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M.: Then the truth is admitted.
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
D.: Yet, I do not see. How shall I realise the Self?
M.: Find out who says ‘I’.
D.: Yes. I say ‘I’.
M.: Who is this ‘I’? Is it the body or some one besides the body?
D.: It is not the body. It is someone besides it
M.: Find it out.
D.: I am unable to do it. How shall I find it?
M.: You are now aware of the body. You were not aware of the body in
deep sleep. Still you remained in sleep. After waking up you hold
the body and say “I cannot realise the Self”. Did you say so in your
sleep? Because you were undivided (akhanda) then, you did not
say so. Now that you are contracted within the limits of the body
you say “I have not realised”. Why do you limit your Self and then
feel miserable? Be of your true nature and happy. You did not say
‘I’ in sleep. You say so now. Why? Because you hold to the body.
Find out wherefrom this ‘I’ comes. Then the Self is realised.
The body being insentient cannot say ‘I’. The Self being infinite
cannot say ‘I’ either. Who then says ‘I’?
D.: I do not yet understand. How to find the ‘I’?
M.: Find out where from this ‘I’ arises. Then this ‘I’ will disappear
and the infinite Self will remain. This ‘I’ is only the knot between
the sentient and the insentient. The body is not ‘I’, the Self is not
‘I’. Who, then, is the ‘I’? Wherefrom does it arise?
D.: Where from does it arise?
M.: Find out.
D.: I do not know. Please enlighten me.
M.: It is not from without. It is from within. Where does it come
from? If elsewhere you can be led there. Being within, you must
find it out yourself.
D.: From the head?
M.: Does the concept of ‘head’ arise after the ‘I’ or does ‘I’ arise
from the head? If ‘I’ be in the head why do you bend it when sleep
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