You are always in the Self - now, in trance, in deep sleep, in Realisation.

Devotee desired to know if trance is a sine qua non for Self-Realisation.


Ramana Maharishi:  You are always in the Self - now, in trance, in deep sleep, in Realisation. If you lose hold of the Self and identify yourself with the body or the mind, these states appear to overtake you, and it also looks like a blank in trance, etc.; whereas you are the Self and ever-present.