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M.: That is vairagya.
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
D.: Why should one afflict his body for the purpose?
M.: You think it is affliction whereas it is a vow and for the other man
it is an achievement and a pleasure.
Dhyana may be external or internal or both. Japa is more important
than external form. It must be done until it becomes natural. It
starts with effort and is continued until it proceeds of itself. When
natural it is called Realisation.
Japa may be done even while engaged in other work. That which
is, the One Reality. It may be represented by a form, a japa,
mantra, vichara or any kind of attempt. All of them finally resolve
themselves into that One Single Reality. Bhakti, vichara, japa are
only different forms of our efforts to keep out the unreality. The
unreality is an obsession at present. Reality is our true nature. We
are wrongly persisting in unreality, that is, thoughts and worldly
activities. Cessation of these will reveal the Truth. Our attempts
are directed towards keeping them out. It is done by thinking of
the Reality only. Although it is our true nature it looks as if we are
thinking of the Reality. What we do really amounts to the removal
of obstacles for the revelation of our true Being. Meditation or
vichara is thus a reversion to our true nature.
D.: Are our attempts sure to succeed?
M.: Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is
new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if
one would lose or gain the Self.
Talk 402.
While speaking of the Brain and the Heart Sri Bhagavan recalled an
incident of old days as follows:-
Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni once argued that the brain was the most
important centre and Sri Bhagavan maintained that the Heart was even
more so. There were others watching the discourse. A few days after
Sri Bhagavan received a letter containing a short poem in English on
that discourse from a young boy, N. S. Arunachalam, who had not
yet matriculated.
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