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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Again, the same man had seen another reputed Mahatma who told him
to say Om Namah instead of “OM” because pure “OM” is meant for
sannyasis whereas others can repeat Om Namah. When he came here
he asked Sri Bhagavan about it. Sri Bhagavan replied casually:
Should not others besides the sannyasis enquire into the Self and
realise it?
17th January, 1939
Talk 607.
Sri Bhagavan said to Lady Bateman: There is a fixed state; sleep,
dream and waking states are mere movements in it. They are like
pictures moving on the screen in a cinema show.
Everyone sees the screen as well as the pictures but ignores
the screen and takes in the pictures alone. The Jnani however
considers only the screen and not the pictures. The pictures certainly
move on the screen yet do not affect it. The screen itself does not
move but remains stationary.
Similarly, a person travels in a train and thinks that he moves.
Really speaking he sits and reposes in his seat, and it is the train
which is steaming fast. He however superimposes the motion of the
train on himself because he has identified himself with the body.
He says, “I have passed one station - now another - yet another
- and so on”. A little consideration will show that he sits unmoved
and the stations run past him. But that does not prevent him from
saying that he has travelled all the way as if he exerted himself to
move every foot of the way.
The Jnani is fully aware that the true state of Being remains fixed
and stationary and that all actions go on around him. His nature
does not change and his state is not affected in the least. He looks
on everything with unconcern and remains blissful himself.
His is the true state and also the primal and natural state of being. When
once the man reaches it he gets fixed there. Fixed once, fixed ever he
will be. Therefore that state which prevailed in the days of Pathala
Linga Cellar continues uninterrupted, with only this difference that
the body remained there immobile but is now active.
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