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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: Find out their basis. All of them are strung on the single ‘I-thought’.
Quell it; all others are quashed. Moreover there is no use knowing
all except the Self. If the Self is known all others become known.
Hence is Self-Realisation the primary and sole duty of man.
D.: How to quell the ‘I-thought’?
M.: If its source is sought it does not arise, and thus it is quelled.
D.: Where and how to find it?
M.: It is in fact the consciousness which enables the individuals to
function in different ways. Pure Consciousness is the Self. All that
is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.”
D.: What can be easier than that?
M.: So Atma Vidya is the easiest of attainment.
Talk 380.
A European gentleman asked: How do you answer the question,
“Who are you?”
M.: Ask yourself the question, “Who am I?”
D.: Please tell me how you have found it. I shall not be able to find
it myself. (The ‘I’ is the result of biological forces. It results in
silence. I want to know how the Master finds it.)
M.: Is it found only by logic? The scientific analysis is due to intellect.
D.: According to J. C. Bose, nature does not make any difference
between a worm and a man.
M.: What is Nature?
D.: It is that which exists.
M.: How do you know the existence?
D.: By my senses.
M.: ‘My’ implies your existence. But you are speaking of another’s
existence. You must exist to speak of “my senses”. There cannot
be ‘my’ without ‘I’.
D.: I am a poor creature. I come to ask you, Great Master that you are,
what this existence is. There is no special significance in the word
existence. He exists, I exist and others exist. What of that?
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