Question : But is it not funny that the I' should be searching for theI’? Does not the enquiry Who am I?' turn out in the end to be an empty formula? Or, am I to put the Question to myself endlessly, repeating it like some mantra?Who am I?’ were a mere mental Questioning, it would not be of much value. The very purpose of self-enquiry is to focus the entire mind at its source. It is not, therefore, a case of one
<span style="color: #ff9966;">Ramana Maharshi : </span> Self-enquiry is certainly not an empty formula and it is more than the repetition of any mantra. If the enquiryI' searching for anotherI’. Much less is self-enquiry an empty formula, for it involves an intense activity of the entire mind to keep it steadily poised in pure Self-awareness.