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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: Are there two selves in that case? Consider your present experience
of sleep and say.
D.: I should think it possible to retain individual consciousness in
nirvana. I fear the loss of individuality.
Later, the questioner went up and round the hill and wandered about
fifteen miles between twelve noon and eight p.m. He returned tired
and gave a very lucid speech on agriculture, social conditions, caste
system, spiritual quality of the Indians, etc.
Talk 177.
D.: What is mahat?
10th March, 1936
M.: The projected light from Absolute Consciousness. Just as a seed
swells up before sprouting and then sprouts and grows, so also the
Absolute Consciousness projects light, manifests as the ego and
grows up as the body and the universe.
Chit
Mahat
Ahankara
Manas
Aham Idam
= Absolute
= projected consciousness
(swollen seed)
= ego
= mind
= body world
Maj. Chadwick: Is it the same as cosmic consciousness?
M.: Yes, it is so before the birth of the ego and the universe. It
comprises them all. Just as all the pictures thrown on the screen
are visible by the light projected from a spot, so also the body and
the other objects are all visible in that reflected consciousness. It
is, therefore, also cosmic consciousness.
Again, (in the microcosm) the body and all other objects are all
contained in the brain. The light is projected on the brain. The
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