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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Talk 237.
A man brought with him a silver idol of Subrahmanya and copper
idols of Valli and Devayanai. He said to Sri Bhagavan: “I have been
worshipping them for the last ten years but have been rewarded only
with calamities. What shall I do with them?
When I asked others, they attribute my worries to some fault in the
make-up of the idols - for instance, the difference in the metals of
their make. Is it so?”
M.: Did they say that it was wrong to worship?
Talk 238.
In answer to some question Maharshi said: “There is a state when
words cease and silence prevails.”
D.: How to communicate thought to each other?
M.: That is only when there is the notion of two.
D.: How to get peace?
M.: That is the natural state. The mind obstructs the innate peace.
Our investigation is only in the mind. Investigate the mind; it
will disappear.
There is no entity by name mind. Because of the emergence of
thoughts we surmise something from which they start. That we
term mind. When we probe to see what it is, there is nothing like
it. After it has vanished, Peace will be found to remain eternal.
D.: What is buddhi (intellect)?
M.: The thinking or discriminating faculty. These are mere names. Be
it the ego, the mind or the intellect, it is all the same. Whose mind?
Whose intellect? The ego’s. Is the ego real? No. We confound the
ego and call it intellect or mind.
D.: Emerson says, “Soul answers soul by itself - not by description
or words.”
M.: Quite so. However much you learn, there will be no bounds to
knowledge. You ignore the doubter but try to solve the doubts.
On the other hand, hold on to the doubter and the doubts will
disappear.
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