Sri Ramanas birthday gift to T.K. Sundaresa Iyer

[Guest guest]

"In May 1933, on my 36th birthday, after the usual bath and prayers, I sat in

Sri Bhagavan's presence in a pensive mood. I addressed a prayer in the Tamil

Viruttam style to Sri Bhagavan, complaining: "O Bhagavan, I have completed three

and half decades, and yet have not had the experience of the real You. Pray let

me have this day the touch of Your Grace.'' Handing over this slip of paper I

prostrated Him.

Bhagavan bade me sit down and gazed steadily at me; I was still in a pensive and

meditative mood. All of a sudden I lost body-consciousness, and was absorbed in

Sri Maharshi. I was turned inward, and the voice of Sri Bhagavan bade me see

whatever I desired. I felt that if I could have the darsan of Sri Rama my life

would have been fruitful, as I was very much devoted to Sri Rama. I had then

immediately a darsan of Sri Rama, with Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Satrugna and

Hanuman. The ecstasy of the vision defied description; I simply sat on, with

Maharshi perhaps gazing on me without my being aware of His gaze. Two hours may

thus have passed in pin-drop silence, lost in the vision, until it vanished. I

prostrated at the feet of Sri Maharshi, with tears of ecstasy in my eyes and my

hairs standing on end. To Bhagavan's enquiry I replied that I of course had seen

my dear Rama."

 

 

 

from "At the feet of Bhagavan by T. K. Sundaresa Iyer