RAMANA GITA STUDY-EXTRACTS FROM KAPALI SHASTRIAS' DIARY Part 3

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Extracts from the Diary of Kapali Shastria Part 3

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> I thought it would interest members to read extracts from 'K' 's diary when he

presented Ramana

> with his Commentary on his Gita .This ends the published section.

> .Alan

 

OCTOBER 13

Sri Maharshi knew that I was to leave that day, as I had the previous

evening informed him

about my programme and I purposely retained the last chapter for this morning.

Then I started

reading (8am) and finished it by 9 o'clock. When I came to the verse

nilaravinda the Maharshi

made a remark. Speaking for five to ten minutes, he stated, naming a gentleman

"He said that

this verse is quite fit to be the Dhyana Sloka of the whole Gita."

 

It is very significant that Sri Maharshi who had been silent so far, quoted

here approvingly

the opinion of another that this should be considered a verse appropriate to

describe the Maharshi

himself. There are two elements in the verse which I may note in passing: one

is the blooming

of the eyes. The other is the Silence by which Shiva as Dakshinamurti teaches

his disciples.

 

"Spreading grace like the friend of the blue lunar lily;

Bright like the solar lord of the lotus;

by his pure abidance in Brahman

he evokes his Father under the banyan tree;

firm like a rock is this my younger brother."

 

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Now one remarkable fact is when I started reading, it should have taken

easily fifteen hours

to finish the portion, at a modest rate. I do not know how it was done in six

hours. The tone

was loud; the throat was not affected and the pauses for rest were the minimum.

All this - one

can easily see, if he has eyes - is due to three factors: (1) the Maharshi

understood that I was

to finish and go; (2) I had the will and (3) the Mother was present - as she

later confirmed.

 

 

 

 

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alan

 

 

 

 

 

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