Video Information:
Shastra Kaumudi Live, 5.1.20, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Context:
~ What is a sign of wisdom?
~ Which state of mind called supreme Brahma?
~ How to attain supreme Brahma state?
~ what is meant by this slight difference supreme Brahman according to Raman Maharshi?
~ How is mind influenced by everything?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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#acharyaprashant #ramanmaharshi
Shastra Kaumudi Live, 5.1.20, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Context:
~ What is a sign of wisdom?
~ Which state of mind called supreme Brahma?
~ How to attain supreme Brahma state?
~ what is meant by this slight difference supreme Brahman according to Raman Maharshi?
~ How is mind influenced by everything?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~~~~~~~~
#acharyaprashant #ramanmaharshi
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00:00Acharya ji Pranam, Ramana Maharshi says, what is the sign of Vivek?
00:14Its beauty lies in remaining free from delusion after realizing the truth once.
00:24There is fear only for the one who sees at least a slight difference in the Supreme Brahma.
00:33As long as there is the idea that the body is the body, one cannot be a realizer of truth
00:46whoever he might be.
00:53So long as there is the idea that the body is the self, one cannot be a realizer of truth.
01:00So long as one thinks that the body is the self, one cannot realize the truth.
01:08So dear Acharya ji, after reading these words, it is clear that constant effort is needed.
01:17Yet it's not very clear what the Maharishi implies when he says slight difference in
01:23Supreme Brahma.
01:24Could you please elaborate more on it for clarity?
01:30I'll re-read for everybody.
01:34What is the sign of wisdom, Vivek?
01:37Its beauty lies in remaining free from delusion after realizing the truth once.
01:41Then comes the part on which the question is based.
01:46There is fear only for the one who sees at least a slight difference in the Supreme Brahma.
01:50There is fear only for the one who sees at least a slight difference in the Supreme Brahma.
01:55The question is what is meant by this slight difference Supreme Brahma?
01:59What is Brahma?
02:00What is truth?
02:01What is the pure self?
02:03The pure self is the unaltered, unalterable, incorruptible center of the mind.
02:19Mind that is prone to corruption, mind that is prone to influences is just mind.
02:28Difficult, destructible, suffering mind.
02:34Mind that is not now centered on the ego, not centered on the I-sense, but centered
02:44on something of the beyond or you could say centered on nothing at all is now the veritable truth.
03:07The mind is influenced by everything.
03:13Everything makes a difference to the mind.
03:19Everything makes a difference.
03:23Its 2pm.
03:24Does it make a difference?
03:25Yes.
03:26I am rich.
03:27Does it make a difference?
03:28Yes.
03:29I am poor.
03:30Does it make a difference?
03:31Yes.
03:32Its cold.
03:33Does it make a difference?
03:34Yes.
03:35You are old.
03:36Does it make a difference?
03:37Yes.
03:38Everything makes a difference which means the mind is very, very prone, very susceptible
03:46to the influence of the conditions.
03:51Such a mind is not Brahma.
03:54Such a mind is not truth.
03:58The mind to which nothing makes a difference is now pure mind.
04:06Mind that cannot be touched, influenced, distorted, conditioned.
04:13That is the meaning of not seeing even a slight difference in Supreme Brahma.
04:22When you are the one in whose real inner condition not even a slight difference can
04:39be caused by the world, then there is just Brahma.
04:51Write the word difference.
04:56Difference means change.
05:00Something was one way and with the passage of time, with change in situations, the thing
05:09is now another way.
05:11That is called a difference.
05:14So the word difference is synonymous to time, to change, to world, to influence, to incompletion.
05:32When there is no urge to increase or to decrease, when there is no urge to expand or shrink,
05:50when there is no urge to know or to unknow, then there is just Brahma.
06:00Are you getting it?
06:06But remember that all this inactivity, all this completeness belongs to Brahma and only
06:21to Brahma.
06:25It belongs to truth and only to truth.
06:29It becomes a very dangerous situation when the false starts mimicking the conditions
06:39of truth.
06:41It becomes a very dangerous situation when the false starts emulating the characteristics
06:49of truth.
06:53The truth for example we said does not need to know anything.
07:00Only the truth does not need to know anything.
07:02The false needs to know a lot.
07:05The false needs to know stuff that would expose and dissolve its falseness.
07:13The truth does not need to go anywhere but the false does need to go to the right places
07:18so that it can get rid of its falseness.
07:26Nothing makes a difference to the truth and that is so great.
07:33It is the greatest blessing, a wonderful relief that nothing makes a difference to the truth.
07:40But it is a huge danger sign if nothing makes a difference to the false.
07:48If to the false nothing makes a difference, it means that the falseness is now very very
07:54deeply entrenched.
07:57It means now that falseness has become chronic and deep seated.
08:06Nothing is making a difference to the falseness.
08:09It will be very difficult to uproot such a falseness now.
08:14To falseness something must make a difference.
08:17Are you getting it?