Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi · Volume III

Talk 586

23rd November, 1938

An Andhra visitor asked: “How is one to be quiet? It is so difficult to be so. Should we practise for it? Or is there any other means for it?”

M.: What is not difficult looks difficult. A man is prone to wander about. He is told to stay quiet at home, but finds it difficult to do so because he wants to wander about.

D.: Is there any particular which is more efficacious than others?

M.: All are equally efficacious. But each one takes easily to one kind of upāsanā which suits his previous .

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