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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
One of the ladies was not satisfied with this answer and asked for
further elucidation.
Sri Bhagavan then pointed out that to see wrong in another is
one’s own wrong. The discrimination between right and wrong
is the origin of the sin. One’s own sin is reflected outside and the
individual in ignorance superimposes it on another. The best course
for one is to reach the state in which such discrimination does not
arise. Do you see wrong or right in your sleep? Did you not exist
in sleep? Be asleep even in the wakeful state. Abide as the Self and
remain uncontaminated by what goes on around.
Moreover, however much you might advise them, your hearers may
not rectify themselves. Be in the right yourself and remain silent.
Your silence will have more effect than your words or deeds. That
is the development of will-power. Then the world becomes the
Kingdom of Heaven, which is within you.
D.: If one is to withdraw oneself, why is there the world?
M.: Where is the world and where does one go withdrawing oneself?
Does one fly in an aeroplane beyond space? Is it withdrawal?
The fact is this: the world is only an idea. What do you say: Are
you within the world or is the world within you?
D.: I am in the world. I am part of it.
M.: That is the mistake. If the world were to exist apart from you, does
it come and tell you that it exists? No, you see it exists. You see it
when you are awake and not when asleep. If it exists apart from you,
it must tell you so and you must be aware of it even in your sleep.
D.: I became aware of it in my jagrat.
M.: Do you become aware of yourself and then of the world? Or do
you become aware of the world and then of yourself? Or do you
become aware of both simultaneously?
D.: I must say simultaneously.
M.: Were you or were you not, before becoming aware of yourself? Do
you admit your continued existence before and when you become
aware of the world?
D.: Yes.
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