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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
D.: How does the sphurana appear - as light, movement, or what?
M.: How can it be described in words? It includes all these - It is
the Self. Fix your attention on it and do not let go the idea of its
ultimate character.
Talk 161.
13th February, 1936
An elderly man from Ananthapur, after hearing the Vedas recited in
the hall, stood up and asked:
“It is said that the non-Brahmins should not hear the recital of the
Vedas.”
M.: Mind your business. Take care of what you came here for. Why
do you waste your time in these matters? “I heard the recital,” you
say. “Who is that ‘I’? Without knowing the ‘I’ you are using the
word. If its significance be known there will be no doubt. Find the
‘I’ first and you may afterwards speak of other matters.”
Continuing, Sri Bhagavan said:
“The smritis say something. They are not appropriate now. I
will reform the world, rewrite the smritis.” Saying so, people are
cutting capers in the world from time immemorial. Such reformers
have come and gone; but the ancient smritis still stand. Why
waste time over such matters? Let each one mind his business.
All will be well.
Talk 162.
23rd February, 1936
A Maharashtra lady of middle-age, who had studied Jnaneswari,
Bhagavata and Vichara Sagara, and was practising concentration
between the eyebrows, had felt shivering and fear, and did not
progress. She required guidance.
Maharshi told her not to forget the seer. The sight is fixed between
the eyebrows, but the seer is not kept in view. If the seer be always
remembered it will be all right.
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