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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Talk 634.
An Andhra gentleman, retired from Government Service, asked: “I have
been doing omkara upasana for long. In the left ear I am always hearing
a sound. It is like the piping of a nadasvaram (pipe). Even now I hear it.
Some luminous visions are also seen. I do not know what I should do.”
M.: There must be one to hear sounds or see visions. That one is the
‘I’. If you seek it, asking “Who am I?” the subject and objects would
coalesce. After that there is no quest. Till then thought will arise, things
will appear and disappear; you ask yourself what has happened, and
what will happen. If the subject be known then the objects will merge
in the subject. If without that knowledge, one applies the mind to
objects, because these objects appear and disappear, and one does not
know that one’s true nature is that which remains over as the Self. On
the vanishing of objects, fear arises. That is, the mind being bound
to objects there is suffering when the objects are absent. But they are
transient and the Self is eternal. If the eternal Self be known subject
and object merge into one, and the One without a second will shine.
D.: Is there the merger of the Omkara?
M.: Om is the eternal truth. That which remains over after the
disappearance of objects is Om. It does not merge in anything. It
is the State of which it is said: “Where one sees none other, hears
none other, knows none other, that is Perfection.” Yatra nanyat
pasyati, nanyat srunoti, nanyat vijanati sa bhuma? All the upasanas
are ways to winning it. One must not get stuck in the upasanas,
but must query “Who am I?” and find the Self.
D.: I have no pleasure in the house. There remains nothing for me to
do in the family. I have finished doing what I had to do. Now there
are grandsons and granddaughters. May I remain in the house, or
should I leave it and go away?
M.: You should stay just where you are now. But where are you now?
Are you in the house, or is the house in you? Is there any house
apart from you? If you get fixed in your own place, you will see all
things have merged into you, and there will be no cause for such
questions as these.
D.: Yes. Then it seems as if I may remain at home.
M.: You must remain in your real state.
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