Realization is it a Flood?

One day Mr.Cohen told Bhagavan that he always understood that Realization is like a flood and sudden.

Bhagawan answered that it must not be forgotten that before realisation (the suddenes) maturity is required which is a very slow process, like the ripening of an apple on the tree.

FROM GURU RAMANA MEMORIES AND NOTES BY S.S.COHEN.

PERSONAL GOD

Dr.H of the small group of Americans spen a few weeks in the Ashram in Feb 1936 asked Sri.Maharishi if there exists such thing as Personal God

Bhagawan said Yes Ishwara

Dr.H: What with eys, nose and ears?

Bh:Yes if you have them why should not God also have them.

Cohen:When I read in the Kabbala and the Puranas the God has these organs ,I laugh

Bh: Why Don’t you laugh at yourself for having them.

[FROM GURU RAMANA MEMORIES AND NOTES BY S.S.COHEN]

MAYA AND REALITY

A disciple remarks that Sri Bhagavan often says that Maya and Reality is the same .How can that be?

Shankara was criticised for his views on Maya without understanding him. He said 1. brahmam is real and the universe is unreal and brahmam is the universe. He did not stop at the second, because the third explains the other two. It signifies that the universe is real if perceived as the Self and unreal if perceived apart from the Self

Hence Maya and Reality are one an the same.

{ FROM GURU RAMANA MEMORIES AND NOTES BY S.S.COHEN}

HEART AND GOD

A student of PhD asked Bhagavan

God is said to be immanent, how do you justify your confining Him to heart?

God is said to reside in the Heart in the same way as you are said to reside in your body. Yet Heart is not a place. Some place must be named as the dwelling of God for those who take their bodies for themselves and who comprehend only relative knowledge. The fact is neither God nor we occupy any space. We are bodiless and space less in deep sleep, yet in the waking state, we appear to be the opposite. Atman and Paramatman is that from which the body is born, in which it lives and into which it finally resolves.

(FROM GURU RAMANA MEMORIES AND NOTES BY S.S.COHEN)

GOD OF CREATION AND LAXATIVE RECIPE

SRI MAHARISHI composed a verse in Tamil over which an English lady devotee grew very jubilant and looked forward to reading in English translation, taking it to be a hymn in praise of lord of creation. I turned out too e a laxative recipe, which Bhagavan had written with his own hand in ten long lines. Bhagavan is bubbling with joy over it and is showing it to everybody like a school boy who has written his first poem. (29th August 1949)

FROM GURU RAMANA MEMORIES AND NOTES BY S.S.COHEN.