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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
better if associated with investigation (vichara). In that case the
nada is made up of chinmaya and also tanmaya (of Knowledge
and of Self). Nada helps concentration.
28th January, 1936
Talk 149.
In reply to a sadhu who asked if bhakti consisted in forgetting the
body, etc. Sri Bhagavan said:
“What do you care for the body? Practise bhakti and don’t worry
about what happens to the body.”
Talk 150.
Mrs. and Mr. Kelly, an elderly couple from America, and others of their
company desired to know what they should do to gain concentration in
face of discomforts of sitting and the sting of mosquitoes, etc.
M.: The discomforts will not worry you if your concentration is right.
Do not mind the discomforts. Keep your mind steady in meditation.
If you have not the strength and endurance to bear mosquito stings
how do you hope to gain realisation of the Self? Realisation must
be amidst all the turmoils of life. If you make yourself comfortable
and go to bed you fall asleep. Face the troubles but keep yourself
steady in meditation.
31st January, 1936
Talk 151.
The American gentleman is a little hard of hearing. Being accustomed
to be self-reliant from his youth he naturally feels worried on account
of his hearing becoming defective.
M.: You were not self-reliant; you were ego-reliant. It is good that
ego-reliance is banished and that you become truly Self-reliant.
Again Bhagavan said:
“There is no cause for worry. Subjugation of senses is a necessary
preliminary for Self-Realisation. One sense is subdued for you by
God Himself. So much the better.”
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