Sri Ramana Maharshi
While lying in bed in Tiruvannamalai you dream in your sleep that you find yourself in another town. The scene is real to you. Your body remains here on your bed in a room. Can a town enter your room, or could you have left this place and gone elsewhere, leaving the body here? Both are impossible. Therefore your being here and seeing another town are both unreal. They appear real to the mind. The "I" of the dream soon vanishes, then another "I" speaks of the dream. This "I" was not in the dream. Both the "I"s are unreal. There is the substratum of the mind which continues all along, giving rise to so many scenes. An "I" rises forth with every thought and with its disappearance that "I" disappears too. Many "I"s are born and die every moment. The subsisting mind is the real trouble. That is the thief according to Janaka. Find him out and you will be happy.
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