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From ~~~ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk 318

D.: I do not have fear in sleep whereas I have it now.

M.: Because dwiteeyadvai bhayam bhavati

- fear is always of a second one. Of what are you afraid?

D.: By reason of the perception of the body, the senses,

the world, Isvara, doership, enjoyment etc.

M.: Why do you see them if they cause fear?

D.: Because they are inescapable.

M.: But it is you who sees them. For whom is the fear?

Is it for them?

D.: No, it is for me.

M.: Because you see them, you fear them.

Do not see them and there will be no fear.

D.: What then should I do in the waking state?

M.: Be the Self;

there will be no second thing to cause you fear.

D.: Yes. Now I understand.

If I see my Self, then the sight is warded off the non-self

and there is happiness. Yet there is the fear of death.

M.: Only the one who is born should die.

See if you have been born at all

in order that death should threaten you.

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