Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi (Arkana S.)

by Ramana Maharshi

As soon as one ceases to imagine that one is an individual person, inhabiting a particular body,

Self-realisation could be brought about merely by giving up the idea that there is an individual self which functions through the body and the mind.

to maintain awareness of the ‘I’-thought until it dissolved in the source from which it came.

put their attention on the inner feeling of ‘I’ and to hold that feeling as long as possible.

transferring attention from the thoughts to the thinker

The cause of your misery is not in the life outside you, it is in you as the ego.

If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it, you would be free.

The other way is to kill the ego by completely surrendering to the Lord,

and leaving it to the Lord to do what he likes with you.

Surrender can never be regarded as complete so long as the devotee wants this or that from the Lord. True surrender is love of God for the sake of love and nothing else, not even for the sake of liberation.

complete effacement of the ego is necessary to ...