RAMANA TALKS

BHAGAVAN SRI RAMANA'S TALKS :

 

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: Namadev, Tukaram, Tulsidas and others are said to have seen Maha Vishnu. How did they see Him?

Maharishi: In what manner? Just in the same manner as you see me now and I see you here. They would also have seen Vishnu in this way only.

D:  On hearing it, my hairs standon end and an intense joy overpowers  me.  How can one be worshipful while engaged in daily work?

M: ‘’ Look at these girls there who sing ‘’we will churn the  butter milk without losing thought of Krishna.” It is the reply to your question. It is called Bhakti, Yoga and Karma.

The person soaked in the “I-am-the-body” idea is the greatest sinner and he is a suicide. The experience of “I-am-the-Self” is the highest virtue. Even a moment’s dhyana to that effect is enough to destroy all the sanchita Karma. It works like the sun before whom darkness is dispelled. If one remains always in dhyana, can any sin, however heinous it be, survive his dhyana? “Desire constitutes maya, and desirelessness is God.”

D: What is the exact difference between worldly activity and

dhyana?

M.: There is no difference. It is like naming one and the same thing by two different words in two different languages. The crow has two eyes but only one iris which is rolled into either eye as it pleases. The trunk of an elephant is used for breathing and for drinking water. The snake sees and hears with the same organ.

D:Does the closing or the opening of the eyes make any difference during dhyana?

M.: If you strike on a wall with a rubber-ball and you stand at a

distance, the ball rebounds and runs back to you. If you stand near

the wall, the ball rebounds and runs away from you. Even if the

eyes are closed, the mind follows thoughts.

D: There is more pleasure in dhyana than in sensual enjoy ments. Yet the mind runs after the latter and does not seek the former. Why is it so?

M.: Pleasure or pain are aspects of the mind only. Our essential nature is happiness. But we have forgotten the Self and imagine that the body or the mind is the Self. It is that wrong identity that gives rise to misery.

What is to be done? This vasana is very ancient and has continued for innumerable past births. Hence it has grown strong. That must go before the essential nature, viz., happiness, asserts itself.

D:There is so much misery in the world because wicked men abound in the world. How can one find happiness here?

M.: All are gurus to us. The wicked say by their evil deeds, “Do not

come near me”. The good are always good. So then, all persons

are like gurus to us.