Speaking of Self-realizatio n is a delusion. It is only because people have been under the delusion that the non-Self is the Self and the unreal the Real that they have to be weaned out of it by the other delusion called Self-realizatio n; because actually the Self always is the Self and there is no such thing as realizing it.
Ramana MaharshiIf you hold this feeling of āIā long enough and strongly enough, the false āIā will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent āIā, consciousness itself
Ramana MaharshiTill you reach the state of jnana and thus wake out of maya you must do social service by relieving suffering whenever you see it. But even then you must do it without ahankara, i.e., without the sense of 'I am the doer', but with the feeling 'I am the Lord's tool'.
Ramana MaharshiThe "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into.
Ramana Maharshi