Daily Sūtra 20—“A Broad Ground for Ridicule” (Ulladu-Narpadu 32-33)
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2021-12-31

“When the holy scriptures proclaim, “You are That—which is declared to be the Supreme”, if you think, “I am That—the Supreme—and not this—the body composed of five sheaths,” instead of oneself knowing and being oneself by investigating ‘What am I?’, it is due to absence of strength and maturity of mind, because That indeed always exists as one’s own Reality.

“Besides that: saying either ‘I do not know my Self’ or ‘I have known my Self,’ is a broad ground for ridicule. Why? To make oneself an object known, are there two selves, one of which can be known by the other? Because being one is the truth of everyone’s experience—that is, whether they be a jñāṇī or an ajñāṇī, everyone experiences the truth: ‘I am one’.”
 — Rāmana Mahārṣi, Ulladu-Narpadu, 32-33

“Once upon a time, brethren, the Dasārahas had a kettle-drum called Summoner. As it began to split the Dasārahas fixed in ever another peg, until the time came that the Summoner's original drumhead had vanished and only the framework of pegs remained. Even so, brethren, will the brethren become in the future.”        
 — Āṇisutta (SN 20.7)