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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
D.: I mean when the spirit is disembodied, does it carry the intellect
with it?
M.: Spirit is not disembodied. The bodies differ. It may not be a
gross body. It will then be a subtle body, as in sleep, dream or daydream.
Intellect does not alter; the bodies may differ according to
circumstances.
D.: The spirit-body is the astral body then?
M.: The intellect is the astral body now.
D.: How can it be?
M.: Why not? You seem to think that the intellect cannot be limited
like a body. It is only an aggregate of certain factors. What else is
the astral body?
D.: But intellect is a sheath?
M.: Yes. Without intellect, no sheath is cognised. Who says that there
are five sheaths? Is it not the intellect that declares thus?
Talk 207.
Deep sleep is only the state of non-duality. Can the difference between
the individual and Universal souls persist there? Sleep implies
forgetfulness of all differences: This alone constitutes happiness. See
how carefully people prepare their beds to gain that happiness. Soft
cushions, pillows and all the rest are meant to induce sound sleep,
that is to say to end wakefulness. And yet the soft bed, etc., are of no
use in the state of deep sleep itself. The implication is that all efforts
are meant only to end ignorance. They have no use after realisation.
Talk 208.
It is enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself
up to the original cause of one’s being. Do not delude yourself by
imagining such source to be some God outside you. One’s source is
within yourself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek
the source and merge in it. Because you imagine yourself to be out of
it, you raise the question “Where is the source?” Some contend that the
sugar cannot taste its own sweetness and that a taster must taste and
enjoy it. Similarly, an individual cannot be the Supreme and enjoy the
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