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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
21st May, 1937
Talk 411.
Sri Bhagavan, while speaking of the marriage ceremony among the
Brahmins, said that the Kasiyatra represents the bridegroom to be a
vairagi-purusha. It is therefore right that he should be given a kanya
(virgin) for leading a householder’s life. It follows that a vairagi can
alone be a good householder.
Talk 412.
Once on a cold day Sri Bhagavan was sitting in a cave on the hill with
His hands folded on the breast as a protection against the cold. Some
Andhra visitor had come; he broke a coconut and poured the cold juice
on Sri Bhagavan’s head as abhisheka; Sri Bhagavan was surprised.
Talk 413.
A visitor asked: While making nama-japa and after continuing it for
an hour or more I fall into a state like sleep. On waking up, I recollect
that my japa has been interrupted. So I proceed again.
M.: “Like sleep.” That is right. It is the natural state. Because you
are now associated with the ego you consider the natural state to
be something which interrupts your work. You must repeat the
experience until you realise that it is your natural state. You will
then find that japa, etc., is extraneous. Still, it will be going on
automatically. Your present doubt is due to the false identity.
Japa means clinging to one thought to the exclusion of all other
thoughts. That is the purpose of japa; it leads to dhyana which
ends in Self-Realisation.
Talk 414.
Mr. G. V. Subbaramiah, a devotee, has written some short poems,
which are interesting. Some of them refer to a child. Sri Bhagavan said
God becomes a child, and vice versa. That means that the samskaras
are yet latent in the child and thus its innocence is complete. When
they are eradicated even a grown up man becomes a child once again,
and thus remains God.
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