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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
D.: How shall I realise it?
Major Chadwick: Why do you ask Maharshi to realise it for you?
D.: I do not.
Major Chadwick: The Kingdom is within you. You should realise it.
D.: It is within only for those who hear it.
Major Chadwick: The Bible says within you, and adds no qualifications.
The questioner felt his conversation was already too long and so
retired after thanking Maharshi and others.
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Mrs. Jinarajadasa: How shall we be able to remember the truth
experienced in dreams?
M.: Your present waking state, your dreams and your desire to
remember are all thoughts. They arise only after the mind has
arisen. Were you not existing in the absence of the mind?
D.: Yes, I was.
M.: The fact of your existence is also your realisation
D.: I understand it intellectually. The truth is felt in temporary flashes
only. It is not abiding.
M.: Such thoughts smother up the state of your eternal realisation.
D.: The rough and tumble of town life is not congenial to realisation.
Jungle retreats afford the necessary quiet and solitude.
M.: One can be free in a town and may yet be bound in jungle retreats.
It is all in the mind.
D.: The mind again is maya, I suppose.
M.: What is maya? The knowledge that the mind is divorced from the
Reality is maya. The mind is in Reality only and not apart. This
knowledge is the elimination of maya.
Further conversation led to the question if the mind was identical with
the brain. Sri Bhagavan said: The mind is only a force operating on the
brain. You are now here and awake. The thoughts of the world and the
surroundings are in the brain within the body. When you dream you create
another self who sees the world of dream creation and the surroundings
just as you do now. The dream visions are in the dream brain which is
again in the dream body. That is different from your present body. You
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