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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Sri Bhagavan’s chest. Sri Bhagavan said, “Yes.” (Mr. Viswanatha Iyer,
Narayana Reddi and others have said they felt Sri Bhagavan’s Heartcentre
to be on the right by placing their hands on his chest).
A devotee rightly observed that if hands could feel and locate the
Heart-centre, delicate scientific instruments should certainly do it.
D.: The Heart is said to be on the right, on the left or in the centre. With
such differences of opinion how are we to meditate on Hridaya?
M.: You are and it is a fact. Dhyana is by you, of you, and in you. It
must go on where you are. It cannot be outside you. So you are
the centre of dhyana and that is the Heart.
A location is however given to it with reference to the body. You
know that you are. Where are you? You are in the body and not
out of it. Yet not the whole body. Though you pervade the whole
body still you admit of a centre where from all your thoughts start
and wherein they subside. Even when the limbs are amputated you
are there but with defective senses. So a centre must be admitted.
That is called the Heart. The Heart is not merely the centre but the
Self. Heart is only another name for the Self.
Doubts arise only when you identify it with something tangible
and physical. The scriptures no doubt describe it as the source of
101 nadis, etc. In Yoga Vasishta Chudala says that kundalini is
composed of 101 nadis, thus identifying one with the other.
Heart is no conception, no object for meditation. But it is the seat
of meditation; the Self remains all alone. You see the body in the
Heart, the world in it. There is nothing separate from it. So all kinds
of effort are located there only.
18th April, 1937
Talk 404.
A casual visitor asked: What is nishta? How is the look to be directed
between the eyebrows?
M.: How do we see these things? There is a light by which these are
seen. Your question amounts to asking how that light is seen.
D.: What is the significance of the spot between the eyebrows?
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