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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
D.: What is mind?
M.: See what it is.
D.: It is sankalpa vikalpatmaka (made up of thoughts and their
changes).
M.: Whose sankalpa (thought)?
D.: Sankalpa is the nature of the mind.
M.: Of what is the sankalpa?
D.: Of the externalities.
M.: Quite so. Is that your nature?
D.: It is of the mind.
M.: What is your nature?
D.: Suddha Chaitanya (Pure Conscious Light).
M.: Then why do you worry about sankalpa and the rest.
D.: The mind is admitted to be changing and unsteady (chanchala
and asthira).
M.: It is also said in the same place that the mind is to be introverted and
made to merge into the Self; that the practice must be long because it
is slow; and must be continued until it is totally merged in the Self.
D.: I want prasad, i.e., Grace, for it.
M.: It is always with you. All that is required of you is not to confound
yourself with the extrovert mind but to abide as the Self. That is
prasad.
The gentleman saluted and retired.
Talk 383.
Swami Lokesananda, a sanyasi, asked Sri Bhagavan: Is there
prarabdha for a jivanmukta?
M.: Who is the questioner? From whom does the question proceed?
Is it a jivanmukta who is asking?
D.: No, I am not a mukta as yet.
M.: Then why not let the jivanmukta ask the question for himself?
D.: The doubt is for me.
M.: Quite so. The ajnani has doubt but not a Jnani.
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