Spiritual Stories

Author(s): Raman Maharshi
Publisher: Ramanasramam Tiruvannamalai

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SILENT ELOQUENCE
Lakshman Brahmachari from Sri Ramakrishna Mission asked, “Enquiry of 'Who am I?' or of the 'I-thought being itself a thought, how can it be destroyed in the process.”
Sri Bhagavan replied with a story.
WHEN SITA WAS asked who was her husband among the rishis (Rama himself being present there as a rishi) in the forest, by the wives of the rishis, she denied each one as he was pointed out to her, but simply hung down her head when Rama was pointed out. Her silence was eloquent.
Similarly, the Vedas also are eloquent in neti-neti (not this, not this) and then remain silent. Their silence is the Real State. This is the meaning of exposition by silence. When the source of the l’-thought is reached it vanishes and what remains is the Self.