A. Devaraja Mudaliar - Recollections of Bhagavan, #3

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Once I said to Bhagavan: "What do I know about liberation

and all that? Really Bhagavan, I do not care for liberation or

anything else. I only want to be always happy."

 

Frivolous as it might seem, this really was my attitude at heart.

Bhagavan replied: " You are only asking for liberation or mukti,

though you are not using that word. The uninterrupted and

unmixed happiness which you want is possible only through

salvation or mukti, that is through freedom from ajnana (ignorance)".

 

So again Bhagavan taught me that there is nothing wrong in our

desiring happiness. In fact, no one can help desiring happiness,

since happiness is one's essential nature. What is wrong is only

seeking for that happiness in the not-self instead of in the Self

where alone it can be found.

 

 

 

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My Recollections of Bhagavan Sri Ramana

By A. Devaraja Mudaliar

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