Ramana Maharishi: What is maya? The knowledge that the mind is divorced from the Reality is maya. The mind is in Reality only and not apart. This knowledge is the elimination of maya.
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Devotee: The understanding is intellectual.
Ramana Maharishi: Intellect. Whose intellect? The problem revolves round that question. You admit that you exist even in the absence of intellect - say, in sleep. How do you know that you exist if you have not realised your existence? Your very existence is realisation. You cannot imagine a point of time when you do not exist. So there is no period of time when realisation is not.
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Devotee: The understanding is intellectual.
Ramana Maharishi: Intellect. Whose intellect? The problem revolves round that question. You admit that you exist even in the absence of intellect - say, in sleep. How do you know that you exist if you have not realised your existence? Your very existence is realisation. You cannot imagine a point of time when you do not exist. So there is no period of time when realisation is not.
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