@Veronica Foucek asked about Ramana Maharshi in Q&A: Who am I?' is not a mantra. It means that you must find out where in you arises the 'I-thought' which is the source of all other thoughts.”~ Ramana Maharshi “TRACE EVERY THOUGHT BACK, TEAR AWAY EVERYTHING Q: What are the hindrances to the realization of Reality? Bhagavan: Memory chiefly, habits of thought and accumulated tendencies. Q: How to get rid of these? Bhagavan: Find out the Self through meditation in this manner. Trace every thought back to its origin which is the ‘I’- thought; never allow thought to go on. If it does it will be unending. If you take it back to the source, thoughts will die of inaction, for the mind exists by thought; take away thought and there is no mind. As each doubt and depression arises ask yourself, ‘Who is it that doubts? Who is depressed?’ Tear everything away until there is nothing but the source left. Live only in the present." - Ramana Maharishi Ramana Maharshi had said that Self-inquiry is more like feeling than like thought. Asking “Who am I?” or asking “To whom do these thoughts arise?” are easy instructions to follow as long as one stays in the realm of thought. However, when it comes to feeling “Who am I?” or feeling “I AM”, that had always been a bit vague because what exactly is the feeling I AM? "Our real nature is the 'I' feeling which is experienced by everyone. It is within us and nowhere else." A student asked Ramana when is one finally enlightened? Ramana replied “When there are no more thoughts.”