SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI ON THE ESSENCE OF NON-DUALITY

Discern at every step that I am whatever is beginningless, conscious,unborn, primal, resident in the Heart-cavity, unsullied, and transcendingthe world, whatever is pure, peerless, desireless, beyond sight or otherperceptions or even mental apprehension. Because we think we are in the bodywe also believe that we are born. However, we do not think of the body, ofGod, or of methods of realization in our deep slumber. Yet in our wakingstate we hold onto the body and think we are in it. The Supreme Being isthat from which the body is born, in which it lives, and into which itresolves. We, however, think that we reside within the body. Henceinstruction is given. The instruction means: "look within." Consciousness isnot born at any time; it remains eternal. But ego is born; so also the otherthoughts. Associated with the absolute consciousness they shine forth; nototherwise. . . .Liberation is to know that you were not born. "Be still andknow that I am God."