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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
2nd March, 1939
Talk 638.
For the last few days a rule is in force by which the visitors are not
allowed to enter the hall between 12 noon and 2-30 p.m. A few Muslim
visitors came to the Asramam in the interval today. The attendant
promptly told them that they should not disturb Sri Bhagavan’s rest at
this hour. Sri Bhagavan quietly got down from the sofa and came out
of the hall; He sat on the stone pavement adjoining the wall and asked
the visitors also to sit close to Him. He went on reading a newspaper
and also laid Himself on the stone. He was finally requested to go in.
Talk 639.
While speaking to Mr. K. L. Sarma of Pudukotah, Sri Bhagavan said:
Leaving out what is intimate and immediate, why should one seek the
rest? The scriptures say “That Thou art”. In this statement ‘Thou’ is
directly experienced; but leaving it out they go on seeking ‘That’!
D.: In order to find the oneness of ‘That’ and of ‘Thou’.
M.: ‘Thou’ is the Inner Self immanent in all; in order to find the same, he
leaves himself out and sees the world objectively. What is the world?
What is Immanent in it? It is ‘That’. All such ideas arise only on forgetting
one’s own Self. I never bothered myself with such matters. Only after a
time it occurred to me that men had investigated such matters.
3rd March, 1939
Talk 640.
At about 4 p.m. Sri Bhagavan, who was writing something intently,
turned His eyes slowly towards the window to the north; He closed
the fountain pen with the cap and put it in its case: He closed the
notebook and put it aside; He removed the spectacles, folded them
in the case and left them aside. He leaned back a little, looked up
overhead, turned His face this way and that; and looked here and
there. He passed His hand over His face and looked contemplative.
Then He turned to someone in the hall and said softly:
M.: The pair of sparrows just came here and complained to me that
their nest had been removed. I looked up and found their nest
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