Real Eye Is The Self

Sri Ramana Maharshi

• The world is not other than the body; the body is not other than the mind; the mind is not other than the Primal Consciousness; the Primal Consciousness is not other than the Reality; That exists unchanging in Peace.
• The world is nothing but the five sensations, namely, sound and the rest of its kind; thus the world consists of the objects of the five sense-organs, the one mind becomes aware of these five sensations through the five senses. That being the case, how can the world be other than the mind?
• Where are time and space apart from the sense of "I"? If we were the same as bodies, then it could be said that we are in time and space. But are we bodies? We are the same at all times and in all places; hence we are that Reality which transcends time and space.
• When the sense of 'I am the body' arises then the notions of 'you' and 'he' also arise; but when, by the quest of  the truth underlying the "I", the notions of 'you' and 'he' also cease; that which then shines as the sole reminder is the true Self.
• If the Self were with form, then the world and God would be so too. But if the Self be formless, then how and by whom are forms to be seen? Is the spectacle ever otherwise than the seeing eye is? The real eye is just the real Self; It is infinite consciousness, formless and worldless.

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From Thus Spake Sri Ramana