Ramana..

For a while now, I have been reading about Ramana Maharishi. It often strikes me that there is so little I find about him apart from what I hear about him from people who have been associated with him from time to time in a direct way or perhaps a more indirect way. Even his answers to questions put to him are so simply put it makes you think. Someone asked him once, how do I treat others? He replied "There are no others". One other seeker asked him what he thought of all that is going on in the world. He said "The world is a thought" . Those two answers particularly have had me thinking for quite some time now. If you deliberate over it, you will find that it makes you think in another direction. There was somewhere else that I read, what you think of as the world is nothing but a movie in progress. So then I wonder what are right's and wrong's?If what Ramana says is true, there are no rights and no wrongs. Actually there is little else then. There is so much in our lives that is driven by events, situations, emotions. If all that is an illusion, then really what else is there? What would we be pursuing then? More importantly, would we know what to pursue then ? I think it just makes you wonder, if only a little bit.
 If I think about this like any average person would, I would say there should perhaps be more than an element of truth to what he says. These are people who somehow manage to strike an equilibrium in their existence and hear no noise. They have no confusion. They are comfortable with silence and there is only calm inside. The strange part about it is even when you listen to all that they spoke about years before you were born, it still makes an impact on you. It still calms you, if only for that moment. And then you wonder at the potency of it all. Somewhere you want to find out more about it. 

I don't know if it is just running all the time makes you think like that or it is really who you are. I don't know what lines these thoughts follow. If it is spiritual, religious, just respite or our true nature. I don't. But I do know that when I even hear all this, when I read, I feel a very strange calm engulf and wrap me. I feel like it asks me to give in. I don't want to run anymore, after things or for things. However I don't want to run away from life either. Does that make me sound fatalistic?Confused? It is Ramana's words that are swirling in my head saying "the world is a thought". 

I think, despite what experiences you have with life or with people, with situations, eventually it is just you in the circle. But, now I hear Ramana whispering.... So, Who are you ?