Let us pay total attention to that pure life principle, and remain there.

You have to face yourself. Many people find this very difficult. Everyone is prepared to do -- bhajans, japa, puja, build temples, raise funds in the name of God. But to remain without doing, to refrain from doing is more difficult, and few are prepared or capable of it. Ultimately we have to face ourselves and be ourselves in stillness and silence.

It is so difficult not to do. Not doing means remaining in that Reality. Maharshi wants us to be still, to be that Reality. That Reality is Maharshi himself. We identify Maharshi with that picture, with that name: Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. But, behind that picture, behind the name, the reality that is throbbing within every one of us -- that is Maharshi. And Maharshi want[s] us to wake up to that Reality within us, the same Reality that is Ramana Maharshi.

... Let us pay homage to Ramana Maharshi by turning within and becoming fully aware of that knowledge which defies death, that life principle which is the screen on which this body comes and goes. Let us pay total attention to that pure life principle, and remain there.

It is easy.

It is direct and simple.

~ V. Ganesan (Bhagavan's grand-nephew)