Realisation

Sri Ramana Maharshi: ~~~ Talk 96.

M.;
Compare deep sleep and waking.
The body appears in one state
but not in the other.
Therefore the body will be lost.

The consciousness
was pre-existent
and will survive the body.

In fact, there is no one who does not say ‘I am’.
The wrong knowledge of ‘I am the body’
is the cause of all the mischief.
This wrong knowledge must go.
That is Realisation.

Realisation is not
acquisition of anything new
nor it is a new faculty.

It is only removal of all camouflage.

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