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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable.
One must fight one’s way through before regaining one’s original
primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the
enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear
entirely. The thoughts are the enemy. They amount to the creation of
the Universe. In their absence there is neither the world nor God the
Creator. The Bliss of the Self is the single Being only.
When Prahlada was in samadhi, Vishnu thought within Himself:
“This asura being in samadhi, all the asuras are in peace. There is no
fight, no trial of strength, no search for power, nor the means for gaining
power. In the absence of such means for power - yaga, yajna, etc., i.e., the
gods are not thriving; there is no new creation; nor even is any existence
justified. So I will wake him up; then the asuras will rise up; their original
nature will manifest itself; the gods will challenge them: the asuras and
others will then seek strength and adopt the means for its acquisition.
Yajnas, etc., will flourish; the gods will thrive; there will be more and
more of creation, more of fight and I shall have enough to do”.
So Vishnu awakened Prahlada, blessing him with eternal life and
jivanmukti. Deva-asura fight was resumed and the old order of things
was restored so that the universe continues in its eternal nature.
D.: How could God Himself wake up the asura element and bring
about constant warfare? Is not Pure Goodness the nature of God?
M.: Goodness is only relative. Good always implies bad also; they
always co-exist. The one is the obverse of the other.
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The audience in the hall were very attentively listening. One of them,
a sincere devotee of Sri Bhagavan, was so impressed by it that he soon
lost himself. He later described his experience as follows:
“I was long wondering where the ‘current’ starts, within the body or
elsewhere. Suddenly, my body grew tenuous until it disappeared. The
enquiry ‘Who am I?’ went on very clearly and forcibly. The sound
of ‘I-I-I’ alone persisted. There was one vast expanse and nothing
more. There was a hazy perception of the occurrences in the hall. I
knew that people stood up to salute at the end of the Vedic chant. I
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