Best Way To Kill Ego

Sri Ramana Maharshi

2-11-1945 Morning

Dilip Kumar Roy read out another poem composed by him on Bhagavan. Then he sang a few songs. Then he asked Bhagavan, "what is the best way of killing the go?"

B: To each person that way is the best which easiest or appeals most. All the ways are equally good, as they lead to the same goal, which is the merging of the ego in the Self. What the bhakta calls surrender, the man who does vichara calls jnana. Both are trying only to take the ego back to the source from which it sprang and make it merge there. 

Roy: But which is the best way for me? Bhagavan must known.

B did not reply. (This is only usual with Bhagavan. He leaves it to each devotee to find out what sadhana appears most easy to him).