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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
The mind remaining still is samadhi, no matter whether the world
is perceived or not.
Environment, time and objects are all in me. How can they be
independent of me? They may change, but I remain unchanging,
always the same. The objects can be differentiated by means of
their names and forms, whereas each one’s name is only one and
that is ‘I’. Ask anyone, he says ‘I’ and speaks of himself as ‘I’,
even if He is Isvara. His name too is ‘I’ only.
So also of a locality. As long as I am identified with the body so
long a locality is distinguishable; otherwise not. Am I the body?
Does the body announce itself as ‘I’?
Clearly all these are in me. All these wiped out entirely, the residual
Peace is ‘I’. This is samadhi, this is ‘I’.
Talk 583.
Mr. V. Ganapati Sastri showed Sri Bhagavan a letter from a Spanish lady,
Mercedes De Acosta, saying she would be coming here the next day. Sri
Bhagavan remarked: “See the trouble to so many because I am here.”
23rd November, 1938
REMINISCENCE
Talk 584.
A certain visitor began to pull the pankah. Sri Bhagavan said: “Because it is cold,
they have placed fire by my side. Why should the pankah be pulled?”
Then he continued: “On a cold morning, when I was in Virupaksha
cave, I was sitting in the open. I was feeling cold. People used to
come, see me and go back. A group of Andhra visitors had come. I
did not notice what they were doing. They were behind me. Suddenly
a noise ‘tak’ - and water over my head! I shivered with cold. I looked
back. They had broken a coconut and poured the water on me. They
thought that it was worship. They took me for a stone image.”
Talk 585.
Sri Bhagavan said that this town is peculiar in that there are nine roads
leading to it, not counting the railroad; navadware pure dehe (in the
body - the city of nine gates).
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