M.A Pigot #1

[Guest guest]

After the publication of Paul Brunton's 'Search in Secret India', serious

seekers in the west started coming to Sri Ramanasramam for guidance and

clarification on the spiritual path.

Though several hundreds of such seekers had come, only some of them have left

useful records which throw light either on the personality of Ramana or on his

teachings. The clarification sought by a few of them and the replies given by

Ramana have been recorded in 'Talks" with Sri Ramana Maharshi'. However, we find

that the recording in the 'Talks' is often very brief. Whereas they themselves

have given elsewhere a complete account of what happened in their meetings with

Ramana. The first western lady devotee to come to Sri Ramanasramam was M. A.

Pigot, an English Lady, who had read ' A Search in Secret India' and had come to

India to see the Maharshi. She has given a graphic account of their meeting with

him in an article "The way of Spirit'. At the first meeting itself she became

conscious suddenly, "...the Maharshi's eyes were fixed on me. The seemed

literally like burning coals of fire piercing through me. They glittered in the

dim light... Not that he criticized even in silence; of that he was incapable

but in the light of perfection all imperfection are revealed.' The same evening

when she was meditating in the hall everything was "compelling, still and the

eyes of the holy one blazed no more. They were serene and introverted. All my

troubles seemed to smooth out and difficulties melted away." She settled down

for a long period of stay in order to get the full benefit of close association

of his physical presence.

 

Timeless in Time..Natarajan