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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Talk 101.
A gentleman from Ambala asked: What is the rationalistic explanation
of Draupadi’s sari becoming endless?
M.: Spiritual matters cannot be fitted into rationalism. Spirituality is
transcendental. The miracle was after Draupadi had surrendered
herself. The secret lies in surrender.
D.: How to reach the Heart?
M.: Where are you now that you want to reach the Heart? Are you
standing apart from the Self?
D.: I am in my body.
M.: In a particular spot, or all over?
D.: All over. I am extending all over the body.
M.: Wherefrom do you extend?
D.: I do not know.
M.: Yes. You are always in the Heart. You are never away from it
in order that you should reach it. Consider how you are in deep
sleep and in the waking state. These states are also not yours.
They are of the ego. The consciousness remains the same and
undifferentiated all through.
D.: I understand but I cannot feel it so.
M.: Whose is the ignorance? Find it out.
D.: All this is so difficult.
M.: The idea of difficulty is itself wrong. It will not help you to gain
what you want. Again I ask: “Who finds it difficult?”
D.: I see that I am coming round to ‘I’.
M.: Because you are always that and never away from that. There
is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no
aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his eternal,
natural, inherent state.
Talk 102.
He returned with a request next day. He said, “It is said that one should
receive instruction from a Guru. Mere reading of books is not helpful.
I have read many books; but there is no practical help derived from
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