Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world. Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. Self-Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.

– Ramana Maharshi 

In the ordinary man when a thought occurs the ego takes delivery of it as “my thought” and gets involved. The thinking mind is nothing but the ego identifying with a thought and getting involved. In the enlightened Sage, when a thought arises, witnessing happens and involvement with the thought does not take place. Ramana Maharshi says, “The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘other’ for him.

Ramana Maharshi Upadesa Saram – Ramesh Balsekar