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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Talk 68.
Dr. Radhakamal Mukerjee, a well-known Professor, fair man of
middle age, with a peaceful look, practising yoga or meditation, has
had some occult experiences and desires the mystery to be unravelled
by the Master. He has written a book and had it published by Messrs.
Longmans Green & Co., London. He finds Self-Realisation hard to
attain and requires the Master’s help. His question: “The upanishadic
method of meditation has now disappeared. There was a great sage
in Bengal who instructed me in it. After long years of discipline and
practice I am having some mystic experiences. I feel sometimes that
Bhuma (Supreme Consciousness) is infinitude and that I am finite
consciousness. Is that correct?”
M.: Bhuma (Perfection) alone is. It is Infinite. There arises from it
this finite consciousness taking on an upadhi (limiting adjunct).
This is abhasa or reflection. Merge this individual consciousness
into the Supreme One. That is what should be done.
D.: Bhuma is an attribute of Supreme Consciousness.
M.: Bhuma is the Supreme - yatra naanyat pasyati yatra naanyat
srunoti sa bhuma (where one does not see any other, hears nothing,
it is Perfection). It is indefinable and indescribable. It is as it is.
D.: There is a vastness experienced. Probably it is just below Bhuma
but close to it. Am I right?
M.: Bhuma alone is. Nothing else. It is the mind, which says all this.
D.: Transcending the mind I feel the vastness.
M.: Yes, Yes....
The professor turned to the lady seated just a little further away from
him and interpreted in Hindi to her.
She: What is the difference between meditation and distraction?
M.: No difference. When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when
there are no thoughts, it is meditation. However, meditation is only
practice (as distinguished from the real state of Peace.)
She: How to practice meditation?
M.: Keep off thoughts.
She: How to reconcile work with meditation?
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