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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Talk 407.
D.: St. Theresa and others saw the image of Madonna animated. It was
external. Others see the images of their devotion in their mental sight.
This is internal. Is there any difference in degree in these two cases?
M.: Both indicate that the person has strongly developed meditation.
Both are good and progressive. There is no difference in degree.
The one has a conception of divinity and draws mental images and
feels them. The other has the conception of divinity in the image
and feels it in the image. The feeling is within in both instances.
21st April, 1937
Talk 408.
With reference to the location of the Heart centre on the right side of
the human body, Sri Bhagavan said:-
I had been saying all along that the Heart centre was on the right,
notwithstanding the refutation by some learned men that physiology taught
them otherwise. I speak from experience. I knew it even in my home during
my trances. Again during the incident related in the book Self-Realisation I
had a very clear vision and experience. All of a sudden a light came from
one side erasing the world vision in its course until it spread all round
when the vision of the world was completely cut out. I felt the muscular
organ on the left had stopped work, I could understand that the body
was like a corpse, that the circulation of blood had stopped and the body
became blue and motionless. Vasudeva Sastri embraced the body, wept
over my death, but I could not speak. All the time I was feeling that the
Heart centre on the right was working as well as ever. This state continued
15 or 20 minutes. Then suddenly something shot out from the right to
the left resembling a rocket bursting in air. The blood circulation was
resumed and normal condition restored. I then asked Vasudeva Sastri to
move along with me and we reached our residence.
The Upanishads say that 101 nadis terminate in the Heart and 72,000
originate from them and traverse the body. The Heart is thus the centre
of the body. It can be a centre because we have been accustomed to
think that we remain in the body. In fact the body and all else are in
that centre only.
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