Monica Bose-Growing up in the Grace of Bhagavan - 10

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Bhagavan wrote in his own hand numerous verses glorifying Arunachala. He did so in notebooks, or on small slips of paper, especially if a translation or explanation had been requested of him. During the twenty-three years that he lived in the Hill's caves he wrote hundreds of notes, but sadly most were lost. Later on at the ashram the notes he wrote were much in demand among the devotees, but seeing that they vied for their possession Bhagavan practically stopped writing them.

 

The devotees, though, continued to write notes to him. In 1942, my grandmother, who felt that she was losing her sense of purpose in life, wrote him a note asking him for guidance about her future. With extraordinary insight, he told her to return to her religion. She had never confided to anyone at the ashram that she had left it. She was to return to the Catholic faith and this would be the turning poit in her life. During the twenty-three years left of her long pilgrimage on earth, she walked ever closer to Christ, her Lord.

 

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from The Mountain Path - Jayanti 2004