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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
D.: Is there efficacy in bathing in the Ganges?
M.: The Ganges is within you. This Ganges does not make you feel
cold or shiver. Bathe in it.
D.: Should we read Gita once in a while?
M.: Always.
D.: May we read the Bible?
M.: The Bible and the Gita are the same.
D.: The Bible teaches that Man is born in sin.
M.: The Man is sin. There was no man-sense in deep sleep. The bodythought
brings out the idea of sin. The birth of thought is itself sin.
To another question the Master said: Everyone sees only the Self.
The divine forms are only like bubbles in the ocean of Reality, or
like pictures moving on a screen.
D.: The Bible says that the human soul may be lost.
M.: The ‘I-thought’ is the ego and that is lost. The real ‘I’ is “I am
That I Am.”
D.: There is conflict in the teachings of Aurobindo and of the Mother.
M.: First surrender the Self and then harmonise the conflicts.
D.: What is Renunciation?
M.: Giving up of the ego.
D.: Is it not giving up possessions?
M.: The possessor too.
D.: The world will change if the people will give up their possessions
for the benefit of others.
M.: First give yourself up and then think of the rest.
In answer to another question Sri Bhagavan said:
The methods appear easy according to the nature of the individual.
It depends on what he has practised before.
D.: Can we not get realisation instantaneously?
M.: Realisation is nothing new. It is eternal. There is no question of
instantaneous or gradual realisation.
D.: Is there reincarnation?
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