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.

 

 

 

 

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

 

  

SOULABHYA AND SAHAJATHA

Among the qualities that endeared Sri Ramana to thousands, was his soulabhya-easy accessibility. He sacrificed all privacy of time and sat in the hall day in and day out, and even slept in the presence of all. He did everything possible to make himself available to the devotees. With advancing age, the Ashram management thought of some rest for him after lunch by closing the doors of the hall for two hours. When Bhagawan learnt about it , he sat outside the hall after lunch saying " to see me, people come from different parts of the world. they may have some other urgent work. The management is welcome to close the doors but I am free to meet the visitors outside. It took a lot of persuasion to make him relent.

 

 

Equally charming was his sahajata- the utter normality of behaviour. His manners were so natural that the new comer immediately felt at ease with him. by a single glance, nod of the head or by a simple enquiry from him, the visitor felt that Sri Ramana was his very own and that he cared for him . He was extremely humble and unassuming. There was no pontifical solemnity in his expositions, on the contrary his speech is lively. When a devotee asked why his prayers were not being answered , Bhagawan replied laughingly said " If they were , you might stop praying".

 

 

SRI RAMANA

SOULABHYA AND SAHAJATHA

Among the qualities that endeared Sri Ramana to thousands, was his soulabhya-easy accessibility. He sacrificed all privacy of time and sat in the hall day in and day out, and even slept in the presence of all. He did everything possible to make himself available to the devotees. With advancing age, the Ashram management thought of some rest for him after lunch by closing the doors of the hall for two hours. When Bhagawan learnt about it , he sat outside the hall after lunch saying " to see me, people come from different parts of the world. they may have some other urgent work. The management is welcome to close the doors but I am free to meet the visitors outside. It took a lot of persuasion to make him relent.

 

 

Equally charming was his sahajata- the utter normality of behaviour. His manners were so natural that the new comer immediately felt at ease with him. by a single glance, nod of the head or by a simple enquiry from him, the visitor felt that Sri Ramana was his very own and that he cared for him . He was extremely humble and unassuming. There was no pontifical solemnity in his expositions, on the contrary his speech is lively. When a devotee asked why his prayers were not being answered , Bhagawan replied laughingly said " If they were , you might stop praying".

 

 

SRI RAMANA

SOULABHYA AND SAHAJATHA

Among the qualities that endeared Sri Ramana to thousands, was his soulabhya-easy accessibility. He sacrificed all privacy of time and sat in the hall day in and day out, and even slept in the presence of all. He did everything possible to make himself available to the devotees. With advancing age, the Ashram management thought of some rest for him after lunch by closing the doors of the hall for two hours. When Bhagawan learnt about it , he sat outside the hall after lunch saying " to see me, people come from different parts of the world. they may have some other urgent work. The management is welcome to close the doors but I am free to meet the visitors outside. It took a lot of persuasion to make him relent.

 

 

Equally charming was his sahajata- the utter normality of behaviour. His manners were so natural that the new comer immediately felt at ease with him. by a single glance, nod of the head or by a simple enquiry from him, the visitor felt that Sri Ramana was his very own and that he cared for him . He was extremely humble and unassuming. There was no pontifical solemnity in his expositions, on the contrary his speech is lively. When a devotee asked why his prayers were not being answered , Bhagawan replied laughingly said " If they were , you might stop praying".

 

 

SRI RAMANA