RE: Re: What are we to efface?

A Devotee's conversation with Sri Ramana Maharshi
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One day I was seated near Bhagavan's couch and I felt
puzzled by the ancient teaching that everything is
maya or illusion. I wondered how it could be, when I
saw Bhagavan, the couch on which he sat, the barrier
separating me from Bhagavan and myself. "Bhagavan, can
all of us be unreal and non-existent ? Please
enlighten me ?"
Bhagavan laughed and asked me whether I had any dream
the previous night. I replied I had seen several
people lying asleep. He said , "Suppose, now I ask you
to go and wake all those people in the dream and tell
them that they are not real, how absurd would it be !
That is how it is to me. There is nothing but the
dreamer, so where does the question of dream people,
real or unreal arise; still more of waking them up and
telling them that they are not real ? We are all
unreal, Why do you doubt it ? That alone is real."

Anand


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