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mid-july that year, a sudden, indefinable fear of death gripped him,

when he was alone in the house at Madurai. Turning introspective, and

dramatising the experience of death, he addressed himself mentally,

"Now death has come. What does it mean? What is it that is dying? The

body dies. It will be carried to the burning ground and reduced to

ashes. But with the death of the body, am 'I' dead? Is the body 'I'?

This body is silent and inert. But I feel the full force of my

personality and even hear the sound 'I' withinmyself, apart from the

body. So 'I' am the Spirit, transcending the body." Recalling this

experience later, he said, "All this was not a mere intellectual

process. It flashed before me as a living truth." Those who were with

Bhagavan Ramana in his last moments marvelled at his detachment from

his body and his indifferance to physical pain. He looked weak, but

his luminous face and lustrous eyes reflected

the resplendent Self within. In spite of the surgery, he insisted that

his devotees shold not be deprived of his darshan. On the morning of

April 14, 1950, he graciously acknowledged the long years of service

rendered by his attendants. "The English have a word, 'thanks', but

we only say santhosham ( I am pleased )," records Arthur Osborne. On

the evening of April 14,1950, his breath started gradually subsiding.

He asked the devotees attending on him to raise him to a sitting

posture. Seeing that the oxygen administered gave him no relief, he

asked that it should be stopped. It was a tense moment. Devotees,

waiting in a pensive mood for the solemn last moment started chanting

'Aksharamanamalai' composed by Bhagawan. A few tears of bliss trickled

down his cheeks and his breath stopped at 8.47. Spiritual wisdom Those

who had the good fortune of seeing Bhagawan

Ramana Maharshi in body drank of the abundant, measureless, ambrosial

flow of bliss and peace in his silent, radiant presence. The

flood-gates of spiritual wisdom opened. "The atmosphere round him was

tender, beautiful, gentle and loving. He had found the inner bliss and

its radiation seemed palpable. He sought to restore one to oneself, to

set one free, not to enslave one" (Paul Brunton, In Search of Secret

India). This experiance of "the serene, blessed mood" was not limited

to the devotees who flocked to him in his life-time. It is enjoyed

even now (more than fifty years after his mahasamadhi) by devotees

all over the world, who sit before his picture, and sense his

presence by fixing their gaze on his beatific, piercing eyes. The

Ramana magic still works. Mental debris is swept away, and they bask

in the spiritual sunshine of his invisible, but 'felt' presence. [

The above article was written by Sri.S.Jagadisan and published in

'The Hindu' April

14, 2006 ].

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Thank you Swathiji!

Who can explain the Ramana magic? It is just the Self, the pull of the

Heart upon It Self.

Love to all

Harsha

"Love itself is the actual form of God."

Sri Ramana

In "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma

swathi dora wrote:

On the morning of April 14, 1950, he graciously

acknowledged the long years of service rendered by his attendants. "The

English have a word, 'thanks', but we only say santhosham ( I

am pleased )," records Arthur Osborne.

 

On the evening of April 14,1950, his breath started

gradually subsiding. He asked the devotees attending on him to raise

him to a sitting posture. Seeing that the oxygen administered gave him

no relief, he asked that it should be stopped. It was a tense moment.

Devotees, waiting in a pensive mood for the solemn last moment started

chanting 'Aksharamanamalai' composed by Bhagawan. A few tears of bliss

trickled down his cheeks and his breath stopped at 8.47.