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above passage is for the abhyasi or the practiser. There is no
harm in engaging in whatever activities naturally come to one.
The hindrance or bondage is in imagining that we are the doers
and attaching ourselves to the fruits of such activities.
In this connection Bhagavan also said, “A man says ‘I
came from Madras’. But in reality ‘he’ did not come. The
jutka or some other vehicle brought him from his house to the
railway station, the train brought him to Tiruvannamalai
railway station, and from there some other cart brought him
here. But he says ‘I came’. This is how we identify ourselves
with the acts of the body and the senses.” Bhagavan also quoted
from the Vedanta Chudamani to the effect that the activities
of the jnani are all samadhi, i.e. he is always in his real state,
whatever his body may happen to be doing. Bhagavan also
referred to Rajeswarananda and said that once he planned to
take a big party of pilgrims with Bhagavan in their midst.
Bhagavan said, “I did not consent to go and the thing had to
be dropped. What is there I could go and see? I see nothing.
What is the use of my going anywhere?” (“TôojRôp Iußm
ùR¬¡\§p~”) This is one of those self-revealing statements,
which sometimes escape Bhagavan’s lips.
The following remarks were also made by Bhagavan
this night:
“The jnani sees he is the Self and it is on that Self as the
screen that the various cinema-pictures of what is called the
world pass. He remains unaffected by the shadows which play
on the surface of that screen.
“See with the ‘E]dLi’ (the physical eye), and you
see the world. See with the ‘Oô]dLi’ (the eye of
realisation), everything appears ‘©WmUUVm’ (as the Self).
“To see an object that is in the dark, both the eye and the
light of a lamp are required. To see the light only, the eye is
enough. But to see the sun, there is no need of any other light.
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