What was Maharaj's attitude to Ramana Maharshi and his teachings?

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viorica w <viorica@z...> wrote:

> Harriet: What was Maharaj's attitude to Ramana Maharshi and his teachings? Did

you ever discuss Bhagavan's teachings with him? David: He had enormous respect

for both his attainment and his teachings. He once told me that one of the few

regrets of his life was that he never met him in person. He did come to the

ashram in the early 1960s with a group of his Marathi devotees. They were all

on a South Indian pilgrimage tour and Ramanasramam was one of the places he

visited. With regard to the teachings he once told me, 'I agree with everything

that Ramana Maharshi said, with the exception of this business of the

heart-centre being on the right side of the chest. I have never had that

experience myself.' I discussed various aspects of Bhagavan's teachings with

him and always found his answers to be very illuminating. He asked me once,

'Have you understood Ramana Maharshi's teachings?' Since I knew he meant

'Had I actually experienced the truth of them?', I replied, 'The more I listen

to Maharaj, the more I understand what Bhagavan is trying to tell me'. I felt

that this was true at both the theoretical and experiential levels. His

explanations broadened and deepened my intellectual understanding of Bhagavan's

teachings and his presence also gave me experiential glimpses of the truth that

they were all pointing towards. I have to mention Ganesan's visit here. V.

Ganesan is the grandnephew of Ramana Maharshi and in the 1970s he was the de

facto manager of Ramanasramam. Nowadays, his elder brother Sundaram is in

charge. Ganesan came to visit Maharaj for the first time in the late 1970s. As

soon as he arrived Maharaj stood up and began to collect cushions. He made a

big pile of them and made Ganesan sit on top of the heap. Then, much to

everyone's amazement, Maharaj cleared a space on the floor and did a

full-length prostration to him. When he stood up, he told

Ganesan, 'I never had a chance to prostrate to your great-uncle Ramana Maharshi,

so I am prostrating to you instead. This is my prostration to him.'

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