Letters from Sri Ramanasramam, by Suri Nagamma

What is lost even now? Go on doing dhyana until he comes back
and tells you,” said Bhagavan. Unable to understand the
significance of that, the young man said, “Will he really come
back to me and give me the required information if I go on
doing dhyana?” “You may or may not be informed where that
avatara purusha is. If only you do not give up dhyana but do it
continuously you will realise the Truth. Then there will be no
room for any doubts,” said Bhagavan.

Taking advantage of this conversation, another person
asked, “It is said that God lives in an eternal world. Is this
true?” Bhagavan replied, “If we are in a temporary world,
He may be in an eternal world. Are we in a temporary world?
If this is true, that also is true. If we are not real, where is the
world and where is time?”
In the meanwhile, a young boy, four-years old, entered
the hall with a toy motor car. Seeing that, Bhagavan said, “See.

Instead of the car carrying us, we are carrying the car. That is
right,” and laughed. Later, looking at us all, he said, “Look,
this also can be taken as an example. We say, ‘we sat in the
motor car’, ‘the motor car is carrying us’, ‘we have come in
the car’, ‘the car has brought us here’. Will the car which is
inanimate move without our driving it? No. Who drives? We.

So also this world. Where is the world without our being in it?
There must be someone to see the beauty of this world, and
understand it. Who is the seer? He. He is everywhere. Then
what is transient and what is permanent? If one knows the
truth through Self-enquiry there will be no problems.”
Bhagavan has already written the same thing like a sutra in
verse No. 19 in his “Sad Vidya” (“Unnadhi Nalupadhi”).