An Excerpt from 'Ramana Smrti' - Part 2

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Source: 'Ramana Smrti' page 79 - Sri Ramana's boyhood in Madurai

by N.R. Krishnamurthi Aiyer.

The book can be downloaded from the downloads page of

www.ramana-maharshi.org.

 

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The next account was obtained from Narayanasami. When

the author met him he was Librarian in the Town Hall of

Madurai, known as Victoria Edward hall.

Usually, the terrace of the house and the small room in

which the boy Venkataraman made his "Self-enquiry" were

vacant and rarely used by the families in the ground floor.

Here the youngsters played. One of the games they played

was what they called `throw-ball'. Young Ramana would roll

his body into something like a ball and the sturdy group of

youngsters would throw him from one player to another.

 

Sometimes the human ball fell down when the player failed

to catch it. The wonder of it was that for all this rough tossing

and dropping, there was not the least scratch on the skin, let

alone any muscular sprain or bone fracture!

 

Narayanasami said that he used to see his friend sitting still

for long stretches of time in the small room on the first floor.

Narayanasami asked Ramana whether he could also do likewise.

Forthwith Ramana told his friend to squat on the floor with his

legs crossed (as in the semi-padmasana posture) and pressed a

pencil point midway between his eyebrows. Narayanasami lost

sense of body and world and sat still in a trance for more than

half an hour. When he came to himself he saw Ramana sitting,

with his face wreathed in smiles. Narayanasami said that he

failed when he tried to repeat the experience by himself.

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Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya!