Sublime

‘Do not meditate – be! Do not think that you are – be! Don't think about being – you are!'

One of these great saints, Ramana Maharshi, used to ask, “Who am I?” We see now that this is a very deep question. Ask it ceaselessly, constantly. Ask it and you will notice that you are the answer. There is no intellectual answer—you are the answer. Be the answer, and everything will change.

‘Who am I to meditate on an object?’ Such a one must be told to find the Self. That is the finality. That is vichara.

Vedanta,

one realises the Self one will know that all suffering, not just one's own, is non-existent.

guru is not a person but the eternal reality that always exists and shines in our heart as our own being, ‘I am’.

When the awareness ‘I am’ is mixed with the adjunct (upādhi) ‘I am so-and-so’, it becomes a thought. Of all thoughts, this thought is the first. But the awareness which shines as ‘I am I’ without any adjunct is indeed ātman or brahman.

So he makes it clear how to get rid of that which does not exist and when that which does not exist is removed, what remains is what does exist, which is ever self-shining and also our real nature.