Walter Keers (1): Ligt Itself going trough me like X-rays

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The Dutchman Walter Keers visited Bhagavan shortly before his death at

the beginning of 1950. Today and in the following days I will mail you

some excerpts from what he has written down.

In HIM

Gabriele

 

"It was Roda MacIver who took me to him a few hours later.

When I saw him from afar, sitting on a chair in the little passage

between his room and the main hall, I started to tremble all over -

not because of nerves or uneasiness, but because of the shock of this

confrontation. Here I was but what on earth could this mean? 'I', this

transparent thing - and there, on that cair, Light Itself, radiant as

I have never seen anything or anyone.

 

Roda introduced me to him and Bhagavan looked at me. He hardly talked,

but his face, his presence, said: 'So, finally you're here!'

 

I was invited to sit down amongst a group of men, my back against the

wall opposite him. I looked, and looked, and looked. Long ago I had

lost all faith, all the belief of my childhood years. No God riding

the clouds anymore; no soul. And now, suddenly, here Light Itself,

blazing Light, going through me like X-rays.

 

Bhagavan seemed at the same time completely unconcerned, looking

around, smiling at the squirrels that ran up and down the trees;

exchanging a fes words with his attendants; dozing off now and then

for half a minute; then immediately and fully awake, looking, not at

you but into you, casually like one looks into a street, without

effort, but seeing in one glance right to the other end and taking

note of all that happens in one glance; and then again rubbing his

head with his long fingers.

 

(Walter Keers: Light Itself, Blazing Light in: First Meetings with Ramana Maharshi, p. 56f)

 

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