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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
D.: I think of Arunachala, but still I am not a mukta.
M.: Change of outlook is all that is necessary. See what such a change
did for Arjuna. He had the vision, of the Cosmic Self. Sri Krishna
says: “Gods and saints are eager to see my Cosmic Form. I have
not fulfilled their desire. Yet I endow divine sight by which you can
see that Form.” Well, having said so, does He show what He is?
No. He asks Arjuna to see in Him all that he desires to see. If that
were His real form it must be changeless and known for what it is
worth. Instead, Arjuna is commanded to see whatever he desires.
So where is the Cosmic Form? It must be in Arjuna.
Furthermore, Arjuna finds Gods and saints in that form and they
are praising the Lord. If the form be withheld from the Gods and
saints as said by Krishna, who are they of Arjuna’s vision?
D.: They must be in his imagination.
M.: They are there because of Arjuna’s outlook.
D.: Then the outlook must be changed by God’s Grace.
M.: Yes. That happens to bhaktas.
D.: A man dreams of a tiger, takes fright and wakes up. The dreamtiger
appears to the dream ego who is also frightened. When he
wakes up how is it that that ego disappears, and the man wakes up
as the waking ego?
M.: That establishes that the ego is the same. Dream, wakefulness
and sleep are passing phases for the same ego.
D.: It is so difficult to spot the mind. The same difficulty is shared
by all.
M.: You can never find the mind through mind. Pass beyond it in order
to find it non-existent.
D.: Then one must directly go to seek the ego. Is it so?
M.: That’s it.
Mind, ego, intellect are all different names for one single inner
organ (antahkarana). The mind is only the aggregate of thoughts.
Thoughts cannot exist but for the ego. So all thoughts are pervaded
by ego (aham). Seek wherefrom the ‘I’ rises and the other thoughts
will disappear.
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