Sublime

Bhagavan Ramana has shown that the goal of all humanity is only to obtain perfect happiness (paripūrṇa sukham).

Sri Ramana taught that the Self alone exists and that it can be directly and consciously experienced merely by ceasing to pay attention to the wrong ideas we have about ourselves. These wrong ideas he collectively called the ‘not-Self’ since they are an imaginary accretion of wrong notions and misperceptions which effectively veil the true experien

All spiritual practices, other than self-investigation, consider the existence of the individual being or ego rising in the form of ‘I am this body, I am so-and-so’ as real. They are based on the erroneous notion that only by undertaking one of those techniques can an individual (jīva), a trifling mental projection, attain its real nature or ātman

‘How to control the mind?’ Bhagavan replied, ‘Only if something exists as mind, the question of subduing it is worthwhile. If you find out the real nature of mind by investigating who am I, you will know that there is no such thing as a mind.’

That in which there is no ego and in which even the inquiry is resolved is your true state. That is the natural state.

it is not only as a technique of meditation that Sri Bhagavan prescribed Self-enquiry but as a technique of living also.