Guest guest Posted November 6, 2002 Report Share Posted November 6, 2002 Rangan, a formerly class-mate of Sri Ramana, reported from a visit to him in the Virupaksha-cave-years: "When Bhagavan and I climed up the top of Arunachala, a thorn pricked my foot. Noting that I was lagging behind, Bhagavan removed it. A few yards later a big thorn pricked his foot. When I looked at his foot there were so many unremoved thorns in it. Then I examined the other foot, but the position was not different. 'Which one will you remove, the new thorn or the old ones?', he queried. He broke the thorn by pushing his foot to the ground and started walking again. It was one more demonstration that Bhagavan had no body-idea at all. " ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ in: Unforgettable Years ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 6, 2002 Report Share Posted November 6, 2002 Sheesh, get that man some sandals! on 11/6/02 6:36 AM, Gabriele Ebert at g.ebert wrote: > Rangan, a formerly class-mate of Sri Ramana, reported > from a visit to him in the Virupaksha-cave-years: > > "When Bhagavan and I climed up the top of Arunachala, > a thorn pricked my foot. Noting that I was lagging behind, > Bhagavan removed it. > A few yards later a big thorn pricked his foot. > When I looked at his foot there were so many unremoved > thorns in it. Then I examined the other foot, but the position > was not different. > 'Which one will you remove, the new thorn or the old ones?', > he queried. He broke the thorn by pushing his foot to the > ground and started walking again. It was one more > demonstration that Bhagavan had no body-idea at all. " > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > in: Unforgettable Years > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 6, 2002 Report Share Posted November 6, 2002 Hi Gabriele, This strikes me as very strange behaviour, along with the story of SRM allowing his leg to be stung by the hornets that came up a while ago. There was a story also not so long ago that featured SRM cleaning his teeth, and clearly he ate and therefore maintained his body to a basic level. Why then leave the thorns? Grant. > ** Original Which thorn will you remove? > ** Original Sender: "Gabriele Ebert" <g.ebert > ** Original 6 Nov 2002 16:35:58 -0000 > ** Original Message follows... > > Rangan, a formerly class-mate of Sri Ramana, reported > from a visit to him in the Virupaksha-cave-years: > > "When Bhagavan and I climed up the top of Arunachala, > a thorn pricked my foot. Noting that I was lagging behind, > Bhagavan removed it. > A few yards later a big thorn pricked his foot. > When I looked at his foot there were so many unremoved > thorns in it. Then I examined the other foot, but the position > was not different. > 'Which one will you remove, the new thorn or the old ones?', > he queried. He broke the thorn by pushing his foot to the > ground and started walking again. It was one more > demonstration that Bhagavan had no body-idea at all. " > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > in: Unforgettable Years > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > >** --------- End Original Message ----------- ** > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 6, 2002 Report Share Posted November 6, 2002 , shawn <shawn@w...> wrote: > > Sheesh, get that man some sandals! :-) Get them both some sandals... surely even in India in the 1940's, it was possible to acquire footwear? ;-) Cheers, Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 6, 2002 Report Share Posted November 6, 2002 Hi Grant, , bardsley@c... wrote: > Hi Gabriele, > > This strikes me as very strange behaviour, along with the story of > SRM allowing his leg to be stung by the hornets that came up a > while ago. There was a story also not so long ago that featured SRM > cleaning his teeth, and clearly he ate and therefore maintained his > body to a basic level. Why then leave the thorns? Perhaps a clean smile is more important than thorn-less feet? Who knows? :-). Cheers, Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 7, 2002 Report Share Posted November 7, 2002 Wotcha Tim, > Perhaps a clean smile is more important than thorn-less feet? Who > knows? :-). > > Cheers, > > Tim > It is is if you're going to be doing more snogging than slogging, though I don't imagine SRM was too smoochy! Grant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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