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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: Yes. While engaged in contemplation why did he fall away from
contemplation and take to watching the mysterious happening in
front of him?
He continued to say how Nakkirar composed Tirumuruhatruppadai,
and obtained the release of all the thousand prisoners.
21st January, 1937
Talk 335.
D.: How will the sexual impulse cease to be?
M.: When differentiation ceases.
D.: How can it be effected?
M.: The other sex and its relation are only mental concepts. The Upanishad
says that all are dear because the Self is beloved of all. One’s happiness
is within; the love is of the Self only. It is only within; do not think it
to be without: then differentiation ceases to operate.
22nd January, 1937
Talk 336.
A certain Vaisya who seems to have studied the Upanishads and
Srimad Bhagavad Gita asked some questions:
D.: How to realise the Self?
M.: The Self is always directly perceived. There is no moment when it is not
so. How then is it to be ascertained? Find out the Self. You are that.
D.: But it is said the heart-knots are cut away and all doubts end when
the Supreme is found. The word drishti is used.
M.: To be the Self is the same as seeing the Self. There are no two
selves for the one to see the other.
Later, he continued the same question of investigation of the Self.
D.: How to realise the Self?
M.: It is already realised. One should know this simple fact. That is all.
D.: But I do not know it. How shall I know it?
M.: Do you deny your existence?
D.: No: how can that be done?
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