MAHARAJA OF COCHIN’S TRIBUTE TO SRI RAMANA

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Source and courtesy: Sri Ramana Kendram, Hyderabad

This article was published in Sri Ramana Jyothi,

monthly magazine of the Kendram.

 

MAHARAJA OF COCHIN'S TRIBUTE TO SRI RAMANA

 

The following is from Introduction to Malayalam biography of Sri

Ramana Maharshi by Appunni. It was written by His Highness Rama Varma

Appan Tampuran, Maharaja of Cochin (Kerala).

 

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There is no limit to the surging rise or to the subsiding tranquility

of the mind. Nor is there any limit to its powers to chastise or

control and to confer a blessing. The mind is indeed the cause of

both happiness and misery, of enjoyment and of liberation. If it is

recognised that samsara is nothing but a work of the mind, then the

mystery of the cycle of births and deaths will be revealed.

The search for the mind has to be made within oneself. Self-knowledge

can never be achieved and realised through scholarship. The path to

Self-realisation is not easily accessible and it is extremely

difficult to tread. For this, faith and devotion and an ardent

aspiration for liberation are essential.

Self-realization dawned all at once for the Maharshi. The light of

the Self shone forth suddenly like the flash of lightning. The

Supreme Lord of the universe lifted him with His sacred hand and

established him at the very centre and source of Being, Awareness and

Bliss.It is perhaps on account of this we find in much of the

teachings of the Maharshi, ultimate knowledge revealed rather than

the path leading to it, giving preeminence to the end rather than to

means.

.. The sorrows of the distressed, the doubts of earnest seekers,

the disbelief of the sceptics who come to test him, and the pride of

the high and mighty, verily perish in the mere presence of the

Maharshi. His sacred abode confers peace and even induces spiritual

trance which yields the Bliss of Self-realisation.

The praise of the Maharshi like that of Sri Krishna is delightful

and beneficient alike to the worldly-minded sunk in the whirlpool of

egoistic attachment and wallowing in the ditch of blind infatuation,

as well as to those who seek liberation. It is indeed our good

fortune to live during the lifetime of such a distinguished and great

Sage. Blessed are the devotees who spend their time in his presence.

The life of the Maharshi is not the biography of an individual but

radiance of the universal self; not the expression of body's acts

but manifestation of the Spirit within. (Source: Fragrant Patels,

published by Sri Ramanasramam. It can be obtained from the Kendram's

bookstore.)