Sri Ramana Maharshi
- Every plane has its own illusion, which can be destroyed only by another illusion on the same plane. For example, a man takes a full meal and goes to sleep. He dreams of being hungry in spite of the jagrat food in his stomach. To satisfy the dream hunger he has to take dream food. Similarly the illusion of ajnana (ignorance) can be destroyed only by the illusion of guru upadesam (Master's teaching). Mukti (liberation) is ever present, and bondage is ever absent, yet the universal experience is the reverse.
- Knowing the Self is being the Self, being means existence - one's own existence - which none denies, any more than one denies one's eyes, although one cannot see them. The trouble lies with your desire to objectify the Self, in the same way as you objectify your eyes, when you place a mirror before them. You have been so accustomed to objectify that you lost the knowledge of yourself, simply because the Self cannot be objectified. Who is to know the Self? Can the insentient body or mind know it? All the time you speak and think of your 'I-I-I', yet when questioned you deny knowledge of it. You are the Self, yet you ask how to know the Self?
From Thus Spake Ramana
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