Devotee: How to attain the Self?
Ramana Maharishi: Self is not to be attained because you are the Self.
Devotee: Yes. There is an unchanging Self and a changing one in me. There are two selves.
Ramana Maharishi: The changefulness is mere thought. All thoughts arise after the arising of the ‘I-thought’. See to whom the thoughts arise. Then you transcend them and they subside. This is to say, tracing the source of the ‘I-thought’, you realise the perfect ‘I-I’. ‘I’ is the name of the Self.
Ramana Maharishi: Self is not to be attained because you are the Self.
Devotee: Yes. There is an unchanging Self and a changing one in me. There are two selves.
Ramana Maharishi: The changefulness is mere thought. All thoughts arise after the arising of the ‘I-thought’. See to whom the thoughts arise. Then you transcend them and they subside. This is to say, tracing the source of the ‘I-thought’, you realise the perfect ‘I-I’. ‘I’ is the name of the Self.
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