Devotee: After long years of discipline and practice I am having some mystic experiences. I feel sometimes that Bhuma (Supreme Consciousness) is infinitude and that I am finite consciousness. Is that correct?”
Ramana Maharishi: Bhuma (Perfection) alone is. It is Infinite. There arises from it this finite consciousness taking on an upadhi (limiting adjunct). This is abhasa or reflection. Merge this individual consciousness into the Supreme One. That is what should be done.
Devotee: Bhuma is an attribute of Supreme Consciousness.
Ramana Maharishi: Bhuma is the Supreme - yatra naanyat pasyati yatra naanyat srunoti sa bhuma (where one does not see any other, hears nothing, it is Perfection). It is indefinable and indescribable. It is as it is.
Devotee: There is a vastness experienced. Probably it is just below Bhuma but close to it. Am I right?
Ramana Maharishi: Bhuma alone is. Nothing else. It is the mind, which says all this.
Devotee: Transcending the mind I feel the vastness.
Ramana Maharishi: Yes, Yes....
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