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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
But do you see God or anything else in your sleep? If God be real
why does He not shine forth in your sleep also? You are always -
now the same as you were in sleep. You are not different from that
one in sleep. But why should there be difference in the feelings or
experiences of the two states?
Did you ask, while asleep, the question regarding your birth? or
where do I go after death? Why think of all these now in the wakeful
state? Let what is born think of its birth and the remedy, its cause
and ultimate results.
What is birth? Is it of the ‘I-thought’ or of the body? Is ‘I’ separate
from the body or identical with it? How did this ‘I-thought’ arise?
Is the ‘I-thought’ your nature or is anything else of your nature?
D.: Who is to ask these questions?
M.: Exactly - that is it. There is no end to it all.
D.: Are we then to keep quiet?
M.: Doubts cease to afflict when the confusion (moha) is
surpassed.
D.: Your statements amount to cessation of vichara - investigation.
M.: If atma-vichara (self-investigation), ceases, loka vichara (worldinvestigation)
takes its place. (Laughter in the hall).
Engage in Self-investigation, then the non-self will disappear. The
Self will be left over. This is self-investigation of the Self. The one
word Self is equivalent to the mind, body, man, individual. the
Supreme and all else.
Talk 239.
Mr. M. Frydman: One imagines things and enjoys them by strength
of imagination. Such creations are possible to Brahma the Creator.
Can the same statement apply to His creature, man?
M.: This is also your thought.
D.: Krishnamurti says that man should find out the ‘I’. Then ‘I’ dissolves
away, being only a bundle of circumstances. There is nothing behind
the ‘I’. His teaching seems to be very much like Buddha’s.
M.: Yes - yes, beyond expression.
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