RAMANA MAHARSHI’S KRISHNA BHAKTI

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RAMANA MAHARSHI'S KRISHNA BHAKTI

 

David Godman writes that H.W.L.Poonja(Papaji) after his first

meeting with the Maharshi(See June 2004 issue of Sri Ramana Jyothi )

went back to Madras and joined his job. He continued with his

intense Krishna Bhakti. The following narration is from vol. one of

the book Nothing Ever Happened by David Godman:

One day, the Maharshi himself appeared before me in Madras and

said, `Krishna bhakti alone is true. Krishna bhakti alone is true.'

As I knew that the Maharshi has never left Tiruvannamalai, I assumed

that it was some kind of vision. However, I went to Ramanasramam and

asked the Maharshi, `Are you the person who appeared to me in Madras

and told me " Krishna bhakti alone is true " ?' He heard my question

but he didn't give me a reply.

 

While I was waiting for an answer, a group of devotees came from

Vrindavan. They were on a tour of pilgrimage places in the South. On

their visit to Tirupati they had heard that there was a swami in

Tiruvannamalai who was worth visiting. So, they all came along to

have darshan. The leader of the group presented to the Maharshi a

picture of Krishna playing the flute for Radha. It was a very

beautiful picture. As the Maharshi was watching at the picture,

tears started trickling down his cheeks. When you have intense

devotion for Krishna, you can easily pick out other devotees who

have that same passion. I could see that these were real tears of

devotion and they came from the heart and not from the mind. As I

watched the tears trickling down the Maharshi's cheeks, I felt them

trickling into my own Heart. It was a divine shower that filled my

own Heart with love. The Maharshi was so happy looking at that

picture, and I felt so happy looking at him appreciate it.

I thought to myself, `The Maharshi has been hiding his devotion from

me. He does not like to show it publicly, but now I have found out

the secret. He is just as much a bhakta as I am.

A bird cannot fly without two wings. After this revelation I saw

that the Maharshi was soaring on the twin wings of bhakti and jnana.

From that moment on, my doubts evaporated and I had immense faith in

him.

 

prof laxmi narain (prof_narain)

 

Source and courtesy: Sri Ramana Kendram, Hyderabad

This article was published in Sri Ramana Jyothi,

monthly magazine of the Kendram.