Ramana Devotee Maurice Frydman last of this series

[Guest guest]

In the most touching article about this association with Bhagavan Ramana, he

writes, "The burning regret which many probably share with me, is that full

advantage was not taken of those happy and precious days when he was with us

physically also-eating, talking, laughing, welcoming all open to all. The

reality was there- in abundance for taking, but we enclosed ourselves in

timidity, in false humility, in self-deception and false excuses. We took a

cupful when the ocean was at our feet.

 

Now he is still with us. To find him again we must overcome the very obstacles

which prevented us from seeing him as he was and going with him where he wanted

to take us. It was Tamas and Rajas-fear and desire which stood in the way - a

desire for pleasure of the past and fear of austere responsibilities of the

natural state of being. It was the same old story - threshold of maturity in

mind and heart each one of us refuses to cross.

 

We ripen when we reuse to drift, when striving ceaselessly becomes the very ways

of life, when dispassion born of insight becomes spontaneous, when the search

'Who am I'?' becomes the only thing which matters. It will mean that we are

ripening fast. We can't accelerate that ripening but we can remove the obstacles

of fear and greed.

 

He is there and waiting timelessly. It is we who keep him waiting".

 

In a reminiscent article Frydman wrote " It was the immense privilege of the

write to meet a few gigantic spiritual men, but nobody had produced on him a

deeper impression that Sri Ramana Maharshi.

 

 

>From Timeless in Time by Natarajan