The Only Guru

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Thanks for writing from your heart. When the heart speaks it is always a joy to

read. Once Bhagavan comes into one's life, peace is certain. The truth is

taught by Bhagavan to HIS devotees, by the way HE lived IT. HE would teach by

demonstrating, it is up to us to determine to practice it. Living by the way HE

lived. If I am able to live at least a fraction of the way the Bhagavan lived,

it would be bliss, only because of HIS Grace. I like to read the article Effort

Grace and Destiny by Arthur Osborne that was published in Mountain Path.

 

Talks with Ramana Maharshi - the message from the book has changed the lives of so many.

 

An accomplished and mature devotee of Bhagavan will never be affected by desire

like the way HE never was.

 

Thanks again

 

Yours Truly In OUR Satguru, Sri Ramana Maharshi,

Prashanth

Dear Everyone:Bhagavan's devotees know perfectly well that there is only one

Bhagavan Ramana and his teachings are perfectly clear. They were given by Sri

Ramana with compassion and grace overflowing, with no thought of financial or

any other rewards. The immaculate purity of Bhagavan Ramana in all ways is

spell binding and makes us silent. My teacher, Chitrabhanuji, used to visit Sri

Ramana as a teenager in the late 1930s before he became a Jain monk in 1942. He

told me that Sri Ramana was perfectly fine being alone in the beginning and

many times silent for long periods and simply became accustomed to having a lot

of people around gradually. Bhagavan basically tolerated and accepted

everything and once in a while in the beginning when he tried to avoid people

and run away or go deep in the jungle

his plans were undermined by divine providence. So Sri Ramana came to accept

this and responded to the needs of the people around him and that is how the

Ashram came into being and grew with Sri Ramana taking interest in the welfare

of the devotees and looking after them.I recall a story that my teacher told.

Once he visited Sri Ramana and asked him about the highest reality (Jains

believe that upon liberations the Siddhas become completely liberated from

matter and their souls ascend to the height of the universe). Sri Ramana was

then keeping silence and did not answer the question. Instead he looked at my

teacher and kindly smiled. Sri Ramana then pointed to the sky with his finger

and then pointed to his own (Sri Ramana's own) heart. So my understanding from

that story was that the highest height and the deepest depth of the Heart are

the same thing and the highest is contained in our Heart..Back in the

1970s, I used to read many books by many teachers. Chitrabhanuji told me to read

Sri Ramana instead and I got that book, "Talks with Ramana Maharshi". It was

like magic. For me that has been a life blessing and I slowly lost attraction

to any other teaching and gurus and so forth, although of course I maintain

respect for all traditions as Sri Ramana taught. The original teachings of Sri

Ramana, the conversations of Bhagavan with others and the words of Bhagavan's

devotees have been more than enough for me. Still people have many needs and

there are many teachers to meet their needs and that is good. But there is only

one Bhagavan Ramana and in the mind of the devotees the Sage has no equal and no

one can really be compared to him.Love to allHarsha

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