Guest guest Posted February 5, 2004 Report Share Posted February 5, 2004 In google I found this only at http://www.leonardjacobson.com/ask_main2.html > Ramana Maharshi is famous for these quotes: "The Mind has to be> destroyed." It seems somewhat unfamiliar to me coming from Ramana, does anybody know? I found these here and there searching for "The mind has to be" and Ramana 1 the mind has to be directed and turned within 2 It is well known and admitted that that only with the help of the mindthat the mind has to be killed. But instead of setting about saying thatthere is a mind, and I want to kill it, you begin to seek the source of themind and you will find that the mind does not exist at all. The mind, turnedoutwards, results in thoughts and objects. Turned inwards, it becomesitself the Self. Such a mind is sometimes called arupa manas orsuddha manas. Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi on 8th November 1945 3 and in a question: Whichever way one turns, one finds that the mind has to be subdued. We are told it has to be controlled, Can this really be done when on the one hand the mind is an entity not easily grasped and on the other one continues to have worldly worries? B. A person who has never seen an ocean must make a trip to it to know about it. Standing there before the huge expanse of water, this person may wish to bathe in the sea. Of what use is it if, seeing the roaring and rolling of the waves, he were to just stand there thinking, I shall wait for all this to subside. When it does, I shall enter it for a quest bath just as in the pond back home? He has to realize either by himself or by being told, that the ocean is restlessness and that it has been so from the moment of creation and will continue likewise till Pralaya (destruction). He will then resolve to learn to bathe in it, as it is. He may wade into it by and by, and perhaps, through prior instruction, learn to duck under a wave and let it pass over him. He would naturally hold his breath, While doing so, soon he would be skilled enough to duck, at a stretch, wave after wave, and thus achieve the purpose of bathing without coming to grief. The ocean may go on and though in it, he is free from its grip. Bhagavan then added, after a pause, So too here. Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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