Devotee: Does Bhagavan give diksha (initiation)?
Ramana Maharishi: Mowna (silence) is the best and the most potent diksha. That was practised by Sri Dakshinamurti. Touch, look, etc., are all of a lower order. Silence (mowna diksha) changes the hearts of all. There is no Guru and no disciple. The ajnani confounds his body with the Self and so he takes the other’s body for the Guru. But does the Guru think his body to be the Self? He has transcended the body. There are no differences for Him. So the ajnani cannot appreciate the standpoint of Guru and of sishya.
Devotee: Is there then no difference between the one and the other?
Ramana Maharishi: There are differences from the standpoint of the phenomenal world but not from that of Reality.
Ramana Maharishi: Mowna (silence) is the best and the most potent diksha. That was practised by Sri Dakshinamurti. Touch, look, etc., are all of a lower order. Silence (mowna diksha) changes the hearts of all. There is no Guru and no disciple. The ajnani confounds his body with the Self and so he takes the other’s body for the Guru. But does the Guru think his body to be the Self? He has transcended the body. There are no differences for Him. So the ajnani cannot appreciate the standpoint of Guru and of sishya.
Devotee: Is there then no difference between the one and the other?
Ramana Maharishi: There are differences from the standpoint of the phenomenal world but not from that of Reality.
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