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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
any real purpose? However, some people read them and then seek
sages only to see if they can meet their questions. To read them, to
discover new doubts and to solve them, is a source of pleasure to
them. Knowing it to be sheer waste, the sages do not encourage such
people. Encourage them once and there will be no end.
Only the enquiry into the Self can be of use.
Those familiar with logic, Vritti Prabhakara, Vichara Sagara or Sutra
Bhashya, or similar large works, cannot relish small works like Truth
Revealed dealing only with the Self and that pointedly too, because
they have accumulated vasanas. Only those whose minds are less
muddy, or are pure, can relish small and purposeful works.
Talk 333.
Pratyabhijna = Prati + abhijna.
abhijna is direct perception; prati is to be reminded of what was
already known.
“This is an elephant” direct perception
“This is that elephant” is pratyabhijna
In technical works, pratyabhijna is used for realising the ever-present
Reality and recognising it.
Sunya (void or blank), ati sunya (beyond sunya) and maha sunya
(immense void), all mean the same, i.e., the Real Being only.
Talk 334.
20th January, 1937
Sri Bhagavan said that he felt no sensation in His legs though they were
massaged. “If they serve the purpose of walking what does it matter
if sensation is lost?” he asked. Then in the course of conversation he
related that a ray of light has been found which, when projected, does
not reveal the operator but enables him to witness the scene. So it is
with siddhas. They are only pure light and can see others, whereas,
they cannot be seen by others. For example Prabhulinga, while touring
in the North, came across Goraknath. The latter displayed his yogic
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