Once Bhagavan was asked whether it was true that by the grace of the guru the highest state is reached in a moment. Bhagavan replied, “Yes. If the disciple is in a ripe state, the ajnana [ignorance] will be removed only by the avalokana [look] of the guru.” He added, “The kripa [grace] flows towards one in proportion to one’s merit. If the vessel is small, the kripa received will be small; if the vessel is big, the kripa will be proportionately more.”
Once, going through an English daily as usual, Bhagavan read somewhat aloud a sensational report of a new invention and smiled. After a pause he gently remarked, “One may acquire any number of powers, but without realising the yathartha [truth] one cannot acquire mano-shanti [peace of mind].”
When someone asked, “What is yathartha?” Bhagavan replied, “That which exists always,” and added after a pause, “Peace is our swabhava [nature]. Just as a person who keeps a number of things in a room and complains that there is no space in the room, we say there is no peace. Is not the space obtained automatically when the things are removed?”
~Face to Face with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Selected Excerpts from K.R.K. Murthi, 140
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Once, going through an English daily as usual, Bhagavan read somewhat aloud a sensational report of a new invention and smiled. After a pause he gently remarked, “One may acquire any number of powers, but without realising the yathartha [truth] one cannot acquire mano-shanti [peace of mind].”
When someone asked, “What is yathartha?” Bhagavan replied, “That which exists always,” and added after a pause, “Peace is our swabhava [nature]. Just as a person who keeps a number of things in a room and complains that there is no space in the room, we say there is no peace. Is not the space obtained automatically when the things are removed?”
~Face to Face with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Selected Excerpts from K.R.K. Murthi, 140
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