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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
the world if he knows his Self. He will say “No”. What can anyone
know without knowing the Self? All worldly knowledge is built
upon such a flimsy foundation.
Mr. Ramamurthi: How to know the ‘Real I’ as distinct from the ‘false I’.
M.: Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows,
but yet does not know, the Self. A strange paradox.
The Master added later, “If the enquiry is made whether mind exists,
it will be found that mind does not exist. That is control of mind.
Otherwise, if the mind is taken to exist and one seeks to control it,
it amounts to mind controlling the mind, just like a thief turning
out to be a policeman to catch the thief, i.e., himself. Mind persists
in that way alone, but eludes itself.”
3rd April, 1935
Talk 44.
Mr. Ekanath Rao, an Engineer, asked Sri Bhagavan if solitude is
necessary for vichara.
M.: There is solitude everywhere. The individual is solitary always.
His business is to find it out within, and not seek it without.
D.: The work-a-day world is distracting.
M.: Do not allow yourself to be distracted. Enquire for whom there
is distraction. It will not afflict you after a little practice.
D.: Even the attempt is impossible.
M.: Make it and it will be found not so difficult.
D.: But the answer does not come for the search inward.
M.: The enquirer is the answer and no other answer can come. What
comes afresh cannot be true. What always is, is true.
6th April, 1935
Talk 45.
A visitor asked: The path of realisation is difficult. Worldly matters
are easy of understanding, whereas this is not.
M.: Yes. The mind always seeks external knowledge, leaving aside
its own inner knowledge.
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