signing off.. with date :-)

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Namaste All,

 

I received this email from an old 'Guindy' Engineering classmate of

mine who visits the 'Advaitin' as a bystander

 

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Today is a very special day. It was 110 years ago on Sep 1, 1996,

young Venkataraman (17 years old) reached

Thiruvannamalai and embraced his Father Lord Arunachala.

 

May Ramana's blessings be with us all.

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I have to sign off now - my kids are tugging at me. It is the long

weekend here and we are off to Crater Lake in Oregon. We are all

looking forward to the trip.

 

Before we part, Here is a message from one of Sri Ramana books - and

it mentions surprise, surprise the "date" :-)

 

 

// quote from "Day by Day with Bhagavan" Page 31

I asked Bhagavan: "I know that in the Madura house itself,

Bhagavan had the dawn of jnana and that ever since then,

Bhagavan had no `Dehatma Buddhi' (I-am-this-body

consciousness). I know also that Bhagavan had a `thapam' (tamil word)

 

(a burning sensation) in the body which did not cease until he

arrived at the temple here and reported His arrival to God

Arunachala.

 

But I don't believe this was the `Ninneri' (tamil word) mentioned in

Marital Garland;

 

I also think that Bhagavan has gone through the severe

pain or physical ordeal which I have read most Saints had to go

through when the knot between body and spirit is sundered. I

wish to know when this happened in Bhagavan's life.

 

I know this information is not needed for my improvement. But for

Bhagavan's history I think it is necessary."

 

Bhagavan kept quiet and only smiled. But after a time,

he said the Marital Garland was written about 1914-1915.

By that Bhagavan apparently meant to tell me that the knot

was sundered long before that, about 1896 itself.

 

// end quote

 

Good bye every one,

 

regards

Sundar Rajan