Papaji's meeting with Maharshi Ramana. . .

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I APPROACHED THE MAHARSHI in a belligerent way. Are you the man who

came to see me at my house in the Punjab? I demanded. The Maharshi

remained silent.

 

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Since he was unwilling to answer either of these questions I moved

on to the main purpose of my visit. Have you seen God? I asked And

if you have, can you enable me to see Him? I am willing to pay any

price, even my life, but your part of the bargain is that you must

show me God.

 

No, he answered. I cannot show you God or enable you to see God,

because God is not an object that can be seen. God is the subject.

He is the seer. Don t concern yourself with objects that can be

seen. Find out who the seer is. He also added, You alone are God,

as if to rebuke me for looking for a God who was outside and apart

from me .

 

His words did not impress me. They seemed to me to be yet one more

excuse to add to the long list of those I had heard from swamis all

over the country. He had promised to show me God, yet now he was

trying to tell me that not only could he not show me God, no one

else could either. I would have dismissed him and his words without

a second thought had it not been for an experience I had immediately

after he had told me to find out who this I was who wanted to see

God.

 

At the conclusion of his words he looked at me, and as he gazed into

my eyes my whole body began to tremble and shake. A thrill of

nervous energy shot through my body. My nerve endings felt as if

they were dancing and my hair stood on end. Within me I became aware

of the spiritual Heart. This is not the physical heart. It is,

rather, the source and support of all that exists. Within the Heart

I saw or felt something like a closed bud. It was very shiny and

bluish. With the Maharshi looking at me, and with myself in a state

of inner silence, I felt this bud open and bloom. I use the word

bud , but this is not an exact description. It would be more correct

to say that something that felt bud-like opened and bloomed within

me in the Heart. And when I say Heart , I don't mean that the

flowering was located in a particular place in the body.

 

This Heart, this Heart of my Heart, was neither inside the body nor

out of it. I cant give a more exact description of what happened.

All I can say is that in the Maharshi s presence and under his gaze,

the Heart opened and bloomed. It was an extraordinary experience,

one that I never had before. I had not come looking for any kind of

experience, so it totally surprised me when it happened.

 

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