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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
24th February, 1936
Talk 163.
Dr. Henry Hand, an American of about seventy, asked “What is ego?”
M.: Ego being internal and not external to you it must be clear to yourself.
D.: What is its definition?
M.: The definition also must proceed from the ego. The ego must
define itself.
D.: What is soul?
M.: Find the ego, the soul is found.
D.: Are they then the same?
M.: Soul can be without the ego; but the ego cannot be without the
soul. They are like bubble and the ocean.
D.: That clarifies the matter. What is Atman?
M.: Atman and soul are the same.
Talk 164.
Another American asked about thought-forms.
M.: Trace the source of thoughts, they will disappear.
D.: Thoughts materialise.
M.: If there be thoughts they will materialise. If they disappear there
is nothing to materialise. Moreover if you are physical the world
is physical and so on. Find out if you are physical.
D.: How shall I be useful to God’s world?
M.: Find out if ‘I’ is different from the divine part of the world. Not being
able to help yourself yet you are seeking the divine part of it to help
you to help the world. The divinity is directing and controlling you.
Where do you go in deep sleep? Wherefrom do you come out?
D.: I have been influenced by deeds and thoughts.
M.: Thoughts and deeds are the same.
D.: Is there any way of sensing super-physical phenomena, e.g.,
guardian angels?
M.: The state of the object is according to the state of the seer.
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