Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Practice is power. If thoughts are reduced to a single thought the mind is said to have grown strong. When practice remains unshaken it becomes sahaja (natural).
What is such practice?
Enquiring into the Self. That is all. Atman eva vasham nayet.. Fix the mind on the SELF.
What is the aim to be kept in view? Practice requires an aim.
Atman is the aim. What else can there be? All other aims are for those who are incapable of atmalakshya (having the Self for the aim). They lead you ultimately to atma-vichara (enquiry into the Self). One-pointedness is the fruit of all kinds of practice. One may get it quickly; another after a long time. Everything depends on the practice.
Peace is extolled more than anything else. How shall we gain it?
It is your very nature. Forgetfulness never overtakes the Self. The Self is now confounded with non-Self and that makes you speak of forgetfulness of the Self, Peace etc. Oblivion will never rear up its head if this confusion is put an end to.
How is that done?
Enquiry into the Self. One pointedness means cessation of mental activities. Forgetfulness must be for the self - well, of what? Of the Self? Are there then two selves? Practice removes samskaras.
But samskaras are infinite and eternal - from beginningless time.
This itself is a samskara. Give up that idea and all samskaras will disappear at once. That is vishranti (repose), shanti (peace). Peace is ever present. But you hold it down and rise over it and thus disturb it. Then you say, "I want peace".
Will peace be gradual?
Yes. Make the mind gradually still (sanaissanaih uparamet) says the Gita.
After some time, the visitor asked if one Mr. G. had been here on or about the 20th instant. He himself had heard of Maharshi from him. Mr. G. was full of joy after his visit here.
How can I know the names of all the visitors? He might have been there. All are full of joy. There is no name, no form. Name is however needed for vyavahara (empirical life).
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