T.K. Sundaresa Iyer - in brute & man alike

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IN BRUTE AND MAN ALIKE

 

 

Sri Rangaswamy Iyengar was a business man in Madras.

He had been frequenting Sri Bhagavan much earlier than

even the Pachaiamman Koil days of 1906.

 

When Sri Bhagavan was in the Pachaiamman temple

during the days of the great plague in Tiruvannamalai,

Sri Iyengar one day arrived at Bhagavan's place by

the train at one o'clock, in the blazing sun.

 

Sri Bhagavan received him with his usual beaming face

of smiles and the sweet milk of kindness. Sri Iyengar

was asked by the devotees around to have his bath

in the pond nearby , and he left Sri Bhagavan's presence

to bath there in the front of the temple.

 

The spot was very lonly ; Sri Iengar was bathing at the

eastern ghatt . All of a suddden Sri Bhagavan , who was

seated inside the temple , left that place. Those around

thought He was walking out for some bodily need of his own.

When he came there He saw a leopard come to the tank

to quench its thirst at the northern edge.

 

Says Bhagavan quietly to the animal: " Go now,

and come later : he would be afraid, " referring to the

man bathing nearby. At these words of Sri Bhagavan,

the animal went away.

 

Sri Bhagavan then went up to the bather , who had by

then finished his bath , and said to him : " We should

not come here at this part of the day; wild animals come

at these hours to quench their thirst. "

 

He did not add that a wild animal had actually come there ,

lest the man be frightened . Thus did Sri Bhagavan reveal

his equality of being in both the brute and the man. A few

days later , He Himself told us of this incident.

 

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taken from :

AT THE FEET OF BHAGAVAN

T.K. SUNDARESA IYER

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