My Master My God and He everything

Any words will fall short of description of Sri Ramana, as even the Vedas could not describe the Supreme. But the following passage caught my mind which attempts to describe Bhagawan. For me Bhagawan is everything. He cares for me, He snaps my little ego whenever it rises up, but this big fat ego in me doesn't disappear altogether, as sometimes I enjoy the ego.I should let this go , let me love the most heinous of men and lowest of the creature as there is nothing such as that.

"Profound and Magnanimous like the ocean, unshaken by fear like the Himalayas ,of charming appearance like the moon,patient and ever enduring as theEarth, giving away freely as Kubera the God of wealth as severely true and righteous as "Death itself"

Sunch indeed is Maharishi. He forgives not merely once but every time.He gives away everything as he wants nothing for his body. He speaks the Truth-for he is the Real.

Bhagawan , may the spiritual waves from you wash away any hatred and anger I have for anyone and make me qualified for the Sadhana.

Sri Ramanaya Namaha

Cravings and Self Realization

Several people have asked Maharishi from time to time for help (especially in directing their meditation) to overcome cravings and thus to prepare themselves ultimately for Self-realisation. Cravings like lover of drink , anger , sexual craving suddenly can make a veritable slave of man. Disciples have requested Maharishi's advise for similar conquests. There are some detailed considerations set out in Sri Shankara's bhajagovindam eg "Deem this body a nasty bundle of flesh, serum etc and do not enamoured of this" , "when you are impatient and wroth with me or another , remember you are worth with Sri Maha Vishnu who is in you, in me and all". 

Maharishi generally does not advise on these lines. He always goes to the root of the matter " Aim high , aim at the highest; and all lower aims are thereby achieved ", is his principle. If one tries and learns the nature of Self , where is lust and where is anger there to disturb him?. But some disciples are too conscious of their own weakness to aim so high and feel that an immediate remedy for their troubles in required. When Maharishi asks them to not look downwards at the stormy seas over which he asks them to go to the SELF they look below despite his direction , and are nearly drowned. "It is looking below on the stormy seas of differences that makes you sink . Look up, beyond these , and see the one Glorious Real and you are saved" , is his advise. " Have faith in God, Faith in Yourself: That will cure all", is his panacea for all ills. " Hope for the best, expect the best , toil for the best", he says " and everything will come right in the end." Some do rise to the occasion by acting on this advice, meditate straightaway on the SELF and over come their " defects of doubt and taints of blood" .

SRI RAMANAARPANAM

Bound and Liberated Man

Devotee: What is the difference between bound man and the one liberated"?

Bhagawan :" From the Heart, there is a subtle passage leading to the 'sahasrara' , the seat of power.The ordinary man live in the brain unaware of himself in the Heart. The 'jnana siddha'lives in the Heart. When he moves about and deals with men and things , he knows that wha he sees is not separate from the one reality".

D: What about the ordinary man?

Bhagawan : I have just said that he sees things outside himself. He is separate from the world, from his own deeper truth, from the truth that supports him and what he sees. Then man who has realised the truth of his own existence realises that it is the one reality that is there behind him., behind the world.In fact , he is aware of the one, as real , the Self in all selves, in all things , as that which is eternal and immutable in all that is impermanent and mutable".

D: I am done .But one doubt.

Bhagawan : what is it ?

Devotee : You said 'Heart ' is the centre of the ego-self as also the real-self.

Bhagawan : Yes, the Heart is the centre of the real.But the ego is impermanent. Like everything else it is supported by the Heart Centre. But the ego is the links between spirit and matter; it is a knot, the knot of radial ignorance in which one is steeped. When this knot is cut asunder by proper mean you find this centre.

Devotee : You said there is a passage from this centre to 'Sahasrara' 

Bhagawan: Yes. It is closed in the man in bondage; in the man in whom the ego-knot is cut asunder , a force-current called  'amritanadi' rises and goes up to the 'sahasrara' , the crown of the head.

Devotee: Is this 'sushunmna' ?

Bhagawan: No. This is the passage of liberation. This is called 'atmanadi' ' Brahmanadi' or 'Amritanadi'. This is the nadi that is referred to in the Upanishads. When this passage is open, you cease to be ignorant. You know the truth even when you talk , think or do anything and when dealing with men and things'. 

Ramana Ramana Ramana

The name of Bhagawan itself is enough to stir the hearts of devotees, anxieties vanish , calmness pervades in the heart. Just one visit to Ramanashramam changed my life for ever. I try and visit Bhagawan every time I go to India. Meditating particularly on the hill , in Skandashramam is just a Devine experience. We can sit next to where Bhagawan used to sit and feel his presence , although HE is all pervading , it's is not easy to feel that way for me. Going to Arunachalam , the thought itself makes me happy. The Hill pulls me and Bhagawan with his Devine grace keeps me blissful. I had to stay outside the Ashramam accommodation this time and somehow was bit disappointed , but that's me , there is no difference in Bhagawan and his love.

Sri Ramana , to your holy feet. Please may my mind be at your Feet.

The Entity Mind and Bhagawan

Bhagawan

 

 

" What is mind? If one searches to find out, then there would be no separate entity as the mind."

 

"The mind is a bundle of thoughts. They are dependent on the 'I' thought. Know the 'I' thought to be the mind"

 

"The body is insentient. The Self does not rise. Within the body's limit an 'I' arises between the body and the Self. It is named 'ego' , knot of matter and spirit, bondage , subtle body and mind"

 

 

"The mind is born of forms; rooted in forms. It feeds on forms but is itself formless."

 

 

Devotee: Bhagawan please destroy my mind.

 

Bhagawan: Is there such a thing as the mind? If so what is its form? Does it have beard or moustache?

 

 

Guru A living Fire

 

 

The Guru is the living fire that warms the logs of wood around in general while the dry ones catch the fire. And as elsewhere stated, no method suggested by the Shastra  alone , no book however sacred it be , can give the initiating touch that opens the third eye in us. The Guru gives the method, not the written instruction, not necessarily the spoken word even. The word ,, the real initiation, upadesa or diksa, is a silent one, a power, an influence issuing from the being and consciousness of the Guru, the Jnanin, who has realised the Lord, the Self of all existences, in his own being and so knows him in other beings. And in language of the Bhagavath Gita, the Jnanin knows that all is in Vasudeva and all is Vasudeva. Therefore Sri Krishna says, " The Jannin is myself". The Jnanin alone is real Guru, for none else but God is the Teacher, and He revealing Himself in the Jananin initiates the soul , faithful , chosen , fit and devoted.

 

 

 

 

Source " The Maharishi" by Sri T.V. Kapali Sastry

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.