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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
in in devotion which leads to surrender. On the devotee surrendering,
God shows His mercy by manifesting as the Guru. The Guru, otherwise
God, guides the devotee, saying that God is in you and He is the Self.
This leads to introversion of the mind and finally to realisation.
Effort is necessary up to the state of realisation. Even then the Self
should spontaneously become evident. Otherwise happiness will
not be complete. Up to that state of spontaneity there must be effort
in some form or another.
D.: Our work-a-day life is not compatible with such efforts.
M.: Why do you think that you are active? Take the gross example of
your arrival here. You left home in a cart, took train, alighted at the
Railway Station here, got into a cart there and found yourself in this
Asramam. When asked, you say that you travelled here all the way
from your town. Is it true? Is it not a fact that you remained as you
were and there were movements of conveyances all along the way.
Just as those movements are confounded with your own, so also the
other activities. They are not your own. They are God’s activities.
D.: Such idea will lead to blankness of mind and the work will not
progress well.
M.: Go up to that blankness and tell me afterwards.
D.: They say that a visit to Sages helps Self-Realisation?
M.: Yes. So it does.
D.: Will not my present visit to you bring it about?
M.: (After a short pause) What is to be brought about? To whom?
Consider; investigate. To whom is this doubt. If the source is traced
the doubt will disappear.
Talk 79.
An engineer asked: “The animals seem to conform to their own natural
laws in spite of their environment and changes. Whereas man flouts
social law and is not bound by any definite system. He seems to be
degenerating whereas the animals are steady. Is it not so?”
M.: (After a long time). The Upanishads and scriptures say that human
beings are only animals unless they are realised beings. Possibly
they are worse also.
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