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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
The young man thinks that Sri Bhagavan gave him upadesa in the
following words: “The self (i.e. ego) must be subdued by oneself.
The man however has refused the offer of a job to him in one of the
local schools and thinks that he has been given a mighty job by the
Hill or by Sri Bhagavan. “What that job is the world will know later”,
he says. He had further anticipated all this day’s occurrences some
months ago and had foretold them to his mother and to his friends.
He is further happy at the happenings.
Sri Bhagavan however compared him to another man who is in no
way of the right type. And yet the boy thinks that he is Bhagavan in
embryo. Later he turned mad and died.
Talk 301.
A gentleman enthusiastically recounted several of his experiences
on following Sri Bhagavan’s instructions and incidentally mentioned
that he and Sri Bhagavan were born on the same day of the week and
bore the same name ....
Sri Bhagavan completed it, adding “The same Self is in both.”
Talk 302.
A young man from Trichy asked Sri Bhagavan on the mention in
Upadesa Manjari of atyanta vairagyam (total dispassion) as the
qualification of a ripe disciple. He continued: “What is vairagya?
Detachment from worldly pursuits and desire for salvation. Is it
not so?”
M.: Who has not got it?
Each one seeks happiness but is misled into thinking pain associated
pleasures as happiness. Such happiness is transient. His mistaken
activity gives him short-lived pleasure. Pain and pleasure alternate
with one another in the world. To discriminate between the painproducing
and pleasure-producing matters and to confine oneself to
the happiness-producing pursuit only is vairagya. What is it that will
not be followed by pain? He seeks it and engages in it. Otherwise,
the man has one foot in the world and another foot in the spiritual
pursuit (without progressing satisfactorily in either field).
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