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Silence Speaks
SRI AUROBINDO AND MAHARISHI RAMANA
You may by the way study the thoughts either of Shri Aurobindo or of Maharishi Ramana, but you must also go on with what you are after. I too had gone through mahayoga. The followers of the Maharishi are even today found to be badly entangled in, and controverting over, the view regarding the exact position of the heart in the human body, whether it is on the right or on the left. There is however no mystery about it. It will be quite clear if we take the whole structure of the physical heart into consideration. Maharishi insists upon enquiring, ―Who am I?‖. In my humble opinion it would be far better instead to try to forget `who I am'. The body-Consciousness and soul-consciousness must both necessarily go away, and this view is based on my personal experience. I have always been a free thinker, so I feel no hitch to express myself freely and frankly. I am always ready to welcome any one who may be able to take abhyasis farther on beyond the limit to which I mean to give them approach. When you have taken up one for
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