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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
all the same. Did you then perceive the world through this or other
bodies? Nevertheless, you cannot deny your existence then. There must
be a subject to see the world and the subject must also be limited. If
unlimited how can there be others beside the unlimited Self?
D.: Does God have any limits?
M.: Leave God alone. What limits were there for your Self in your sleep?
D.: Death must then be the highest state.
M.: Yes. We are now living in Death. Those who have limited
the unlimited Self have committed suicide by putting on such
limitations.
D.: Concentrate on the Self, you say. How to do it?
M.: If that is solved everything else is solved.
D.: Know thyself, you say. How to know the Self?
M.: You now know that you are the body.
D.: Raja yoga realises through the body, senses, etc., and Sri Bhagavan
advises realisation by thinking. This is jnana yoga.
M.: How can you think without the body?
D.: God does not think.
M.: Why then did you start asking, “In what shape did you see God?”
D.: God must be felt through the senses.
M.: Are you not feeling God?
D.: Is everybody feeling God always?
M.: Yes.
D.: Then what is realisation?
M.: Realisation is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realised.
D.: I don’t catch the point.
They left, having taken a snapshot.
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D.: What is visvarupa?
M.: It is to see the world as the Self of God. In the Bhagavad Gita God
is said to be various things and beings, and also the whole universe.
How to realise it or see it so? Can one see one’s Self? Though not
seen, can the Self be denied? What is the Truth?
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