In the Hill of Light, Arunachala

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23rd to 28th January, 1939 Talk 616.

[...] When I was staying in the Skandasramam I sometimes used to go out and sit on a rock. On one such occasion, there were two or three others with me including Rangaswami Iyengar. Suddenly we noticed some small moth-like insect shooting up like a rocket into the air from a crevice in the rock. Within the twinkling of an eye, it had multiplied itself into millions of moths which formed a cloud and hid the sky from view. We wondered at it and examined the place from which it shot up. We found that it was only a pinhole and knew that so many insects could not have issued from it in such a short time. 

That is how ahankara (ego) shoots up like a rocket and instantaneously spreads out as the Universe. [...]

Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi -  Pg. 598