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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
The word cannot be replaced nor need it be replaced. The Englishman
casually said that in prehistoric ages there was spirituality but not
high intellect, whereas intellect has now developed. Sri Bhagavan
pointed out that intellect raises the question “whose intellect?” The
answer is, of the Self. So intellect is a tool of the Self. The Self uses
intellect for measuring variety. Intellect is not the Self nor apart from
the Self. The Self alone is eternal. Intellect is only a phenomenon.
People speak of the development of variety as being the development
of intellect. Intellect was always there. Dhata yatha parvam akalpayat
(The Creator created just as before). Consider your own state, day by
day. There is no intellect in dreamless deep sleep. But it is there now.
There is no intellect in a child. It develops with age. How could there
be manifestation of intellect without its seed in the sleep state and in
the child? Why go to history to teach this fundamental fact? The level
of truth of history is only the level of truth of the individual.
Talk 113.
A Telugu gentleman asked about Karma Yoga. Sri Bhagavan said
that the man should act as an actor on the stage. In all actions there is
the sat as the underlying principle. “Remember it and act.” He asked
about the purity of mind - chitta suddhi. Sri Bhagavan said that chitta
suddhi is to engage in one thought only to the exclusion of all others.
It is otherwise called one-pointedness of the mind. The practice of
meditation purifies the mind.
23rd December, 1935
Talk 114.
Baron Von Veltheim - Ostran, an East German Baron, asked, There should
be harmony between knowledge of the Self and knowledge of the world.
They must develop side by side. Is it right? Does Maharshi agree?
M.: Yes.
D.: Beyond the intellect and before wisdom dawns there will be pictures
of the world passing before one’s consciousness. Is it so?
Sri Bhagavan pointed out the parallel passage in Dakshinamurti
stotram to signify that the pictures are like reflections in a mirror;
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