Sri S.S. Cohen

[Guest guest]

Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Arunachalaramanaya

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MOMENTS REMEMBERED

by V. Ganesan

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Sri S.S. Cohen was a man of sharp intellect and an

exellent sadhak as well. He often used to tell me:

"Ganesan! It is all right that you spend time in

service to the Ashram. But remember! Whithout sadhana

there is no spiritual progress. Bhagavan has

repeatedly stressed the need for stedy sadhana. So,

let sadhana be the centre and service the periphery."

 

Sri Cohen spent his last days inside the Ashram.

Every evening I would meet him and listen to him as he

spoke about our Master and His teachings. Physically

and metally he was becomeing very weak, especially

after a fall, when he imagined he had became lame,

though the doctors who examined him said that there

was no fracture or other defect in his leg.

 

I had to be away from the Ashram for nearly two

months and when I returned I saw Sri Cohen in a much

worse condition and confined to a wheel-chair. His

talk was no longer coherent: "See, Ganesan, I am

maimed. Yet, the management has suddenly shifted me to

a room on the seventh floor and there is no water

there. Whatcan I do?" - "They say they have given me

an exclusive room for myself, but see, in the night

nearly 12 people sleep here, squatting around me." -

"Don't think there is only one Kannan (servant), There

are nine Kannans, all looking alike!"

 

I cried on seeing his pathetic condition and told

Him: "Mr. Cohen! You are the most intelligent sadhak I

have met. Why are you talking so incoherently?" He

then adjusted himself and squarely looked at my face

and said: "When the body becomes old, you lose control

over it. And so over the mind! So, don't give any

importance to how the body or mind behaves. They are

not 'me'." I was astounded when he said that since

just a few minutes back he was talking sheer

nonesense! Then, I asked him "If you are not the mind

nor the body, who is speaking to me? Who are you? In

which state are you, now?"

 

"I am pure spirit, witnessing what takes place

through the body and mind. I have nothing to do with

them. I am in the presence of my Master: Guru Ramana,

enjoying His benign and blissful presence! I am pure

ananda!" As he uttered these words I saw a different

Mr.Cohen, the one we had known for years with all his

brightness and serenity.

 

After that time, he agin started talking

incoherently. It was a great revelation, a clinical

laboratory demonstration of the fact

'I-am-not-the-body-mind'!

 

 

 

 

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