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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
The questioner said that he appreciated the humour, but that still
his self-respect suffered.
M.: The Self is only one. Do you feel hurt if you blame yourself or scorn
yourself for your errors? If you hold the Self there is no second person
to scorn you. When you see the world you have lost hold of the Self.
On the contrary, hold the Self and the world will not appear.
1st February, 1936
Talk 152.
Mrs. Kelly desired to know how she should best learn to meditate.
Sri Bhagavan asked if she had made japa (rolling beads as Roman
Catholics do). She said: “No”.
M.: Have you thought of God, His qualities, etc.?
D.: I have read, talked, etc. about such themes.
M.: Well, if the same be revolved in the mind without open expression
through the senses it is meditation.
D.: I mean meditation as signified in The Secret Path and Who am I?
M.: Long for it intensely so that the mind melts in devotion. After the
camphor burns away no residue is left. The mind is the camphor;
when it has resolved itself into the Self without leaving even the
slightest trace behind, it is Realisation of the Self.
4th February, 1936
Talk 153.
Some Peshawaris, among them a Judicial Commissioner and a young
man well-read and earnest, with a strong belief in the existence of
Paramatman (Supreme Self) as different from the Jivatman (individual
self), raised some questions.
Sri Bhagavan clinched his various doubts by this one statement:
Remove the upadhis (adjuncts), jiva and parama, from the Atman
and say if you still find the difference. If later these doubts still persist
ask yourself, “Who is the doubter? Who is the thinker?” Find him.
These doubts will vanish.
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