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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
remember the dream now. The brains are however different. Yet the
visions appear in the mind. The mind therefore is not identical with the
brain. Waking, dream and sleep are for the mind only.
D.: The understanding is intellectual.
M.: Intellect. Whose intellect? The problem revolves round that
question.
You admit that you exist even in the absence of intellect - say, in
sleep. How do you know that you exist if you have not realised your
existence? Your very existence is realisation. You cannot imagine a
point of time when you do not exist. So there is no period of time
when realisation is not.
22nd March, 1938
Talk 478.
A certain man from Madurai asked: How to know the Power of God?
M.: You say ‘I AM’. That is it. What else can say I AM?
One’s own being is His Power. The trouble arises only when one
says, “I am this or that, such and such.” Do not do it - Be yourself.
That is all.
D.: How to experience Bliss?
M.: To be free from thinking “I am now out of Bliss”.
D.: That is to say free from modes of mind.
M.: To be with only one mode of mind to the exclusion of others.
D.: But Bliss must be experienced.
M.: Bliss consists in not forgetting your being. How can you be
otherwise than what you really are? It is also to be the Seat of
Love. Love is Bliss. Here the Seat is not different from Love.
D.: How shall I be all-pervading?
M.: Give up the thought, “I am not all-pervading now.”
D.: How to permeate the separate objects?
M.: Do they exist independently of “I”? Do they say to you “We are”? You
see them. You are, and then the objects are also seen. “Without me, these
do not exist” - this knowledge is permeation. Owing to the idea “I am
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