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Reply to the Mother

 

(Destiny)

 

 

When Bhagavan left home his family tried to trace him but at first without success. Only some years later they discovered him at Tiruvannamalai. The Mother, not yet ripe to renounce the world and join him, went to try to persuade him to return to her. At this time he was not speaking, so he wrote the following verse for her, declaring that whatever is destined to happen will happen.

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The fates of souls are all by God ordained

According to the deeds that they have done.

That end that's destined ne'er to be attained

Will never be achieved by anyone

However hard they try. All those things, too,

That it is destined must occur one day,

Will come to pass whatever you may do

To interfere and try their course to stay,

And this is certain. At length we come to see

That it is best that we should silent be.

 

 

 

The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi

 

Edited by Arthur Osborne