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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Talk 536.
The person soaked in the “I-am-the-body” idea is the greatest sinner
and he is a suicide. The experience of “I-am-the-Self” is the highest
virtue. Even a moment’s dhyana to that effect is enough to destroy
all the sanchita Karma. It works like the sun before whom darkness
is dispelled. If one remains always in dhyana, can any sin, however
heinous it be, survive his dhyana?
Talk 537.
Once Sri Bhagavan said, “Desire constitutes maya, and desirelessness
is God.”
Talk 538.
‘A’ asked: What is the exact difference between worldly activity and
dhyana?
M.: There is no difference. It is like naming one and the same thing by
two different words in two different languages. The crow has two
eyes but only one iris which is rolled into either eye as it pleases.
The trunk of an elephant is used for breathing and for drinking
water. The snake sees and hears with the same organ.
Talk 539.
When Sri Bhagavan was going up the hill, the Swami asked: Does the
closing or the opening of the eyes make any difference during dhyana?
M.: If you strike on a wall with a rubber-ball and you stand at a
distance, the ball rebounds and runs back to you. If you stand near
the wall, the ball rebounds and runs away from you. Even if the
eyes are closed, the mind follows thoughts.
Talk 540.
Once ‘A’ asked: There is more pleasure in dhyana than in sensual
enjoyments. Yet the mind runs after the latter and does not seek the
former. Why is it so?
M.: Pleasure or pain are aspects of the mind only. Our essential nature is
happiness. But we have forgotten the Self and imagine that the body or
the mind is the Self. It is that wrong identity that gives rise to misery.
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