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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
D.: It is all right for mahatmas like Sri Bhagavan to speak out so plainly.
Because the Truth does not swerve from you, you consider it easy for
all others. Nevertheless, the common folk have a real difficulty.
M.: Then does anyone say that he is not the Self?
D.: I meant to say that no one else has the courage to put things
straight like Maharshi.
M.: Where is the courage in saying things as they are?
Talk 470.
As a European Countess was leaving for Europe tonight she requested
him to bless her and her family.
M.: You do not go anywhere away from the Presence as you imagine.
The Presence is everywhere. The body moves from place to place;
yet it does not leave the one Presence. So no one can be out of sight
of the Supreme Presence. Since you identify one body with Sri
Bhagavan and another body with yourself, you find two separate
entities and speak of going away from here. Wherever you may
be, you cannot leave ME.
To illustrate it: The pictures move on the screen in a cinema show;
but does the screen itself move? No. The Presence is the screen:
you, I, and others are the pictures. The individuals may move but
not the Self.
Talk 471.
D.: The avatars are said to be more glorious than the self-realised
jnanis. Maya does not affect them from birth; divine powers are
manifest; new religions are started; and so on.
M.: (1) “Jnani tvatmaiva me matam.”
(2) “Sarvam khalvidam brahma.”
How is an avatar different from a Jnani; or how can there be an
avatar as distinct from the universe?
D.: The eye (chakshu) is said to be the repository (ayatana) of all
forms; so the ear (srotra) is of all sounds, etc. The one Chaitanya
operates as all; no miracles are possible without the aid of the
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