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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
D.: Probably it is like a dream. Just as we speak of our dreams, so
they think of their actions.
M.: Even the dream, etc. is in your mind. This explanation too is in
your mind only.
D.: Yes. I see. All is Ramana-Maya - made up of the Self.
M.: If so, there will be no duality and no talk.
D.: A man, on realising the Self, can help the world more effectively.
Is it not so?
M.: If the world be apart from the Self.
12th February, 1936
Talk 159.
Mr. Cohen desired to know if trance is a sine qua non for Self-
Realisation.
M.: You are always in the Self - now, in trance, in deep sleep, in
Realisation. If you lose hold of the Self and identify yourself with
the body or the mind, these states appear to overtake you, and it
also looks like a blank in trance, etc.; whereas you are the Self
and ever-present.
D.: Sri Aurobindo says that the Light which resides in the head must
be brought down to the heart below.
M.: Is not the Self already in the Heart? How can the all-pervading
Self be taken from one place to another?
D.: Is a karma yogi or a bhakta too subject to trance?
M.: When you concentrate on one point you merge in it, and this merging
is called trance. The other features disappear and the Self alone
remains over. The karmi or bhakta also must experience the same.
Talk 160.
D.: What is the hridaya and what the sphurana therein? How do
they appear?
M.: The hridaya and the sphurana are the same as the Self. The
sphurana requires a basis for its manifestation. This is explained
in the book Vichara Sangraham (Self-Enquiry).
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