' Individuality and Mind '...

"The gods and the sages experience the Infinite
continuously and eternally, without their vision being
obscured at any moment.

Their minds are surmised by
the spectators to function, but in fact they do not.

Such surmise is due to the sense of individuality in
those who draw inferences.

There is no mental function
in the absence of individuality.

Individuality and
mind-functions are co-existent.

The one cannot remain
without the other."




-Sri Ramana Maharshi
in Whitall N. Perry
_A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom_
Varanasi: Indica, 1998 (1971), p. 918