No space or time for self!

[Guest guest]

Dear all,

Mr. and Mrs. S. were visitors from Peru to the Ashram. The

couple narrated all their story to Bhagavan, all the privations they

had undergone to have a look at Sri Ramana Maharshi. Bhagavan was

all kindness to them; He heard their story with great concern, and

then remarked: "You need not have taken all this trouble. You could

well have thought of me from where you were, and so could have had

all the consolation of a personal visit." This remark of Sri

Bhagavan they could not easily understand, nor did it give them any

consolation as they sat at His feet like Mary. Sri Maharshi did not

want to disturb their pleasure in being in His immediate vicinity,

and so He left them at that.

 

Later in the evening Sri Maharshi was enquiring about their day-to-

day life, and incidentally their talk turned to Peru. The couple

began picturing the landscape of Peru and were describing the sea-

coast and the beach of their own town. Just then Maharshi

remarked: "Is not the beach of your town paved with marble slabs,

and are not coconut palms planted in between? Are there not marble

benches in rows facing the sea there and did you not often sit on

the fifth of those with your wife?" This remarks of Sri Maharshi

created astonishment in the couple. How could Sri Bhagavan, who had

never gone out of Tiruvannamalai, know so intimately such minute

details about their own place? Sri Maharshi only smiled and remarked:

 

 

 

 

 

"It does not matter how I can tell. Enough if you know that in the

Self there is no Space-Time."

 

Yours yogically,

Dattu