Thus Spake Ramana

Sri Ramana Maharshi

To him who is one with the formless Self, everything is formless. Existence of the world is merely relative. The world is really synonymous with the mind. Since it is knowledge that illumines the world, the former is ulterior to the latter. That knowledge alone is real which ever remains changeless. Worship under name and form is only a means to realize one's absolute identity with the nameless and formless.

Self-knowledge in which both relative knowledge and phenomenon fall off, is alone true knowledge, because the Self is the source of all. To know all else except the Knower is but ignorance. The Self being Absolute Knowledge, it is neither knowing nor not knowing. The Self being one and universal, knowledge of diversity is but ignorance which too is not apart from the Self.