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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Talk 397.
D.: Fear is consequent on the possibility of non-existence. It pertains
to the body. One is not aware of the body in sleep. One is not
afraid of, but courts sleep, whereas one dreads death. Why is this
difference between the two outlooks?
M.: Desire of sleep or fear of death are when the mind is active and
not in the respective states themselves. The mind knows that the
body entity persists and reappears after sleep. Therefore sleep is
not attended with fear but the pleasure of non-bodily existence is
sought. Whereas the mind is not sure of reappearance after the
so-called death and dreads it.
14th April, 1937
Talk 398.
Dandapani, a resident devotee now on a North Indian tour, sent an
extract from the Modern Psychological Review which stated that the
dynamic centre of the Heart is on the right and not on the left whereas
the physical organ is on the left.
Conversation followed on that subject.
M.: The yoga marga speaks of the six centres each of which must be
reached by practice and transcended until one reaches sahasrara
where nectar is found and thus immortality. The yogis say that one
enters into the paranadi which starts from the sacral plexus whereas
the jnanis say that the same nadi starts from the heart. Reconciliation
between the seeming]y contradictory statements is effected in the
secret doctrine which distinctly states the yogic paranadi is from
muladhara and the jnana paranadi is from the Heart. The truth is
that the paranadi should be entered. By yogic practice one goes
down, then rises up, wanders all through until the goal is reached;
by jnana abhyas one settles down directly in the centre.
D.: Is not para followed by pasyanti, etc.?
M.: You are speaking of vak which is divided into (1) para, (2) pasyanti,
(3) madhyama and (4) vaikhari; Vak is prana sakti whereas the
mind is tejorupa or chit sakti. The sakti is the manifestation of the
unmanifest origin.
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