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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
to sleep soundly. The conclusion is that happiness is inherent in
man and is not due to external causes. One must realise his Self in
order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
Talk 4.
Maharshi was asked by an educated young man: “How do you say
that the Heart is on the right, whereas the biologists have found it to
be on the left?” The man asked for authority.
M.: Quite so. The physical organ is on the left; that is not denied. But
the Heart of which I speak is non-physical and is only on the right
side. It is my experience, no authority is required by me. Still you
can find confirmation in a Malayalam Ayurvedic book and in Sita
Upanishad; and he produced the quotation (mantra) from the latter
and repeated the text (sloka) from the former.
Talk 5.
Mr. M. Frydman, an engineer, remarked on the subject of Grace, “A salt
doll diving into the sea will not be protected by a waterproof coat”.
It was a very happy simile and was applauded as such. Maharshi
added, “The body is the waterproof coat”.
Talk 6.
A question was asked by a monk (sannyasi) about how to prevent the
mind from being distracted.
M.: You see the objects on forgetting your own Self. If you keep hold
of your Self, you will not see the objective world.
Talk 7.
When asked if occult powers (siddhis) can be achieved along
with Omnipotence (Iswaratva) as mentioned in the last verse of
Dakshinamurti Ashtakam, Maharshi said: “Let Omnipotence (Iswaratva)
be accomplished first and then the other question may be raised.”
Talk 8.
“Can anyone get any benefit by repeating sacred syllables (mantras)
picked up casually?
M.: “No. He must be competent and initiated in such mantras.”
Maharshi illustrated this by the following story: A King visited
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