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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Blankness is the evil result of searching the mind. The mind must
be cut off, root and branch. See who the thinker is, who the seeker
is. Abide as the thinker, the seeker. All thoughts will disappear.
D.: Then there will be the ego - the thinker.
M.: That ego is pure Ego purged of thoughts. It is the same as the Self.
So long as false identification persists doubts will persist, questions
will arise, there will be no end of them. Doubts will cease only
when the non-self is put an end to. That will result in realisation
of the Self. There will remain no other there to doubt or ask. All
these doubts should be solved within oneself. No amount of words
will satisfy. Hold the thinker. Only when the thinker is not held do
objects appear outside or doubts arise in the mind.
Talk 246.
Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to
another. It is called in only after thoughts arise; other thoughts arise
after the ‘I-thought’ rises; the ‘I-thought’ is the root of all conversation.
When one remains without thinking one understands another by means
of the universal language of silence.
Silence is ever-speaking; it is a perennial flow of language; it is interrupted
by speaking. These words obstruct that mute language. There is electricity
flowing in a wire. With resistance to its passage, it glows as a lamp or
revolves as a fan. In the wire it remains as electric energy. Similarly also,
silence is the eternal flow of language, obstructed by words.
What one fails to know by conversation extending to several years
can be known in a trice in Silence, or in front of Silence - e.g.,
Dakshinamurti, and his four disciples.
That is the highest and most effective language.
Talk 247.
There arose a doubt if ‘I-I’ consciousness be the same as nirvikalpa
samadhi or anything anterior to it.
Sri Bhagavan said that the tiny hole in the Heart remains always closed,
but it is opened by vichara with the result that ‘I-I’ consciousness
shines forth. It is the same as samadhi.
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