Sri Ramanas birthday gift to T.K. Sundaresa Iyer

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"In May 1933, on my 36th birthday, after the usual bath and prayers, I

sat in Sri Bhagavan's presence in a pensive mood. I addressed a prayer

in the Tamil Viruttam style to Sri Bhagavan, complaining: "O Bhagavan,

I have completed three and half decades, and yet have not had the

experience of the real You. Pray let me have this day the touch of

Your Grace.'' Handing over this slip of paper I prostrated Him.

Bhagavan bade me sit down and gazed steadily at me; I was still in a

pensive and meditative mood. All of a sudden I lost

body-consciousness, and was absorbed in Sri Maharshi. I was turned

inward, and the voice of Sri Bhagavan bade me see whatever I desired.

I felt that if I could have the darsan of Sri Rama my life would have

been fruitful, as I was very much devoted to Sri Rama. I had then

immediately a darsan of Sri Rama, with Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata,

Satrugna and Hanuman. The ecstasy of the vision defied description; I

simply sat on, with Maharshi perhaps gazing on me without my being

aware of His gaze. Two hours may thus have passed in pin-drop

silence, lost in the vision, until it vanished. I prostrated at the

feet of Sri Maharshi, with tears of ecstasy in my eyes and my hairs

standing on end. To Bhagavan's enquiry I replied that I of course had

seen my dear Rama."

 

from "At the feet of Bhagavan by T. K. Sundaresa Iyer

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