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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
transitory. Such phenomena may produce joy for the time being.
But abiding peace, i.e., santi, does not result. This is got only by
the removal of avidya (ignorance).
Talk 394.
D.: How is the mind to be stilled?
M.: Looking at the mind with the mind, or fixing the mind in the Self,
brings the mind under control of the Self.
D.: Is there any yoga, i.e., a process for it?
M.: Vichara (investigation) alone will do.
Talk 395.
D.: How is Poorna Brahman to be attained? What is the method best
suited to a grihasta?
M.: You have already said poorna, i.e., perfection. Are you apart from
Poorna? If apart from it, will it be poorna? If not apart how does
the question arise? The knowledge that Brahman is poorna and that
you are not apart from the same is the finality. See it and you will
find that you are not a grihasta or any limited being.
D.: What are the tatvas?
M.: Knowledge of poorna Brahman will elucidate the other matters
automatically.
12th April, 1937
Talk 396.
A Dutch lady, Mrs. Gongrijp, an ardent theosophist, who had worked
long in Java and is now living in Adyar, came here for a short visit.
She asked: Theosophy speaks of tanha, meaning thirst for rebirth.
What is its cause?
M.: Thirst for rebirth is the desire to be reborn so as to end successive
births. The spirit is at present moribund; it must be revived so that
rebirth may take place after the present apparent death. Forgetfulness
of your real nature is the present death; remembrance of it is the
rebirth. It puts an end to successive births. Yours is eternal life.
D.: I take tanha to mean ‘clinging to life’ - the desire for eternal life.
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