Self

A Light on the Teaching of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi - The Essence of Spiritual Practice (Sadhanai Saram)
by Sri Sadhu Om

12. Which Do You Like?

23. Having limited and transformed oneself into a body, and having transformed the knowledge gathered through the five senses of that body into the world, one sees that world, which is nothing other than one’s own real Self, as objects which are other than oneself, and one is thereby deluded with likes and dislikes for those objects. Such confusion alone is what is called the world-illusion (jagat-maya).

24. The non-dual state in which you do not see yourself as the body and as the any objects of the world, and in which you clearly know that that which exists is only you, who are one, this alone is the state of God. Whichever you like is possible (that is, by your own unlimited perfect freedom (or paripurna-brahma-swatantra), it is possible for you to remain in whichever one of these two states you like – either in the state of delusion (maya), in which you are deluded by seeing yourself as many, or in the state of God, in which you realize yourself to be the one non-dual reality).