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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
D.: I do not follow. How is it to be done?
M.: Atma Vichara is the way.
D.: It seems too difficult to adopt, being so intangible. What shall I
do if I feel unfit for this method of enquiry?
M.: Guidance is there. It is for individuals to avail themselves of it.
25th December, 1937
Talk 431.
A Telugu gentleman stood up and asked: The mind is said to be pure
when all its vasanas are wiped out. It is also the finality. When there
is something to be gained is it not duality?
M.: Let the mind be first made pure. If the same question arises
thereafter the answer may then be sought.
26th December, 1937
Talk 432.
An Andhra visitor asked: What is sleep?
M.: Why, you experience it every day.
D.: I want to know exactly what it is, so that it may be distinguished
from samadhi.
M.: How can you know sleep when you are awake? The answer is to
go to sleep and find out what it is.
D.: But I cannot know it in this way.
M.: This question must be raised in sleep.
D.: But I cannot raise the question then.
M.: So, that is sleep.
Sri Bhagavan went out for a few minutes. On his return the same man asked:
Self-realised jnanis are seen to take food and do actions like others. Do
they similarly experience the states of dream and of sleep?
M.: Why do you seek to know the state of others, maybe jnanis?
What do you gain by knowing about others? You must seek to
know your own real nature.
Who do you think that you are? Evidently, the body.
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