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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
D.: There is seer, seen and sight. They are not characteristic of jnana.
M.: In sleep, in trance, in absent-mindedness, there is no differentiation.
Do you call it jnana? What has happened in these states? Is that which
then was, absent now? That which is exists for ever. The difference is
due to the mind. The mind is sometimes present at other times absent.
There is no change in the Reality. Reality is always Bliss - Ananda.
D.: Bliss is the outcome of practice. What is that practice?
M.: Sadhana is the enquiry to find out to whom all these doubts
arise.
D.: It is for the ego (ahamkara).
M.: Wherefrom does ahamkara arise?
D.: Guidance is necessary to show me the way.
M.: Go within and find the route. You cannot find it from without;
nor should you seek it externally.
D.: I am unable to find the ego by search. I stop there.
M.: How can you get it? It is not apart from you. Leave alone not
finding it. Where are you now? Do you mean to say “I am not”?
D.: What or how am I?
M.: Do not trouble yourself about it. Let it be as it is. Why do you
care? Did you care for the whole or part (samashti, vyashti) in your
sleep? The same person is present now too. You are the same in
sleep and in waking.
D.: Sleep and waking are different states having different effects ....
M.: How does it matter to you? The Self is the same, all through.
D.: The mind is not steady in meditation.
M.: Whenever it wanders, turn it inward again and again.
D.: When duhka (misery) overpowers me, enquiry is impossible.
M.: Because the mind is too weak. Make it strong.
D.: By what means?
M.: Sat-sanga, Isvara Aradhana, Pranayama - (association with the
wise, worship of God, breath control).
D.: What happens?
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