Nama Article- 18-03-08

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Source: Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramhansa Yogananda

 

Swami Kebalananda recounts a miracle by Lahiri

Mahasaya that took place in his presence and narrates

the same to Paramhansa Yogananda

 

" A blind disciple, Ramu, aroused my active pity.

Should he have no light in his eyes, when he

faithfully served our master, in whom the Divine was

fully blazing? One morning I sought to speak to Ramu,

but he sat for patient hours fanning the guru with a

hand-made palm-leaf punkha. When the devotee finally

left the room, I followed him.

 

" 'Ramu, how long have you been blind?'

 

" 'From my birth, sir! Never have my eyes been blessed

with a glimpse of the sun.'

 

" 'Our omnipotent guru can help you. Please make a

supplication.'

 

" The following day Ramu diffidently approached Lahiri

Mahasaya. The disciple felt almost ashamed to ask that

physical wealth be added to his spiritual

superabundance.

 

" 'Master, the Illuminator of the cosmos is in you. I

pray you to bring His light into my eyes, that I

perceive the sun's lesser glow.'

 

" 'Ramu, someone has connived to put me in a difficult

position. I have no healing power.'

 

" 'Sir, the Infinite One within you can certainly

heal.'

 

" 'That is indeed different, Ramu. God's limit is

nowhere! He who ignites the stars and the cells of

flesh with mysterious life-effulgence can surely bring

luster of vision into your eyes.'

 

" The master touched Ramu's forehead at the point

between the eyebrows.

 

" 'Keep your mind concentrated there, and frequently

chant the name of the prophet Rama for seven days. The

splendor of the sun shall have a special dawn for

you.'

 

" Lo! in one week it was so. For the first time, Ramu

beheld the fair face of nature. The Omniscient One had

unerringly directed his disciple to repeat the name of

Rama, adored by him above all other saints. Ramu's

faith was the devotionally ploughed soil in which the

guru's powerful seed of permanent healing sprouted. "

Kebalananda was silent for a moment, then paid a

further tribute to his guru.

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

 

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