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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: Is that what you have learnt from the Gita? Does He not say that
He is eternal? Of what are you thinking, His body?
D.: He taught others while alive. Those around Him must have
realised. I seek a similar living Guru.
M.: Is Gita then useless after He withdrew His body? Did He speak
of His body as Krishna?
Natwewaham jatu nasam ... (Never I was not....)
D.: But I want a living Guru who can say the truth first hand.
M.: The fate of the Guru will be similar to the fate of Krishna.
The questioner retired. Later, Sri Bhagavan said: Divine sight means
Self-luminosity. The world divya shows it. The full word means
the Self. Who is to bestow a divine eye? And who is to see? Again,
people read in the books, “hearing, reflection and one-pointedness
are necessary”. They think that they must pass through savikalpa
samadhi and nirvikalpa samadhi before attaining Realisation.
Hence all these questions. Why should they wander in that maze?
What do they gain at the end? It is only cessation of the trouble of
seeking. They find that the Self is eternal and self-evident. Why
should they not get that repose even this moment?
A simple man, not learned, is satisfied with japa or worship. A Jnani
is of course satisfied. The whole trouble is for the book-worms.
Well, well. They will also get on.
Talk 337.
Mr K. R. V. Iyer: How is the mind to be purified?
M.: The sastras say: “By karma, bhakti and so on”. My attendant
asked the same question once before. He was told, “By karma
dedicated to God”. It is not enough that one thinks of God while
doing the karma, but one must continually and unceasingly think
of Him. Then alone will the mind become pure.
The attendant applies it to himself and says, “It is not enough that I serve
Sri Bhagavan physically. But I must unceasingly remember Him”.
To another person, who asked the same question, Bhagavan said:
Quest of the Self, meaning, ‘I am-the-body’ idea must vanish. (Atma
vichara = disappearance of dehatma buddhi).
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