self

Questioner: “If that ego were not there how could the body continue to function from day to day?”

Bhagavan: “Yes. That is it. 

The body is a house for us.

This house will be properly maintained only if you are in it.

Hence we must realise that we are keeping the house habitable only so long as we are in it and must never give up the knowledge that the house is separate from the Self. The moment that is forgotten the feeling of ego comes in and troubles begin. 

Everything in the world thus appears real

and the destruction of that feeling is the destruction of the ego. When that ego is destroyed nothing (of this world) is

real. 

What is to happen will happen; and what is not to happen will not happen.”

- Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi 

- Letters from Sri Ramanasramam.