Self Realisation sounds so easy, but yet is so difficult in practice.

Devotee:  Self Realisation sounds so easy, but yet is so difficult in practice.

Ramana Maharishi:  What can be easier? The Self is more intimate than anything else. If that cannot be realised, is it easy to realise what is apart and farther away?

Devotee:  Self Realisation is so illusory. How can it be made permanent?

Ramana Maharishi:  The Self can never be illusory. It is the only Reality. That which appears will also disappear and is therefore impermanent. The Self never appears and disappears and is therefore permanent.