D.: What is the purpose of creation?

M.: It is to give rise to this question; investigate the answer to this

question, and finally abide in the supreme or rather the primal source of all, including the Self.

The investigation will resolve itself into one of quest for the Self and cease only after the non-self is sifted away and the Self realised in its purity and glory.

D.: How is the investigation to start?

M.: The Self is plain to all and the starting also equally plain.

D.: What is the starting point for one in my stage of development.

M.: Each one has some method of upasana or japa. If that is pursued in all sincerity with due perseverance, it will automatically lead to

the investigation of the Self.

#SriRamanaMaharshi