Mouna, silence, Ramana

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Ramana Maharshi: The experience

of `I am´ is to be still. Mouna

is not just keeping your mouth shut. It is eternal speech. That state which

transcends speech and

thought is mouna.

 

Q: How can we achieve it?

 

M: Hold onto something firmly and

trace it back to its source.

Mouna is the result of concentration. When practice becomes natural it will end

in mouna. Meditation without mental activity is mouna. Subjugation of the mind

is meditation, deep meditation is eternal speech.

 

See the mind. You must stand

aloof from it. You are not the mind.

 

Q: How should we do all this?

 

M: The lack of the feeling that

we are the Self is the root cause of the trouble. Have nothing to do

with thoughts, and be.. just be.

 

It is the thoughts alone that create the hindrance, they are

the trouble. Find out to whom

the thoughts occur. As long as

you think that a wrong self exists, it will appear to do so,

but find out where it arises

and it will disappear.

Those who have discovered great truths have done so in the still depths of the

Self

 

 

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love, Era