the man of the mountain goes traveling

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>From Talks With Ramana Maharshi:

 

 

 

Lady Bateman appreciated the discourse and thanked Sri Bhagavan. Later

she said she would be leaving the next day.

 

Sri Bhagavan said:

 

You do not leave one place for another. You are always stationary. The

scenes go past you.Even from the ordinary point of view you sit in your

cabin and the ship sails but you do not move. We see a picture of a man

running several miles and rushing towards us but the screen does not move.

It is the picture that moves on and away.

 

D. : I see, but I can understand it only after I realise the Self.

 

M. : The Self is always realised. Were Realisation something to be

gained hereafter there is an equal chance of its being lost. It will thus be

only transitory. Transitory bliss brings pain in its train. It cannot be

liberation which is eternal.

Were it true that you realise it later means that you are not realised

now. Absence of Realisation of the present moment may be repeated at any

moment in the future, for Time is infinite. So too, such realisation is

impermanent. But that is not true. It is wrong to consider realisation to be

impermanent. It is the True Eternal State which cannot change.