Fwd: Selections from TALKS WITH SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI-25

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Selections from TALKS WITH SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI-25

 

TALK 156:

 

D.: Is solitude helpful for practice?

 

M.: What do you mean by solitude?

 

D.: To keep away from others.

 

M.: Why should it be done? It is actuated only by fear. Even in

solitude there is the fear of intrusion by others and of solitude

being spoilt. Moreover, how are thoughts to be erased in solitude?

Should it not be done in the present environment?

 

D.: But the mind is distracted now.

 

M.: Why do you let go the mind? Solitude amounts to making the mind

still. This can be done in a crowd too. Solitude cannot efface one's

thoughts. Practice does it. The same practice can be made here too.

 

TALK 164:

 

D.: The Bible teaches that Man is born in sin.

 

M.: The Man is sin. There was no man-sense in deep sleep. The body

thought brings out the idea of sin. The birth of thought is itself

sin.

 

D.: The Bible says that the human soul may be lost.

 

M.: The `I-thought' is the ego and that is lost. The real `I' is " I

am That I Am. "

 

D.: What is Renunciation?

 

M.: Giving up of the ego.

 

D.: Is it not giving up possessions?

 

M.: The possessor too.

 

D.: The world will change if the people will give up their

possessions for the benefit of others.

 

M.: First give yourself up and then think of the rest.

 

D.: Can we not get realisation instantaneously?

 

M.: Realisation is nothing new. It is eternal. There is no question

of instantaneous or gradual realisation.

 

D.: Is there reincarnation?

 

M.: Reincarnation can be if you are incarnate now. Even now you are

not born.

 

To another question:

 

M.: The ego is the root of all diseases. Give it up. There will be

no disease.

 

D.: If all renounce will there be a practical world? Who will

plough? Who will harvest?

 

M.: Realise first and then see. The help through Realisation

transcends all the help through words, thoughts and deeds, etc. If

you understand your own reality then that of the rishis and masters

will be clear to you. There is only one master and that is the Self.

 

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