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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
In the course of a later talk the visitor said: “The world sends
impressions and I awake!”
M.: Can the world exist without someone to perceive it? Which is
prior? The Being-consciousness or the rising-consciousness? The
Being-consciousness is always there, eternal and pure. The risingconsciousness
rises forth and disappears. It is transient.
D.: Does not the world exist for others even when I am asleep?
M.: Such a world mocks at you also for knowing it without knowing
yourself. The world is the result of your mind. Know your mind.
Then see the world. You will realise that it is not different from
the Self.
D.: Is not Maharshi aware of himself and his surroundings, as clearly
as I am?
M.: To whom is the doubt? The doubts are not for the realised. They
are only for the ignorant.
16th June, 1935
Talk 54.
An Andhra Pandit - an elderly gentleman - had some doubts regarding
Kavyakantha’s exposition of Advaita. He has found it in books that
Brahman is free from sajatiya, vijatiya and swagata bheda. Such
conditions are satisfied in vivarta vada but not in parinama vada. In
the latter, swagata bheda is bound to be. The Master pointed out that
Dakshinamurti did not teach anything of the kind. He did not say that
Brahman is related to Sakti or not related. All that was, was only silence;
and the doubts of the sishyas (disciples) were cleared. The significance
is that there is nothing to be learnt, discussed and concluded. Everyone
knows ‘I am.’ There is the confusion that the ‘I’ is the body. Because
the ‘I’ arises from the Absolute and gives rise to buddhi (Intellect). In
buddhi the ‘I’ looks the size and shape of the body, na medhaya means
that Brahman cannot be apprehended by buddhi.
Brahman → aham (‘I-I’) → buddhi (intellect).
How can such buddhi crossing over aham discover Brahman? It is
impossible. Just get over the false conception of the ‘I’ being the
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