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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
there was life in it. So I gently tickled it with a thin stalk. There was no
life within. I left it there. But in a few days more I found that there was
only a thin dry skin left behind and the inner thing had flown away.
5. I had also seen the flies carrying tiny grubs on their legs which they
deposited on offal. The grubs later flew away as flies.”
D.: They may be eggs laid by the flies.
M.: But they move and struggle and then shape themselves as flies.
Talk 593.
Sri Bhagavan mentioned another interesting reminiscence. “When I
was a boy I had seen the fishermen divert water from its main course
and keep a pot through which the diverted water flowed. The artificial
way was spread with tobacco stems. Strangely enough the larger fishes
always took the new way and fell into the pot. The fishermen who
were simply sitting quiet used to take the fish out from the pot and
throw them into their baskets. I thought at the time it was strange.
Later, when I was staying here I heard some man recite a piece from
Thayumanavar which mentioned the same trick of the fishermen.”
15th December, 1938
Talk 594.
The Spanish lady, Madam Mercedes De Acorta, has written a letter to
Mr. Hague, the American mining engineer who is here as a temporary
resident for the last two months. She has raised a few questions there:
“If the individual Self merges into the universal Self, how can one
pray to God for the uplift of humanity?” The question seems to be
common among the thinkers of the West.
Sri Bhagavan said: They pray to God and finish with “Thy Will be
done!” If His Will be done why do they pray at all? It is true that the
Divine Will prevails at all times and under all circumstances. The
individuals cannot act of their own accord. Recognise the force of
the Divine Will and keep quiet. Each one is looked after by God.
He has created all. You are one among 2,000 millions. When He
looks after so many will He omit you? Even common sense dictates
that one should abide by His Will.
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