You have already got what you seek elsewhere.

Devotee:  Is a teacher necessary for instructions?

Ramana Maharishi:  Yes, if you want to learn anything new. But here you have to unlearn.

Devotee:  Yet a teacher is necessary.

Ramana Maharishi:  You have already got what you seek elsewhere. So no teacher is necessary.

Devotee:  Is there any use of the man of Realisation for the seeker?

Ramana Maharishi:  Yes. He helps you to get rid of your delusion that you are not realised.

Devotee:  So, tell me how.

Ramana Maharishi:  The paths are meant only to de-hypnotise the individual.

Devotee:  De-hypnotise me. Tell me what method to follow.

Ramana Maharishi:  Where are you now? Where should you go?

Devotee:  I know ‘I am’; but I do not know what I am.

Ramana Maharishi:  Are there two ‘I’s then?

Devotee:  It is begging the question.

Ramana Maharishi:  Who says this? Is it the one who is, or is it the other who does not know what he is?

Devotee:  I am, but do not know what or how?

Ramana Maharishi:  ‘I’ is always there.

Devotee:  Does the ‘I’ undergo any transformation, say in death?

Ramana Maharishi:  Who witnesses the transformation?