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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
and after a long time awakened in the trail of the same thought. In the
meantime generations have passed away in the world. Such a yogi has
not destroyed his mind. Its destruction is the non-recognition of it as
being apart from the Self. Even now the mind is not. Recognise it. How
can you do it if not in everyday activities. They go on automatically.
Know that the mind promoting them is not real but a phantom
proceeding from the Self. That is how the mind is destroyed.
Talk 77.
The Master, while referring to the Bible for “Be still and know that
I am God”, Psalm 46, found in the Ecclesiastes. “There is one alone
and there is no second” and “The wise man’s heart is at the right hand
and a fool’s heart is at the left.”
Talk 78.
A man from Masulla asked the Master: “How to realise the Self?”
M.: Everyone has experience of the Self every moment of his life.
D.: But the Self is not realised as one would like.
M.: Yes. The present experience is viparita - different from real. What
is not is confounded with what is.
D.: How to find the Atman?
M.: There is no investigation into the Atman. The investigation can only
be into the non-self. Elimination of the non-self is alone possible.
The Self being always self evident will shine forth of itself.
The Self is called by different names - Atman, God, Kundalini,
mantra, etc. Hold any one of them and the Self becomes manifest.
God is no other than the Self. Kundalini is now showing forth as the
mind. When the mind is traced to its source it is Kundalini. Mantra
japa leads to elimination of other thoughts and to concentration
on the mantra. The mantra finally merges into the Self and shines
forth as the Self.
D.: How long is a Guru necessary for Self-Realisation?
M.: Guru is necessary so long as there is the laghu. (Pun on Guru =
heavy; laghu = light). Laghu is due to the self-imposed but wrong
limitation of the Self. God, on being worshipped, bestows steadiness
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