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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Nevertheless you cannot be so because of your physical outlook.
Even men who ought to know better and who have known the teaching
about liberation after death etc., glorify liberation along with the body
and call it some mysterious power of keeping the body eternally alive!
There will be no pain if the physical outlook is given up and if the
person exists as the Self. Mourning is not the index of true love. It
betrays love of the object, of its shape only. That is not love. True love
is shown by the certainty that the object of love is in the Self and that
it can never become non-existent. (Maharshi cited the story of Ahalya
and Indra from Yoga Vasishta in this connection.)
Still it is true, pain on such occasions can only be assuaged by
association with the wise.
18th June, 1936
Talk 204.
Maharshi on Self-Illumination: The ‘I’ concept is the ego. I-illumination
is the Realisation of the Real Self. It is ever shining forth as ‘I-I’ in
the intellectual sheath. It is pure Knowledge; relative knowledge is
only a concept. The bliss of the blissful sheath is also but a concept.
Unless there is the experience, however subtle it is, one cannot say
“I slept happily”. From his intellect he speaks of his blissful sheath.
The bliss of sleep is but a concept to the person, the same as intellect.
However, the concept of experience is exceedingly subtle in sleep.
Experience is not possible without simultaneous knowledge of it
(i.e. relative knowledge).
The inherent nature of the Self is Bliss. Some kind of knowledge has
to be admitted, even in the realisation of Supreme Bliss. It may be
said to be subtler than the subtlest.
The word vijnana (clear knowledge) is used both to denote the
Realisation of the Self and knowing the objects. The Self is wisdom.
It functions in two ways. When associated with the ego the knowledge
is objective (vijnana). When divested of the ego and the Universal Self
is realised, it is also called vijnana. The word raises a mental concept.
Therefore we say that the Self-Realised Sage knows by his mind, but
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