Thus Spake Ramana

Sri Ramana Maharshi

• Of what use are disputes about the world, saying that it is real, that it is an illusory appearance, that it is conscious, that it is insentient, that it is happy, that it is miserable? All men alike love the egoless state, which is won by turning away from the world and knowing the untainted real Self which transcends the assertion that IT is one and that it is manifold.
• This world, which you try to prove to be real, is all the time mocking at you for seeking to know it, without first knowing yourself. How can the knowledge of objects arising in relative existence to one who does not know the truth of himself, the knower, be true knowledge? If one rightly knows the truth of him named "I", in whom both knowledge and its opposite subsist, then along with ignorance relative knowledge will also cease.
• The world and the mind arise and set together as one; but of the two, the world owes its appearance to the mind alone; That alone is real in which this (inseparable) pair, the world and the mind, has risings and settings; that Reality is the one infinite Consciousness, having neither rising nor setting.

-From Thus Spake Ramana