Fwd: Selections from TALKS WITH SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI-20

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Selections from TALKS WITH SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI-20

 

TALK 116:

 

D.: Jiva is said to be bound by karma. Is it so?

 

M.: Let karma enjoy its fruits. As long as you are the doer so long

are you the enjoyer.

 

D.: How to get released from karma.

 

M.: See whose karma it is. You will find you are not the doer. Then

you will be free. This requires grace of God for which you should

pray to Him, worship Him and meditate on Him. The karma which takes

place without effort, i.e., involuntary action, is not binding.

 

Even a Jnani is acting as seen by his bodily movements. There can be

no karma without effort or without intentions (sankalpas). Therefore

there are sankalpas for all. They are of two kinds (1) one, binding -

bandha-hetu and the other (2) mukti-hetu - not binding. The former

must be given up and the latter must be cultivated. There is no

fruit without previous karma; no karma without previous sankalpa.

Even mukti must be the result of effort so long as the sense of

doership persists.

 

TALK 117:

 

A Ceylonese: What is the first step for Realisation of Self? Please

help me towards it. There is no use reading books.

 

Another: This one man's request is that of us all.

 

M.: Quite so. If the Self be found in books it would have been

already realised. What wonder can be greater than that we seek the

Self in books? Can it be found there?

 

Of course books have given readers the sense to ask this question

and to seek the Self.

 

TALK 131:

 

D.: What is moksha (liberation)?

 

M.: Moksha is to know that you were not born. " Be still and know

that I am God. " To be still is not to think. Know, and not think, is

the word.

 

D.: There are said to be six organs of different colours in the

chest, of which the heart is said to be two finger-breadths to the

right of the middle line. But the Heart is also formless. Should we

then imagine it to have a shape and meditate on it?

 

M.: No. Only the quest " Who am I? " is necessary. What remains all

through deep sleep and waking is the same. But in waking there is

unhappiness and the effort to remove it. Asked who wakes up from

sleep you say `I'. Now you are told to hold fast to this `I'. If it

is done the eternal Being will reveal Itself. Investigation of `I'

is the point and not meditation on the heart-centre. There is

nothing like within or without. Both mean either the same thing or

nothing.

 

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