When `I’ ceases to exist there is no grief. After the `I’-thought has arisen, the wrong identity with the body arises.
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The birth of the `I’-thought is one’s own birth, its death is the person’s death. Therefore the mind is only the thought `I’. The continued recitation of OM (called Udgita Pranayama) fills one with peace. Of all thoughts the thought `I’ is the root. Devotees can meditate on the words of Bhagwan with OM chants in the background. When the mind unceasingly investigates its own nature, it transpires that there is no such thing as mind. Its duration is proportional to the strength of. From where does this `I’ arise? Seek for it within it then vanishes. Ramana Maharshi said, Look, its all very simple, everybody, and then for 40 or 45 years all he did was go around telling everyone how simple it was. (After a short pause) If you strengthen the mind, that peace will continue for all time. Trace, then, the ultimate cause of `I’ or personality.
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Therefore they arise only after the first person appears, so all the three persons seem to rise and sink together. The second and the third persons do not appear except to the first person. Ramana Maharhshi was a guru of international renown from southern India who taught Meditation during the first half of the twentieth century. The ego therefore exhibits thought activity. Ramana Maharshi (Amar Chitra Katha: The Glorious Heritage of India series) ISBN 81-7508-048-5. Personality-idea or thought is also the root or the stem of all other thoughts, since each idea or thought arises only as someone’s thought and is not known to exist independently of the ego. Ramana, at least here in this passage, is clear: dhyana, or meditation, is the way. Dhyana is a sanskrit word that is usually translated as ‘meditation’. Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana MaharshiĪrranging thoughts in the order of value, the `I’-thought is the all-important thought. Ramana Maharshi: Dhyana is holding on to a single thought and putting off all other thoughts.