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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
As the mind tends to go out turn it inwards then and there. It goes
out owing to the habit of looking for happiness outside oneself;
but the knowledge that the external objects are not the cause of
happiness will keep it in check. This is vairagya or dispassion.
Only after perfect vairagya the mind becomes steady.
The mind is only a mixture of knowledge and ignorance or of sleep
and waking. It functions in five ways:
Kshipta (active);
Moodha (dull);
Vikshipta (distracted);
Kashaya (latent); and
Ekagrya (one-pointed).
Of these kashaya is only the latency of tendencies and not the
tendencies themselves such as attachment, repulsion, etc.
Yourself being ananda (Bliss), why should you enjoy it saying,
“Ah! How blissful!” This is rasasvada.
During the marriage ceremonies a virgin feels happy as a bride
without experiencing the embrace of man: this is rasasvada.
D.: Jivanmukti (liberated while alive) itself being ananda . . . .
Sri Bhagavan interrupted: Do not look for sastras. What is
jivanmukti? What is ananda? Liberation itself is in doubt. What
are all these words? Can they be independent of the Self.
D.: Only we have no experience of all this.
M.: What is not, is always lost; what is, is ever present, here and now. This
is the eternal order of things. Example: necklace round the neck.
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Sri Bhagavan continued, after interval: Destroy the power of mind by
seeking it. When the mind is examined its activities cease automatically.
Looking for the source of mind is another method. The source may
be said to be God or Self or consciousness.
Concentrating on one thought, all other thoughts disappear; finally that
thought also disappears. It is necessary to be aware while controlling
thoughts, otherwise it will lead to sleep.
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