Find The Seer

Sri Ramana Maharshi

18-1-1946 Afternoon

A boy of about seventeen years from Pondicherry came and asked B, "After hearing the pranava sound, what is the stage beyond it that one should reach?" 

B said, "Who is it that hears the pranava or talks of the stage beyond? See and find out, and then all will be clear. What is pranava, and what is that stage beyond hearing pranava of which you speak? Where is it? About all those things we don't know. But you are. So find out first about your self, the seer, and then all will be known."

The boy again asked, "I wish to know what is the way to mukti."

B: What is alright. But what is mukti? Where is that and where are you? What is the distance between the two, so that we can speak of a path? First find out about yourself and where you are and then see if these questions arise.