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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
body has been born and will die, and confound the phenomena
relating to the one with the other. Know your real being and these
questions will not arise.
Birth and rebirth are mentioned only to make you investigate the
question and find out that there are neither births nor rebirths. They
relate to the body and not to the Self. Know the Self and be not
perturbed by doubts.
Talk 280.
D.: Can you help me to get rid of Maya?
M.: What is Maya?
D.: Attachment to the world.
M.: Was the world in your deep sleep? Was there attachment to it?
D.: There was not.
M.: Were you there or not?
D.: Maybe.
M.: Then do you deny having existed in sleep?
D.: I do not.
M.: You are therefore now “the same one as there was in sleep.”
D.: Yes.
Sleep Wakefulness
No world
No attachment
The Self
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World
Attachment
The Self
M.: What is it then that raises the question of Maya just now?
D.: The mind was not in sleep. The world and the attachment to it
are of the mind.
M.: That is it. The world and the attachment to it are of the mind,
not of the Self.
D.: I was ignorant in sleep.
M.: Who says that he was ignorant? Is he not ignorant now? Is he a
Jnani?