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Major Chadwick:
On another occasion, I asked Bhagavan about suicide. I had been cycling round
the Hill and on meeting a bus, the thought
had come into my head: 'Why should I not concentrate on the Self and throw
myself in front of the bus, so that in this way
I may attain moksha!' (The last thought before dying confers the results of that
thought.).
I told this to Sri Bhagavan, but He said that it would not work. Thoughts would
spring up involuntarily as I fell, fear and the
shock would cause them, and thoughts coming, life would continue so that I
would have to take another body. If I could
still my mind sufficiently so that such a thing would not happen, then, what was
the need of suicide?
Arunachala Siva.
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Silent Power:
A. Venkateswara Sarma and Smt Sala:
A. Venkateswara Sarma, a native of Keelapasalai village, Ramanathapuram
District, is an old devotee of Sri Bhagavan,
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who along with his wife, Smt. Sala, equally devoted to Sri Bhagavan, likved in
Sri Ramana Nagar. Both are closely related
to Sri Bhagavan.
For over a decade, he studied Kavya (poetical literature in Sanskrit) gaining
mastery in the same and also became an adept
in the science of astrology by training he had for years at Vidyalaya in Kerala.
In his early days while staying at Kandanur,
he had a remarkable experience. He saw the portrait of Sri Bhagavan in his
majestic standing posture, with a penetrating
look which not merely seemed but was really felt as directed only to him and
which thrilled his whole being. The experience
proved a great urge to have Sri Bhagavan's darshan immediately.
He started the very next day and arrived at Tiruvannamalai, his luggage
consisting of a panchangam (almanac) in one
hand and an umbrella in the other. That was in 1920. He climbed up the Hill to
Skandasramam, and recognizing Sri
Bhagavan who was seated then under a nelli tree, he hastened to prostrate at
His feet, spontaneously reciting in a state
of ecstatic inspiration, the first sloka of Sri Dakshinamurti Stotram.
'Look, look at the visitor who has come -- Subbu's son, is it not?' So exclaimed
Sri Bhagavan, turning to His Mother who was
there. The mother gave him a hearty welcome and made him feel at home.
Delighted by the stay with Sri Bhagavan that
night, he was guided to do giri pradakshina next day. He expressed an ardent
desire to stay with Sri Bhagavan for good
and pleaded that he did not want to marry but wished to remain with Him and
serve Him and do pujas. The Mother would
have none of it , he had duties to perform, she reminded him and an uncle's
daughter awaiting to marry with him. He was
then 22 years old. Sri Bhagavan consoled him, 'What does it matter if you do
puja here or get married or whether you are
here or elsewhere.? And so he left !
Since then Sri Sarma was coming to Sri Bhagavan from time to time, often
staying for a month or two and benefiting by
Sri Bhagavan's utterances and His silent influence with devotion and piety.
contd.,
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Major Chadwick:
It was during the war, many people were talking about aeroplanes, bombs and
other wonderful things that were being made
for the sake of destruction. Bhagavan remarked that there was nothing very
wonderful in all that, they had had all these things
in ancient India. Rama had his flower-care (pushpaka vimanam) which was
nothing but an aeroplane, and in accounts of the
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Devotees of Sri Bhagavan are aware only of His famous Upadesa Saram and a
few isolated verses as His contributions
to the language of Gods i.e. Sanskrit. So it is necessary to place on record His
contribution to the famous Uma Sahasram
- a thousand verses on Uma, the Divine Mother, by His great disciple, the
learned Sri Kavyakanta Ganapati Muni. The story
shows the Maharshi as the joint author of this composition.
Sri Bhagavan was then living in the Pachiamman Temple, the abode of
Maragathamba, on the north eastern slopes of
Arunachala. In those days, the Maharshi would sit and sleep in a hammock
slung between two stone pillars and be rocked
as a darling child by His loving pupils.
Sri Kavyakanta had composed 700 stanzas on Uma in some thirty different
meters, and had announced to his devotees
in various parts of the country that this poem would be dedicated on a certain
Friday in the great temple of Sri Arunachaleswara.
Over a hundred persons gathered at the Pachiamman Temple so as to be present
on the occasion next day. Now these
Sanskrit verses were a mere intellectual display by Sri Kavyakanta, great as he
was in Sanskrit compositions. Proof of his
great intellectual capacity may be had from the very fact that in the presence of
the heads of the Udipi Maths he composed
extempore in a single hour the hundred verses of the Ghanta Sataka, giving the
cream of the teaching of the three main schools
of Hindu philosophy.
His Uma Sahasram is different from other compositions in that it is 'pasyanti vak'
i.e. revealed by the Divine Mother in Her own
words to one who is adept in the Kundalini Yoga.
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At about 8.00 pm. on the evening before the dedication day, after supper, Sri
Maharshi asked Sri Kavyakanta whether dedication
would have to be postponed to some other Friday, as 300 verses were still to be
composed to complete the thousand. But Sri
Kavyakanta assured Bhagavan that he would complete the poem immediately.
The scene that followed can hardly be believed by one who did not actually
witness it. Sri Maharshi sat silent and in deep
meditation like the silent Lord Dakshinamurti. The eager disciples watched in
tense admiration the sweet flow of divine music
in Sanskrit verse, as it came from the lips of the great and magnetic personality
of Muni. He stood there delivering the verses
in unbroken stream while disciples eagerly gathered the words and wrote them
down. Oh, for the ecstasy of it all! Life is indeed
is blessed if only to experience those divine moments.
The Sahasram was finsihed in several meters Madalekha, Pramanika, Upajati
Aryagiri etc., For a while the disciples present
enjoyed the deep ecstasy of silence pervading the atmosphere, as Sri Kavyakanta
concluded with normal type of colophone.
Then Sri Bhagavan opened His eyes and asked, 'Has all that I said been taken
down?' From Ganapati Muni came the ready
and grateful response, 'Bhagavan, ALL THAT BHAGAVAN INSPIRED IN ME HAS
BEEN TAKEN DOWN !'
It is thus clear that Sri Bhagavan inspired the final 300 verses of the Uma
Sahasram through the lips of Sri Kavyakanta, without
speaking a word, as usually understood, or rather in silence characteristic of the
Silent Sage of Arunachala. It is noteworthy that
whereas Sri Kavyakanta revised the first 700 verses of this monumental work
some six times, he did not revise any of the last 300.
This being Sri Bhagavan's own utterance, there was no need to improve them!
These 300 verses are to be considered as Sri
Bhagavan's unique contribution to Sanskrit poetry.
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Major Chadwick:
He was asked if the story were true that there were always seven Jnanis living
about the Hill. 'There may be even more than
that,' He told us, 'who can tell? How to recognize them? They may appear as
beggars lying in a ditch or in some other
unrecognizable capacity. It is impossible to say.'
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Sri Bhagavan always discouraged any devotee going Mounam or taking a vow of
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An old man named Sowbhagyathammal, living in a house near the foot of the
Hill, and some of her friends made it a daily
practice not take any food until they had darshan of Bhagavan and Sri Seshadri
Swami. They used to come up to Skandasramam
everyday for this purpose. One day Sowbhagyathammal did not come. If any of
His regular devotees were absent on a
particular day, Bhagavan never failed to make inquiries and find out the reason.
So when the old woman came the next day,
He asked her why she did not come on the previous day. She replied, 'I had Sri
Bhagavan's darshan yesterday.' 'But you
did not come yesterday', said Bhagavan. 'Bhagavan knew that this humble
devotee was too feeble to climb the Hill and so he made
it possible for her to see Him from a place close to her house', was the reply.
She explained that she had seen Bhagavan while
He was sitting on the stone and cleaning His teeth and said that she was
henceforth going to have His darshan everyday in the same
way. From that time onwards, Bhagavan made it a practice to sit on that stone
for nearly half an hour daily! Later on when
Bhagavan took up His abode at the foot of the Hill it was also chiefly out of
consideration for His aged devotees who found it
to climb to Skandasramam. After passing away of His Mother, He occasionally
came down to Her Samadhi. Aged devotees eagerly
awaited these opportunities to see Him. And so when they begged Him to
remain below, He began to live permanently.
contd.,
Arunachala Siva.
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Major Chadwick:
He was also against people taking Sannyasa. If properly kept, it was a useless
tie. If not properly kept, it condemned itself.
After all, it is only one think, 'now I am a Sannaysin', instead of of 'now I am in
the world'. Thought went on and that was
the chief enemy. About retiring to the forest, or shutting oneself up in a cave,
He expressed the same views. So He obviously
endorsed living in the world as itself the necessary environment for helping a
person along in his Sadhana. If one could do this,
be in the world, but not of the world, one had achieved a high sate of
detachment. It is always better to have some sort of
opposition, the tree that is not buffeted by the winds is usually a weakling.
One day someone remarked to Bhagavan, 'There are many things that happen
here of which Bhagavan cannot approve.
Why does He remain here? He has not ties or desires.'
'What can I do?' asked Bhagavan. 'If I go off to the forest and try to hide, what
will happen? They will soon find me out. Then
someone will put up a hut in front of me and another person at the back of me,
and it will not be long before, huts will have
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8th August, 1946 (55) GURI (CONCENTRATION) ALONE IS THE GURU (THE
PRECEPTOR)
Yesterday morning Yogi Ramiah questioned Bhagavan thus: Swami, some
disciples of Sai Baba worship a picture of him and say that it is their Guru: How
could that be?
They can worship it as God, but what benefit could they get by worshipping it as
their Guru? Bhagavan replied, They secure concentration by that. The
Yogi said, That is all very well, I agree. It may be to some extent a sadhana
in concentration. But isnt a Guru required for that concentration?
Certainly, but after all, Guru only means guri, concentration said
Bhagavan. The Yogi said, How can a lifeless picture help in developing deep
concentration? It requires a living Guru who could show it in practice. It is
possible perhaps for Bhagavan to attain perfection without a living Guru but is it
possible for people like myself?
That is true. Even so, by worshipping a lifeless portrait the mind gets
concentrated to a certain extent. That concentration will not remain constant
unless one
knows ones own Self by enquiring. For that enquiry, a Gurus help is
necessary. That is why the ancients say that the enquiry should not stop with
mere initiation. However, even if it does, the initiation will not be without benefit.
It will bear fruit some time or other. But there should be no ostentation in this
initiation. If the mind is pure, all this will bear fruit; otherwise, it goes to waste
like a seed sown in barren soil, said Bhagavan.
I dont know, Swami. You may say that a hundred times or a thousand
times. To be sure of ones own progress, a living Guru like you is required.
How can we give the status of a Guru to a lifeless portrait? he said. With a
smile on his face, Bhagavan said, Yes, yes, nodding his head and then kept
silent. Brother, all I can say is that that smile and that silence were radiant with
knowledge and wisdom. How can I describe it?
Letters from Sri Ramanasramam-By suri Nagamma
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Major Chadwick:
In this respect, the following story is an amusing illustration. One day, years
ago, Bhagavan decided to have a day's fast.
He intended to wander about the Hill of which He knew every inch, having
explored it as a young man. So He took a rather
larger meal than usual the previous night to keep Himself going. He set off alone
in the early morning, but He had not gone
very far when seven women met Him. 'Oh, here is our Swami', they cried out
delightfully. The made Him sit down and
proceeded to serve Him a full meal which they seemed to have brought on
purpose. When He had finished they departed
saying, 'We will come and bring Swami His mid-day meal', and in some
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Major Chadwick:
Someone said one day to Sri Bhagavan, 'Is it true that the Jnani is conscious in
all the three states, even when he is sleeping?
'Yes', replied Sri Bhagavan.
'Then why does Bhagavan snore?"
Sri Bhagavan replied, 'Yes I know that I snore, I could stop it if I wished, but I
like it!'
Is this not perfect acceptance?
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An old teacher of Sri Bhagavan came to see Him. He was 87 and very feeble.
Nevertheless an overmastering desire to see
the God-man whom he had once taught in the second form, urged him on
Tiruvannamalai. In Sri Bhagavan's presence, he recalled
an incident from that time with great emotion. Once he had asked young
Venkararaman to stand up on the bench for a minor
misdemeanor. But Venkataraman gazed him for a while with such steadiness and
power that his (teacher's) will withered rapidly
and he reversed his decision.
It was a touching sight to see the old teacher meet his Seer-pupil. Then the
teacher asked Sri Bhagavan whether He recognized
him. Sri Bhagavan broadly smiled and graciously answered: 'Why not?' The
teacher was visibly moved at this and he again
asked Sri Bhagavan about His health. Sri Bhagavan replied that He was feeling
alright. Throughout this very moving but short
interview Maharshi displayed such graciousness and cordiality that neither the
old teacher nor those who were close by felt
that there was anything wrong with the Maharshi.
These things make us feel that Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi is a perfect divine
incarnation, whose divine excellence was
lying dormant till He left His home.
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Subramanian,
The Story of Sri Bhagavan and his teacher!So typical of our Bhagavan-always
Gracious and simple.
Namaskar.
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