Understand Your Present State

Sri Ramana Maharshi

12-11-1945 Morning

A visitor from Punjab asked Bhagavan, "When the mind or ahankar is killed, is that stage an inert stage?"

B: Why do you bother about the jnani's state? You understand your present state.

V: The mumukshu naturally wants to know about the mukti state which is his goal.

Bhagavan kept quiet for a little while and then said, "You admit mind has to be killed. Why don't you do it first and see for yourself then whether that stage is inert or without consciousness?

V: When ahankar goes, will aham vritti exist?

B: That which is, always is. If ahankar dies, It, the Reality, exists as It has always existed. You may speak of It as having aham vritti or simply aham. It is all the same. That which exists is "I am" or "aham".