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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Peace. Unless a person had annihilated his mind he cannot gain
peace and be happy. Unless he himself is happy he cannot bestow
happiness on others.
When there is no mind he cannot be aware of others. So the mere fact
of his Self-Realisation is itself enough to make all others happy.
D.: Can samadhi come and go?
M.: What is samadhi? Samadhi is one’s essential nature. How then
can it come or go?
If you do not realise your essential nature, your sight remains
obstructed. What is the obstruction? Find it and remove it. So one’s
efforts are meant only for the removal of obstructions which hide
the true vision. The real nature remains the same. When once it is
realised it is permanent.
D.: But Mr. Brunton says that he had one hour’s samadhi. Therefore
I asked the question.
M.: A practiser gains peace of mind and is happy. That peace is
the result of his efforts. But the real state must be effortless.
The effortless samadhi is the true one and the perfect state. It is
permanent. The efforts are spasmodic and so also their results.
When the real, effortless, permanent, happy nature is realised it
will be found to be not inconsistent with the ordinary activities of
life. The samadhi reached after efforts looks like abstraction from
the external activities. A person might be so abstracted or live
freely among people without detriment to his Peace and Happiness
because that is his true nature or the Self.
Talk 598.
21st December, 1938
Sri Bhagavan shows great humour at times: He read Upamanya Bhakta
Vilas which contains a passage where Arunachalesvara is said to have
robbed Tirujnanasambandar and his group of followers of all their
possessions by His bhutaganas disguised as dacoits. Sri Bhagavan
remarked: “Siva Himself was waylaid in Tiruvudal Utsava and He
practised the same trick on His devotees. Can it be so?”
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