How Maharshi aided his Mother to obtain Liberation at her death-bed

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Ramana Maharishi's mother’s health started deteriorating from 1920. On the 19th of May 1922, her condition became critical. After his morning walk, Ramana went to her room at about 8 a.m., and sat beside her. Throughout the day, he had his right hand on her spiritual heart, on the right side of the chest and his left hand on her head. Ramana took on the sacred assignment of liberating his mother from the travails of births. He had the power to bestow liberation. But, he let her battle for it while at the same time he extended his gracious and invaluable support for it to fructify.

 

What happened has been described by Ramana Maharishi himself:

“The vasanas of the previous births and latent tendencies which are seeds of future births came out. She was observing one after another the scenes of experiences arising from remaining vasanas. As a result of a series of such experiences she was working them out.â€. Later, someone asked Ramana to explain the process to which he replied, “You see, birth experiences are mental. Thinking is also like that, depending on samskaras (tendencies). Mother was made to undergo all her future births in the comparatively short timeâ€. At 8 p.m., her mind was absorbed in the heart and she was liberated from all tendencies which give rise to future births. Even so Bhagavan waited for some time. For in the case of his faithful attendant of many years Palaniswami, he had done the same thing. But after the subsidence of the mind in the heart, Palaniswami had opened his eyes momentarily and the life force left the body though them. After a few minutes Ramana got up. When someone said that mother has passed away, Ramana immediately corrected and affirmed, “She did not pass away. ‘Adangi Vittadhu, Adakkam’ (‘absorbed’).†He added, “There is no pollution. Let us eat.â€

 

Excerpted From "Timeless in Time"

 

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