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D.: What is the method?
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: ‘Who am I?’ is the investigation.
D.: May we perform japa?
M.: Why should you think I am this? Investigate and the thoughts
cease. What is, namely the Self, will be revealed as the inescapable
residue.
D.: Is hatha yoga necessary?
M.: It is one of the aids - not that it is always necessary. It depends
upon the person. Vichara surpasses pranayama. In Yoga Vasishta
Chudala advises investigation (vichara) to Sikhidvaja for killing
the ego.
Reality can be reached by holding on to prana or intellect. Hatha
yoga is the former; Vichara is the latter.
D.: Is there any individuality for the Jnani after Realization?
M.: How can he retain individuality?
Even ordinarily the elders advise achamana and pranayama before
undertaking any work - be it worldly or other-worldly. That means,
concentration of mind accomplishes the work.
D.: I meditate neti-neti (not this - not this).
M.: No - that is not meditation. Find the source. You must reach the
source without fail. The false ‘I’ will disappear and the real ‘I’ will
be realised. The former cannot exist apart from the latter.
24th September, 1936
Talk 42.
Mr. Duncan Greenlees, Madanapalli, wrote as follows:- One has at
times had vivid flashes of a consciousness whose centre is outside
the normal self and which seems to be inclusive. Without concerning
the mind with philosophical concepts, how would Bhagavan advise
us to work towards getting, retaining and extending those flashes?
Does abhyasa in such experiences involve retirement?
Sri Bhagavan answered: ‘Outside’ - For whom is inside or outside?
They can be only so long as there are the subject and object. For
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