Fwd: Selections from TALKS WITH SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI-7

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ThePowerOfSilence , " saikali6362 "

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Selections from TALKS WITH SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI-7

 

TALK 42:

 

Mr. Duncan Greenlees, Madanapalli, wrote as follows:- One has at

times had vivid flashes of a consciousness whose centre is outside

the normal self and which seems to be inclusive. Without concerning

the mind with philosophical concepts, how would Bhagavan advise us

to work towards getting, retaining and extending those flashes? Does

abhyasa (practice) in such experiences involve retirement?

 

Sri Bhagavan answered: `Outside' - For whom is inside or outside?

They can be only so long as there are the subject and object. For

whom are these two again? They both will resolve into the subject

only. See who is in the subject. The investigation leads you to pure

consciousness beyond the subject. Normal self is the mind. This mind

is with limitations. But pure consciousness is beyond limitations

and reached by investigation as above outlined.

 

Getting - Self is always there. One seeks to destroy the obstacles

to the revelation of the Self.

Retaining - Having once gained the Self it will be understood to be

Here and Now. It is never lost.

Extending - There is no extending the Self, for it is always without

contraction or expansion.

Retirement - Abiding in the Self is solitude. Because there is

nothing alien to the Self.

 

Retirement must be from some one place to another. There is neither

the one nor the other apart from the Self. All being the Self,

retirement is impossible and inconsistent. Abhyasa is investigation

into the Self.

 

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