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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
10th January, 1939
Talk 604.
A certain lady was singing a devotional song. It said among other things:
“Thou art my father,
Thou art my mother,
Thou art my relations,
My possessions and all,” and so on.
Sri Bhagavan remarked with a smile, “Yes, Yes, Thou art this,
that and everything except ‘I’. Why not say ‘I am Thou’ and
finish it?”
Talk 605.
A certain Andhra visitor gave Sri Bhagavan a slip of paper containing
several questions which he desired to be answered. Sri Bhagavan took
it in His hands, went through the questions and said:
M.: “All these questions arise so long as there is one who can ask
questions. If the questioner is sought and found, the questions will
end of their own accord.”
The man said in reply: Several people raise these points and I do not
know how to meet them. Hence I desire to know the fact (vishaya
was the word used).
M.: If the vishayi (i.e., the basis of the facts) be understood, the
vishayas (i.e., the facts) become clear.
Talk 606.
Mr. Venkatakrishnayya, a lawyer-devotee, visited Sri Bhagavan ten
years before and asked Him what he should do to improve himself.
Sri Bhagavan told him to perform Gayatri Japa. The young man went
away satisfied. When he returned after some years, he asked:
D.: If I meditate on the meaning of the Gayatri mantra, my mind
again wanders. What is to be done?
M.: Were you told to meditate on the mantra or its meaning? You
must think of the one who repeats the mantra.
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