Walter Keers (1): Ligt Itself going trough me like X-rays

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The Dutchman Walter Keers visited Bhagavan shortly before his death at the

beginning of 1950. Today and in the following days I will mail you some excerpts

from what he has written down.

In HIM

Gabriele

 

"It was Roda MacIver who took me to him a few hours later.

When I saw him from afar, sitting on a chair in the little passage between his

room and the main hall, I started to tremble all over - not because of nerves or

uneasiness, but because of the shock of this confrontation. Here I was but what

on earth could this mean? 'I', this transparent thing - and there, on that cair,

Light Itself, radiant as I have never seen anything or anyone.

 

Roda introduced me to him and Bhagavan looked at me. He hardly talked, but his

face, his presence, said: 'So, finally you're here!'

 

I was invited to sit down amongst a group of men, my back against the wall

opposite him. I looked, and looked, and looked. Long ago I had lost all faith,

all the belief of my childhood years. No God riding the clouds anymore; no soul.

And now, suddenly, here Light Itself, blazing Light, going through me like

X-rays.

 

Bhagavan seemed at the same time completely unconcerned, looking around, smiling

at the squirrels that ran up and down the trees; exchanging a fes words with his

attendants; dozing off now and then for half a minute; then immediately and

fully awake, looking, not at you but into you, casually like one looks into a

street, without effort, but seeing in one glance right to the other end and

taking note of all that happens in one glance; and then again rubbing his head

with his long fingers.

 

(Walter Keers: Light Itself, Blazing Light in: First Meetings with Ramana

Maharshi, p. 56f)

 

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