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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: How can it be described? If you dive into water for recovering an
article you speak of its recovery only after rising out of the water.
You do not say anything while remaining sunk in water.
D.: I do not have fear in sleep whereas I have it now.
M.: Because dwiteeyadvai bhayam bhavati - fear is always of a second
one. Of what are you afraid?
D.: By reason of the perception of the body, the senses, the world,
Isvara, doership, enjoyment etc.
M.: Why do you see them if they cause fear?
D.: Because they are inescapable.
M.: But it is you who sees them. For whom is the fear? Is it for them?
D.: No, it is for me.
M.: Because you see them, you fear them. Do not see them and there
will be no fear.
D.: What then should I do in the waking state?
M.: Be the Self; there will be no second thing to cause you fear.
D.: Yes. Now I understand. If I see my Self, then the sight is warded off
the non-self and there is happiness. Yet there is the fear of death.
M.: Only the one who is born should die. See if you have been born
at all in order that death should threaten you.
Talk 319.
Mr. Sridhar, a Hindu from Goa, asked: What is kousalam (skill) in Yogah
karmasu kousalam (yoga is skill in action). How is that gained?
M.: Do actions without caring for the result. Do not think that you
are the doer. Dedicate the work to God. That is the skill and also
the way to gain it.
D.: Samatvam yoga uchyate (Equanimity is yoga). What is that
equanimity?
M.: It is unity in diversity. The universe is now seen to be diverse. See the
common factor (sama) in all the objects. When that is done equality
in the pairs of opposites (dwandwani) naturally follows. It is the latter
which is however spoken of as equanimity ordinarily.
D.: How is the common factor to be perceived in the diversity?
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