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Selections from TALKS WITH SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI-46

 

TALK 252:

 

D.: Sri Ramakrishna touched Vivekananda and the latter realized

Bliss. Is it possible?

 

M.: Sri Ramakrishna did not touch all for that purpose. He did not

create Atma. He did not create Realisation. Vivekananda was ripe. He

was anxious to realise. He must have completed the preliminary

course in his past births. Such is possible for ripe persons only.

 

D.: Can the same miracle be worked for all?

 

M.: If they are fit. Fitness is the point. A strong man controls the

weaker man. A strong mind controls the weaker mind. That was what

happened in the case cited. The effect was only temporary. Why did

Vivekananda not sit quiet? Why did he wander about after such a

miracle? Because the effect was only temporary.

 

D.: How is the mind to dive into the Heart?

 

M.: The mind now sees itself diversified as the universe. If the

diversity is not manifest it remains in its own essence, that is the

Heart. Entering the Heart means remaining without distractions. The

Heart is the only Reality. The mind is only a transient phase. To

remain as one's Self is to enter the Heart. Because a man identifies

himself with the body he sees the world separate from him. This

wrong identification arises because he has lost his moorings and has

swerved from his original state. He is now advised to give up all

these false ideas, to trace back his source and remain as the Self.

In that state, there are no differences. No questions will arise.

All the sastras are meant only to make the man retrace his steps to

the original source. He need not gain anything new. He must only

give up his false ideas and useless accretions. Instead of doing it

he tries to catch hold of something strange and mysterious because

he believes that his happiness lies elsewhere. That is the mistake.

If one remains as the Self there is bliss. Probably he thinks that

being quiet does not bring about the state of bliss. That is due to

his ignorance. The only practice is to find out " to whom these

questions arise. "

 

D.: How to control lust, anger, etc.?

 

M.: Whose are these passions? Find out. If you remain as the Self,

there will be found to be nothing apart from the Self. Then there

will be no need to control, etc.

 

D.: If a person whom we love dies, grief results. Shall we avoid

such grief by either loving all alike or by not loving at all?

 

M.: If one dies, it results in grief for the other who lives. The

way to get rid of grief is not to live. Kill the one who grieves.

Who will remain then to suffer? The ego must die. That is the only

way. The two alternatives amount to the same state. When all have

become the one Self, who is there to be loved or hated?

 

D.: What is the Sun marga? What is the Moon marga? Which of them is

easier?

 

M.: Ravi marga (Sun marga) is jnana. Moon marga is Yoga. They think

that after purifying the 72,000 nadis in the body, sushumna is

entered and the mind passes up to the sahasrara and there is nectar

trickling. These are all mental concepts. The man is already

overwhelmed by world concepts. Other concepts are now added in the

shape of this Yoga. The object of all these is to rid the man of

concepts and to make him inhere as the pure Self - i.e., absolute

consciousness, bereft of thoughts! Why not go straight to it? Why

add new encumbrances to the already existing ones?

 

TALK 253:

 

Mr. F. G. Pearce, Principal, Scindia School, Gwalior: Bhagavan has

stated [in Sad Vidya Anubandham (Supplement) sloka 36]: " The

illiterates are certainly better off than the literates whose egos

are not destroyed by the quest of the self. " This being so, could

Bhagavan advise a school master (who feels this to be true) how to

carry on education in such a way that the desire for literacy and

intellectual knowledge may not obscure the more important search for

the Self? Are the two incompatible? If they are not, then from what

age, and by what means, can young people best be stimulated towards

the search for the Real Truth within?

 

M.: Pride of learning and desire for appreciation are condemned and

not learning itself. Learning leading to search for Truth and

humility is good.

 

[A request from the same seeker: The above questioner has spent two

very precious days in physical proximity to Bhagavan Maharshi (whom

he has not seen since - 17 years ago - he visited Him for a few

minutes on the hillside). His duties now compel him to take his body

far away again to the north, and it may be years before he can

return. He humbly requests Bhagavan to make a strong link with him,

and to continue to help him with His grace, in the quest of the

Self. Maharshi had a gentle smile for this.]

 

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