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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Maharshi said: There is only one consciousness. But we speak of
several kinds of consciousness, as body-consciousness, Selfconsciousness.
They are only relative states of the same Absolute
consciousness. Without consciousness, time and space do not exist.
They appear in consciousness. It is like a screen on which these
are cast as pictures and move as in a cinema show. The Absolute
consciousness is our real nature.
D.: From where do these objects arise?
M.: Just from where you rise. Know the subject first and then question
about the object.
D.: It is only one aspect of the question.
M.: The subject comprehends the object also. That one aspect is an
all-comprehensive aspect. See yourself first and then see the objects.
What is not in you cannot appear outside.
D.: I am not satisfied.
M.: Satisfaction can be only when you reach the source. Otherwise
restlessness exists.
D.: Is the Supreme Being with or without attributes?
M.: Know first if you are with or without attributes.
D.: What is samadhi?
M.: One’s own true nature.
D.: Why then is effort necessary to attain it?
M.: Whose is the effort?
D.: Maharshi knows that I am ignorant.
M.: Do you know that you are ignorant? Knowledge of ignorance is
no ignorance.
All scriptures are only for the purpose of investigating if there are two
consciousnesses. Everyone’s experience proves the existence of only
one consciousness. Can that one divide itself into two? Is any division
felt in the Self? Awaking from sleep one finds oneself the same in the
wakeful as well as in the sleep states. That is the experience of each one.
The difference lies in seeking, in the outlook. Because you imagine that
you are the seer separate from the experience, this difference arises.
Experience shows that your being is the same all through.
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