29-12-45 Morning

Mr. Viswanatha Brahmachari brought a Tamil translation of
Mr. C. Dikshitulu's Ramana Gopala and Bhagavan perused it.

Night

Mr. P.C. Desai introduced Mr. P.C. Dewanji (Retd.

Sub-Judge) who was returning from Trivandrum, where he had presided over a section of the Philosophical Conference. Mr. Dewanji asked Bhagavan, "What is the easiest way to attain one-pointedness of mind?" Bhagavan said, "The best way is to see the source of the mind. See if
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there is such a thing as the mind. It is only if there is a mind that the question of making it one-pointed will arise. When you investigate by turning inwards, you find there is no such thing as the mind."

Then Mr. P.C. Desai quoted Bhagavan's Upadesa Sara in
Sanskrit to the effect, "When you investigate the nature of mind continuously or without break, you find there is no such thing as the mind. This is the straight path for all." The visitor again asked, "It is said in our scriptures that God it is that creates, sustains and destroys all and that He is immanent in all. If so and if God does everything and if all that we do is according to God's niyati ^[?] (law), and had already been planned in the Cosmic Consciousness. is there individual personality and any responsibility for it?"

Bhagavan: Of course, there is. The same scriptures have
laid down rules as to what men should or should not do. If man is not responsible, then why should those rules have been laid down? You talk of God's niyati ^[?] and things happening according to it. If you ask God why this creation and all, He would tell you it is according to your karma again. If you believe in God and His niyati ^[?] working out everything, completely surrender yourself to Him and there will be no responsibility for you. Otherwise find out your real nature and thus attain freedom.

Mr. Sundaresa Iyer brought two copies of `LkRo
@???' (Kandar Anubhuti) to Bhagavan and said they were sent by Dasi Rajambal's son (Shanmuga Sundaram, teacher in a school here) who had published for free distribution 500 copies of the book in honour of his mother's memory. Bhagavan again said in this connection, "Though she was a young woman and born in that caste, she took a vow that she would not take her meal before giving me food."