"Imagine This..."

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Imagine this :

 

The year is 1896.

 

You're a teenage schoolboy who's suddenly gripped one day by a deep

dread of death in his uncle's attic in Madurai.

 

This near-death experience leaves you convinced that your real nature

is imperishable - and unrelated to your body, your mind or your

personality.

 

You confide this incidence to nobody, neither friend nor family. You

try your best to behave as if nothing has happened.

 

In vain. Try as you might, you can live the lie no more.

 

A few days later, you quit your home for Arunachala, one of South

India's most revered holy mountains and places of pilgrimage.

 

There, you abandon yourself to the spontaneously acquired awareness

of your true nature as formless, immanent consciousness. It's only

after a couple of years that you slowly return to physical normality.

>From then on till the time when you finally leave your body in 1950,

seekers flock to your ashram with questions and doubts. You try to

answer the queries as simply as you can, often modifying your

teachings to the level of understanding of the inquirer.

 

And, you come to be known far and wide as Bhagvan Shri Ramana

Maharshi.

 

(http://www.consciousnessstrikes.org/ramanamaharshi.htm)