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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Therefore the effort to realise results only in your realising your
present mistake - that you have not realised your Self. There is no
fresh realisation. The Self becomes revealed.
D.: That will take some years.
M.: Why years? The idea of time is only in your mind. It is not in the
Self. There is no time for the Self. Time arises as an idea after the
ego arises. But you are the Self beyond time and space; you exist
even in the absence of time and space.
9th February, 1939
Talk 626.
Another devotee: Is it not that the ‘I’ exists only in relation to a ‘this’
(aham - idam)?
M.: ‘I’, ‘this’ appear together now. But ‘this’ is contained (vyaptam)
in the ‘I’ - they are not apart. ‘This’ has to merge into and become
one with ‘I’. The ‘I’ that remains over is the true ‘I’.
Talk 627.
D.: What is staying with the Guru?
M.: It means studying the sacred lore.
D.: But there is the special virtue of the Guru’s presence.
M.: Yes. That purifies the mind.
D.: That is the effect or reward. I asked about how the disciple ought
to behave.
M.: That differs according to the type of disciple - student, householder,
what are his own ingrained mental tendencies and so on.
D.: If so, will it naturally come out right?
M.: Yes. In former times the Rishis sent their sons to others for
education.
D.: Why?
M.: Because affection stood in the way.
D.: That cannot be for the jnanis. Was it in respect of the disciples?
M.: Yes.
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