Question to schoolars

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Was Lakshmi Bhagavan's cow enlightened ?

 

did her enlightenment had to do anything with being close a saint ?

 

did He looked at all animals as enlightened beings ?

 

 

 

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MOPDERATOR's NOTE:

 

Sri Bhagavan has written: "On Friday, the fifth of 'Ani', the twelfth day of the

waxing moon under the asterism 'Visakha', the cow lakshmi attained mukti"

 

The following is from "Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self-Knowledge" by Sri

Arthur Osborne:

 

"Lakshmi was conscious up to the end; her

eyes were calm. At eleven-thirty she left her body, quite peacefully.

She was buried in the Ashram compound with full funeral rites,

beside the graves of a deer, a crow and a dog which Sri Bhagavan

had also caused to be buried there. A square stone was placed over

her grave surmounted by a likeness of her. On the stone was

engraved an epitaph that Sri Bhagavan had written stating that

she had attained Mukti (Liberation). Devaraja Mudaliar asked

Bhagavan whether that was used as a conventional phrase, as the

phrase that someone has attained samadhi is a polite way of saying

that he has died, or whether it really meant Mukti, and Sri

Bhagavan said that it meant Mukti."

 

Even a cursory study of Sri Ramana's writings reveals that Sri Bhagavan did not

encourage questions about whether people or animals are "enlightened" or not.

Such questions are meaningless for the Jnani, who sees nothing apart from the

Self.

 

Such matters are not for consideration on this list.

 

Thank you for your attention.

 

 

 

 

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