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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: The doctor must be given a free hand and the patient must only
remain quiet without saying anything. Similarly keep quiet. That
is effortlessness.
D.: That is the most effective medicine too.
The other questions which he wrote down were:
D.: Convince me of the existence of God.
M.: Realisation of the Self amounts to such conviction.
D.: How is prarabdha (past karma) related to purushakara (one’s
own effort here)?
M.: Prarabdha is karma (action). There must be a karta (doer) for it.
See who the karta is. Purushakara is effort. See who exerts. There
is identity established. The one who seeks to know their relation
is himself the link.
D.: What is karma and rebirth?
M.: See the karta (doer) and then the karma (action) becomes obvious.
If you are born now, rebirth may follow. See if you are born now.
D.: Help me to have jyotidarsana (vision of light).
M.: Darsana (sight) implies drashta (seer). Find him and darsana
(sight) is included in him.
Talk 296.
Poovan, a shepherd, says that he knows Sri Bhagavan since thirty
years ago, the days of Virupakshi cave. He used at times to supply
milk to the visitors in those days.
Some six years ago he had lost a sheep, for which he was searching
for three days. The sheep was pregnant and he had lost all hopes of
recovering her, because he thought that she had been set upon by
wild animals. He was one day passing by the Asramam, when Sri
Bhagavan saw him and enquired how he was. The man replied that
he was looking out for a lost sheep. Sri Bhagavan kept quiet, as is
usual with Him. Then He told the shepherd to help in lifting some
stones, which he did with great pleasure. After the work was finished,
Sri Bhagavan told him: “Go this way”, pointing the footpath towards
the town. “You will find the stray sheep on the way”. So he did and
found the lost sheep with two little lambs.
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