Guest guest Posted November 14, 2002 Report Share Posted November 14, 2002 Often she would be desperate because there would always be a crowd and Ramana was never alone. His hall was open to one and all at all times. But early one morning when she came into the hall she found him unattended, 'emanating a wonderful stillness and peace'. With his permission she put him some question and got his clarifications. P: What are the hindrances to the realization of the true Self? R: Memory chiefly, habits of thoughts, accumulated tendencies. P: How does one get rid of these hindrances? R: Seek for the Self through meditation in this manner, trace every thought back to its origin which is only the mind. Never allow thoughts to run on. If you don't it will be unending. Take it back to its starting place-the mind- again and again, and it and the mind will both die of inaction. The mind exists only by reason of thought. Stop thought and there is not mind. As each doubt and depression arises, ask your self, "Who is it that doubts? What is it that is depressed? Go back constantly until there is nothing but the source of all left. And then, live always in the present and only in it. There is not past of future, save in the mind. P: What meditation will help me? R: You must learn to realized the subject and object as one. In meditation on an object, whether concrete or abstract, you are destroying the sense of oneness and creating duality. Meditate on what you are in Reality. Try to realize that the body is not you, the emotions are not you the intellect is not you. When all these are still you will find... P: What? R: You will discover, it is not for me to say what any individual experience will be. it will reveal itself. Hold on to that. It will be seen that Ramana's emphasising the necessity for holistic meditation. Ramana traces the malaise of objective meditation to non-existent division between subject and object. The object is only for the subject and exists only when the attention of the subject of the individual is there. If this is forgotten and the fact that the Self is one, whole, is forgotten, no meditation can result in sustained, inherent, peace of mind. At the time of the farewell his talk was most touching. He was so gently and humane. he discussed the difficulties of everyday life and mundane problems. Ramana's parting message was, 'Do what is right at a given moment and leave it behind'. >From Timeless in time by Nataranjan Timeless in Time..Natarajan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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