*WORDS OF WISDOM* "Any new appearances are bound to disappear. Anything created will certainly be destroyed. The eternal is not born nor does it die. We are now confounding appearances with reality. Appearance carries its end in itself. What is it that appears newly? If you cannot find it, surrender to the substratum of appearances unreservedly; then, the reality will be left over as the residue."-RAMANA MAHARSHI

Talks 238

The 'I'-thought is at the root of all impulses. If we can rest in the 'I'-sense it is easy to discriminate the attachment from the 'amness', the beingness. Otherwise we can 'surrender unreservedly' to being itself, even as a murti or a mantra. The pure identity does not have any attachment, it doesn't even say 'I'.
"Any new appearances are bound to disappear. Anything created will certainly be destroyed. The eternal is not born nor does it die. We are now confounding appearances with reality. Appearance carries its end in itself. What is it that appears newly? If you cannot find it, surrender to the substratum of appearances unreservedly; then, the reality will be left over as the residue."
RAMANA MAHARSHI