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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
When asked, Sri Bhagavan said: It is said of some saints that they
revived the dead. They, too, did not revive all the dead. If that could
be done there will be no world, no death, no cemetery, etc.
One man asked: The mother’s faith was very remarkable. How
could she have had such a hopeful vision and still be disappointed?
Can it be a superimposition attendant on her child’s love?
M.: She and her child not being real, how can the vision alone be a
superimposition?
D.: Then how is it to be explained?
No answer.
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D.: Even as the hand is cut off, one must remain unaware of it because
Bhagavad Gita declares that the Self is different from the body.
M.: Does jnana consist in being unaware of the pain of injury?
D.: Should he not remain unaware of pain?
M.: Major operations are performed under anaesthetics, keeping the
patient unaware of the pain. Does the patient gain jnana too, at the
same time? Insensibility to pain cannot be jnana.
D.: Should not a Jnani (a sage) be insensible to pain?
M.: Physical pain only follows body-consciousness; it cannot be in the
absence of body-consciousness. Mind, being unaware of the body, cannot
be aware of its pains or pleasures. Read the story of Indra and Ahalya in
Yoga Vasishta; there death itself is said to be an act of mind.
Pains are dependent on the ego; they cannot be without the ‘I’, but
‘I’ can remain without them.
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D.: Vichara Sagara relates four obstacles to Self-Realisation.
M.: Why only four? Some say they are nine. Sleep is one of them. What
is sleep? It is only the obverse of waking. It cannot be independent
of waking. Sleep is unalloyed Self. Do not think you are awake:
sleep cannot be, nor the three states either. Only forgetting the Self
you say you dreamt. Can anything exist in the absence of the Self?
Why do you leave it out and hold the non-self?
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