ETERNAL GURU AND DREAMS - 1

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Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya,

 

One of our members talked about his dream experience in which

Bhagavan appeared.

 

All dreams are mere dreams except dreams in which Bhagavan appear.

This was said by Sri Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi.

 

Gods appearing in dreams are not new and even in our epics and

puranas such incidents are narrated.

 

Ramana literature talks about many such dream experiences of several

devotees. Before sharing my own dream experience - my (wrong)

interpretation of the same and the (right) interpretation made by our

friend "nanyar" just a few days back when I referred this to him (for

the first time to an outsider), i want to reproduce one incident

mentioned in the book "Moments Remembered" by Shri V.Ganesan. A very

interesting dream expereince of Dr.Krishnamurthi which reassures

every one of us our Eternal Guru's everlasting grace:-

 

Chapter 2 - "Beloved Ramana" Page : 6:-

Quote:

 

Dr.M.R.Krishnamurthi Iyer, the fist Doctor of the Ashram Dispensary

which was started in 1920, was a great seeker and in course of time

had attained high spiritual maturity and even a simple contact with

him proved it.

 

He said "In the later 30's Bhagavan was gripped by continuous hiccups

and I was treating Him. Days passed and I had tried all the medicines

known to the profession; all in vain. Bhagavan's condition was fast

deteriorating. One day I checked His pulse and found it very feeble

and I feared that His days were numbered. I got thoroughly upset. I

spoke no words to Him, but standing in His presence, I prayed

mentally that He should show me a way to cure Him.

 

"I returned home, grief-stricken, and cried and cried like a child

till I fell asleep. In the early hours of the morning, Bhagavan

appeared to me in my dream and said "Why are you weeping? I replied

sobbing, Bhagavan, you know why, I don't know how to save you from

hiccups. What am I do? Dont cry. In the courtyard of your house

there is a 'Seendhikodi. Pluck some leaves from it, fry them in ghee

and then pound them along with dried ginger and jaggery, make a ball

of it and bring it to me. Don't worry!" I woke up, delighted and my

wife and I went out with a hurricane lamp and searched for the herb

in the courtyard. Except for a small strip, the courtyard was

plastered in cement. In the small strip many bushes had grown.

There among these, we did find the herb - only one of it. And we

made the preparation accordingly and almost ran to the Ashram. When

we entered the Hall very early in the morning, Sri Bhagavan was

seated on His couch. With a smiling face, He greeted us and extended

His hand with these words: "Give me what you have brought!" He

swallowed the medicine. When I spoke to Him about the dream He

looked innocent as if He knew nothing about it! Needless to say, the

hiccup stopped within a few days and He was restored to normal

health"

 

Unquote:

 

Friends, knowing well what would cure His ailment, Bhagavan would

have very well asked Dr.Krishnamurthi or even some one to prepare the

medicine. He did not do that. Bhagavan would have rather told

Dr.Krishnamurthi even in the Old Hall - in person. Why Bhagavan

chose to appear in dream and give those instructions of a "special

medicine" is only astonishing many of us. Normally appearing in

dream can be accepted in case the devotee is far far away (physically

of course - and for a Gnani even it does not exist). See the "drama"

scripted, directed and enacted by our Dramatist Guru. Inscrutable are

the ways of our Eternal Guru in showing His grace.

 

Ramanaarpanam.

 

Ganesh Ramachandran