Know that that which is worthy [to be attained] is only Silence, which is mere Self, the [wrong] knowledge ‘I’ having died as ignorance [ajnana]. If you ask the truth, “Why [is it so]?”, [it is because that state of Silence is] the space [of Jnana] in which nothing exists to desire and [thereby] be a cause of misery.
('Guru Vachaka Kovai': 1012; drawing is by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi.)
[Note by Sri Sadhu Om and Michael James: 'Desire is the sole cause of misery, and it can arise only if something other than oneself exists. Therefore, since Silence, the state of Self, is the space of mere consciousness in which nothing other than Self exists, it alone is worthy to be attained. In order to attain this Silence, the ego, the wrong knowledge ‘I am the body’, must be destroyed, having being found to be nothing but a non-existent ignorance.']
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