The following is verse 40 of “Reality in 40 Verses” by Sri Ramana Maharshi:
“If asked: ‘Which of these three is final liberation: - with form, without form, or with and without form?’ I say, ‘Liberation is the extinction of the ego which inquires ‘With form, without form, or with and without form?’” Liberation is the extinction of the ego. Liberation is the extinction of the ego that inquires. Liberation is the extinction of the ego that speculates about what liberation is or is not. Liberation is the extinction of the ego that wonders if the experience it has had is liberation or not. Liberation is the extinction of the ego that imagines the Self has parts or qualities or aspects or form. Liberation is the end of the ego that experiences. Liberation is the end of experience. Liberation is the end of the experiencer. |