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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
I asked Maharshi about contemplation. He taught me as follows:-
When a man dies the funeral pyre is prepared and the body is laid flat
on the pyre. The pyre is lit. The skin is burnt, then the flesh and then
the bones until the whole body falls to ashes. What remains thereafter?
The mind. The question arises, ‘How many are there in this body
- one or two?’ If two, why do people say ‘I’ and not ‘we’? There is
therefore only one. Whence is it born? What is its nature (swaroopa)?
Enquiring thus the mind also disappears. Then what remains over is
seen to be ‘I’. The next question is ‘Who am I?’ The Self alone. This is
contemplation. It is how I did it. By this process attachment to the body
(dehavasana) is destroyed. The ego vanishes. Self alone shines. One
method of getting mind-dissolution (manolaya) is association with
great ones - the yoga adepts (Yoga arudhas). They are perfect adepts
in samadhi. Self-Realisation has been easy, natural, and perpetual to
them. Those moving with them closely and in sympathetic contact
gradually absorb the samadhi habit from them.
Talk 35.
An educated visitor asked Bhagavan about dvaita and advaita.
M.: Identification with the body is dvaita. Non-identification is
advaita.
Talk 36.
An aristocratic and distinguished lady visitor from the North
accompanied by her Private Secretary arrived at noon, waited a
few minutes and asked Maharshi soon after he returned to the hall
after lunch:
D.: Maharajji, can we see the dead?
M.: Yes.
D.: Can the yogis show them to us?
M.: Yes. They may. But do not ask me to show them to you. For I
cannot.
D.: Do you see them?
M.: Yes, in dreams.
D.: Can we realise the goal through yoga?
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