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

[Guest guest]

Dear Harsha:

 

This is one of my favorite stories. Just this afternoon, I was searching

the internet for stories and this one came up, on another link. I laughed

when I saw it because I remembered it from before, and how this man

found the Maharshi to be dangerous. Now I check my email and here it is...

 

the rest of the article,

Nothing Existed Except the Eyes of the Maharshi

can be found...

 

http://www.realization.org/page/doc1/doc109a.htm

 

Love,

 

Joyce

 

 

 

 

-

"Harsha"

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Thursday, August 26, 2004 1:42 PM

Professor N. R. Krishnamoorthy Aiyer (from the

Maharshi Newsletters),

 

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> Professor N. R. Krishnamoorthy Aiyer (from the

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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'.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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!

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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