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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
If unable to do so, rechaka and puraka need not be practised.
Breath may be retained a short while in japa, dhyana, etc. Then,
too, good results will follow.
18th June, 1935
Talk 55.
D.: Can advaita be realised by japa of holy names; say Rama,
Krishna, etc.?
M.: Yes.
D.: Is it not a means of an inferior order?
M.: Have you been told to make japa or to discuss its order in the
scheme of things?
Silence.
22nd June, 1935
Talk 56.
A youth of twenty asked how to realise the Self. He sat down in
silence and waited more than an hour and then was about to leave.
While doing so, he asked:
D.: How to realise Self?
M.: Whose Self? Find out.
D.: Who am I?
M.: Find it yourself.
D.: I do not know.
M.: Think. Who is it that says “I do not know”? What is not known?
In that statement, who is the ‘I’?
D.: Somebody in me.
M.: Who is the somebody? In whom?
D.: Maybe some power.
M.: Find it.
D.: How to realise Brahman?
M.: Without knowing the Self why do you seek to know Brahman?
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