About Ramana Maharshi, Surpassing Love and Grace
Sri Bhagavan called and asked me, “Did you get a piece for yourself?” In reply I smiled and sat on the floor some distance away. He then said, “I know that you do not keep anything for yourself. So, I have kept a piece for you from my share. Come here and take it.” I went up to him, took the piece of fruit and ate it. That prasad was really sweet and valuable. To get this concession it took nearly three years! I often asked myself if that was one of the methods to round off our angularities. It was a test perhaps from his point of view, and a real schooling from my point of view.
About Ramana Maharshi, Surpassing Love and Grace
Darshan of a Sage is a singular experience by itself, which words can hardly describe. I can only say that I felt an unusual vibrating sensation, a sort of electric charge, which had transported me for a moment. Surely, his magnetic influence had dispensed with much of my ‘heaviness’. Needless to say, Maharshi bestowed on me his gracious blessings. What is even more unforgettable are his melodious and inspiring expressions in Tamil, which often, attuned to this Holy Hermitage, reverberate in my ears.
About Ramana Maharshi, Surpassing Love and Grace
In one of my visits, I took a bunch of grapes as my offering, placed it on the stool in front of the Maharshi and took my seat along with other visitors in the hall. In a few minutes a monkey came and took away the whole bunch. In that holy and still presence of the sage, none would dare drive away the monkey which would disturb the tranquillity and peace of the atmosphere. Maharshi remarked, “How is it you are all looking at this? [the monkey, etc.]” And after a pause said, “Let it go.”
About Ramana Maharshi, Surpassing Love and Grace
The mulasthanams of temples are places where saints lived and had visions of him. The ashram is such a place and I feel convinced that the aura that was there continues today.
About Ramana Maharshi, Surpassing Love and Grace
It was an apparent dream. I was in a huge quadrangle of some college buildings. I was studying and suddenly I saw Sri Bhagavan had come down, youthful and vigorous in appearance, and had the impression that he was going to manifest himself and speak. Oh, it was a wonderful sight. Thousands of people gathered round at a distance, encircling Bhagavan and perched on all walls, upper floors and any available space around.
