RAMANA MAHARSHI

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.   J.k.Sivan 

MAHARISHI RAMANA : Pride of learning and desire for appreciation are condemned and not learning itself. Learning leading to search for Truth and humility is good.

DEVOTEE: Is this a True Path to the realisation ‘Self’? Is it not

easier for some thus to practise seeing Bhagavan in whatever meets

the mind than to seek the Super-Mental through the mental inquiry

“Who am I?”

M.:Yes. When you see God in all, do you think of God or not?

You should certainly keep God in your mind for seeing God all

round you. Keeping God in your mind becomes dhyana. Dhyana is

the stage before realisation. Realisation is in the Self only. Dhyana

must precede it. Whether you make dhyana of God or of Self, it is

immaterial. The goal is the same.

But you cannot escape the Self. You want to see God in all, but not

in yourself? If all are God, are you not included in that all?Yourself

being God, is it a wonder that all are God? There must be a seer

and thinker for even the practice. Who is he?

D.: Through poetry, music, japa, bhajan, beautiful landscapes, reading

the lives of spiritual heroes, etc., one sometimes experiences a true

sense of all-unity. Is that feeling of deep blissful quiet (wherein the

personal self has no place) the “entering into the heart” whereof

Bhagavan speaks? Will practice of that lead to a deeper samadhi,

and so ultimately to a full vision of the Real?

M.: Again, there is happiness at agreeable sights, etc. It is the

happiness inherent in the Self. That happiness is not alien and

after. You are diving into the Pure Self on occasions which you

consider pleasurable. That diving reveals the Self-existent Bliss.

But the association of ideas is responsible for foisting this bliss on

to other things or happenings. In fact, it is within you. On these

occasions you are plunging into the Self, though unconsciously.

If you do so consciously you call it Realisation. I want you to dive

consciously into the Self, i.e., into the Heart.

D.: If the Self be always realised we should only keep still. Is that so?

M.: If you can keep still without engaging in any other pursuits, it is

very good. If that cannot be done, where is the use of being quiet

so far as realisation is concerned? So long as one is obliged to be

active, let him not give up the attempt to realise the Self.

D.:  I want to  search “Who am I?”  For is there any discipline  to be observed and started with the question: “Where should I

do the enquiry?”   Am I do it in Guru sannidhi (the presence of the Master).

M.: The enquiry should be from where the ‘I’ is.

D.:  For everyone to reach the  goal rather easily, do they need to undergo all the hardships  the Bhagavan has already undergone here? I feel not necessary. Their way has been made easy for them by Sri Bhagavan undergoing all the hardships. Am I not right

M:  If that were so everyone would easily reach the goal!! Each one must work for himself.