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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
D.: The sastras say Brahman pervades all and me too.
M.: Find the ‘I’ in me and then there will be time to think of Brahman.
D.: Why was I born?
M.: Who was born? The answer is the same for all of your questions.
D.: Who am I then?
M.: (Smiling) Have you come to examine me and ask me? You must
say who you are.
D.: In deep sleep the soul leaves the body and remains elsewhere.
When it re-enters I awake. Is it so?
M.: What is it that leaves the body?
D.: The power, perhaps.
M.: Find out the power.
D.: The body is composed of five elements. What are the elements?
M.: Without knowing the Self how do you aim at knowing the elements?
The young man sat awhile and left with permission. The Master
remarked later: “All right. It will work.”
23rd June, 1935
Talk 57.
Sri Bhagavan said that sushumna is the name mostly mentioned in
scriptures. Other names also occur; e.g., para, atma, amrita. It is also
stated that sushumna becomes leena (merged in para). So it may be
said that para is the terminology of jnana, whereas sushumna is that
of Yoga.
24th June, 1935
A DOUBT IN ‘SRI RAMANA GITA’ ANSWERED
Chapter XIV, Stanza 10 reads: “With yet further progress, invisibility
also may result. Such an one, being pure consciousness only, flourishes
as a siddha.”
Chapter XVIII, Last Stanza reads: “The glory of the siddhis is past
imagination, they are equal to Siva, yea Siva himself, in being able
to grant boons.”
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