remember the 'I' thought and seek its source

[Guest guest]

Mr. Jharka, a gentleman from the University of Benares, holding the M.A. and the

M.Sc. degrees, said that he was stricken with grief due to bereavement of wife

and children. He sought peace of mind and asked how to get it.

 

Maharshi: It is in the mind that birth and death, pleasure and pain, in short

the world and ego exist. If the mind is destroyed all these are destroyed too.

Note that it should be annihilated, not just made latent. For the mind is

dormant in sleep. It does not know anything. Still, on waking up, you are as you

were before. There is no end of grief. But if the mind be destroyed the grief

will have no background and will disappear along with the mind.

 

Disciple: How to destroy the mind?

 

M.: Seek the mind. On being sought, it will disappear.

 

D.: I do not understand.

 

M.: The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts arise because there is

the thinker. The thinker is the ego. The ego, if sought, will vanish

automatically. The ego and the mind are the same. The ego is the root-thought

from which all other thoughts arise.

 

D.: How to seek the mind?

 

M.: Dive within. You are now aware that the mind rises up from within. So sink

within and seek.

 

D.: I do not yet understand how it is to be done.

 

M.: You are practising breath-control. Mechanical breath-control will not lead

one to the goal. It is only an aid. While doing it mechanically take care to be

alert in mind and remember the 'I' thought and seek its source. Then you will

find that where breath sinks, there 'I-thought' arises. They sink and rise

together. The 'I-thought' also will sink along with breath. Simultaneously,

another luminous and infinite 'I-I' will become manifest, which will be

continuous and unbroken. That is the goal. It goes by different names - God,

Self, Kundalini Sakti, Consciousness, Yoga, Bhakti, Jnana, etc.

 

D.: Not clear yet.

 

M.: When the attempt is made, it will of itself take you to the goal.

 

Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

The ego is the root-thought

from which all other thoughts arise.

>>>>>>>

 

The above proposition expressed the

view that thought is the beginning/end

of confusion/delusion.

 

To be a mathematician is to think.

So per the above to be a mathematician

would require the ego root-thought in

order to think.

 

And a " corollary " would be that there are

no non-dual mathematicians.

 

Which, I submit, is a reducto-ad-absurdum.

 

Therefore the proposition: " The ego is the

root-thought from which all other thoughts arise, "

is utter nonsense.

 

QED

 

 

Bill