from Talk 240.

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23rd August, 1936

Talk 240.

 

D.: The world is materialistic. What is the remedy for it?

M.: Materialistic or spiritual, it is according to your outlook.

Drishtim jnanamayim kritva, Brahma mayam pasyet jagat — Make your

outlook right. The Creator knows how to take care of His Creation.

 

D.: What is the best thing to do for ensuring the future?

M.: Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

 

D.: The future is the result of the present. So, what should I do to

make it good? Or should I keep still?

M.: Whose is the doubt? Who is it that wants a course of action?

Find the doubter. If you hold the doubter the doubts will disappear.

Having lost hold of the Self the thoughts afflict you; the world is

seen, doubts arise, also anxiety for the future.

Hold fast to the Self, these will disappear.

 

D.: How to do it?

M.: This question is relevant to matters of non-self, but not to the

Self. Do you doubt the existence of your own Self?

 

D.: No. But still, I want to know how the Self could be realised. Is

there any method leading to it?

M.: Make effort. Just as water is got by boring a well, so also you

realise the Self by investigation.

 

D.: Yes. But some find water readily and others with difficulty.

M.: But you already see the moisture on the surface. You are hazily aware

of the Self. Pursue it. When the effort ceases the Self shines forth.

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