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V.: It is said only some are chosen for Self-realisation
and those alone could get it. It is rather discouraging.
B.: All that is meant is, we cannot by our own buddhi,
unaided by God’s grace, achieve realisation of Self.
I added, “Bhagavan also says that even that grace does
not come arbitrarily, but because one deserves it by one’s own
efforts either in this or in previous lives.”
V.: Human effort is declared to be useless. What incentive
can any man then have to better himself?
I asked, “Where is it said you should make no effort or
that your effort is useless?”
The visitor thereupon showed the portion in Who am I?
where it is said, “When there is one great Force looking after
all the world, why should we bother what we shall do?” I
pointed out that what is deprecated there is not human effort,
but the feeling that “I am the doer”. Bhagavan approved of
my explanation, when I asked him if it was not so.
Af After Af er ernoon er noon
Bhagavan said he once had a dream that he went to Palni
and that he then devoured the Palni God (Lord Subramanya);
and that he had at another time a dream that he visited
Tiruchendur temple (where also the deity is Lord Subramanya).
The details of this dream Bhagavan does not remember.
I remembered that some people once wanted to know if a
jivanmukta can have dreams. The doubt is natural, because we
believe jnanis have no sleep like ordinary men. So they may not
have dreams. I therefore asked Bhagavan about this matter, and
he said, “If the jnani can have a waking state, what is the difficulty
about his having a dream state? But of course as his waking state
is different from the ordinary man’s waking state, so his dream
state also will be different from the ordinary man’s dream state.
Whether in waking or in dream he will not slip from his real
state which is sometimes called the fourth or turiya state.”
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