The inquiry ‘Who am I?’ is not to be regarded as a mental effort to understand the mind’s nature. Its main purpose is ‘to focus the entire mind at its source’. The source of the ‘pseudo-I’ is the Self. What one does in Self-inquiry is to run against the mental current instead of running along with it, and finally transcend the sphere of mental modifications. When the ‘pseudo-I’ is tracked down to its source, it vanishes. Then the Self shines in all its splendour - which shining is called realization and release. ─ Bhagavan Ramana.
This is the Quintessence of self-inquiry. Pseudo-I is a fact while functioning in the phenomenal reality. We are conditioned to function as Pseudo-I only, but meditation happens only when we go beyond the Pseudo-I which is imposed on us by the family and society. Being aware of activities of Pseudo-I without fighting with it is part of self-inquiry.(sada apramada).That very awareness takes us to the source of Pseudo-I, so self-inquiry is not "doing”. It is just being aware of the activities of Pseudo-I, so the whole of pseudo-I is under observation, so there is no division, no duality in self-inquiry unlike in other methods in which Pseudo-I is kept intact for doing spiritual discipline, so there is duality and conflict in them unlike in self-inquiry. The inquirer get dissolved in self-inquiry, so this is a non-dual process. The dirtiness of Pseudo-I is purified when it gets dissolved in the sea of awareness. Purity is not a prerequisite for doing self-inquiry but it is a consequence of self-inquiry. Mind is a problem to everybody which thought cannot resolve because ego itself is woven by thought. We have to observe the pseudo-I without the screen of past, of conditioning, then only the whole structure of prevailing thought-process is revealed and comes to an end. One attains to healthy way of thinking when one understands his own immature, pathological perverted thinking but not by fighting, repressing with that immature way of thinking that is presided over by the ego. Then only we encounter the reality which exists by itself and reveals itself by its very presence.
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