The ‘I’ thought dies first for those who have taken refuge from death; at the feet of the conqueror of death, they are naturally immortal.
Can they ever again be assailed by the fear of death?
Comments: To understand this post, one needs great wisdom. Because Maharishi Ramana’s teachings are for those who have advanced in wisdom. After about 14 years of age, he left the house, and in his remaining days he was at Arunachala mountain in South India.He remained in Samadhi and gave his teachings like sunlight to seekers of truth, describing his inner life and experience of Self-realisation to the Sadhakas.
In this verse, Maharishi advises that whoever wants to be immortal in this life should practice Self-inquiry so much practice of Self-inquiry that there will be no ‘I’ thought. When we start to observe our mind, when all thoughts vanish, then only the ‘I’ thought, which is ‘ego’ or, in Sanskrit, we say Ahamkara, remains; when it dissolves, a new experience of our being, or Self, shines. As Maharishi used to describe it, it is ‘mother thought’. After this thought, other thoughts arise. When we trace the very origin of our thought, then this takes us beyond the mind because it starts from the ‘I’ thought. By this method, we can be Immortal. It is a matter of the practice of Self-inquiry.
