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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
The cosmic mind, manifesting in some rare being, is able to effect
the linkage in others of the individual (weak) mind with the universal
(strong) mind of the inner recess. Such a rare being is called the GURU
or God in manifestation.
19th May, 1936
Talk 189.
Mr. M. Oliver Lacombe, a middle-aged Frenchman who was on a visit
to India being delegated by the Institute of Indian Civilisation of the
University of Paris, came here from French India. Among others he had
desired to meet Maharshi; he came and stayed here about three hours.
He had read, in the Sanskrit original, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads
and the Sutras with commentaries by Sri Sankara and Ramanuja.
He asked: Is Maharshi’s teaching the same as Sankara’s?
M.: Maharshi’s teaching is only an expression of his own experience
and realisation. Others find that it tallies with Sri Sankara’s.
D.: Quite so. Can it be put in other ways to express the same
realisation?
M.: A realised person will use his own language. Sri Bhagavan added:
SILENCE is the best language.
D.: What does Maharshi say about hatha yoga or Tantric practices?
M.: Maharshi does not criticise any of the existing methods. All are good
for the purification of the mind. Because the purified mind alone is
capable of grasping his method and sticking to its practice.
D.: Which is the best of the different yogas, Karma, Jnana, Bhakti
or Hatha?
M.: See stanza 10 of “Upadesa Sara”. To remain in the Self amounts
to all these in their highest sense.
Maharshi added: In dreamless sleep there is no world, no ego and
no unhappiness. But the Self remains. In the waking state there
are all these; yet there is the Self. One has only to remove the
transitory happenings in order to realise the ever-present beatitude
of the Self. Your nature is Bliss. Find that on which all the rest are
superimposed and you then remain as the pure Self.
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