Sri Maharishi is a Dynamo

LEAVES FOR KAPALI SHASTHRI'S DIARY

 

It is remarkable how the Maharishi has been able to live all these seventy years. Sri Shankara lived only for 32 years while Jana Sambanda passed away in his sixteenth year. To have lived so long after the realisation and that after allowing unrestricted access to ll people at all hours is unique phenomenon. Sri Maharishi is a dynamo. Some twenty years back a devotee wrote to him that rays of light emanate from him and do their work on the devotee. Sri Maharishi corrected it to say, "He emanates and directs the rays " . That is a correct statement of the truth; for he meant to say that he was not passive in cases which required his intervention, but active and directed the rays of Grace.

 

A single look from him breaks through many coverings of ones ego, however thick, and reaches and feels the core of the being. For spiritual seekers His is the rarest type of realisation of the kind.

 

 

 

 

The Ashram Prasadam

 

The Maharishi was very particular that visitors to the Ashram should take food there. In fact, on the Jayanthi day, he did not take his meal till the last man had had his food. When I asked him about this, he said in effect, that when, in his early boyhood, he set out from the house to Tiruvannamalai, he had actually to starve for days together.

 

In those days, one Muslim family refused to give him food as he was a " kafir". Then when he was in the Patala Lingam cave, he subsisted mainly on plantains and panchamrita that were thrust down into the cave. He lived on these things for years and his body differed for want of food. Things took an opposite turn thereafter and it had been his experience that wherever he went some one or other greeted him with food. At one time when he was in deeps of the forest, some ten people were waiting for him each with separate food! And so he has been very particular that nobody should suffer the pangs as he did.

 

It is also a fact that food in Sri Maharishi's ashram is not merely food. It is definitely something more; people get better appetite there and the does not lie heavy.

 

 

SRI RAMANAYA NAMAHA