From Guru Vachaka Kovai

Sri Ramana Maharshi

• Because the nature of Reality is Whole, Self-radiant Existence, transcending time and space, jnanis will never deem as real this world, which is destroyed by Time's wheel.
• The one supreme bliss 'Sadashivam' (Self) is alone approved to be the Whole Reality. This world, seen as full of miseries and defects, is known only by the mind which is unreal and divided with differences.
• Whatever is seen by the ego, who, having fallen from the true state of Self and having been buried deep in dark ignorance, takes the body as 'I', is not at all real and is simply non-existent.
• Just as the goat's beard wanders and wags for nothing, people roam about merrily but in vain, doing karmas for the fulfilment of their worldly desires, while despising the disciplines which lead to eternal moksha in Self. Ah! What a pitiable spectacle is the condition of these worldly people.

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From the Collection of Guru's Sayings by Sri Muruganar