Fwd: Selections from TALKS WITH SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI-43

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Selections from TALKS WITH SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI-43

 

TALK 246:

 

Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to

another. It is called in only after thoughts arise; other thoughts

arise after the `I-thought' rises; the `I-thought' is the root of

all conversation. When one remains without thinking one understands

another by means of the universal language of silence. Silence is

ever-speaking; it is a perennial flow of language; it is interrupted

by speaking. These words obstruct that mute language. There is

electricity flowing in a wire. With resistance to its passage, it

glows as a lamp or

revolves as a fan. In the wire it remains as electric energy.

Similarly also, silence is the eternal flow of language, obstructed

by words.

 

What one fails to know by conversation extending to several years

can be known in a trice in Silence, or in front of Silence - e.g.,

Dakshinamurti, and his four disciples. That is the highest and most

effective language.

 

TALK 247:

 

There arose a doubt if `I-I' consciousness be the same as nirvikalpa

samadhi or anything anterior to it.

 

Sri Bhagavan said that the tiny hole in the Heart remains always

closed, but it is opened by vichara with the result that `I-I'

consciousness shines forth. It is the same as samadhi.

 

D.: What is the difference between fainting and sleep?

 

M.: Sleep is sudden and overpowers the person forcibly. A faint is

slower and there is a tingle of resistance kept up. Realisation is

possible in a faint and impossible in sleep.

 

D.: What is the state just before death?

 

M.: When a person gasps for breath it indicates that the person is

unconscious of this body; another body has been held and the person

swings to and fro. While gasping there is a more violent gasp at

intervals and that indicates the oscillation between the two bodies

due to the present attachment not having been completely snapped. I

noticed it in the case of my mother and of Palaniswami.

 

D.: Does the new body involved in that state represent the next

reincarnation of the person?

 

M.: Yes. While gasping the person is in something like a dream, not

aware of the present environment.

 

(It must be remembered that Sri Bhagavan had been with His mother

from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. until she passed away. He was all along

holding her head with one hand, the other hand placed on her bosom.

What does it signify? He Himself said later that there was a

struggle between Himself and His mother until her spirit reached the

Heart. Evidently the soul passes through a series of subtle

experiences, and Sri Bhagavan's touch generates a current which

turns the soul back from its wandering into the Heart. The

samskaras, however, persist and a struggle is kept up between the

spiritual force set up by His touch and the innate samskaras, until

the latter are entirely destroyed and the soul is led into the Heart

to rest in eternal Peace, which is the same as Liberation. Its entry

into the Heart is signified by a peculiar sensation perceptible to

the Mahatma - similar to the tinkling of a bell.

 

When Maharshi attended on Palaniswami on his death-bed, He took away

His hand after the above signal. But Palaniswami's eyes opened

immediately, signifying that the spirit had escaped through them,

thereby indicating a higher rebirth, but not Liberation. Having once

noticed it with Palaniswami, Maharshi continued touching His mother

for a few minutes longer - even after the signal of the soul passing

into the Heart - and thus ensured her Liberation. This was confirmed

by the look of perfect peace and composure on her features).

 

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