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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
give lac, the honey bee which builds the comb, the ants which build
cities, and the spider its web?”
Bhagavan then began to describe their activities.
While living on the hill He had seen a hut built of stones and mud
and roofed with thatch. There was constant trouble with white ants.
The roof was pulled down and the walls demolished to get rid of the
mud which harboured the ants. Sri Bhagavan saw that the hollows
protected by stones were made into towns. These were skirted by walls
plastered black, and there were roads to neighbouring cities which
were also similarly skirted with black plastered walls. The roads were
indicated by these walls. The interior of the town contained holes in
which ants used to live. The whole wall was thus tenanted by white
ants which ravaged the roofing materials above.
Sri Bhagavan had also watched a spider making its web and described it. It
is seen in one place, then in another place, again in a third place. The fibre
is fixed at all these points. The spider moves along it, descends, ascends
and goes round and round and the web is finished. It is geometrical. The
net is spread out in the morning and rolled up in the evening.
Similarly the wasps build their nests of lac (crude), and so on.
So then, each animal has got some remarkable instinct. Kambar’s learning is
not to be wondered at because it is God’s will, as it is in the other cases.
Talk 268.
Dr. Syed: ,What is salvation? What did Christ mean by it?
M.: Salvation for whom? and from what?
D.: Salvation for the individual and from the sorrows and sufferings
of the world.
M.: Whose are the sorrows, etc.?
D.: Of the mind.
M.: Are you the mind?
D.: I shall now explain how this question arose. I was meditating. I
began to reflect on the Grace shown by Christ to some devotees who
got salvation. I consider that Sri Bhagavan is similar. Is not salvation
the result of similar Grace? That is what I mean by my questions.
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