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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
you? You must admit that the world is not perceived in your sleep
although you cannot deny your existence then. The world appears
when you wake up. So where is it? Clearly the world is your thought.
Thoughts are your projections. The ‘I’ is first created and then the
world. The world is created by the ‘I’ which in its turn rises up from
the Self. The riddle of the creation of the world is thus solved if you
solve the creation of the ‘I’. So I say, find your Self.
Again, does the world come and ask you “Why do ‘I’ exist? How
was ‘I’ created?” It is you who ask the question. The questioner
must establish the relationship between the world and himself. He
must admit that the world is his own imagination. Who imagines
it? Let him again find the ‘I’ and then the Self.
Moreover, all the scientific and theological explanations do not
harmonise. The diversities in such theories clearly show the
uselessness of seeking such explanations. Such explanations are
purely mental or intellectual and nothing more. Still, all of them
are true according to the standpoint of the individual. There is no
creation in the state of realisation. When one sees the world, one
does not see oneself. When one sees the Self, the world is not seen.
So see the Self and realise that there has been no creation.
The lady being laid up is unable to go to the hall and so feels
unhappy that, though near, she cannot go into the hall. This was
mentioned to Sri Bhagavan. He said, “Well, thinking like this keeps
her always in the Presence. This is better than remaining in the hall
and thinking of something else.”
Talk 456.
A DANGER:
11th February, 1938
CONTACT WITH SAINTS
“Seek the company of saints by all means; but do not remain indefinitely
with them. The adage, familiarity breeds contempt, applies even to their
case,” writes Swami Ramdas in the course of an article in The Vision.
“Spiritual growth is, no doubt, largely dependent on suitable association.
Company of saints is, therefore, held to be essential for a seeker after
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