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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Talk 254.
Mr. Duncan Greenlees quoted a few verses from Srimad Bhagavatam
to the following effect:
“See the Self in yourself like the pure ether in all beings, in and out.”
“Unashamed, fall prostrate before even an outcast, a cow or an ass.”
“So long as ‘I’ am not perceived in all, worship all with body
and mind.”
“With right knowledge see all as Brahma. This once clear, all doubts
are at an end and you will remain withdrawn in the Self.”
He then raised the following questions:
D.: Is this a True Path to the realisation of the, One Self? Is it not
easier for some thus to practise seeing Bhagavan in whatever meets
the mind than to seek the Super-Mental through the mental inquiry
“Who am I?”
M.: Yes. When you see God in all, do you think of God or do you not?
You should certainly keep God in your mind for seeing God all
round you. Keeping God in your mind becomes dhyana. Dhyana is
the stage before realisation. Realisation is in the Self only. Dhyana
must precede it. Whether you make dhyana of God or of Self, it is
immaterial. The goal is the same.
But you cannot escape the Self. You want to see God in all, but not
in yourself? If all are God, are you not included in that all? Yourself
being God, is it a wonder that all are God? There must be a seer
and thinker for even the practice. Who is he?
D.: Through poetry, music, japa, bhajan, beautiful landscapes, reading
the lives of spiritual heroes, etc., one sometimes experiences a true
sense of all-unity. Is that feeling of deep blissful quiet (wherein the
personal self has no place) the “entering into the heart” whereof
Bhagavan speaks? Will practice of that lead to a deeper samadhi,
and so ultimately to a full vision of the Real?
M.: Again, there is happiness at agreeable sights, etc. It is the
happiness inherent in the Self. That happiness is not alien and
after. You are diving into the Pure Self on occasions which you
consider pleasurable. That diving reveals the Self-existent Bliss.
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