Walter Keers (2): This light swept away my darkness in one stroke

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"To me, those first days were the fulfillment of everything I had ever

hoped to find - as a matter of fact, it was much more than that. I

knew in the most lucid, radiant moments of my heart that it would

never have been possible to imagine even a portion of this blazing

Presence that radiated through everything and took me beyond the

phenomenal.

 

On the second or third day, I had to laugh about the absurdity that

had been my life before. Who was I to cultivate a garden full of

problems? What on earth could have given me the impression that I was

so important that I ought to have problems, questions, complicated

situation to get out of?

 

Before I knew it, there I was in the middle of this 'Who-am-I?'

sadhana. But now, in his presence, it was entirely different. In this

radiant light it was so evident that I was not a body, not an ego,

that no analysis was needed. This light swept away my darkness in one

stroke."

 

(Walter Keers: Light Itself, Blazing light in: First Meetings with Ramana Maharshi, p. 57)

 

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