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Talk 591.
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
14th December, 1938
D.: Seekers who are in immediate proximity of the Master can get
grace by darsana, sparsana, etc. (look, touch, etc.). But how does
one get the same grace when the person is at a distance?
M.: By yoga drishti (yogic look).
Mr. Chopra, a Punjabi employed in Singapore, is on a visit here
and raised a few questions.
D.: What is the efficacy of the name?
Sri Bhagavan read out the extract from the Vision. It was a
translation of Namdev’s stanzas.
D.: How does the name help Realisation?
M.: The original name is always going on spontaneously without any
effort on the part of the individual. That name is aham - ‘I’. But
when it becomes manifest it manifests as ahamkara - the ego. The
oral repetition of nama leads one to mental repetition which finally
resolves itself into the eternal vibration.
D.: But these are all mental or physical.
M.: The mind or the mouth cannot act without the Self. Tukaram, the
great Maharashtra Saint, used to remain in samadhi in the day and
sing and dance at night with large crowds of people. He always
used to utter the name of Sri Rama.
Once he was answering calls of nature and also saying “Ram,
Ram”. An orthodox priest was shocked at the unholy mention of
the sacred name and so reprimanded him and ordered him to be
silent when he answered calls of nature.
Tukaram said, “All right!” and remained mute. But at once
there arose the name of Rama from every pore of Tukaram and
the priest was horrified by the din. He then prayed to Tukaram
“Restrictions are only for the common people and not for saints
like you.”
D.: It is said that Sri Ramakrishna saw life in the image of Kali which
he worshipped. Can it be true?
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