Sunday, December 6, 2015

The background of the mode is the ‘I’ in which the mind modes arise and sink.

Devotee:  With every thought the subject and the object appear and disappear. Does not the ‘I’ disappear when the subject disappears thus? If that be so how can the quest of the ‘I’ proceed?


Ramana Maharishi:  The subject (knower) is only a mode of mind. Though the mode (vritti) passes, the reality behind it does not cease. The background of the mode is the ‘I’ in which the mind modes arise and sink.

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