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..In His Grace, Alan

 

 

> > Namaskar.

> >

> > While giving the talk on my 'teacher' - 'Pundit' T.K. Sundaresa

> > Iyer - I made a reference to Duncan Greenlees.

> > Since I know him, personally, though not very intimately (like,

> > Arthur Osborne or Major Chadwick) , I want to share

> > with you the following :

> >

> > Duncan Greenlees came to Sri Bhagavan in 1935. His first experience,

> > in his own words : " I saw the Maharshi. It did not take long for me

> > to be sure that I was in front of one who had in that very body I

> > could see before me solved life's problem for himself. The radiant

> > peace around him proved it beyond all cavil. The calm, like that of

> > the midnight sky, was something too real to question for a moment.

> > In the flesh I had seen a 'Master' . That stillness of eternal deeps

> > had somehow osmosed itself into my heart. The stormy nature I brought

> > into life with me had met a Master who could quell the waves with a

> > silent word, "Peace, be still !" like Him of Galilee, I was

> > brought face to face with the eternal being who had entered and thrown

> > off personalities in an unbroken chain through long ages on the earth.

> > I knew myself to be absolutely one with that incarnate Peace on the

> > sofa, and therefore to be one equally with the Unmanifest in whose

> > stillness he was so obviously poised."

> >

> > Many a visit he gave to the Ashram and drenched himself in that Purity

> > of Presence which defied any form of conditioning - caste,

> > religion, country, language, customs and social norms !

> >

> > " I was sitting one day in the Hall, more or less sleepily browsing

> > in the heat over a notebook of extracts on Yoga. Now Bhagavan hardly

> > ever spoke to me first (indeed there has been very little actual

> > talking between us during the years; it did not seem necessary,

> > somehow) , but that day he spoke to me in English : "What is that

> > book ?" I told him. He said quietly, "Read Milarepa". I got up

> > at once, and asked the friend in charge of the little library if he

> > had a "Milarepa". He gave me Dr.Evans-Wentz's life of the Tibetan

> > Yogi Saint. I read it, there in the Hall. I read it again. It

> > thrilled and stirred deep places in my heart. Somehow, I feel

> > Bhagavan had seen that it would be so, and therefore gave me the only

> > order of the sort he has ever given me."

> >

 

> >

> > The following glowing tribute of Duncan Greenlees of our Beloved

> > Master is worth repeating to our Hearts :

> > "I know no other man whose mere presence has thus enabled me to make

> > the personality drop down into the abyss of nothingness where it

> > belongs. I have found no other human being who so emanates his grace

> > that it can catch away the ordinary man from his stillness and plunge

> > him deep in the ecstasy of timeless omnipresent being."

> >

> > Isn't it glorious,

> >

> > Love,

> > Ganesan.

> >

>

>

 

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> > ... He said quietly, "Read Milarepa".

[Jetsun [Milarepa] said:]

'The serving of a perfect Guru,

And the serving of a person of good fortune,

Appear to be alike, but beware, and confuse them not.

'The true dawning of the Voidness in one's mind,

And illusory obsessions of consciousness,

Appear to be alike, but beware, and confuse them not.

'The knowing of the Pure, the Unalloyed State, by meditation,

And the fondness for the Tranquil State born of the trance ecstatic of Quiescence,

Appear to be alike, but beware, and confuse them not.

'The Flood-tide of the Deep Intuition,

And other deep convictions that 'This seemeth right', 'That seemeth true',

Appear to be alike, but beware, and confuse them not.

'The true faith, thrilling forth from the heart's recesses,

And faith conventional, born of a sense of shame and obligation,

Appear alike, but beware, and confuse them not.

'The sincere devotion to religious studies,

And feigned devotion, for the pleasing of one's Guru,

Appear alike, but beware, and confuse them not.

'The real success, which one hath realized,

And nominal success, of which rumour speaketh,

Appear alike, but beware, and confuse them not.

(Tibet's great Yogi, Milarepa, A Biography from the Tibetan; Edited by W. Y.

Evans-Wentz Milarepa, OUP; 1969)