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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
thoughts will arise to disturb your peace. This is Realisation of the
Self. The Self is eternal and so also its Realisation.
In the course of the discourse Sri Bhagavan also made a few points
clearer:
Abhyasa consists in withdrawal within the Self every time you are
disturbed by thought. It is not concentration or destruction of the
mind but withdrawal into the Self.
Dhyana, bhakti, japa, etc., are aids to keep out the multiplicity of
thoughts. A single thought prevails which too eventually dissolves
in the Self.
The questioner quoted that the mind starved of ideas amounted to
realisation and asked what the experience is in that state. He himself
read out a passage from Mr. Brunton that it was indescribable.
The answer was there. He again ventured out that it must be like
looking through an unsilvered mirror, as contrasted with the present
experience corresponding to looking on a silvered mirror.
Sri Bhagavan said it was a mirror facing another clear mirror, i.e.,
no reflection.
2nd May, 1938
Talk 486.
Mr. Ganapatram: How shall I find out “Who am I”?
M.: Are there two selves for the one self to find the other?
D.: The Self must be only one consisting of two aspects of ‘I’ and
sankalpa (i.e., of thinker and thought).
After a time he continued: Please say how I shall realise the ‘I’. Am
I to make the japa, “Who am I?”
M.: No japa of the kind is meant.
D.: Am I to think “Who am I”?
M.: You have known that the ‘I-thought’ springs forth. Hold the ‘Ithought’
and find its moola (source).
D.: May I know the way?
M.: Do as you have now been told and see.
D.: I do not understand what I should do.
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