# Ramana Maharshi’s Who Am I? and Self-Inquiry for Thought Loops

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118295730754654591
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- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:10
- Published: 2026-11-06
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops) I have read probably over 50 spiritual books over the seven years, seven, eight years, and most of them were useless.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=8) But there was one book that changed my life forever by Ramana Maharshi called Who Am I?

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=16) And the reason it changed my life was during all these years, I've been seeking answers.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=21) I've been seeking answers in books. I've been meditating.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=25) I've been striving, trying to change, trying to become something, trying to get somewhere.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=31) But the book Who Am I? by Ramana Maharshi changed my life because he said the only thing you have to do is put your mind against your own mind.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=43) This means that when you're stuck in a thought loop, when you're stuck with the narrator causing all the suffering, when you feel anxious, when you feel depressed, when you worry, fear, there is an ongoing story in your mind, right?

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=56) Now, in order to interrupt that flow, you can ask yourself, to whom does these thoughts come to?

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=64) And the answer will probably be to me. And then the next question becomes, who am I?

[1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=71) When you ask that question, who am I? Don't look for an answer.

[1:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=77) Recognize the silence between the question and the answer that you're looking for.

[1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=83) And rest in that silence because what you just did was interrupting the ongoing conversation, the thought identification that leads to more thought and then trying to solve the thoughts with more thoughts.

[1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=95) So what you do when you ask yourself, who am I?

[1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=99) Coming back to the true essence of yourself.

[1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=102) And that's the only thing you have to do.

[1:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=104) Now, keep in mind, your mind will probably say that this is too simple.

[1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=109) No, this will not work. You have to find something more complex.

[1:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=112) You have to read the next book. But if you truly start to investigate and ask yourself, to whom does these thoughts come to?

[1:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=119) Or who is the one suffering right now? Or who is angry right now?

[2:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=122) You will notice that there will be a silence.

[2:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yZrPiLHZBVpx/en/ramana-maharshi-s-who-am-i-and-self-inquiry-for-thought-loops?t=126) Stay in that and keep going.