Monday, May 30, 2022

THE FALSE "I" - “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk 222


 


"All these are only mental concepts. You are now identifying yourself with the wrong ‘I’, which is the ‘I-thought’. 

This ‘I-thought’ rises and sinks, whereas the true significance of ‘I’ is beyond both. 

There can not be a break in your being. You, who slept, are also now awake.

 There was no unhappiness in your sleep. Whereas it exists now. What is it that has happened now so that this difference is experienced? 

There was no ‘I-thought” in your sleep, whereas it is present now. The true ‘I’ is not apparent and the false ‘I’ is parading itself.

 This false ‘I’ is the obstacle to your right knowledge. Find out wherefrom this false ‘I’ arises. Then it will disappear. You will be only what you are, absolute Being. 

Search for the source of the ‘I-thought’. That is all that one has to do.

 The universe exists on account of the ‘I- thought’. If that ends there is an end of misery also. 

The false ‘I’ will end only when its source is sought.”

 

Awakened

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