Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi said:

“We are all really Sat-chit-ananda (Being-Knowledge-Bliss) but we imagine we are bound (by destiny) and have all this suffering.”

“ Ask yourself to whom this ignorance has come and you will discover that it never came to you and that you always have been sat-chit-ananda. One goes through all sorts of austerities to become what one already is. All effort is simply to get rid of the mistaken impression that one is limited and bound by the woes of samsara (this life).”