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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
D.: I have come here; I would like Maharshi to come there. (Saying
it, she laughed gently. Silence for some minutes).
M.: You see the physical body and so you find limitations. Time and
space operate on this plane. So long as you think of the gross body
there will be differences found as different bodies. On the other
hand, knowledge of the real Maharshi will set all doubts at rest.
Are you in India now? Or is India in you? Even now this notion that
you are in India must go. India is in you. In order to verify it, look to
your sleep. Did you feel that you were in Europe or in India while
asleep? You were nevertheless existing then the same as now.
Space is in you. The physical body is in space, but not you.
Paul Brunton had his eyes closed when he saw the vision, whereas
you had your eyes open, you say.
D.: Yes. But I have never had vision; whereas he is a psychic.
After a few minutes she asked if it is an advantage or a disadvantage
to see visions like this.
M.: It is an advantage.
Sri Bhagavan continued: Probably you had been thinking of a child
and that appeared in the vision ......
D.: Yes, only of Siva — of His child-like face ....
M.: That’s it.
D.: But Siva is the Destroyer ... (meaning, not a child).
M.: Yes — of sorrows.
After a few minutes Bhagavan continued: You will shortly go to
sleep. When you wake up in the morning you will say “I slept well
and happily”. What happened in sleep is your real nature. That
continues now too; otherwise it will not be your real nature. Get
the state of sleep even now; it is Siva.
Have we got a form? Find that out before you think of Siva’s form.
Did you not exist in sleep? Were you aware of any form then?
Were you with form in your sleep? You existed all the same. The
‘I’ which was in sleep is also now present. You were not the body
according to your sleep-experience. You are the same now - that
is without the body. Being without the body you were happy too
in sleep. You are the same now too. That which is enduring must
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