Preaching from silence

<3

PREACHING FROM SILENCE

D.: Why doesn’t Sri Bhagavan go about preaching the truth to the people at large?

B.: How do you know that I don’t? Does preaching consist in mounting a platform and haranguing the people around?

Preaching is simple communication of knowledge and can be done in silence too. What do you think of a man listening to a harangue for an hour and going away without being impressed by it so as to change his life? Compare him with another who sits in a holy presence and leaves after some time with his outlook on life totally changed. Which is better: to preach loudly without effect or to sit silently sending forth intuitive force to act on others?

Again, how does speech arise? First, there is abstract knowledge (unmanifest). From this there arises the ego which gives rise to thoughts and words successively. So then:

Abstract Knowledge
↓

Ego
↓

Thoughts
↓

Words

Words therefore are the great-grandsons of the original source. If words can produce an effect, consider how much more powerful preaching through silence must be.

Bhagavan answered those who doubted its utility that Realisation was the greatest help they could possibly render to others. Indeed, Bhagavan himself was the standing proof of this, as one saw from the numbers of people helped to the very depth of their being, lifted out of confusion and sorrow on to a firm path of peace and understanding, by the silent influence of his grace. And yet, at the same time, he reminded them that, from the point of view of knowledge, there are no others to help.

TEACHINGS OF RAMANA MAHARSHI IN HIS OWN WORDS

Who i am ?

Dr. Emile Gatheir, S. J., Professor of Philosophy at the Sacred Heart College, Shembaganur, Kodaikanal, asked:

“Can you kindly give me a summary of your teachings?”

Sri Ramana Maharshi .: They are found in small booklets, particularly Who am l?

Q.: I shall read them. But may I have the central point of your
teachings from your lips?
Sri Ramana Maharshi.: The central point is the thing.

Q: It is not clear.
Sri Ramana Maharshi .: Find the Centre.

Q.: I am from God. Is not God distinct from me?

Sri Ramana Maharshi.: Who asks this question?
God does not ask it.
You ask it.
So find who you are and
then you may find if God is distinct from you.

Q.: But God is Perfect and I am imperfect. How can I ever know
Him fully?

Sri Ramana Maharshi.: God does not say so.
The question is for you.
After finding who you are you may see what God is.

Q.: But you have found your Self. Please let us know if God is distinct from you.

Sri Ramana Maharshi.: It is a matter of experience.
Each one must experience it himself.

Q.: Oh! I see. But God is Infinite and I am finite. I have a personality which can never merge into God. Is it not so?

Sri Ramana Maharshi.: Infinity and Perfection do not admit of parts. If a finite being comes out of infinity the perfection of infinity is marred. Thus your statement is a contradiction in terms.

Q.: No. I see both God and creation.

Sri Ramana Maharshi.: How are you aware of your personality?

D.: I have a soul. I know it by its activities.

Sri Ramana Maharshi.: Did you know it in deep sleep?

D.: The activities are suspended in deep sleep.

Sri Ramana Maharshi .: But you exist in sleep.
So do you now too.
Which of these two is your real state?

~ From Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi : 602.

“ Who I am ?“ soft pdf copy book freely available in worlds 26 nos language on Sri Ramanaashram website as follows,

www.sriramanamaharshi.org/resource_centre/publications

Awareness

Shri Ramana Bhagavan - Pranam <3

32. Abide as That in which there is no awareness of the body, or the various functions of manifest existence, no perception of objects, That in which the mind is dead, the soul become one with the Reality, thoughts dissolved and even one’s convictions no longer hold - and with the firm conviction that you are That, be always happy <3

Ribhu Chaper 26

Self

<3

The 'lazy' state of just being and shining is the state of the Self, and that is the highest state that one can attain. Revere as the most virtuous those who have attained that 'lazy' state which cannot be attained except by very great and rare tapas'.

- GVK 774

God and Guru

'Is it not possible for God and the Guru to effect the release of a soul?'

God and the Guru will only show the way to release; they will not by themselves take the soul to the state of release. In truth, God and the Guru are not different. Just as the prey which has fallen into the jaws of a tiger has no escape, so those who have come within the ambit of the Guru’s gracious look will be saved by the Guru and will not get lost; yet, each one should by his own effort pursue the path shown by God or Guru and gain release. One can know oneself only with one’s own eye of knowledge, and not with somebody else’s. Does he who is Rama require the help of a mirror to know that he is Rama?

('Who Am I?', Q. 20)

Abide as that

JShri Ramana Bhagavan - Pranam <3

30. Abide as That which is “I” as well as “you” as well as everyone else, is the basis of all, is one without anything else whatsoever, is extremely pure, the undifferentiated Whole - and with the firm conviction that you are That, be always happy <3

Ribhu Chaper 26

Ribbu gita

Shri Ramana Bhagavan - Pranam <3

31. Abide as That in which there are no concepts or anything else whatsoever, the ego ceases to exist, all desires disappear, the mind becomes extinct and all confusions come to an end - and with the firm conviction that you are That, be always happy <3

Ribhu Chaper 26