Maharshi's Gospel - Mind Control 5

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Disciple: The mind continues to feel partial toward children. Possibly

because the form of a child is often used to personify the Ideal. How can

this preference be outgrown?

 

Maharshi: Hold on to the Self. Why think of children and of your reactions

toward them?

 

D: This third visit to Tiruvanamalai seems to have intensified the sense of

egoism in me and made meditation less easy. Is this an unimportant passing

phase or a sign that I should avoid such places hereafter?

 

M: It is imaginary. This place or another is within you. Such imaginations

must end, for places as such have nothing to do with the activities of the

mind. Also your surroundings are not merely a matter of your individual

choice; they are there as a matter of course, and you should rise above them

and not get yourself entangled in them.

 

(From Maharshi's Gospel, published by Sri Ramanasramam and available for

download from http://www.ramana-maharshi.org/ )