CARL JUNG ON RAMANA MAHARSHI

"The goal of Eastern religious practice is the same as that of Western mysticism: the shifting of the center of gravity from the ego to the self, from man to God. This means that the ego disappears in the self, and man in God. It is evident that Sri Ramana has either really been more or less absorbed by the self, or has at least struggled earnestly all his life to extinguish his ego in it."--Carl Jung in his foreword to Ramana Maharshi's book, The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi.

The word "self," as Jung uses it here, refers to the so-called "True Self," the "Observing Self," or the "Witness," in other words the Atman.

Unlike Sigmund Freud, incidentally, Jung thought spiritual experience was essential to our well-being.