Be still

From: ~~~ Face to Face with Sri Ramana Maharshi: 100.

R. Narayana Iyer did personal service to Sri Ramana.
He wrote a number of articles in The Mountain Path
under the pen name Vishnu.
When he first went to Sri Ramana as a young man,
he was a modernist and a freethinker.

M.:
“This is only the husk !
All this book learning and capacity to repeat
the scriptures by memory is absolutely of no use.

To know the Truth,
you need not undergo all this torture of learning.

Not by reading do you get the Truth.

Be Quiet that is Truth.

Be Still, that is God.”

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M.:
“All the scriptures are meant only to show you the way of Realization.
They are meant for practice and attainment.

Mere book learning and discussions are comparable
to a man shaving the image in the mirror.”

R. Narayana Iyer:
From that day onwards my long-standing sense
of inferiority vanished once for all.

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