Before you scroll further,
read this. Five minutes.
Then the rest of this site will make sense.
Ramana Maharshi. 1879 – 1950.
Sat in silence at the foot of Arunachala
for fifty-four years.
When asked how to find God, he said only this —
“Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind,
the thought ‘I’ is the first.”
— Ramana
Notice it now.
The sense of being I — reading this.
You know it without being told.
“The ‘I’ is always there —
in waking, dreaming, even in deep sleep.
Only its forms change.”
Find out what it is.
When any thought arises, ask —
“To whom does this thought come?”
It will come: “To me.”
Then ask —
“Who am I?”
“This is not a question to be answered.
It is a question to be held.”
Hold it. The ‘I’ will turn back on itself,
searching for its own source.
What it finds — that is what you are.
Close your eyes.
Do not imagine anything.
Do not answer with words.
Simply ask, inwardly, without hurry —
Who am I?
Wait. Watch what happens.
Something turned, or it didn't.
Either way —
you have met the question
that ends all questions.
The rest of this site is for staying with it.