Devotee: I think of Arunachala, but still I am not a mukta.
Ramana: Change of outlook is all that is necessary. See what such a change did for Arjuna. He had the vision of the Cosmic Self. Sri Krishna says: “Gods and saints are eager to see my Cosmic Form. I have not fulfilled their desire. Yet I endow divine sight by which you can see that Form.†Well, having said so, does He show what He is? No. He asks Arjuna to see in Him all that he desires to see. If that were His real form it must be changeless and known for what it is worth. Instead, Arjuna is commanded to see whatever he desires. So where is the Cosmic Form? It must be in Arjuna.
Furthermore, Arjuna finds Gods and saints in that form and they are praising the Lord. If the form be withheld from the Gods and saints as said by Krishna, who are they of Arjuna’s vision?
Devotee: They must be in his imagination.
Ramana: They are there because of Arjuna’s outlook.
Devotee: Then the outlook must be changed by God’s Grace.
Ramana: Yes. That happens to bhaktas (devotees)
Ramana Maharshi, while affirming the sanctity of the holy places, stresses that the inner truths of the verses must be understood, instead of relying on their purely literal or external interpretation. He suggests that a change in the outlook, which can come through devotion, Divine Grace and realization, is required before one can attain liberation.
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