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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: You are always in the Self and there is no reaching it. The eyebrow
is only a place where attention is to be fixed (seat of meditation
- upasanasthana).
D.: You have spoken of the Heart as the seat of meditation?
M.: Yes, it is also that.
D.: What is Heart?
M.: It is the centre of the Self. The Self is the centre of centres. The
Heart represents the psychic centre and not the physical centre.
D.: The term ‘jnana’ is realised Wisdom. The same term is used for
the method also. Why?
M.: ‘Jnana’ includes the method also because it ultimately results
in realisation.
D.: Is a man to engage in teaching his knowledge however imperfect?
M.: If his prarabdha be that way.
In the seventh chapter, Arjuna asks if Karma is a method
(sadhana). Krishna answers that it is so if done without the sense
of doership.
So also are Karmas approved by scriptures which deny Karma. The
Karma disapproved by them is that which is done with the sense of
doership. Do not leave Karma. You cannot do so. Give up the sense
of doership. Karma will go on automatically. Or Karma will drop
away from you. If Karma be your lot according to prarabdha, it will
surely be done whether you will it or not; if Karma be not your lot,
it will not be done even if you intently engage in it. Janaka, Suka,
etc., were also in work without ahankara, Karma may be done for
fame, or may be done unselfishly and for the public good. Yet even
then they want applause. So it is really selfish.
D.: What is that one thing, knowing which all doubts are solved?
M.: Know the doubter. If the doubter be held, the doubts will not
arise. Here the doubter is transcendent. Again when the doubter
ceases to exist, there will be no doubts arising. From where will
they arise? All are jnanis, jivanmuktas. Only they are not aware
of the fact. Doubts must be uprooted. This means that the doubter
must be uprooted. Here the doubter is the mind.
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