Truly there is no cause for you to be miserable
and unhappy. You yourself impose limitations
on your true nature of infinite Being and then
weep that you are but a finite creature. Then
you take up this or that sadhana to transcend the
nonexistent limitations. But if your sadhana itself
assumes the existence of the limitations, how can
it help you to transcend them? Hence I say know
that you are really the infinite, pure Being, the
Self Absolute. You are always that Self and
nothing but that Self. Therefore, you can never
be really ignorant of the Self; your ignorance is
merely a formal ignorance... Know then that
true Knowledge does not create a new Being for
you; it only removes your "ignorant ignorance."
Bliss is not added to your nature; it is merely
revealed as your true and natural state, eternal
and imperishable. The only way to be rid
of your grief is to know and be the Self.

Ramana