Talk 141

Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk 141.

M.:
Jnana, once revealed,
takes time to steady itself.

The Self is certainly within
the direct experience of everyone,
but not as one imagines it to be.

It is only as it is.
This Experience is samadhi.

Just as fire remains without scorching
against incantations or other devices
but scorches otherwise,
so also the Self remains veiled by vasanas
and reveals itself when there are no vasanas.

Owing to the fluctuation of the vasanas,
jnana takes time to steady itself.
Unsteady jnana is not enough to check rebirths.
Jnana cannot remain unshaken
side by side with vasanas.

True,
that in the proximity of a great master,
the vasanas will cease to be active,
the mind becomes still and samadhi results,
similar to fire not scorching because of other devices.
Thus the disciple gains true knowledge and right experience
in the presence of the master.

To remain unshaken
in it further efforts is necessary.
He will know it to be his real Being
and thus be liberated even while alive.

Samadhi with closed eyes is certainly good,
but one must go further until it is realized
that actionlessness and action
are not hostile to each other.
Fear of loss of samadhi while one is active
is the sign of ignorance.
Samadhi must be the natural life of everyone.

There is a state
beyond our efforts or effortlessness.
Until it is realized effort is necessary.

After tasting such Bliss even once,
one will repeatedly try to regain it.
Having once experienced the Bliss of Peace
no one would like to be out of it
or engaged himself otherwise.

It is as difficult for a Jnani to engage in thoughts
as it is for an ajnani to be free from thought.

The common man says that he does not know himself;
he thinks many thoughts and cannot remain without thinking.

Any kind of activity does not affect a Jnani;
his mind remains ever in eternal Peace.

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