Ramana Includes All

[Guest guest]

Dear Group,

 

A posting to show Ramana's love for all:

 

Sri N. Ramachandra Rao of Bangalore, who visited Sri Ramana in 1923,

says in his Kannada book that he saw Sri Ramana living in a shed and

that he garlanded the sage's photo hung in the shed and that many

devotees were living in the premises and getting up at 4:00 a.m. to

attend the various items of work in the kitchen. It was in that shed

that Sri Ramana was sleeping on 26-6-1924. Personal attendants were

resting in adjacent sheds. During the night, six robbers easily broke

open the bamboo door and entered the hut and attacked him without any

difference and commanded his to deliver the keys to them. They

slapped him on cheeks and said, "Give us your keys. Where have you

kept money? If you do not give keys, we will break your legs." Sri

Ramana continued to be as serene as before. In his soft voice, he

replied, "We are poor sadhus. We have no money. You can take away

anything you want." By then the attendants ran out from their sheds

and entered his shed. They were also attacked by the robbers. Some

asram dogs barked at the robbers, who punished the dogs too. His

attendants wanted to teach a lesson to the robbers by counter-attack.

Sri Ramana gave them a counsel of perfection. He persuaded them to be

non-violent. He told them to treat the robbers as themselves.

Subsequently, his attendants, on being questioned by others,

recollected the very words uttered by Sri Ramana and thus helped

future biographers of the sage to record them in their books. On that

night, when his attendants were about the punish the robbers, he

checked them by saying, "Look here, we are sadhus. We should not

abandon our dharma. These robbers are also human beings like

ourselves. But, they are under the sway of ignorance. Our own teeth

sometimes bite our tongue. Do we therefore break our teeth? Do not

attack the robbers." This incident shows Sri Ramana's imperturbable

calmness. It also shows that he treated the robbers as his own self.

 

Life and Teachings of Sree Ramana Maharshi

T. S. Anantha Murthy

Electron Printers, Bangalore, 1972

 

Thank you Rob. You have demonstrated one of Ramana's teachings, "What

you do for another, you do for the Self."

 

WE are Not two,

Richard

[Guest guest]

Dear Richard,

 

Thank you. The quotation you selected is

very appropriate. Another episode that occurs

to me is the one about the mentally ill boy

who kept shouting in the hall at the ashram.

I think it's described in "Talks" but I can't

find it. Do you know where it is?

 

Rob

 

RamanaMaharshi, "Richard Clarke" <rclarke@s...> wrote:

> Dear Group,

>

> A posting to show Ramana's love for all:

>

[Guest guest]

Dear Rob,

 

Another good story, I can not find it right now, either.

 

 

But, returning to "Who am I?" all text version, from Paragraph 40

 

However evil-minded other people may appear to you, it is not proper

to hate or despise them. Likes and dislikes, love and hatred, are

equally to be eschewed. It is also not proper to let the mind often

rest on objects or affairs of mundane life. As far as possible one

should not interfere in the affairs of others. Everything offered to

others is really an offering to oneself; and if only this truth were

realized, who is there that would refuse anything to others?

 

 

Here Ramana tells us of how to approach other people.

 

We are Not two,

Richard

 

RamanaMaharshi, "Rob Sacks" <editor@r...> wrote:

> Dear Richard,

>

> Thank you. The quotation you selected is

> very appropriate. Another episode that occurs

> to me is the one about the mentally ill boy

> who kept shouting in the hall at the ashram.

> I think it's described in "Talks" but I can't

> find it. Do you know where it is?

>

> Rob

>

> RamanaMaharshi, "Richard Clarke" <rclarke@s...> wrote:

> > Dear Group,

> >

> > A posting to show Ramana's love for all:

> >