Maharshi's Gospel - Mind Control 7

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Disciple: How can I escape from samsara, which seems to be the real cause

for making the mind restless? Is not renunciation an effective means to

realize tranquillity of mind?

 

Maharshi: Samsara is only in your mind. The world does not speak out

saying, "Here I am, the world." If it did so, it would be ever there, making

its presence felt by you even in your sleep. Since, however, it is not

there in sleep, it is impermanent. Being impermanent, it lack substance.

Having no reality apart from the Self, it is easily subdued by the Self. The

Self alone is permanent. Renunciation is the non-identification of the Self

with the not-Self. When the ignorance which identifies the Self with

not-Self is removed, not-Self ceases to exist, ant that is true

renunciation.

 

D: Can we not perform actions without attachment even in the absence of such

renunciation?

 

M: An atma-jnani alone can be a good karma-yogi.

 

D: Does Bhagavan condemn Dvaita philosophy?

 

M: Dvaita can subsist only when you identify the Self with the not-Self.

Advaita is non-identification.

 

 

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

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