Bhagavan's darshan in a dream

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On Wednesday, October 13th, 1954, I was in the guest cottage of a

Quaker couple, Helen and Albert Baily Jr., located on their farm in West

Dhester,

Pennsylvania, USA. The cottage was situated in a valley near their residence.

On the second floor of the cottage my wife, Yogamaya, our 15-month-old boy,

and I were occupying the large wooden-framed bed that night.

 

In the second half of the night I saw Bhagawan Ramana sitting on the bed near

my head. Although this was a dream, I saw it as clearly as I see the sun during

the day, and remember it vividly. His famous figure was near my head and His

legs

were dangling. Arunachala Shiva Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi stayed near my

head for quiete a while so that I could drink deep in Him. Bhagavan simply kept

on looking at me and I was filled with joy and happiness and could not turn my

eyes away from Him. I do not know how long this lasted. But once I woke up I

could not return to sleep and sat on the bed meditating on Him. All morning and

day I kept on thinking of the darshan Bhagavan had given me in my dream.

That first darshan of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi is even now as clear and

distinct

in my mind's eye as that of the blazing Sun.

 

During that vision I was magnetically drawn towards Bhagavan as I gazed on Him

from head to foot and from foot to head. His majestic figure, the loin cloth

wrapped

round His waist, a towel on His shoulder, and His hands and arms stretched

towards

me captivated me beyond words. His brown body was shining and I was being bathed

in His Divine Grace. Even now, and all the time when I think of that rare

darshan,

Bhagavan becomes alive for me. It seems He is present on the bed near my head

and I am being blessed. That dream enabled the sugar doll to be dissoved into

the

Divine Ocean of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. Since then I have not been the

same

Bhagawat I used to be.

 

In the remotest part of Pennsylvania, surronded by woods and trees, Bhagavan

took hold

of my life and I became a wayfarer in His Path. When I tried to see Bhagavan

when He was

in the body, He did not make it possible for me. But when He had left the body -

more

than four years had elapsed since His Mahanirvana - I was blessed by Bhagavan

and He

made me His disciple and devotee; nay, He made me His very own. Since then

nothing

had mattered in my life. Whatever I have tried to do, and whatever profession I

have

endeavored to follow, it has been difficult for me. I can vouchsafe that

Bhagavan has held

me so tightly that I can't manage to escpae from Him. He is in me all the time

and I am

made to wade in His Grace.

 

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Arunchala Bhakta Bhagawat: In Search of Self

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