Who are you?

“ Happiness is born of peace. Peace can reign only when there is no disturbance by thought. When the mind is annihilated, there will be perfect peace.” Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharishi

Who are you?

Who were you before you were born?

Who will you be when you die?

Are you real? Do you exist?

Are you body or mind, persona or soul?

Are you just a collection of fading memories, a brief story created by time?

The past is dead and gone; the future is still unborn.

Only this moment ever exists.

Thus, all personal histories are but fables woven by a fevered illusion called the mind,

a “story told by a madman, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

Cleverness, holiness, sinfulness, saintliness, all mere costumes worn by a wraith who never really existed!

Do you want to know who you really are?
Do you want to be infinite, eternal, blissful peace?

Drop all the names and forms, throw away all the stories!

Sink into your own depths: burn in that inner fire.

Die before you die!

When all is destroyed in that Heart- fire, only the Real remains.

Until the Self is experienced, all descriptions of it  are dreamlike fantasies.

Once the Self is experienced, no description is possible – or necessary.

 There is only the exquisite perfection of Silence.