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Selections from TALKS WITH SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI-69

 

TALK 331:

 

Mrs. Roorna Jennings, an American lady of the International Peace

League, asked Sri Bhagavan about the spread of Peace in the world.

 

Sri Bhagavan replied that if one gains the Peace of the Self it will

spread itself without any effort on the part of the individual. When

one is not oneself peaceful, how can that one spread peace in the

world?

 

The lady asked if it was not true that the East has a scientific

approach to the Realisation of the Self.

 

M.: You are already the Self. No elaborate science is necessary to

establish it.

 

D.: I understand the general truth of it. But there must be a

practical method for it which I call esciencef.

 

M.: The cessation of such thoughts is the realisation of the Self.

Illustration: the necklace supposed lost. One does not see the world

or onefs own body, being away from the Self. Always being the Self,

one sees everything else. God and the world are all in the Heart.

See the Seer and everything will be found to be the Self. Change

your outlook. Look within. Find the Self. Who is the substratum of

the subject and the object? Find it and all problems are solved.

 

The lady was then told of the pamphlet, Who am I? She agreed to read

it before asking further questions of Sri Bhagavan.

TALK 335:

 

D.: How will the sexual impulse cease to be?

 

M.: When differentiation ceases.

 

D.: How can it be effected?

 

M.: The other sex and its relation are only mental concepts. The

Upanishad says that all are dear because the Self is beloved of all.

Onefs happiness is within; the love is of the Self only. It is only

within; do not think it to be without: then differentiation ceases

to operate.

 

TALK 338:

 

Mrs. Jennings, an American lady, asked a few questions:

 

D.: Is not affirmation of God more effective than the quest, gwho am

I?h Affirmation is positive, whereas the other is negation.

Moreover, it indicates separateness.

 

M.: So long as you seek to know how to realise, this advice is given

to find your Self. Your seeking the method denotes your separateness.

 

D.: Is it not better to say eI am the Supreme Beingf than ask eWho

am I?f

 

M.: Who affirms? There must be one to do it. Find that one.

 

D.: Is not meditation better than investigation?

 

M.: Meditation implies mental imagery, whereas investigation is for

the Reality. The former is objective, whereas the latter is

subjective.

 

D.: There must be a scientific approach to this subject.

 

M.: To eschew unreality and seek the Reality is scientific.

 

D.: I mean there must be a gradual elimination, first of the mind,

then of the intellect, then of the ego.

 

M.: The Self alone is Real. All others are unreal. The mind and

intellect do not remain apart from you. The Bible says, gBe still

and know that I am Godh. Stillness is the sole requisite for the

realisation of the Self as God.

 

D.: Will the West ever understand this teaching?

 

M.: There is no question of time and space. Understanding depends on

ripeness of mind. What does it matter if one lives in the East or in

the West?

 

Sri Bhagavan referred the lady to a few stanzas in Truth Revealed

and to Thayumanavar. She retired.

 

Later Sri Bhagavan said the whole Vedanta is contained in the two

Biblical statements:

gI am that I AMh and gBe still and know that I am God.h

 

Mr. K. S. N. Iyer, a Railway Officer, said to Sri Bhagavan that the

compiler of Cosmic Consciousness considers realisation to be

possible only within certain limits of age in an individualfs life.

 

M.: Does anyone say gI must come into being before or after some

age?h He is here and now. Statements like this are misleading

because people come to believe that they cannot realise the Self in

this incarnation and must needs take chances in another. It is all

absurd.

 

TALK 340:

 

Mr. Bose began, gAfter the return of body-consciousness ...h

 

M.: What is body-consciousness? Tell us that first. Who are you

apart from consciousness? Body is found because there is

bodyconsciousness which arises from eI-consciousnessf which again

rises from consciousness.

 

Consciousness ¨ eI-consciousnessf ¨ body-consciousness ¨ body.

 

There is always consciousness and nothing but that. What you are now

considering to be body-consciousness is due to superimposition. If

there is only consciousness and nothing but it, the meaning of the

Scripture Atmanastu kamaya sarvam priyam bhavati - (All are dear

because of the love of the Self) becomes clear.

 

A question arises, why there should be suicides in that case. Why

does one do it? Because he is unhappy and desires to put an end to

his unhappiness. He actually does it by ending the association with

the body which represents all unhappiness. For there must be a

killer to kill the body. He is the survivor after suicide. That is

the Self.

 

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