Ramana Maharshi Hindu saint 20th century

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Tales of transformation from "What is Enlightenment"

 

 

"You cannot conceive of the majesty and dignity I felt while begging. The first

day, when I begged from Gurukal's wife, I felt bashful about it as a result of

the habits of my upbringing, but after that there was absolutely no feeling of

abasement. I felt like a king, and more than a king. I have sometimes received

gruel at some house and taken it without salt or any other flavoring, in the

open street, in front of great pandits and other important men who used to come

and prostrate themselves before me at the ashram, and then I wiped my hands on

my head and walked on supremely happy and in a state of mind in which even

emperors were mere straw in my sight. you can't imagine it. That is why kings

have given up their thrones and taken to this path".