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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
D.: I have my professional work and yet I want to be in perpetual
dhyana. Will they conflict with each other?
M.: There will be no conflict. As you practise both and develop
your powers you will be able to attend to both. You will begin
to look on business as a dream. Says the Bhagavad Gita: “That
which is the night of all beings, for the disciplined man is the
time of waking; when other beings are waking, then is it night
for the sage who seeth.” (11.69.)
Talk 31.
A visitor asked: What to do to get liberation (moksha)?
M.: Learn what liberation is.
D.: Should I do worship (upasana) for it?
M.: Worship is for mind control (chitta nirodha) and concentration.
D.: Should I do idol worship? Is there any harm in it?
M.: So long as you think you are the body there is no harm.
D.: How to get over the cycle of births and deaths?
M.: Learn what it means.
D.: Should I not leave my wife and family?
M.: How do they harm you? First find out who you are.
D.: Should not one give up wife, wealth, home?
M.: Learn first what samsara is. Is all that samsara? Have there not
been men living among them and getting realisation?
D.: What are the steps of practical training (sadhana) for it?
M.: It depends on the qualifications and the nature of the seeker.
D.: I am doing idol worship.
M.: Go on with it. It leads to concentration of mind. Get one-pointed.
All will come out right. People think that freedom (moksha) is
somewhere yonder and should be sought out. They are wrong.
Freedom (moksha) is only knowing the Self within yourself.
Concentrate and you will get it. Your mind is the cycle of births
and deaths (samsara).
D.: My mind is very unsteady. What should I do?
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