Bhagavan, who is nothing but the Heart

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Yes, indeed, this is a common experience of Ramana's devotees that his presence

and power has not diminished. It reminds me also on Bhakta Bhagwat, founder of

Arunachala Ashram, who did not visit Bhagavan when he was still in India but

went insteed to another place to study astrology. Later he moved to America and

it needed 19 years for him to visit Ramanashram for the first time in 1959 after

Bhagavan's death. He is one of many Ramana devotees who discovered that the

Grace of Ramana is always there, independend of time and space.

 

He wrote:

"It is the greatest wonder that I never had the good and great fortune of seeing

Him physically, nevertheless the Great Guru Ramana abides in my Heart as the

Self and I live and breathe in Him all the time."

 

"Since the moment I came to realize the ever-flowing Grace of Bhagavan, surging

in my Heart like the mighty Ganga, Scriptures and books have pushed me more and

more to the Heart, and it is by sheer abidance in the Heart that I can

experience His Grace and Blessings all the time. It is by going deeper and

deeper into the inmost recesses of the Heart that the 'I-I' begins to shine and

time and space are left far behind. There is nothing but the Ever-Abiding Self

in the Heart and my life has taken an entirely new path wich words and sentences

are incapable of describing. I am abiding in Bhagavan, who is nothing but the

Heart."

 

(Arunachala Bhakta Bhagwat: In Search of Self, p. 122 and 128)

 

Sorry, with my last mail something got wrong.

In HIM

Gabriele

 

In a message dated 1/19/2002 7:17:46 PM Central Standard Time,

viorica@z... writes:

 

 

> there was a time i felt that that was the privilege of those who travelled

> to Arunachala and knew him in person.

> i used to think - "what about me , i was born after your physical

> disappearance, so what these people say that they understood

> and felt will remain just words and other people's memories for me ?

> is this Arthur Osborne's luck, and Paul Brunton's , and others' like them

> who knew you ? " i felt frustrated.

> and here i am , enslaved by same love and "'Bhagavanish Presence', with or

> without form";

>

>

 

*Well said. These thoughts occur to me too from time to time, but at the end

of the day there is in fact a loving presence to be felt, and Ramana himself

said again and again that those who couldn't be in his physical presence were

no less in contact

with the source of being... I feel very grateful that video/film images exist

at all.

I still get something from watching that while it may not have been the same

as

being there certainly gives one a taste.

Poly