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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: Is your Self dvaita or advaita? All systems agree on Selfsurrender.
Attain it first, then there will be time to judge whose
view is right or otherwise.
D.: Why do you not preach to the people to set them on the right
path?
M.: You have already decided by yourself that I do not preach. Do
you know who I am and what preaching is?
D.: Is the shaving of widows among Brahmins not cruel?
M.: This may be asked of Dharma Sastris or reformers. Reform
yourself first and let us then see about the rest.
17th November, 1936
Talk 283.
D.: How can one become jitasangadoshah (free from the stain of
association)?
M.: By satsanga (association with the wise).
“Satsangatve nissangatvam, nissangatve nirmohatvam, nirmohatve
nischalatatvam, nischalatatve jivanmuktih.”
Satsanga means sanga (association) with sat. Sat is only the Self.
Since the Self is not now understood to be Sat, the company of
the sage who has thus understood it is sought. That is Sat-sanga.
Introversion results. Then Sat is revealed.
For whom is association? For whom is dosha?
D.: To the Self.
M.: No. The Self is pure and unaffected. The impurities affect only
the ego.
D.: Can the soul remain without the body?
M.: It will be so a short time hence - in deep slumber. The Self is
bodiless. Even now it is so.
D.: Can a sanyasi remain in the midst of samsara?
M.: So long as one thinks that he is a sanyasi, he is not one, so long
as one does not think of samsara, he is not a samsari; on the other
hand he is a sanyasi.
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