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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: He helps the attainment. That is the Grace.
D.: How to check the mind?
M.: Will a thief betray himself? Will the mind find itself? The mind
cannot seek the mind. You have ignored what is real and are holding
on to the mind which is unreal and also trying to find what it is. Was
there mind in your sleep? It was not. It is now here. It is therefore
impermanent. Can the mind be found by you? The mind is not you.
You think you are the mind and therefore ask me how it is checked.
If it is there it can be checked. But it is not. Understand this truth by
search. Search for unreality is fruitless. Therefore seek the reality,
i.e., the Self. That is the way to rule over the mind. There is only
one thing Real!
D.: What is the one Real thing?
M.: That is what is: the others are only appearances. Diversity is
not its nature. We are reading the printed characters on paper but
ignore the paper which is the background. Similarly you are taken
up by the manifestations of the mind and let go the background.
Whose fault is it?
D.: Is there a limit to the Self?
M.: What is the Self?
D.: The Individual soul is the Self.
M.: What is the individual soul? Is there any difference between the
two or are they identical?
Any new appearances are bound to disappear. Anything created will
certainly be destroyed. The eternal is not born nor does it die. We
are now confounding appearances with reality. Appearance carries
its end in itself. What is it that appears newly? If you cannot find
it, surrender to the substratum of appearances unreservedly; then,
the reality will be left over as the residue.
D.: What happens to the man after death?
M.: Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care
of itself. Do not worry about the future. The state before creation
and the process of creation are dealt with in the scriptures in order
that you may know the present. Because you say you are born,
therefore they say, yes, and add that God created you.
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