The enquirer is the answer and no other answer can come.

Devotee: But the answer does not come for the search inward.

Ramana Maharishi: The enquirer is the answer and no other answer can come. What comes afresh cannot be true. What always is, is true.  The ego arises when you wake up from sleep. In deep sleep you do not say that you are sleeping and that you are going to wake up or that you have been sleeping so long. But still you are there. Only when you are awake you say that you have slept.