Thus Spake Ramana

Sri Ramana Maharshi

• The very doubt 'Can I realize?' or the feeling 'I have not realized', are obstacles to Realization. Realization is nothing to be gained afresh. The Self is already realized. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought 'I have not realized'.
• The seen, regarded as an independent entity, independent of the Self, is unreal. The seen is not different from the seer. What exists is not different from the seer. What exists is the one Self, not a Seer and a seen. The seen regarded as the Self is real.
• There is no such thing as the unreal, from another standpoint. The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, based on which alone the world and all exist, you find the ego does not exist at all, and so also all this creation.
• Renunciation and Realization are the same. They are different aspects of the same state. Giving up the non-self is Renunciation. Inhering in the Self is jnana or Self-Realization. One is the negative and the other the positive aspect of the same, single truth.

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From Thus Spake Ramana