You are the Truth !

The following is extracted from a dialogue with Ramana Maharshi(Day by Day with Bhagavan). When I had read it few years back, it was just a statement for me, but now I feel that what he say is truth. We forget that its we who give Life & Truth to the world & by foolishness we say "I Am" a part of thee world. May the following words enlighten the reader.

Self is the one reality that always exists and it is by its light all other things are seen. We forget it and concentrate on the appearances. The light in the hall burns, both when persons are present there and when they are absent, both when persons are enacting something as in a theatre and when nothing is being enacted. It is the light which enabled us to see the hall, the persons and the acting. We are so engrossed with the objects or appearances revealed by the light that we pay no attention to the light. In the waking state or dream state, in which things appear, and in the sleep state, in which we see nothing, there is always the light of consciousness or Self, like the hall-lamp always burning. The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.