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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
If you cease to identify yourself with the body no questions regarding
creation, birth, death, etc., will arise. They did not arise in your sleep.
Similarly they will not arise in the true state of the Self.
The object of creation is thus clear, that you should proceed from
where you find yourself and realise your true Being
You could not raise the question in your sleep because there
is no creation there. You raise the question now because your
thoughts appear and there is creation. Creation is thus found to
be only your thoughts.
Take care of yourself and the Brahma-jnani will take care of
Himself. If you know your true nature, you will understand the
state of Brahma-jnana. It is futile to explain it now. Because you
think that you see a Jnani before you and you identify him with a
body just as you have identified yourself with yours, you also think
that he feels pains and pleasures like yourself.
D.: But I must know if he is a Jnani for I must be inspired by him.
M.: Yes, he tells you; he inspires. Do as he tells you. You want to
learn and not test him.
Jnana lakshanas are stated in the sastras to be an incentive to a
seeker to get rid of misery and seek happiness. The methods are
given. If they are followed the result will be jnana having those
lakshanas. They are not meant for testing others.
Talk 611.
D.: I think that the soul is the light within. If after death it becomes
one with Brahman how can there be transmigration of soul?
M.: Within whom? Who dies?
D.: I shall then frame my question in a different way.
M.: Dialectics are not wanted. Consider the answer and see.
D.: How?
M.: Now that you identify yourself with the body you say that the soul
is the light within. You mean that there is light within the body.
Think a little and say if the body can raise any questions. It is
insentient and cannot say ‘I’. Something else says ‘I’. What is it?
Can it be the Self? The Self is pure and is not aware of any other so
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