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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
proclaimed by Vedanta, get fully released in the Brahmaloka from
the causal Maya at the dissolution of the body.
That alone which shines as the tiny Akasa void of sorrow, in the
lotus heart, the tiny seat of the spotless Supreme in the (inner)
core of the body is worthy of worship.
He alone is the Supreme Lord, who is beyond the Primal Word
which is the beginning and end of the Veda and in which merges
the creative Cause].
Mr. T. K. S. Iyer later asked something about muktaloka (region of liberated
souls). Sri Bhagavan said that it meant the same as Brahmaloka.
D.: Asked if some sukshma tanu (subtle body) such as pranava tanu
or suddha tanu (tanu = body; suddha = pure) was required to gain
such loka.
M.: Pranava means real japa. It is however interpreted to be A, U, M,
Nada and Bindu. Of these, the first three are interpreted as Visva,
Taijasa, Prajna and Virat, Hiranyagarbha, Isvara, Nada and Bindu
correspond to prana and manas (mind).
The Mandukya Upanishad speaks of the three matras and turiya
matra. The final meaning is that it represents the real state.
To a further question, Bhagavan answered: There are said to
be Panchapada Mahavakyani (mahavakyas with five words) e.g.,
Tattvamasi atinijam (‘you are that’ is the great truth). The first three
words have their lakshya artha (significance) all of which signify
only the one Truth. So many efforts and so much discipline are said
to be necessary for eradicating the non-existing avidya!
11th September, 1938
Talk 512.
Sri Bhagavan said: All mistake the mind-consciousness for Self-
Consciousness. There is no mind in deep sleep; but no one denies his
being in sleep. Even a child says on waking, “I slept well,” and does not
deny its existence. The ‘I’ rises up, the mind turns outward through the
five senses and perceives objects, this they call direct perception. Asked
if ‘I’ is not directly perceived, they get confused, because ‘I’ does not
announce itself as an object in front and only the perception with the
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