Ramana Maharshi Answers To As God Guides Everyone Then What Is The Use Of Guru's Instructions To People?

[Guest guest]

16th December, 1938

 

Talk 596.

 

A visitor asked: Sri Bhagavan said last night that God is guiding us.

 

Then why should we make an effort to do anything?

 

M.: Who asks you to do so? If there was that faith in the guidance of God

this question would not have arisen.

 

D.: The fact is that God guides us. Then what is the use of these

instructions to people?

 

M.: They are for those who seek instructions. If you are firm in your belief

in the guidance of God, stick to it, and do not concern yourself with what

happens around you.

 

Furthermore, there may be happiness or misery. Be equally indifferent to

both and abide in the faith of God. That will be so only when one’s faith is

strong that God looks after all of us.

 

Mr. Chopra asked: “How shall I secure that firm faith?â€

 

M.: Exactly. It is for such as these who want instructions. There are

persons who seek freedom from misery. They are told that God guides all and

so there need not be any concern about what happens.If they are of the best

type they at once believe it and firmly abide by faith in God.

 

But there are others who are not so easily convinced of the truth of the

bare statement. They ask: “Who is God? What is His nature? Where is He? How

can He be realised?†and so on.

 

In order to satisfy them intellectual discussion is found

necessary.Statements are made, their pros and cons are argued,and the truth

is thus made clear to the intellect.

 

When the matter is understood intellectually the earnest seeker begins to

apply it practically. He argues at every moment, “For whom are these

thoughts? Who am I?†and so forth, until he is well-established in the

conviction that a Higher Power guides us.That is firmness of faith. Then all

his doubts are cleared and he needs no further instructions.

 

Sources:

 

1) TALKS WITH SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI

2) Arunachala's Ramana Volume III Book

 

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