Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Benefit of Associating with Jnanis

 

Just as even a fresh plantain tree will become dry and catch fire when it comes

in close proximity to a raging forest fire, so the minds of those who associate

with Jnanis will, unknown to themselves, be made by that association to attain

great love to attend to and abide in Self. When we gain association with a

person who knows and abides as the reality (called a Sat-purusha), we will be

able to know very clearly that real devotion to God, and steadfast

discrimination between the eternal and the ephemeral, are steadily rising up and

increasing in our hearts automatically, and without our own effort.