All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.”

Devotee:  How did the wrong identity arise?


Ramana Maharishi:  Due to thoughts. If these thoughts are put an end to, the real Self should shine forth of itself.


Devotee:   How are these thoughts to be ended?


Ramana Maharishi:  Find out their basis. All of them are strung on the single ‘I-thought’. Quell it; all others are quashed. Moreover there is no use knowing all except the Self. If the Self is known all others become known. Hence is Self-Realisation the primary and sole duty of man.


Devotee:   How to quell the ‘I-thought’?


Ramana Maharishi:  If its source is sought it does not arise, and thus it is quelled.


Devotee:   Where and how to find it?


Ramana Maharishi:  It is in fact the consciousness which enables the individuals to function in different ways. Pure Consciousness is the Self. All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.”


Devotee:   What can be easier than that?


Ramana Maharishi:  So Atma Vidya is the easiest of attainment.