“I’m not the gross body, which is composed of the seven senses of humour. I’m not the five cognitive sense organs, viz. the senses of hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell. These apprehend their respective objects, such as sound, touch, colour, taste and odour. I’m not the five cognItive sense organs, like speech organs, locomotion, grasping, excretion and procreation whose respective functions are speaking, moving, grasping, excreting and enjoying. I’m not the five vital airs, prana, etc. which perform respectively the five functions of breathing-in, etc. I’m not even the mind which thinks. I’m neither the nescience, which is endowed only with the residual impressions of objects and in which there are no objects and no functioning.
After negating all of the above mentioned as ‘not this’, that awareness which alone remains – that I am.
The nature of awareness is existence, consciousness and bliss.
Inquiring into the nature of one’s self that is in bondage and realising one’s nature is liberation.”
Ramana Maharshi