In fact it was only within all along :

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When a vasana is released and it comes into play, it is associated with the light of the Self.

It passes from the heart to the brain and on its way it grows more and more until it holds the field all alone and all the vasanas are thus kept in abeyance for the time being.

When the thought is reflected in the brain it appears as an image on a screen.

The person is then said to have a clear perception of things.

He is a great thinker or discoverer.

Neither the thought that is extolled as being original, nor the thing, nor the country which is claimed to be a new discovery, is really original or new.

It could not manifest unless it was already in the mind.

It was of course very subtle and remained imperceptible, because it lay repressed by the more urgent or insistent thoughts or vasanas.

When they have spent themselves this thought arises and by concentration the Light of the Self makes it clear, so that it appears magnificent, original and revolutionary.

In fact it was only within all along.

(Bhagavan in 'Talks with Sri Ramana Maharishi' 616)