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D.: Yes.
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: Similarly, you take the Jnani to be the visible body whereon
the actions are superimposed by you. That makes you put these
questions. The Jnani himself does not ask if he has the dream or
sleep state. He has no doubts himself. The doubts are in you. This
must convince you of your wrong premises. The Jnani is not the
body. He is the Self of all.
The sleep, dream, samadhi, etc., are all states of the ajnanis.
The Self is free from all these. Here is the answer for the former
question also.
D.: I sought to know the state of sthita prajnata (unshaken
knowledge).
M.: The sastras are not for the Jnani. He has no doubts to be cleared.
The riddles are for ajnanis only. The sastras are for them alone.
D.: Sleep is the state of nescience and so it is said of samadhi also.
M.: Jnana is beyond knowledge and nescience. There can be no
question about that state. It is the Self.
Talk 433.
Mr. Thomas, Professor of Sanskrit, University of Oxford, had presided
over the Oriental Conference in Trivandrum and on his way to Calcutta
he visited Sri Bhagavan. He is an elderly gentleman with a broad forehead
and a quiet manner. He speaks softly and slowly. He evinces great interest
in oriental literature, especially Sanskrit. He had heard of the richness of
Tamil. He desired to know which of the English translations of Srimad
Bhagavad Gita was the best. The hall was crowded and a few of them
mentioned, with each his own opinion, Thibaut’s, Mahadeva Sastri’s,
Telang’s, etc. Sri Bhagavan made mention of F. T. Brooks. Mr. Thomas
desires one in metrical form because it is the proper vehicle for rasa (the
essence) contained in it. Rasa is also Peace, he said.
M.: Yes, Brahman is only rasa.
D.: Rasa is also Bliss.
M.: Rasa, Ananda, Peace are all names for the same Bliss.
The Professor was shown Mr. Grant Duff’s speech in the Philosophical
Conference held at Paris. Later the book ‘Dharma’ by Dr. G. H. Mees
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