Where is Ramana?

[Guest guest]

It was in the early days of Ashram. A visitor who had just arrived

from

a distant town went about from place to place eagerly enquiring,

"where is Ramana?" At last he heard that Bhagavan was in the kitchen

and

to the kitchen he hurried. Here four or five persons were standing

and the visitor could not make out which of them was the sage.He

singled

out the simplest looking person in the group-it happened to be

Bhagavan

himself- and asked him in a whisper, "where is Ramana?" The person

promptly pointed to a big cooking vessel and asserted with a smile,

"There is Ramana!" As the others laughed and the visitor stared,

Bhagavan explained,"The name Ramana is carved on that vessel, not

on this body."

 

-Taken from "Ramana Jyoti" a souvenir in aid of

Sri Ramana Auditorium released in 1969