"Samadhi is one's essential nature"

[Guest guest]

Disciple: "Can samadhi come and go?"

Ramana Maharshi: "What is samadhi? Samadhi is one's essential nature. How then

can it come or go?

If you do not realise your essential nature, your sight remains obstructed. What

is the obstruction? Find it and remove it. So one's efforts are meant only for

the removal of obstructions which hide the true vision. The real nature remains

the same. When once it is realised it is permanent."

 

D.: "But Mr. Brunton says that he had one hour's samadhi. Therefore I asked the

question."

M.: "A practiser gains peace of mind and is happy. That peace is the result of

his efforts. But the real state must be effortless. The effortless samadhi is

the true one and the perfect state. It is permanent. The efforts are spasmodic

and so also their results.

When the real, effortless, permanent, happy nature is realised it will be found

to be not inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life. The samandi reached

after efforts looks like abstraction from the external activities. A person

might be so abstracted or live freely among people without detriment to his

Peace and Happiness because that is his true nature or the Self."

 

(Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk 597)

 

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