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*"What you think to be your natural state is your unnatural state. With your intellect and imagination you have constructed the castles of your pet notions and desires. But do you know who has built up these castles, who is the culprit, the real owner? The 'I' who really owns them and the 'I' of your conception are quite different. Is it necessary that you put forth some effort to come into the 'I' who owns these, the 'I' behind all states?
*"Would you have to walk any distance to walk into the 'I' that is always you? This is what I mean by saying that no sadhana is required for Self-realization. All that is required is to refrain from doing anything, by remaining still and being simply what one really is. You have only to dehypnotize yourself of your unnatural state. Then you have asked whether there is any difference between the natural state of ordinary persons and realised persons. What have they realised? They can realise only what is real in them. What is real in them is real in you also. So where is the difference?
*"You can doubt and question everything but how can you doubt the 'I' that questions everything? That 'I' is your natural state. Would you have to do labor or sadhana to come into this natural state?"

Ramana Maharshi
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