Fwd: The eyes of the Maharshi:kindest & most powerful energy

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MillionPaths, "vioricail" <viorica@z...> wrote:

 

from : an article by Sri Ramakrishna Madhavpeddi ,

http://www.sentient.org

 

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IN 1948, when I was 24 years-old, I first visited Sri

Ramanasramam. At that time I was very much inclined toward

Communism. I was also very much depressed, owing to the death

of my closest relative who suddenly died at the age of twenty.

 

My father had already visited Sri Ramana twice. He had gone to him

with a list of doubts and twice all his doubts were cleared, without

even a single word spoken. He experienced complete peace in the

Maharshi's presence. Because I was depressed my father was urging me

to visit the Maharshi. I was working as an attorney in the High

Court of Madras when I was finally persuaded to travel to

Tiruvannamalai and visit the Sage.

 

It was about 9 a.m. during the last week of April in 1948 when I

first reached the Ashrama. I was asked by the management to stay in

the Guest House for Gents, which was east of the well and near the

kitchen. I entered the long guest house and placed down my bedding.

As fate would have it, the late Sri N. Balaram Reddy was occupying

the space next to me.

 

In addition to my work in the courts, I also wrote articles for

various journals on Telugu literature, dabbled in poetry and had

some familiarity with Sanskrit. Sri Reddy garu and I immediately

struck up a conversation and, finding me interested in literature,

he discussed with me the Ramayana and the character of Rama. He then

took me the kitchen and got me iddlies for breakfast, as everyone

had already eaten.

 

After eating he took me to where Ramana was reclining on a sofa and

asked me to sit with my eyes closed. Although there was absolute

silence in the hall I could not sit with my eyes closed. I was

restless and I felt as if the time was dragging. Slowing my mind

began to reflect on all my miseries, one after another. Every day,

for three days, I accompanied Sri Reddy garu to the hall, and every

time I sat down my thoughts would take off at high speed and my

misery increased. So, on the evening of the third day, I told Sri

Reddy garu that I had come to the Maharshi for peace but I was only

experiencing an increase of pain and misery. Sri Reddy garu asked me

to stay on for one more day.

 

On the morning of the fourth day I was sitting in the hall with my

eyes closed. At one point I happened to open my eyes and saw the

Maharshi looking at me intently. Suddenly, all thoughts vanished

from my mind and I experienced a delightful blank, or void. Then a

resplendent light enveloped me fully. I was empty of thoughts but

full of immense happiness. I was one with that immense peace and

resplendent glory.

 

After some time I again became aware of my body. This experience

made me believe in God for the first time. In spite of all my

theories of Marxism, dialectic materialism and atheism I could not

deny the truth of this wonderful experience. This condition

continued for three days. I witnessed my body go through its daily

activities but I remained fixed in that immense peace. The

Maharshi's look pierced into me when I sat before him and even when

I was not before him. The eyes of the Maharshi are the kindest and

most powerful energy of the universe, and it brings me to ecstasy

remembering those first days with him in his Ashrama. I left the

Ashrama after six days, but even after leaving I would suddenly go

into meditation. Such was the effect of the Sage's presence.

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