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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Mouna is said to be that state which spontaneously manifests after
the annihilation of the ego. That state is beyond light and darkness,
but still it is called light since no other proper word could be found
for it.
3rd January, 1936
Talk 123.
Dr. Mohammed Hafiz Syed, a Muslim Professor of Persian and Urdu
in the University of Allahabad, asked: “ What is the purpose of this
external manifestation?”
M.: This manifestation had induced your question.
D.: True. I am covered by maya. How to be free from it?
M.: Who is covered by maya? Who wants to be free?
D.: Master, being asked ‘Who?’, I know that it is ignorant me,
composed of the senses, mind and body. I tried this enquiry ‘Who?’
after reading Paul Brunton’s book. Three or four times I was feeling
elated and the elation lasted sometime and faded away. How to be
established in ‘I’? Please give me the clue and help me.
M.: That which appears anew must also disappear in due course.
D.: Please tell me the method of reaching the eternal Truth.
M.: You are That. Can you ever remain apart from the Self? To be
yourself requires no effort since you are always That.
Talk 124.
Another impatient questioner elaborated long premises and finished
asking why some children die a premature death. He required the
answer not to satisfy the grown-up ones who look on, but the babies
who are the victims.
M.: Let the victims ask. Why do you ask and desire the answer from
the standpoint of the child?
Talk 125.
The Muslim Professor asked: When I am here my mind is satvic; as soon
as I turn my back on this, my mind hankers after so many objects.
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