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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: See wherefrom the thought arises. It is the mind. See for whom
the mind or intellect functions. For the ego. Merge the intellect in
the ego and seek the source of the ego. The ego disappears. ‘I know’
and ‘I do not know’ imply a subject and an object. They are due to
duality. The Self is pure and absolute, One and alone. There are no
two selves so that one may know the other. What is duality then?
It cannot be the Self which is One and alone. It must be non-Self.
Duality is the characteristic of the ego. When thoughts arise duality
is present; know it to be the ego, and seek its source.
The degree of the absence of thoughts is the measure of your progress
towards Self-Realisation. But Self-Realisation itself does not admit of
progress; it is ever the same. The Self remains always in realisation.
The obstacles are thoughts. Progress is measured by the degree of
removal of the obstacles to understanding that the Self is always
realised. So thoughts must be checked by seeking to whom they
arise. So you go to their Source, where they do not arise.
D.: Doubts are always arising. Hence my question.
M.: A doubt arises and is cleared; another arises and that is cleared,
making way for another, and so it goes on. So there is no possibility
of clearing away all doubts. See to whom the doubts arise. Go to their
source and abide in it. Then they cease to arise. That is how doubts are
to be cleared. Atma samstham manah krtva na kinchidapi chintayet.
D.: Grace alone can help me to it.
M.: Grace is not exterior. In fact your very desire for grace is due to
grace that is already in you.
Talk 619.
An Andhra gentleman read out a verse from the Viveka Chudamani
setting forth the sense of the Maitreyi Brahmana of the Brihadaranyaka
Upanishad and asked the meaning of atma which occurred there.
M.: The Self.
D.: Is not prema (love) for something else?
M.: The desire for happiness (sukha prema) is a proof of the everexisting
happiness of the Self. Otherwise how can desire for it arise
in you? If headache was natural to human beings no one would
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