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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
D.: There is no positive pleasure in sleep. Sleep is courted only to be
rid of physical fatigue.
M.: Well, that is right. “To be free from fatigue.” There is one who
is free from fatigue.
D.: Yes.
M.: So you are in sleep and you are now too. You were happy in sleep
without feeling, thinking etc. The same one continuing now, why
are you not happy?
D.: How can it be said that there is happiness?
M.: Everyone says Sukhamahamasvapsam (I slept happily or was
blissfully asleep).
D.: I do not think that they are right. There is no sukha (bliss). It is
only absence of sorrow.
M.: Your very being is bliss. Therefore everyone says I was
blissfully asleep. That means that one remains in the primal
uncontaminated state in sleep. As for sorrow, there is no sorrow.
Where is it in order that you might speak of its absence in sleep?
The present wrong identification of the Self with the body has
given rise to all mistakes.
D.: What I want is realisation. I do not feel my inherent happy nature.
M.: Because the Self is now identified with the non-self. The non-self
too is not apart from the Self. However, there is the wrong notion
that the body is apart and the Self is confounded with the body.
This wrong identity must be ended for happiness to manifest.
D.: I am unable to help myself.
The Engineer suggested surrender to the Master.
D.: Agreed.
M.: Your nature is happiness. You say that is not apparent. See what
obstructs you from your true being. It is pointed out to you that the
obstruction is the wrong identity. Eliminate the error. The patient
must himself take the medicine prescribed by the doctor in order
that he may be cured of his illness.
D.: The patient is too weak to help himself and places himself
unconditionally in the hands of the doctor.
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