Who Am I ?
"The gross body which is composed of the seven humours (dhatus), I am not; the five cognitive sense organs, viz. the senses of hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell, which apprehend their respective objects, viz. sound, touch, colour, taste, and odour, I am not; the five cognitive sense-organs, viz. the organs of speech, locomotion, grasping, excretion, and procreation, which have as their respective functions speaking, moving, grasping, excreting, and enjoying, I am not; the five vital airs, prana, etc., which perform respectively the five functions of in-breathing, etc., I am not; even the mind which thinks, I am not; the nescience too, which is endowed only with the residual impressions of objects, and in which there are no objects and no functioning's, I am not.
After negating all of the above-mentioned as 'not this', 'not this', that Awareness which alone remains - that I am."
Sri Ramana Maharshi (Who Am I?)
After an enterprising read of "A Search In Secret India" by Paul Brunton, which Jayashree introduced me to, I have decided to gather more information on Sri Ramana Maharshi and his teachings. A praise to Paul Brunton is most decisively rendered for bringing out wonderful details of his experiences in his book.
