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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
it is made with effort. Effort is necessary so long as thoughts are
promiscuous. Because you are with other thoughts, you call the
continuity of a single thought, meditation or dhyana. If that dhyana
becomes effortless it will be found to be your real nature.
Talk 329.
In the morning Sri Bhagavan read out a short passage from St. Estella
in the Tamil Ramakrishna Vijayam. Its purport is: “Your enemies are
lust, passion, etc. If you feel injured turn within and find out the cause
of the injury. It is not external to you. The external causes are mere
superimpositions. If you cannot injure yourself, will the all-merciful
God injure you in any manner?”
Sri Bhagavan further said that St. Estella was a good saint, whose
teachings were quite sound.
Talk 330.
Sri Bhagavan, being asthmatic, is hoarse in throat. Oranges were
brought as offerings. Pieces were distributed as usual. Sri Bhagavan
was clearing His throat and was obliged to spit out the orange in His
mouth. He said that He had to spit it out. A gentleman said: “Probably,
it does not suit Sri Bhagavan’s health.”
M.: Would you say so if you had brought the fruits, instead of the
other person?
18th January, 1937
Talk 331.
Mrs. Roorna Jennings, an American lady of the International Peace
League, asked Sri Bhagavan about the spread of Peace in the world.
Sri Bhagavan replied that if one gains the Peace of the Self it will spread
itself without any effort on the part of the individual. When one is not
oneself peaceful, how can that one spread peace in the world?
The lady asked if it was not true that the East has a scientific approach
to the Realisation of the Self.
M.: You are already the Self. No elaborate science is necessary to
establish it.
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