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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
impressions in the brain become manifest as the body and the
worlds. Because the ego identifies itself with limitations, the body
is considered separate and the world separate.
Lying down on your bed in a closed room with eyes closed
you dream of London, the crowds there and you among them.
A certain body is identified as yourself in the dream. London
and the rest could not have entered into the room and into your
brain; however, such wide space and duration of time were all
perceptible to you. They must have been projected from the
brain. Although the world is so big and the brain so small, is
it not a matter of wonder that such a big creation is contained
in such small compass as one’s brain? Though the screen is
limited, still all the pictures of the cinema pass on it and are
visible there. You do not wonder how such a long procession
of events could be manifest on such a small screen. Similarly
with the objects and the brain.
D.: Then cosmic consciousness is not the same as realisation?
M.: Cosmic consciousness is behind the ego. It may be called Isvara,
and the ego is jiva. Isvara may also be said to be the Absolute.
There is no difference there.
Para
Isvara
Jiva Jagat
= Absolute
= Cosmic consciousness (Mahat)
= Individual consciousness and the world
The consciousness which pervades even Isvara is the Absolute one.
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D.: What is the flame mentioned in Vichara Sangraha. It is said to be
Atma Jyoti and one is directed to find the reality behind it.
M.: The Vedas mention the flame, Tasyas sikhaya madhye
paramatma vyavasthitah. That flame is to be identified with the
ego-consciousness.
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