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>From Sri V.Ganesan.

 

Regards, Alan

 

 

> Namaskar.

>

> Please read the following quotation from TALKS, p.264 :

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> 304. A Swiss lady described a photism she had, to Sri Bhagavan. While she was

sitting with her

> eyes wide open, she saw Sri Bhagavan's face becoming cherub-like and draped in

glorious flowers.

> She was drawn in love towards that child-like face.

>

> Maharshi: The vision is in your mind. Your love is the cause. Paul

Brunton saw me as a

> giant figure; you saw me like a child. Both are visions.

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> (The lady said: Paul Brunton asked me if I had any

spiritual experience

> here, and I denied it. Now this happens !)

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> M.: Do not be deceived by visions.

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> D.: If one is miles away in Europe and invokes your aid......

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> M.: Where is Europe ? It is in you.

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> D.: I have come here; I would like Maharshi to come there. (Saying it,

she laughed gently.

> Silence for some minutes.)

>

> M.: You see the physical body and so you find limitations. Time and

space operate on this

> plane. So long as you think of the gross body, there will be differences

found as different

> bodies. On the other hand, knowledge of the real Maharshi will set all

doubts at rest.

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> Are you in India now ? Or, is India in you ? Even now this

notion that you are

> in India must go. India is in you. In order to verify it, look to your

sleep. Did you feel

> that you were in Europe or in India while asleep ? You were nevertheless

existing then the same

> as now.

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> Space is in you. The physical body is in space; but, not you.

>

> Paul Brunton had his eyes closed when he saw the vision, whereas

you had your eyes

> open, you say.

>

> D.: Yes. But I have never had vision; whereas he is a psychic.

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> After a few minutes, she asked if it is an advantage or a disadvantage to see

visions like this.

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> M.: It is an advantage.

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> Sri Bhagavan continued : Probably you had been thinking of a child and

that appeared in the

> vision....

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> D.: Yes, only of Shiva -- of His child-like face.......

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> M.: That's it.

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> D.: But Shiva is the Destroyer.......(meaning, not a child).

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> M.: Yes---of sorrows.

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> After a few minutes Bhagavan continued: You will shortly go to sleep. When

you wake up in the

> morning, you will say, "I slept well and happily". What happened in sleep is

your real nature.

> That continues now too; otherwise, it will not be your real nature. Get the

state of sleep

> even now; it is Shiva.

>

> Have we got a form ? Find that out before you think of Shiva's Form. Did you

not exist in

> sleep ? Were you aware of any form then ? Were you with form in your sleep ?

You existed all

> the same. The "I" which was in sleep, is also now present. You were not

the body according

> to your sleep-experience. You are the same now -- that is, without the body.

Being without

> the body you were happy too in sleep. You are the same now too. That which

is enduring must

> alone be the real nature. There was no body but only experience of happiness

in sleep. That

> endures now too. The Self is bodiless. If you are, thus, without body, how

can Shiva be with

> body ? If you are with body, Shiva also is with body. If you are not, He

also is not.

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> D.: Why is He then Shiva ?

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> M.: Shiva means Embodiment of Happiness -- of Auspiciousness !

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> The lady was very pleased. After a time, she left.

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> Will more be coming....? I don't know, may or may not be.....Any thing is

'acceptable',

> should be the state of our mind -- we should strive to maintain so.....

> For that, Grace is most essential.....'Grace' is the other side of the coin

of one's

> 'effort'.......

>

> Love,

> Ganesan.

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