Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharshi - The Eternal Guru

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in TBP,

 

Love and Love alone....

 

All dreams are mere dreams except dreams in which Bhagavan appear. This

was said by Sri Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi.

 

Gods appearing in dreams are not new and even in our epics and puranas

such incidents are narrated.

 

Ramana literature talks about many such dream experiences of several

devotees. I want to reproduce one incident mentioned in the book

" Moments Remembered " by Shri V.Ganesan. A very interesting dream

experience of Dr.Krishnamurthi which reassures every one of us our

Eternal Guru's everlasting grace:-

 

Chapter 2 - " Beloved Ramana " Page : 6:-Quote:

 

Dr.M.R.Krishnamurthi Iyer, the fist Doctor of the Ashram Dispensary

which was started in 1920, was a great seeker and in course of time had

attained high spiritual maturity and even a simple contact with him

proved it.

 

He said " In the later 30's Bhagavan was gripped by continuous hiccups

and I was treating Him. Days passed and I had tried all the medicines

known to the profession; all in vain. Bhagavan's condition was fast

deteriorating. One day I checked His pulse and found it very feeble and

I feared that His days were numbered. I got thoroughly upset. I spoke no

words to Him, but standing in His presence, I prayed mentally that He

should show me a way to cure Him.

 

" I returned home, grief-stricken, and cried and cried like a child till

I fell asleep. In the early hours of the morning, Bhagavan appeared to

me in my dream and said " Why are you weeping? I replied sobbing,

Bhagavan, you know why, I don't know how to save you from hiccups. What

am I do? Don't cry. In the courtyard of your house there is a

'Seendhikodi. Pluck some leaves from it, fry them in ghee and then pound

them along with dried ginger and jaggery, make a ball of it and bring it

to me. Don't worry! " I woke up, delighted and my wife and I went out

with a hurricane lamp and searched for the herb in the courtyard. Except

for a small strip, the courtyard was plastered in cement. In the small

strip many bushes had grown. There among these, we did find the herb -

only one of it. And we made the preparation accordingly and almost ran

to the Ashram. When we entered the Hall very early in the morning, Sri

Bhagavan was seated on His couch. With a smiling face, He greeted us and

extended His hand with these words: " Give me what you have brought! " He

swallowed the medicine. When I spoke to Him about the dream He looked

innocent as if He knew nothing about it! Needless to say, the hiccup

stopped within a few days and He was restored to normal health "

 

Unquote:

 

Friends, knowing well what would cure His ailment, Bhagavan would have

very well asked Dr.Krishnamurthi or even some one to prepare the

medicine. He did not do that. Bhagavan would have rather told

Dr.Krishnamurthi even in the Old Hall - in person. Why Bhagavan chose to

appear in dream and give those instructions of a " special medicine " is

only astonishing many of us. Normally appearing in dream can be accepted

in case the devotee is far far away (physically of course - and for a

Gnani even it does not exist). See the " drama " scripted, directed and

enacted by our Dramatist Guru. Inscrutable are

the ways of our Eternal Guru in showing His grace.

Love and Love alone... P. Gopi Krishna

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Dear Gopi and other friends,

 

Sai Ram. Reading this beautiful post brought tears to my own eyes.

What love? What grace? Similar incidents are of course narrated in Sai

Satcharitra and Sri Guru Charitra also. The Guru, who is One, assumes

several forms at one time and at all times as needed, to help the

seekers. Sai Ram.

 

Swamy

" Swarna Venkateswara Swamy " <truthseeker123x