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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: The existence of anyone posited, shows your own existence.
“Existence is your nature.”
D.: There is nothing strange in anything existing.
M.: How do you know its existence - rather than your own
existence?
D.: What is new in the existence of anything? I take up your book and
read there that the one question one should ask oneself is “Who
am I?” I want to know “Who are you?” I have my own answer. If
another says the same, and so too, millions of others, there is the
probability of the Self. I want a positive answer for the question
and no playing with words.
M.: In this way you are in the region of probabilities at the best.
D.: Yes. There are no certainties. Even God cannot be proved to be
absolute certainty.
M.: Leave God alone for the time being. What of yourself?
D.: I want confirmation of the Self.
M.: You seek the confirmation from others. Each one though addressed
as ‘you’, styles himself ‘I’. The confirmation is only from ‘I’. There is
no ‘you’ at all. All are comprised in ‘I’. The other can be known only
when the Self is posited. The others do not exist without the subject.
D.: Again, this is nothing new. When I was with Sir C. V. Raman he
told me that the theory of smell could be explained from his theory of
light. Smell need no longer be explained in terms of chemistry. Now,
there is something new; it is progress. That is what I mean, when I
say that there is nothing new in all the statements I hear now.
M.: ‘I’ is never new. It is eternally the same.
D.: Do you mean to say that there is no progress?
M.: Progress is perceived by the outgoing mind. Everything is still
when the mind is introverted and the Self is sought.
D.: The Sciences - what becomes of them?
M.: They all end in the Self. The Self is their finality.
(It was 5 p.m. Sri Bhagavan left the hall and the gentleman left for
the station).
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