A LIVING GEM FROM RAMESH (previously unpublished)
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Ramana Maharshi generally advocated the practice of self-attention or awareness of the I-thought, which begins as a mental activity, but as it progresses naturally, the thought "I" gives way to "subjectively experienced" feeling of "I". And when this feeling ceases to identify with thoughts and objects, there comes about an effortless awareness of being in which no personal effort is concerned. The final effect happens - the transformation is complete - when the "me" thought never arises again.