BHAGAVAN SRI RAMANA'S TALKS

BHAGAVAN SRI RAMANA'S TALKS : J.K. SIVAN

IT IS NOT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND BHAGAVAN RAMANA IF YOU READ THE QUESTIONS PUT TO HIM AND THE ANSWERS GIVEN BY HIM, SLOWLY, CONCENTRATING ON EACH WORD ATTENTIVELY WITH INVOLVEMENT AND INTEREST TO LEARN.- It is made simple for you. So you will enjoy profusely. JKS

Devotee: ‘’whenever I thought that I had found something original, I discovered later that I was already forestalled.

Maharishi Ramana: Everything remains already in the germinal form and so there can be nothing new.

The Thiruvannamalai Temple management once filed a suit once against the Government regarding the ownership of the Hill. Sri Bhagavan was cited as a witness. He was examined by a commission. In the course of the examination-in-chief Sri Bhagavan said that Siva always remains in three forms: (1) as Parabrahman (2) as Linga (here as the Hill) and (3) as Siddha. (Brahma Rupa; Linga Rupa; Siddha Rupa).

There are some tirthas on the Hill, e.g., Mulaipal Tirtha and Pada Tirtha, said to have been originated for or by Virupakshi Devar and Guhai Namassivayar. There is also Rshabha Tirtha. All of them are in good condition.

Siva originally appeared as a column of Light. On being prayed to, the Light disappeared into the Hill and manifested as Linga. Both are Siva.

Maharshi said: The buildings or asramams grow around me. I do not wish for them. I do not ask for them nor prevent their formation. I have known that actions are done even though I did not want them to be done. So I conclude that they must happen and I therefore do not say ‘no’.

Question: Is the present Sarvadhikari to be your successor?

M.: Yes. Only management. (i.e., succession here means simple supervision).

Question: Is the work now being carried out by him?

M.: He simply supervises the work. The work is being done by others as well.

Devotee: What will aid me to fix my attention always at Thy Holy Feet?

M.: The thought ‘Am I ever away from the feet?’

D.: How is this thought to be fixed?

M.: By driving away other thoughts which counteract this.

D: “One must become satiate with the fulfilment of desires before they are renounced.”

M: “Fire might as well be put out by pouring spirit over the flames. (All laugh). The more the desires are fulfilled, the deeper grows the samskara. They must become weaker before they cease to assert themselves. That weakness is brought about by restraining oneself and not by losing oneself in desires.

D.: How can they be rendered weaker?

M.: By knowledge. You know that you are not the mind. The desires are in the mind. Such knowledge helps one to control them.

D.: But they are not controlled in our practical lives.

M.: Every time you attempt satisfaction of a desire the knowledge comes that it is better to desist. Repeated reminders of this kind will in due course weaken the desires. What is your true nature?

How can you ever forget it? Waking, dream and sleep are mere

phases of the mind. They are not of the Self. You are the witness of these states. Your true nature is found in sleep.