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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Talk 386.
D.: In Sri Ramakrishna’s Life it is said that an idol, Ramlal was
animate. Is it true?
M.: Can you account for the animation of this body? Is the movement
of the idol more mysterious than the movement of this body?
D.: Metal does not move itself.
M.: Is not the body a corpse? You will probably consider it a mystery
if the corpse moves. Is that so?
Talk 387.
Three persons came on a short visit; the eldest of them asked: There
is one process of creation mentioned in the Upanishads and another
in Puranas. Which of them is true?
M.: They are many, and meant to indicate that the creation has a cause
and a creator should be posited so that one might seek the cause. The
emphasis is on the purpose of the theory and not on the process of
creation. Moreover, the creation is perceived by someone. There are
no objects without the subject, i.e., the objects do not come and tell
you that they are, but it is you who says that there are the objects.
The objects are therefore what the seer makes of them. They have no
existence independent of the subject. Find out what you are and then
you understand what the world is. That is the object of the theory.
D.: The soul is only a small particle whereas the creation is so huge.
How can we surmise it?
M.: The particle speaks of the huge creation; where is the contradiction?
Talk 388.
Later Sri Bhagavan continued:
There are so many theories, scriptural and scientific. Have they
reached any finality? They cannot. Brahman is said to be subtler than
the subtlest, wider than the widest. Anu is an atom, infinitesimal. It
ends in subtle perception. The subtlety is of the sukshma body, i.e.,
the mind. Beyond the mind there is the Self. The greatest of things are
also conceptions, the conceptions are of the mind; beyond the mind
there is the Self. So the Self is subtler than the subtlest.
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