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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: Wherefrom have they come - those who argue?
D.: They say, “Nature”.
M.: Some call it “Nature” - others “God”.
D.: Are we to keep anything against a rainy day; or to live a precarious
life for spiritual attainments?
M.: God looks after everything.
Talk 378.
27th March, 1937
In a conversation with an Andhra visitor, Sri Bhagavan quoted:
Asamsayam mahabaho mano durnigraham chalam
Abhyasena tu kaunteya vairagyena cha grhyate
— Bh. Gita, Ch. VI, 35
Without doubt, O mighty-armed Hero,
the mind is restless, hard to curb.
Yet by constant effort, Partha,
matched with detachment - curbed it is.
To explain vairagya Sri Bhagavan again quoted:
Sankalpaprabhavan kamams tyaktva sarvan aseshatah
Manasaivendriyagramam viniyamya samantatah
— (Ch. VI, 24)
Having cast out without remains
all longing born of thought for self,
Having drawn in by mind alone
his team of senses from all sides -
As for practice (abhyasa):
Sanaissanairuparamet buddhya dhritigrhitaya
Atmasamstham manah krtva na kinchidapi chintayet
— (VI - 25)
By slow approaches let him come
to rest, with patient, rock-poised Will;
His mind at home in Selfhood pure,
Let him create no thought at all.
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