The person soaked in the “I-am-the-body” idea is the greatest sinner and he is a suicide. The experience of “I-am-the-Self” is the highest virtue. Even a moment’s to that effect is enough to destroy all the sanchita karma. It works like the Sun before whom darkness is dispelled. If one remains always in dhyāna, can any sin, however heinous it be, survive his dhyāna?
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi · Volume III
Talk 536
15th October, 1938