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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Sri Bhagavan remarked how true the words were and emphasised each
statement in the extract. Then He cited Thayumanavar in support of
the state which is free from thoughts:
“Although I had often heard that all the Srutis declare the state of
stillness to be one of Bliss, all Bliss - yet I continued to be ignorant.
Again I did not follow the advice of my Lord - the Silent Master
- because of my folly. I wandered in the forest of illusion: alas! it
was my fate.”
“Bliss will reveal itself if one is still. Why then is this illusory yoga
practice? Can it (i.e., Bliss) be revealed by directing the intellect in
a particular way? Do not say so, you who are given to the practice
and are therefore an innocent babe.”
“The eternal Being is that state where you have disappeared. Are
you not in it too? You, who cannot speak of it, do not be perplexed.
Although you do not manifest, yet you are not lost. For you are eternal
and also still. Do not be in pain. Here is Bliss - come on!”
15th March, 1939
Talk 647.
D.: Is not what Gandhiji describes, the state in which thoughts
themselves become foreign?
M.: Yes, It is only after the rise of the ‘I’ thought that all other thoughts
arise. The world is seen after you have felt “I am”. The ‘I-thought’
and all other thoughts had vanished for him.
D.: Then the body-sense must be absent in that state.
M.: The body-sense also is a thought whereas he describes the state
in which “thoughts do not come”.
D.: He also says, “It takes no effort to stop thinking”.
M.: Of course no effort is necessary to stop thoughts whereas one is
necessary for bringing about thoughts.
D.: We are trying to stop thoughts. Gandhiji also says that thought is
an obstacle to God’s guidance. So it is the natural state. Though
natural, yet how difficult to realise. They say that sadhanas are
necessary and also that they are obstacles. We get confused.
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