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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
happenings, waking, dream and deep sleep. Here sleep corresponds
to the unharnessing of the horses. And samadhi corresponds to the
halting of the horses, because the senses are ready to act just as the
horses are ready to move after halting.
In samadhi the head does not bend down because the senses are
there though inactive; whereas the head bends down in sleep because
the senses are merged in darkness. In kevala samadhi, the activities
(vital and mental), waking, dream and sleep, are only merged, ready
to emerge after regaining the state other than samadhi. In sahaja
samadhi the activities, vital and mental, and the three states are
destroyed, never to reappear. However, others notice the Jnani active
e.g., eating, talking, moving etc. He is not himself aware of these
activities, whereas others are aware of his activities. They pertain to
his body and not to his Real Self, swarupa. For himself, he is like
the sleeping passenger - or like a child interrupted from sound sleep
and fed, being unaware of it. The child says the next day that he did
not take milk at all and that he went to sleep without it. Even when
reminded he cannot be convinced. So also in sahaja samadhi.
Sushumna pare leena. Here sushumna refers to tapo marge whereas
the para nadi refers to jnana marga.
Talk 83.
The Master relating some stories of the bhaktas told how Sri Krishna
served Eknath for twelve years, how Panduranga relieved Sakku Bai
from her home prison and enabled her to visit Pandharpur.
Then he recollected the appearance of a mysterious Moulvi on his
way from Madura to Tiruvannamalai in 1896, how he appeared, spoke
and disappeared suddenly.
Talk 84.
Mr. Grant Duff asked the Master if any mongoose had had anything to do
with him. The Master said, “Yes. It was the occasion of Ardra and Jayanti, I
was living up the hill in Skandasramam. Streams of visitors were climbing
up the hill from the town A mongoose, larger than the ordinary size, of
golden hue (not grey as a mongoose is), with no black spot on its tail as
is usual with the wild mongoose, passed these crowds fearlessly. People
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