Sri Ramana. Mother undergoes future births

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Mother's health started deteriorating from 1920. On the 19th of May 1922, her

condition became critical. After his morning walk Ramana went to her room at

about 8.a.m, and sat beside her. Throughout the day, he had his right hand on

her spiritual heart, on the right side of the chest and his left hand on her

head. Ramana took on the sacred assignment of liberating his mother from the

travails of births. He had the power to bestow liberation. But he let her battle

for it while at the same time he extended his gracious and invaluable support of

it to fructify. What happened has been described by Ramana himself. "The vasanas

of the previous births and latent tendencies which are seeds of future birth

came out. She was observing one after another the scenes of experiences arising

from remaining vasanas. As a result of a series of such experiences she was

working them out. Later someone asked Ramana to explain the process to which he

replied. "You see, birth experiences are mental. Thinking is also like that,

depending on samskaras { tendencies}. Mother was made to undergo all her future

births in that comparatively short time." At 8 p.m., her mind was absorbed in

the heart and she was liberated from all tendencies which give rise to future

births. Even so Bhagavan waited for sometime. For in the case of his faithful

attendant of many years Palaniswami, he had done the same thing. But after the

subsidence of the mind in the heart, Palaniswami had opened his eyes momentarily

and the life force left the body through them. After a few minutes Ramana got

up. When someone said that the mother had passed away, Ramana immediately

corrected and affirmed "She did not pass away. 'Adangi Vittadu, Addakam'

{'absorbed'}. He added, " There is no pollution, let us eat.

 

 

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