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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Free-will is implied in the scriptural injunctions to be good. It
implies overcoming fate. It is done by wisdom. The fire of wisdom
consumes all actions. Wisdom is acquired by association with the
wise, or rather, its mental atmosphere.
Talk 210.
Man owes his movements to another Power, whereas he thinks that
he does everything himself - just like a lame man bluffing that, were
he helped to stand up, he would fight and chase away the enemy.
Action is impelled by desire; desire arises only after the rise of the
ego; and this ego owes its origin to a Higher Power on which its
existence depends. It cannot remain apart. Why then prattle, “I do,
I act, or I function”?
A Self-realised being cannot help benefiting the world. His very
existence is the highest good.
Talk 211.
Mr. B. C. Das, the Physics Lecturer, asked: “Yoga means union. I
wonder union of which with which.”
M.: Exactly. Yoga implies prior division and it means later union
of one with another. Who is to be united with whom? You are
the seeker, seeking union with something. That something is
apart from you. Your Self is intimate to you. You are aware of
the Self. Seek it and be it. That will expand as the Infinite. Then
there will be no question of yoga, etc. Whose is the separation
(viyoga)? Find it.
D.: Are the stones, etc. destined to be always so?
M.: Who sees stones? They are perceived by your senses, which are
in turn actuated by your mind. So they are in your mind. Whose
mind is it? The questioner must find it himself. If the Self be found
this question will not arise.
The Self is more intimate than the objects. Find the subject,
and the objects will take care of themselves. The objects are
seen by different persons according to their outlook and these
theories are evolved. But who is the seer, the cogniser of these
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