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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
passing phenomena not independent of our Self. Only the habit
of looking on them as being real and located outside ourselves
is responsible for hiding our true being and showing forth the
others. The ever-present only Reality, the Self, being found, all
other unreal things will disappear, leaving behind the knowledge
that they are no other than the Self.
Turiya only another name for the Self. Aware of the waking, dream
and sleep states, we remain unaware of our own Self. Nevertheless
the Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing
else. So long as identification with the body lasts the world seems
to lie outside us. Only realise the Self and they are not.
Talk 354.
An American lady, a theosophist, asked: What is the means by which
my approach to my master may be made nearer?
M.: How far away are you now from him?
D.: I am away from him. But I want to get closer to him.
M.: If you first know your Self, you may then find out how far away
the other is. Who are you now? Are you the personality?
D.: Yes, I am the personality.
M.: Is the personality independent of the Self?
D.: Sometimes.
M.: At what times?
D.: I mean I have some flashes of the reality and, at other times, I do
not have them.
M.: Who is aware of those flashes?
D.: I, I mean my personality.
M.: Is this personality aware as being apart from the Self?
D.: Which Self?
M.: Which do you consider the personality to be?
D.: The lower self.
M.: Then I mean to ask if the lower self is aware independently of
the Higher Self?
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