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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
D.: Is it then wrong to say that some have seen it?
M.: It is true in the same degree as you are. The Gita begins saying
that no one was born; in the fourth chapter it says, “the numerous
incarnations, yours and mine, have taken place; I know them but
you do not.” Of these two statements, which is the truth? The
instruction is according to the listener’s understanding. If the
second chapter contains the whole Truth, why should so many
more chapters follow it?
In the Bible God says “I AM before Abraham.” He does not say
“I was” but “I AM.”
Talk 437.
M.: People have read of Vivekananda having asked Sri Ramakrishna,
“Have you seen God?” and imitate him now. They also ask, “Have
you realised God?”
I ask what is realisation.
Realisation implies perfection. When you are limited, your
perception also is limited. Your knowledge is thus imperfect. Of
what value is that imperfect knowledge?
In Visvarupa Darsan, Arjuna is told to see whatever he desired
and not what was presented before him. How can that darsan be
real?
Talk 438.
30th December, 1937
A visitor asked: For beginners like me which is most suited: either
worship of qualified God or contemplation of “I am Brahman”?
M.: The answer is contained in the question. The question itself shows
it to be worship of qualified God.
D.: “I” is felt in the waking and dream states but not in deep sleep.
Why so?
M.: If so, does it not exist in deep sleep?
D.: Because there are mental modes in these two states and no such
mode in the other.
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