Spiritual sharings from Sri Ganesan Dear brother BEDIji Maharaj, Namaskar. Thank you for calling me, yesterday morning, and conveying to me your sense of gratefulness for having benefitted through yesterdays Spiritual Sharing ! You know, it gives me immense contentment when thus told, not because I await appreciation but because we both -- thereby I thank all our brothers and sisters who patiently receive and read these Sharings -- know how Sri Bhagavan Himself used to quote from Kaivalya Navaneeta which says : அதை நினைத்தும் , அதை உரைத்தும் = To constantly share and contemplate over THAT ! Yes ! Repeatedly we should involve in Sharing ! You can get the benefit of viewing the distant stars near, only by holding the telescope rightly, NOT by holding it wrongly -- up-side-down ! That is, BE- ing is knowing, said Sri Bhagavan; but not, Knowing is BE- ing ! By once reading, one does understand the teaching - no doubt ! But, that is not enough ! We should constantly be involving ourselves, most sincerely too, in making the understood TEACHING dissolving into ourselves and being our own experience ! May Sri Bhagavan bless us all ! With Love and Regards, Yours Affectionately, Ganesan. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15th March, 1939 647. Devotee : We are trying to stop thoughts. Gandhiji also says that thought is an obstacle to Gods guidance. So, it is the natural state. Though natural, yet how difficult to realise. They say that sadhanas are necessary and also that they are obstacles. We get confused. Sri Bhagavan : Sadhanas are needed so long as one has not realised IT. They are for putting an end to obstacles. Finally, there comes a stage when a person feels helpless notwithstanding the sadhanas. He is unable to pursue the much-cherished sadhana also. It is then that Gods Power is realised. The SELF reveals Itself. D.: If the state is natural, why does it not overcome the unnatural phases and assert Itself over the rest ? Sri Bhagavan : Is there anything besides That ? Does any one see anything besides the SELF ? One is always aware of the SELF. So, It is always Itself. D.: It is said, because It shines forth, It is directly perceived. I understand from it that It becomes pratyaksha (directly perceived), take it to be not thinking. It is only pradeepta (shining), and hence admits of obstacles and goes under them. If the Atma becomes prakarshena deepta (very shining) it will shine over the rest. So, it seems to be necessary to make it shine more. Sri Bhagavan : How can it be so ? The Atma cannot be dull at one moment and blazing at another. It is unchanging and uniform. D.: But, Queen Chudala says to King Sikhidhvaja that she simply helped to trim the wick. Sri Bhagavan : That refers to nididhyasana (uninterrupted contemplation). By Sravana, Knowledge dawns. That is the flame. By Manana , the Knowledge is not allowed to vanish. Just as the flame is protected by a wind-screen, so the other thoughts are not allowed to overwhelm the right knowledge. By Nididhyasana , the flame is kept up to burn bright by trimming the wick. Whenever other thoughts arise, the mind is turned inward to the Light of True Knowledge. When this becomes natural,it is Samadhi . The enquiry, Who Am I ? is the Sravana. The ascertainment of the true import of I is the Manana . The practical application on each occasion is Nididdhyasana . Being as I is Samadhi . D.: Although we have heard it so often and so constantly, yet we are unable to put the teaching into practice successfully. It must be due to weakness of mind. Is it possible that ones age is a bar ? Sri Bhagavan : The mind is commonly said to be strong if it can think furiously. But, here the mind is strong if it is free from thoughts. The Yogis say that Realisation can be had only before the age of thirty, but not the Jnanis. For Jnana does not cease to exist with age. It is true in the Yoga Vasishta, Sage Vasishta says to Lord Ramana in the Vairaghya Prakarana, You have this dispassion in your youth. It is admirable ! But, he did not say that Jnana cannot be had in old age. There is nothing to prevent it in old age. The sadhaka must remain as the SELF. If he cannot do so, he must ascertain the true meaning of the I and constantly revert to It, whenever other thoughts arise. That is the practice. But, why all this ? Can the world exist apart from the SELF ? The I is always Brahman. Its identity need not be established by logic and practice. It is enough that one realises the SELF. IT is always the Brahman. --- from TALKS WITH SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI , pp.606--608
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