Teachings and excerpts from discourses of some of the greatest Indian sages.
"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Sri Ramana Maharshi
Devotee: Is it not that the ‘I’ exists only in relation to a ‘this’ (aham - idam)?
Maharshi: ‘I’, ‘this’ appear together now. But ‘this’ is contained (vyaptam) in the ‘I’ - they are not apart. ‘This’ has to merge into and become one with ‘I’. The ‘I’ that remains over is the true ‘I’.