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“occurs when you can uproot the tree whose seed is the ’I’-maker, deep in the heart with all its branches, fruits and leaves. Leave the mechanism of the ’I’-maker alone Kumbha says and just rest in the space in the heart.”6
Michael Stone • The Inner Tradition of Yoga: A Guide to Yoga Philosophy for the Contemporary Practitioner
In the waking state, this self-awareness rises mixed with an adjunct (upādhi) as, ‘I am this body, I am a man, I am so-and-so.’ This is ego (ahaṅkāra), the sense of individuality (jīva-bōdha); this is bondage; this is the first thought.
Sri Sadhu Om • The Path of Sri Ramana
If it is investigated in this way, ego will disappear, ceasing to exist, and what will then be experienced is not a place on the right side of the chest in the body but only ātman (our real nature) – which is devoid of the body, devoid of inside and outside, devoid of right and left, and devoid of the constraints of time and place.
Sri Sadhu Om • The Path of Sri Ramana
Shiva ― Potency ― The Un-manifest ― static aspect of Awareness.
Gilbert Schultz • Self Aware
Find out for whom there is an I and you will discover something amazing. You will discover that I never existed. There never was an I. You will discover that you never existed. There's no such thing as you. You will discover that you are the imperishable Self.
That you are never born and you can never die. You will discover that you're omnipresence,
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Then think who is the worshipper. The answer is ‘I’, that is, the Self. In this way the Self is ultimately gained.18
Ramana Maharshi • Be As You Are: The spiritual teachings and wisdom of Sri Ramana Maharshi (Arkana)
