Self Enquiry is the Way

Sri Ramana Maharshi

D: Does not education make a sage more useful to the world than illiteracy? 

M.: Even a learned man must bow before the illiterate sage. Illiteracy is ignorance: education is learned ignorance. Both of them are ignorant of their true aim; whereas a sage is not ignorant because there is no aim for him.

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D.: Why should there be sleep in the world? 

M.: Owing to sin only. 

D.: Can it be destroyed? 

M.: Yes. 

D.: It ends only after making itself felt, they say. 

M.: Why then devotion to God? 

D.: How can sleep be destroyed?

M.: Be not aware of its activities and effects. 

D.: How can it be done? 

M.: Only by enquiry of the Self.