Professor N. R. Krishnamoorthy Aiyer (from the Maharshi Newsletters),

[Guest guest]

Professor N. R. Krishnamoorthy Aiyer (from the

Maharshi Newsletters)

 

The next day we had a meeting with Bhagavan. This was

about the time he arrived at the present site of Sri

Ramanasramam (1922). There were no buildings at all,

except for a small shed covering the samadhi (grave)

of the Mother.

 

Bhagavan was seated on a bench under the shade of a

tree, and with him, lying on the same bench, was the

dog named Rose. Bhagavan was simply stroking the dog.

I wondered, among us Brahmins the dog was such an

animal that it would defile all purity. A good part of

my respect for the Maharshi left me when I saw him

touching that unclean animal - for all its apparent

cleanliness and neatness it was unclean from the

Brahmin point of view.

 

I had a question for the Maharshi. At that time I was

an agnostic. I thought nature could take care of

itself, so where is the need for a Creator? What

is the use of writing all these religious books

telling 'cock and bull'stories, which do not change

the situation.

 

I wanted to put to him straight questions: is there a

soul? Is there a God? Is there salvation? All these

three questions were condensed into one: Well

sir, you are sitting here like this - I can see your

present condition - but what will be your future

sthiti ? The word sthiti in Sanskrit means 'state'

or 'condition'.

 

The Maharshi did not answer the question. "Oho," I

thought, "you are taking shelter under the guise of

indifferent silence for not answering an

inconvenient question!" As soon as I thought this the

Maharshi replied and I felt as if a bomb had exploded

under my seat. "Sthiti, what do you mean by the word

sthiti!" he exclaimed.

 

I was not prepared for that question. "Oho, this man

is very dangerous, very dangerously alive. I will have

to answer with proper care," I thought.

So I said to myself, "If I ask him about the sthiti or

'state' of the body it is useless: the body will be

burned or buried. What I should ask him was

about the condition of something within the body. Of

course, I can recognize a mind inside of me." Then I

was about to answer "By sthiti, I mean mind,"

when it struck me what if he counter-questions with

"What is mind?" This I am not prepared to answer.

 

As all this was passing through my mind he was sitting

there staring at me with a fierce look.

I then questioned within me, "What is mind? Mind is

made up of thoughts. Now, what are thoughts?" I landed

in a void. No answer. I then realised that

I could not present a question about a mind which did

not exist!

 

Up to that point, the mind was the greatest thing that

existed for me. Now I discovered it did not exist! I

was bewildered. I simply sat like a statue.

 

Two pairs of eyes were then gripping each other: the

eyes of the Maharshi and my eyes were locked together

in a tight embrace. I lost all sense of body. Nothing

existed except the eyes of the Maharshi.

 

I don't know how long I remained like that, but when I

returned to my senses, I was terribly afraid of the

man. "This is a dangerous man," I thought. In spite of

myself, I prostrated and got away from his company.

 

http://www.ramana-maharshi.org/

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Rose is a good name for a dog.

I love dogs,

and stories with dogs in them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

A smiling woof to you dear Mace... Me too.

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Mace_Mealer

Thursday, August 26, 2004 9:41 PM

Re: Professor N. R. Krishnamoorthy Aiyer (from the

Maharshi Newsletters),

 

 

 

 

 

Rose is a good name for a dog.

I love dogs,

and stories with dogs in them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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"Love itself is the actual form of God."

 

Sri Ramana

 

In "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma

 

 

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[Guest guest]

one of my most beloved teachers and a companion for seventeen years

was an illuminated dog called "devil" (not named so by me). dogs are

teachers of unconditional love and loyalty...

 

yosy

 

ps. did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic who spent a sleepless night

trying to prove nonexistence of dog?

 

 

Sam [s.Pasiencier]

Friday, August 27, 2004 7:08 AM

Re: Re: Professor N. R. Krishnamoorthy Aiyer

(from the Maharshi Newsletters),

 

 

A smiling woof to you dear Mace... Me too.

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Mace_Mealer

Thursday, August 26, 2004 9:41 PM

Re: Professor N. R. Krishnamoorthy Aiyer

(from the Maharshi Newsletters),

 

 

 

 

 

Rose is a good name for a dog.

I love dogs,

and stories with dogs in them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

, "Yosy Flug" <yosyflug@i...>

wrote:

 

ps. did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic who spent a sleepless

night trying to prove nonexistence of dog?

 

Hi Yosy,

 

Sometimes, I hear, he contemplated the meaning of "file" ::grin::