What is Self-inquiry?

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Ramana Maharshi:

 

In the body, senses, etc.,

the concept 'I' persists.

With a one-pointed and inturned mind

to look out for this 'I',

or the Self

which is the inmost Being,

within the sheaths of the mind

and the senses,

is the inquiry into the Self.

 

To seek elsewhere outside the body

by an oral recital of spiritual understandings,

or a critical study of words,

cannot be called inquiry into the Self

which can only be through investigation

into the true nature of the Self

by a discerning mind.