MULTIPLICATION OF TENDENCIES

Many who take the PATH , many members of spiritual groups, will be found to be more egoistic than those one would be likely to meet in some group of people united for worldly or social ends - more jealous ,more ungoverned ,quicker to take offence ,less generous, less inclined to give in, atleast in the early phase of the PATH. This is likely to come as a shock and disillusionment to one joining such group.

BUT THE WISE HOLD ON AND CARRY ON FORWARD.

One explanation that is given is that spiritual training squeezes aout the lower tendencies in man ,of which he himself is unaware, bringing them to the surface and thereby making them temporarily more obtrusive , so that an aggravation is a stage in the cure.

When a devotee complained to the Maharishi that other thougths arose more forcilbly when he tried to meditate,

 Bhagawan replied "Yes All kinds of thoughts arise in meditation ,That is only right ,for what is hidden in is brought out.Unless it rises up how can it be destroyed?Thoughts rise up spontaneously but only to be extinguished in due course, thus strengthening the mind"

Source :Teachings Of Ramana Maharishi in His Own Words

PUNISHMENT

A devotee asked Bhagawan once " Is society right in taking the life of a murderer? Can the state do so either? The Christian countries begin to think that it is wrong to do so"?

Bhagawan :" What is it that prompted the murderer to commit the drime? The same power awards him the punishment.Society or State is only  a tool in the hands of power.You speak of one life taken away , But what about the innumerable lives lost in wars"?

 

 

 

Ref: Talks With Ramana Maharishi  

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Sri Ramana

GREATNESS--BONDAGE AND LIBERATION

As an answer to Annamalai swamy's question on moksha Bhagawan said the following :

" It is natural for a person to think that he should be well-known to the people of the world and be praised by them.But if this thought is present one cannot attain true greatness or happiness.God is not interested in those who promote their own claims to greatness. One who is not satisfactory to God is an inferior person, not a great one.

If anyone dedicates both his mind and his body to God in every possible way, God will make him be famous and praised by people all over the world"

Bhagawan then supported his remarks by quoting a verse from Vairagya Shatakam

" O mind, you are thinking how to make the people of the world regard you as great.The ever-existing God alone is the one who bestows bondage and lieration.What is the use of others knwoing your greatness? O mind, perform the rare tapas of surrendering to the holy golden feet of God. Then God will make you so great that the world will know your greatness and praise you.Know thus."

Bhagawan also gave a text to Annamalai Swamy called Sivabhoga Saram (96 verse)

"Those who suppress the thought 'I am Great' by not paying any attention to it, the Vedas will say that they are great ,

Those who shay 'I am great' are small people,Say other than them who will undergo misery in this world"

(Source LIVING BY THE WORDS OF BHAGAWAN( Page 124-125) by David Godman )

Realization is it a Flood?

One day Mr.Cohen told Bhagavan that he always understood that Realization is like a flood and sudden.

Bhagawan answered that it must not be forgotten that before realisation (the suddenes) maturity is required which is a very slow process, like the ripening of an apple on the tree.

FROM GURU RAMANA MEMORIES AND NOTES BY S.S.COHEN.

PERSONAL GOD

Dr.H of the small group of Americans spen a few weeks in the Ashram in Feb 1936 asked Sri.Maharishi if there exists such thing as Personal God

Bhagawan said Yes Ishwara

Dr.H: What with eys, nose and ears?

Bh:Yes if you have them why should not God also have them.

Cohen:When I read in the Kabbala and the Puranas the God has these organs ,I laugh

Bh: Why Don’t you laugh at yourself for having them.

[FROM GURU RAMANA MEMORIES AND NOTES BY S.S.COHEN]

MAYA AND REALITY

A disciple remarks that Sri Bhagavan often says that Maya and Reality is the same .How can that be?

Shankara was criticised for his views on Maya without understanding him. He said 1. brahmam is real and the universe is unreal and brahmam is the universe. He did not stop at the second, because the third explains the other two. It signifies that the universe is real if perceived as the Self and unreal if perceived apart from the Self

Hence Maya and Reality are one an the same.

{ FROM GURU RAMANA MEMORIES AND NOTES BY S.S.COHEN}