Sri Ramana Maharshi

Dear All,

Silence in true sense is silence of Mind.

Silence of speech may be a temporary phenomena as long as silence of mind is not attained permanently.

Silence of mind is adequately covered in the MBCA posts.

When the mind is not moved by the maddening call of the world, when Ego stands annihilated permanently, when the inner silence is not disturbed  by the noise of the entire world's temptations, then the mind has achieved total silence!

How does a Jnani move about in this world, with his mind silenced totally?

The Jnani may be intensely involved in many actions, may it be the administration of his ashram, non-stop discourses, travelling across the globe for spreading  knowledge, teaching his disciple etc.

But his mind is totally stilled as it does not carry the impact of all his actions nor are the actions initiated due to ego. Any action originating from a Jnani is for Loka kalyanam, welfare of the humanity.

This state can only be experienced and can never be known like any other knowledge in this world.

While the body and mind acts intensely, mind is disassociated totally with the actions undertaken by the Jnani. So, internally, the Jnani is stilled, motion less!

He verily exists as God! God creates the universe but has no thought of having created this world and exists ALONE!

This aspect of  God / Jnani's association with the world is a relationless relation, as chinmaya puts it.

Love.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Dear All,

The quote apparently seems to be confusing as it has seemingly contradictory expressions like words and silence, action and deep rest.

The expression suits the existence of a realized Master.

Only a Guru / Master's words / teachings can bring in silence of mind of a sincere disciple.

Only the Master's actions can bring in deep rest in the mind and heart of His disciple.

Only the deep rest of mind, devoid of ego, can help one discover the inner fulfillment / inner Joy!

Love.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Sri Ramana was asked a question on the above statement by a visitor.

Visitor: "How can you say this? How can the monks meditating in Tibet, living in seclusion from the society can serve the society?".

Ramana: It is only due to the pure hearts of those monks, it is only due to the aura of these Masters enveloping this universe that you and me are alive, hale and healthy, in spite of so much of violence and enmity within the country and amongst various countries. The entire negativity in this creation is wiped out with the aura of these Masters!

In Moksha Gita, Swami Sivananda says "Only a realized Master's seva/service can be termed exactly as service".

In the Surrender posts, there is a post on Loving God outside us, Loving God within us and then, once we have discovered the God within us, to effortlessly realize that the same God/ Divinity has to be there in every one else and with this Realization, service to anyone flows spontaneously, in the mode intuitively decided by the God within!

In that post, service aspect has been dealt in a more detailed manner as to How serving JUST happens when one gets realization.

Is teaching Brahma Vidya by a Jnani not the greatest service that can be given by any one to any other human in this creation?

Is acting as God's instrument and guiding the humanity on the purpose of human birth not one of the greatest seva that anyone can do?

Till one attains Self Realization, his serving the mankind is calculative, limited to a particular time, particular number of hours to a particular section of society and more often in anticipation of appreciation for the service done.

Only after one attains Self Realization, His every moment, His every breath, His every word, His every silence is service to the humanity with unconditional Love, though the entire world may not understand this aspect of His existence!!

Love.