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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
14th February, 1938
Talk 459.
Quoting Alexander Selkirk’s soliloquy, Sri Bhagavan said: The
happiness of solitude is not found in retreats. It may be had even
in busy centres. Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy
centres. It is in the Self.
17th February, 1938
Talk 460.
Observing the moon before the rising sun, Sri Bhagavan remarked:
See the moon and also the cloud in the sky. There is no difference in their
brilliance. The moon looks only like a speck of cloud. The jnani’s mind
is like this moon before sunlight. It is there but not shining of itself.
18th February, 1938
Talk 461.
As Sri Bhagavan was going through the letters which arrived this day,
He read out one of them as follows:
A Brahmin boy working in a household went to sleep as usual. In his
sleep he cried out. When he woke up he said that he felt his prana
going out of the body through the mouth and nostrils. So he cried.
Soon after he found himself dead and the soul taken to Vaikunta
where God Vishnu was surrounded by other gods and devotees with
prominent Vaishnavite marks on their foreheads. Vishnu said, “This
man should be brought here at 2 o’clock tomorrow. Why has he been
brought here now? “The boy then woke up and related his experience.
The next day at 2 o’clock he passed away.
19th February, 1938
Talk 462.
Mrs. Dhar had been anxious to ask some questions and get help from Sri
Bhagavan. She approached Him with great hesitation and gently related her
troubles: My attempts at concentration are frustrated by sudden palpitations
of the heart and accompanying hard, short and quick breaths. Then my
thoughts also rush out and the mind becomes uncontrollable. Under healthy
conditions I am more successful and my breath comes to a standstill with deep
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