On Fleeing the World & Books
Where can you go, fleeing from the world or objects? They don’t exist apart from you; they owe their existence to you, your thought. So, where can you go to escape them?
As for reading books on Vedanta, you may go on reading any number of them. They can only tell you, ‘Realize the Self within you’. The Self cannot be found in books.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Day by Day with Bhagavan