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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
obstructing the consciousness, where is the need to dive? If the state be
not realised as the Self, the effort to do so may be called ‘diving’. The
state may in that way be said to be suitable for realisation or ‘diving’.
Thus the last two questions in the paragraph are unnecessary.
D.: The mind continues to feel partial towards children, possibly
because of the form sometimes used to personify the Ideal. How
can this preference be outgrown?
M.: Hold the Self. Why think of children and reactions towards them?
D.: This third visit to Tiruvannamalai seems to have intensified the sense
of egoism in me and made meditation less easy. Is this an unimportant
passing phase or a sign that I should avoid such places hereafter?
M.: It is imaginary. This place or another is within you. Such
imaginations must end so that the places have nothing to do with
the activities of the mind. Even your surroundings are not of your
own accord; they are there as a matter of course. You must rise
above them and not get yourself involved.
Talk 349.
SRI SANKARA’S PATH TO SALVATION
THROUGH DISCRIMINATION
A Note By Sri Maharshi
(In the current issue of The Vision is published the following note, being
the translation by Mr. S. Krishna, M. A., of Sri Ramana Maharshi’s
preface to his translation of Sri Sankara’s Viveka Chudamani or
“Crown-gem of Discrimination”).
Every being in the world yearns to be always happy, free from the
taint of sorrow; and desires to get rid of bodily ailments which are
not of his true nature. Further, everyone cherishes the greatest love
for himself: and this love is not possible in the absence of happiness.
In deep sleep, though devoid of everything, one has the experience
of being happy. Yet, due to the ignorance of the real nature of one’s
own being, which is happiness itself, people flounder in the vast ocean
of material existence forsaking the right path that leads to happiness
and act under the mistaken belief that the way to be happy consists
in obtaining the pleasures of this and the other world.
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