Talk 479.
D.: Which is the best of all the religions? What is Sri Bhagavan' s method?M.: All religions and methods are one and the same.
D.: Different methods are taught for liberation.
M.: Why should you be liberated? Why not remain as you are now?
D.: I want to get rid of pain. To be rid of it is said to be liberation.
M.: That is what all religions teach.
D.: But what is the method?
M.: To retrace your way back.
D.: Whence have I come?
M.: That is just what you should know. Did these questions arise in your sleep? Did you not exist then? Are you not the same being now?
D.: Yes, I was in sleep; so also the mind; but the senses had merged , so I could not speak.
M.: Are you jiva [?]? Are you the mind? Did the mind announce itself to you in sleep?
D.: No. But elders say that the jiva is different from Isvara [?].
M.: Leave Isvara alone. Speak for yourself.
D.: What about myself? Who am I??
M.: That is just it. Know it, when all will be known; if not, ask then.
D.: On waking I see the world and I am not changed from sleep.
M.: But this is not known in sleep. Now or then, the same you remain.
Who has changed now? Is your nature to be changing or remain unchanging?
D.: What is the proof?
M.: Does one's own being require a proof? Only remain aware of your own self, all else will be known.
D.: Why then do the dualists and non-dualists quarrel among themselves?
M.: If each one minds his own business, there will be no quarrel.
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