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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: These are all workings of the mind and the questions also.
Then again Sri Bhagavan related an episode in Sri Rama’s search for
Sita. Parvati asked Siva why Rama, the Perfect Being, was grieving at
the loss of Sita. Siva said that Rama was still Perfect. If the Perfection
need be tested and made clear, Parvati might appear as Sita before Rama
and see what happened. So she did. Rama ignored her appearance and
was still crying out, “Ha! Sita! Ha! Sita!” and moved on like a blind
man, without taking any notice of Parvati - (Cf. Dialogue 218.)
13th March, 1936
Talk 183.
A gentleman from Bombay said: “I asked Mother in Sri Aurobindo
Ashram the following question: ‘I keep my mind blank without
thoughts arising so that God might show Himself in His true Being.
But I do not perceive anything.
“The reply was to this effect: ‘The attitude is right. The Power will
come down from above. It is a direct experience’.”
So he asked what further he should do.
M.: Be what you are. There is nothing to come down or become
manifest. All that is needful is to lose the ego, That what is, is
always there. Even now you are That. You are not apart from it.
The blank is seen by you. You are there to see the blank. What do
you wait for? The thought “I have not seen,” the expectation to see
and the desire of getting something, are all the working of the ego.
You have fallen into the snares of the ego. The ego says all these
and not you. Be yourself and nothing more!
Talk 184.
M.: To imagine Muladhara at the bottom, the Heart at the centre, or
the head at the top or over all these, is all wrong. In one word, to
think is not your real nature.
Talk 185.
M.: In the sacred literature the following are seen:-
“Said without uttering”
“Showed remaining still as ever,” etc.
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