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Its meaning is as follows:<br />

<strong>Talks</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>Sri</strong> <strong>Ramana</strong> <strong>Maharshi</strong><br />

Although a jivanmukta associated <strong>with</strong> body may, owing to his prarabdha,<br />

appear to lapse into ignorance or wisdom, yet he is only pure like the<br />

ether (akasa) which is always itself clear. whether covered by dense<br />

clouds or cleared of clouds by currents of air. He always revels in the<br />

Self alone, like a loving wife taking pleasure <strong>with</strong> her husband alone,<br />

though she attends on him <strong>with</strong> things obtained from others (by way of<br />

fortune, as determined by her prarabdha). Though he remains silent like<br />

one devoid of learning, yet his supineness is due to the implicit duality of<br />

the vaikhari vak (spoken words) of the Vedas; his silence is the highest<br />

expression of the realised non-duality which is after all the true content<br />

of the Vedas. Though he instructs his disciples, yet he does not pose as<br />

a teacher, in the full conviction that the teacher and disciple are mere<br />

conventions born of illusion (maya), and so he continues to utter words<br />

(like akasvani); if on the other hand he mutters words incoherently like<br />

a lunatic, it is because his experience is inexpressible like the words of<br />

lovers in embrace. If his words are many and fluent like those of an orator,<br />

they represent the recollection of his experience, since he is the unmoving<br />

non-dual One <strong>with</strong>out any desire awaiting fulfilment. Although he may<br />

appear grief-stricken like any other man in bereavement, yet he evinces<br />

just the right love of and pity for the senses which he earlier controlled<br />

before he realised that they were mere instruments and manifestations of<br />

the Supreme Being. When he seems keenly interested in the wonders of<br />

the world, he is only ridiculing the ignorance born of superimposition. If<br />

he appears indulging in sexual pleasures, he must be taken to enjoy the<br />

ever-inherent Bliss of the Self, which, divided Itself into the Individual<br />

Self and the Universal Self, delights in their reunion to regain Its original<br />

Nature. If he appears wrathful he means well to the offenders. All his<br />

actions should be taken to be only divine manifestations on the plane<br />

of humanity. There should not arise even the least doubt as to his being<br />

emancipated while yet alive. He lives only for the good of the world.<br />

<strong>Sri</strong> Bhagavan now warned the hearers against the mistake of disparaging<br />

a Jnani for his apparent conduct and again cited the story of Parikshit.<br />

He was a still-born child. The ladies cried and appealed to <strong>Sri</strong> Krishna<br />

to save the child. The sages round about wondered how Krishna was<br />

going to save the child from the effects of the arrows (apandavastra)<br />

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