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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
D.: I understand the general truth of it. But there must be a practical
method for it which I call ‘science’.
M.: The cessation of such thoughts is the realisation of the Self.
Illustration: the necklace supposed lost. One does not see the world
or one’s own body, being away from the Self. Always being the Self,
one sees everything else. God and the world are all in the Heart. See
the Seer and everything will be found to be the Self. Change your
outlook. Look within. Find the Self. Who is the substratum of the
subject and the object? Find it and all problems are solved.
The lady was then told of the pamphlet, Who am I? She agreed to
read it before asking further questions of Sri Bhagavan.
Talk 332.
D.: What are the three voids (Muppazh) () in Tamil?
M.: (1) Tat = Isvara turiya.
(2) tvam = jiva turiya.
(3) asi = asi turiya.
Turiya is the substratum of the waking, dream and sleep states.
D.: The first two are all right; what is the third?
M.: All-pervasiveness is said to be the waking;
all-shining is said to be the dream;
perfection (ananta) is said to be the sleep;
that which underlies these is asi-turiya.
D.: It is so strange!
M.: Is that all? There is no limit to polemics. Listen, They say the
mahavakya Tattvamasi is common; another containing five words Tat
tvam asi ati nijam is the most secret one taught by Dakshinamurti in
Silence; corresponding to the five words they formulate five states.
Again look at Vichara Sagara; the author distinguishes adhara
from adhishthana. According to him the rope is always adhara
both when it looks like a snake and otherwise. The rope is
adhishthana because it looks different from what it really is: that
is common (samanya adhishthana). Again its appearance as the
snake itself is visesha adhishthana. Then the question is raised:
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