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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
the fear of death, of swoon, etc. will disappear, because you are able
to merge into the source consciously.
Why fear death? Death cannot mean non-being. Why do you love
sleep, but not death? Do you not think now? Are you not existing now?
Did you not exist in your sleep? Even a child says that it slept well
and happily. It admits its existence in sleep, unconsciously though. So,
consciousness is our true nature. We cannot remain unconscious. We
however say that we were unconscious in our sleep because we refer
to qualified consciousness. The world, the body, etc., are so embedded
in us that this relative consciousness is taken to be the Self. Does
anyone say in his sleep that he is unconscious? He says so now. This
is the state of relative consciousness. Therefore he speaks of relative
consciousness and not of abstract consciousness. The consciousness
is beyond relative consciousness or unconsciousness.
Again reverting to Tiruvachagam, Sri Bhagavan said: All the
four foremost saints have given out their experiences in the
very first stanza. (1) Undifferentiated worship. (2) Never-failing
remembrance. (3) Unrisen thought. (4) The ego is not, the Self is.
All mean the same.
D.: But this truth is not realised.
M.: It will be realised in due course. Till then there is devotion (bhakti):
“Even for a trice you do not leave my mind.” Does he leave you
any moment? It is you who allow your mind to wander away. He
remains always steady. When your mind is fixed, you say: “He does
not leave my mind even for a trice”. How ridiculous!
27th December, 1936
Talk 307.
Mr. Shamanna from Mysore asked Sri Bhagavan: Kindly explain
Aham Sphurana (the light of ‘I-I’).
M.: ‘I’ is not known in sleep. On waking ‘I’ is perceived associated
with the body, the world and non-self in general. Such associated
‘I’ is Aham vritti. When Aham represents the Self only it is Aham
Sphurana. This is natural to the Jnani and is itself called jnana
by jnanis, or bhakti by bhaktas. Though ever present, including
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