Spiritual Stories of Bhagavan Ramana - Silence Is the True Upadesa

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Vanakkam!

 

thanx for sharing, swathi dora ...

 

one cannot intellectually conceive the Dhikshas that

Bhagawan gives ...

 

Anbudan

 

--- yosyx <yosyflug wrote:

>

> thank you. i've never heard his wonderful story.

> thank you again.

>

> yosy

>

>

>

> , swathi dora

> <doraksp>

> wrote:

> >

> > Dakshinamurti

> >

> > " The Self alone, the Sole Reality, Exists for

> ever.

> > If, of yore, the First of Teachers revealed

> it through

> unbroken silence, say, who can reveal it in spoken

> words?" ----

> Ekatma Panchakam,Sri Bhagavan.

> >

> > Sri Bhagavan once told the story that follows to

> Sri Muruganar.

> This brings out the profound significance of the

> Supreme Silence in

> which the First Master, Sri Dakshinamurti, is

> established.

> >

> > Sri Bhagavan said,

> > "When the four elderly 'Sanakadi rishis' first

> beheld the 16-

> year-old Sri Dakshinamurthi sitting under the banyan

> tree, they were

> at once attracted by him, and understood that he was

> the

> real 'Sadguru'. They approached him,did three

> 'pradakshinas' around

> him,prostrated and sat at his feet and began to ask

> shrewd and

> pertinent questions about the nature of reality and

> the means of

> attaining it.

> > Because of the great compassion and fatherly

> love('vatsalya')

> which he felt for his aged disciples,the young Sri

> Dakshinamurti was

> overjoyed to see their earnestness,wisdom and

> maturity,and gave apt

> replies to each of their questions.But, as he

> answered each

> consecutive question, more doubts arose in their

> minds and they asked

> more questions. Thus, they continued to question Sri

> Dakshinamurti

> for a whole year, and he continued to clear their

> doubts through his

> compassionate answers.

> > Finally, however, Sri Dakshinamurthi understood

> that if he

> continued answering their questions, more doubts

> would arise in their

> minds and their ignorance('ajnana') would never end.

> Therefore,

> suppressing even the feeling of compassion and

> fatherly love which

> was welling up within him, he immersed himself into

> Supreme Silence.

> > Because of their great maturity(which had

> ripened to perfection

> through their year-long association with the

> Sadguru), as soon as Sri

> Dakshinamurthi assumed Silence, they, too,

> automatically merged into

> Supreme Silence, the true state of the Self."

> > [ Wonderstruck by this story of Sri Bhagavan,

> Sri Muruganar

> remarked that in no book was it mentioned that Sri

> Dakshinamurthi

> ever spoke anything.

> > "But this is what actually happened," replied

> Sri Bhagavan curtly.

> > From the authoritative way in which Sri Bhagavan

> replied and from

> the clear and descriptive way in which he narrated

> the story, Sri

> Muruganar understood that Sri Bhagavan was none

> other than Sri

> Dakshinamurthi himself ! ]

> > -------------from 'Spiritual Stories as told by

> Sri Ramana

> Maharshi', compiled by a devotee, Joan Greenblatt,

> published by Sri

> Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai.

> > (Source - Tattvaloka, December 2005)

> >

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