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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Volume II
23rd August, 1936
Talk 240.
D.: The world is materialistic. What is the remedy for it?
M.: Materialistic or spiritual, it is according to your outlook.
Drishtim jnanamayim kritva, Brahma mayam pasyet jagat — Make your
outlook right. The Creator knows how to take care of His Creation.
D.: What is the best thing to do for ensuring the future?
M.: Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
D.: The future is the result of the present. So, what should I do to
make it good? Or should I keep still?
M.: Whose is the doubt? Who is it that wants a course of action?
Find the doubter. If you hold the doubter the doubts will disappear.
Having lost hold of the Self the thoughts afflict you; the world is
seen, doubts arise, also anxiety for the future.
Hold fast to the Self, these will disappear.
D.: How to do it?
M.: This question is relevant to matters of non-self, but not to the
Self. Do you doubt the existence of your own Self?
D.: No. But still, I want to know how the Self could be realised. Is
there any method leading to it?
M.: Make effort. Just as water is got by boring a well, so also you
realise the Self by investigation.
D.: Yes. But some find water readily and others with difficulty.
M.: But you already see the moisture on the surface. You are hazily aware
of the Self. Pursue it. When the effort ceases the Self shines forth.
D.: How to train the mind to look within?
M.: By practice. The mind is the intelligent phase leading to its own
destruction, for Self to manifest.
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