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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: Its growth and the trouble consequent on such growth make you look
for the cause of it all. Its development is for its own destruction.
D.: Is it not said that one must be like a child before one advances
spiritually?
M.: Yes, because the ego is not developed in the child.
D.: I mean exactly the same. We could have remained like the child
instead of having developed the ego.
M.: The state of the child is meant. No one can take lessons from the
child for the Realisation of the Self. The Master’s state is like the
state of the child. There is a difference between the two. The ego is
potential in the child, whereas it is totally destroyed in the saint.
D.: Yes, I see, I understand it now.
M.: The Reality is alone and eternal. To understand it is good enough.
But the old ignorance should not return. A good watch must be kept
lest the present understanding of the Truth suffers later on.
A disciple served a master a long time and realised the Self. He was
in Bliss and wanted to express his gratitude to the master. He was in
tears of joy and his voice choked when he spoke. He said, “What a
wonder that I did not know my very Self all these years? I suffered
long and you so graciously helped me to realise the Self. How shall I
repay your Grace? It is not in my power to do it!” The master replied:
“Well, well. Your repayment consists in not lapsing into ignorance
over again but in continuing in the state of your real Self.”
[Compiler’s remarks: The Self is the Master and all else. The Realisation
of the Self means Self-surrender or merging into the Master. What more
can anyone do? That is the highest form of gratitude to the Master].
21st January, 1939
Talk 613.
A young man asked: “Are thoughts mere matter?”
M.: What do you mean? Do you mean ‘matter’ like the things you
see around you?
D.: Yes - gross.
M.: Who asks this question? Who is the thinker?
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