In a sense, speaking of Self-realisation
is a delusion.
It is only because people have been under
the delusion that the non-Self is the Self and
the unreal the Real, that they have to be weaned
out of it by the other delusion called Self-realisation;
because actually the Self always is the Self and there
is no such thing as realising it.
Who is to realise what, and how, when all that exists
is the Self and nothing but the Self?
Bhagavan
Source: THE TEACHINGS OF RAMANA MAHARSHI
edited by Arthur Osborne