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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Bhagavan. They remained silent and sat facing each other for nearly
an hour. The author attempted to ask questions but did not speak. Maj.
Chadwick encouraged him to ask. Sri Bhagavan said, “All finished.
Heart-talk is all talk. All talk must end in silence only.” They smiled
and Sri Bhagavan left the room.
Talk 551.
A man asked Sri Bhagavan: “How is it that Atma vidya is said to be
the easiest?”
M.: Any other vidya requires a knower, knowledge and the object to
be known, whereas this does not require any of them. It is the Self.
Can anything be so obvious as that? Hence it is the easiest. All that
you need do is to enquire, “Who am I?”
A man’s true name is mukti (liberation)
Talk 552.
There are some buildings in the Asramam. They used to have some plan
which somehow could not be followed in entirety. Therefore ‘A’ and the
Sarvadhikari did not agree on many details and there used to be trouble
between them. ‘A’ was once highly disgusted with the state of affairs. He
asked Sri Bhagavan what could be done under the circumstances.
Sri Bhagavan said: “Which of the buildings was according to a plan
made by these people here? God has His own plans and all these go
on according to that. No one need worry as to what happens.”
Talk 553.
The Asramites once asked Sri Bhagavan, “How were we all in our
previous births? Why do we not know our own past?”
M.: God in His mercy has withheld this knowledge from people.
If they knew that they were virtuous, they will grow proud;
contrariwise they will be depressed. Both are bad. It is enough
that one knows the Self.
Talk 554.
M.: Just as a river does not continue its flow after its discharge into the ocean,
so also a person loses all movements after he merges in the Self.
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