beyond the small self...

Paul Brunton: "How is it possible to become selfless while leading a life of worldly activity?"

Bhagavan: "There is no conflict between work and wisdom."

Paul Brunton: "Do you mean that one can continue all the old activities, in one's profession, for instance, and at the same time get Enlightenment?"

Bhagavan: "Why not? But in that case one will not think that the old personality is doing the work because one's consciousness will gradually become transformed until it enters in That which is beyond the little self."


Sri Ramana Maharshi
in Arthur Osborne
_Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self-Knowledge_
York, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1970, p. 75