{"id":152,"date":"2010-03-10T19:25:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T13:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/?p=152"},"modified":"2010-03-10T19:25:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T13:55:04","slug":"from-talk-597-talks-with-sri-ramana-maharshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"from talk 597 &#8216;Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana';\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">M.:\u00a0A practiser gains peace of mind and is happy. That peace is the result of his efforts. But the real state must be effortless. The effortless\u00a0samadhi\u00a0is the true one and theperfect state. It is permanent. The efforts are spasmodic and so also their results.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-216\" style=\"margin: 5px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Ramana-for-blog2\" src=\"http:\/\/arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Ramana-for-blog2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"97\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana';\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">When the real, effortless, permanent, happy nature is realised it will be found to be not inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life. The\u00a0samadhi\u00a0reached after efforts looks like abstraction from the external activities. A person might be so abstracted or live freely among people without detriment to his Peace and Happiness because that is his true nature or the Self.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"share-link-wrapper share-link-button share-link-button-green\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/?ibsa=share&id=152\" class=\"share-link\" id=\"share-link-32782078774\" onclick=\"iBeginShare.handleLink(event);return false;\">Share<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var el = document.getElementById('share-link-32782078774');el.params = {title: 'from talk 597 &amp;#8216;Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi&amp;#8217;', link: 'http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/?p=152', skin: 'green', content: 'http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/?ibsa=get_content&id=152'};<\/script><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M.:\u00a0A practiser gains peace of mind and is happy. That peace is the result of his efforts. But the real state must be effortless. The effortless\u00a0samadhi\u00a0is the true one and theperfect state. It is permanent. The efforts are spasmodic and so also their results. When the real, effortless, permanent, happy nature is realised it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}