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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
missing.” Then He called for the attendant, Madhava Swami, and
asked: “Madhava, did anyone remove the sparrows’ nest?
The attendant, who walked in leisurely, answered with an air of
unconcern: “I removed the nests as often as they were built. I
removed the last one this very afternoon.”
M.: That’s it. That is why the sparrows complained. The poor little
ones! How they take the pieces of straw and shreds in their tiny
beaks and struggle to build their nests!
Attendant: But, why should they build here, over our heads?
M.: Well - well. Let us see who succeeds in the end (After a short
time Sri Bhagavan went out).
Talk 641.
Explaining the opening stanza of the Sad Vidya, Sri Bhagavan
observed: The world is always apparent to everyone. All must know
“I and this world exist”. On enquiry “do these always exist?” and
“if indeed real, they must remain even unrelated to time, space and
differentiation; are they so?” It is evident that only in the waking and
dream states these are perceived but not in deep sleep. Therefore ‘I’
and the world appear sometimes and disappear also. They are created,
have their being and later vanish. Whence do they arise? Wherein do
they remain? Where do they go on vanishing from view? Can such
phenomena be admitted to be real?
Furthermore, I and the world, objects of creation, sustenance and
destruction, are perceived in the waking and dream states only and not
in deep sleep. How does deep sleep differ from the other two states?
In sleep there are no thoughts whereas in the other two states there
are. There the thoughts must be the origin of the ‘I’ and the world.
Now what about thoughts? They cannot be natural; otherwise they
cannot appear at one moment and disappear at another. Wherefrom
do they arise? Their source, ever-present and not subject to variations,
must be admitted to be. It must be the eternal state as said in the
upadesa mantra - That from which all beings come forth, that in
which they remain and that into which they resolve.
This stanza is not in praise or adoration but only an expression of
the Reality.
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