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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
LIMITLESS BLISS: This is Self-Realisation; and thereby is cut asunder
the hridaya-granthi or the Knot of the Heart. The false delusions of
ignorance, the vicious and age-long tendencies of the mind, which
constitute this knot, are destroyed. All doubts are dispelled and the
bondage of Karma is severed.
Thus has Sri Sankara described, in this “Crown-gem of
Discrimination,” samadhi or trance transcendent, which is the
limitless bliss of liberation, beyond doubt and duality, and has at
the same time indicated the means for its attainments. To realise
this state of freedom from duality is the summum bonum of life:
and he alone that has won it is a jivanmukta (the liberated one while
yet alive), and not he who has merely a theoretical understanding
of what constitutes purushartha or the desired end and aim of
human endeavour.
FINAL FREEDOM: Thus defining a jivanmukta, he is declared to be free
from the bonds of threefold Karmas (sanchita, agami and prarabdha).
The disciple who has reached this stage then relates his personal
experience. The liberated one is free indeed to act as he pleases, and
when he leaves the mortal frame, attains absolution, and returns not
to this “birth which is death”.
Sri Sankara thus describes Realisation that connotes liberation as
twofold, i.e., jivanmukti and videha mukti referred to above. Moreover,
in this short treatise, written in the form of a dialogue between a Guru
and his disciple, he has considered many relevant topics.
6th February, 1937
Talk 350.
While speaking to Mr. G. Shanmugham, a very sincere lawyer devotee,
Bhagavan observed:
The sastras say that one must serve a Guru for 12 years for getting
Self-Realisation. What does Guru do? Does he hand it over to the
disciple? Is not the Self always realised? What does the common
belief mean then? The man is always the Self and yet he does not
know it. He confounds it with the non-self, viz., the body etc.
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