Where nothing makes a difference, there is Brahm || Acharya Prashant, on Raman Maharshi (2020)

Acharya Prashant

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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ #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?

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