of the mind. The aham-vritti is therefore fundamentally different from other vrittis.
So, the search for the source of the aham-vritti is the search not merely for the basis for one of the forms of the ego, but for the very source itself from which arises the "I-am"-ness. In other words, the quest for and the realization of the Source of the ego in the form of aham-vritti necessarily implies the transcendence of the ego in every one of its possible forms.
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Note: vritti refers to "thought".
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