Devotee: What is the purpose of life? Maharshi: To seek to know the significance of life is itself the result of good karma in past births. Those who do not seek such knowledge are simply wasting their lives. Devotee: People give some names to God and say that the name is sacred and repetitions of the name bestows merit on the individual. Can it be true? Maharshi: Why not? You bear a name to which you answer. But your body was not born with that name written on it, nor did it say to any one that it bore such and such a name. And yet a name is given to you and you answer to that name, because you have identified yourself with the name. Therefore the name signifies something and it is not a mere fiction. Similarly, Gods name is effective. Repetition of the name is remembrance of what it signifies. Hence its merit. — Talks With Sri Ramana Maharshi
Posted on: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 01:44:00 +0000
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