Sublime

He justified this approach by saying that if one can consistently regard the world as an unreal creation of the mind then it loses

The Mountain Path, a journal which propagates Sri Ramana’s teachings.

ego comes into existence, everything comes into existence; if ego does not exist, everything does not exist. Ego itself is everything. Therefore, know that investigating what this [namely ego] is alone is giving up everything’.

Sri Ramana called this common factor the ‘I-thought (aham-vritti). Literally aham-vritti means ‘mental modification of I’. The

‘For the mind to cease [subside or dissolve forever], except vicāraṇā [self-investigation] there are no other adequate means. If made to cease [subside or dissolve] by other means, the mind remaining [for a while] as if it had ceased, will again rise up [sprout, emerge or start]’;