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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
alone be the real nature. There was no body but only experience of
happiness in sleep. That endures now too. The Self is bodiless. If
you are thus without body how can Siva be with body? If you are
with body Siva also is with body. If you are not, He also is not.
D.: Why is He then Siva?
M.: Siva means embodiment of happiness - of auspiciousness.
She was very pleased. After a time she left.
Talk 305.
The visitors were talking among themselves and one of them said: “We,
though familiar with our traditional teachings, are unable to follow these
teachings (meaning Sri Bhagavan’s). How can the foreigners unfamiliar
with our ways follow Sri Bhagavan’s teachings so easily?”
He seemed to sympathise with their attempts to understand us in spite of
their handicaps, and also to pity them for want of proper equipment.
Sri Bhagavan remarked finally: Visions are better than no visions.
They get interested in that way. They do not take to foreign ideas;
when once they do it, they stick on. So much for their merits.
Sri Bhagavan later referred to Sivaprakasam Pillai’s vision. “Visions
are not external. They appear only internally. If external they must
assert themselves without there being a seer. In that case what is the
warranty for their existence? The seer only.”
Talk 306.
D.: There is something concrete necessary to meditate upon. How
shall we meditate upon ‘I’?
M.: We have become rooted in forms and so we require a concrete form for
meditating upon. Only that which we contemplate will in the end remain
over. When you contemplate the other thoughts disappear. So long as
you need to contemplate there are other thoughts, Where are you? You
contemplate because you exist. For the contemplator must contemplate.
The contemplation can only be where he is. Contemplation wards off
all other thoughts. You should merge yourself in the source. At times
we merge in the source unconsciously, as in sleep, death, swoon, etc.
What is contemplation? It is merging into the source consciously. Then
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