It means ‘Destroy yourself’; because every name and form is the cause of trouble.

‘I-I’ is the Self. ‘I am this’ is the ego.

When the ‘I’ is kept up as the ‘I’ only, it is the Self.

When it flies off at a tangent and says, ‘I am this or that. I am such and such’, it is the ego.

 

–Ramana Maharshi

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 When past and future dissolve there is only You   –Rumi

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Merely assuaging fears and satisfying desires will not remove this sense of emptiness you are trying to escape from; only self-knowledge can help you.

By self-knowledge I mean full knowledge of what you are not.

Such knowledge is attainable and final; but to the discovery of what you are, there can be no end.

The more you discover, the more there remains to discover.

–Nisargadatta Maharaj

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