Gems From Maharshi

Sri Ramana Maharshi

• When I lay down with limbs outstretched and mentally enacted the death scene, and realized that the body would be taken and cremated and yet I would live, some force, call it atmic power or anything else, rose within me and took possession of me. With that I was reborn and I became a new man. I became indifferent to everything afterwards, having neither likes nor dislikes.
• From silence came thought, from thought the ego, and from ego speech. If speech is effective, how much more so must be its source (silence)?
• Karpura arathi (burning camphor before God) is symbolic of burning away the mind by the mind of illumination. Vibhuti (sacred ash) is Siva (Absolute) and kumkum (vermillion powder) is Sakti (consciousness).
• Not desiring the non-Self is dispassion (vairagya). Inhering in the Self is jnana. Both are the same.