Baghavan Ramana Maharishi by Sri.Sri.Muralidhara Swamiji Part-2

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Bhagavan Ramana, Seshadri Swamigal, Virupaksha, Guru Namsivayam, Guhai

Namasivayam, Yogiramsuratkumar - all these Mahans remained at Tiruvannamalai all

their lives.

 

Pattinathar attained Jnana in a moment. He was childless for a long time. The

couple prayed to Lord Siva and due to the Lord’s blessing they were blessed

with a son. Once, Pattinathãr sent his son on a trading trip abroad. In those

days people went overseas by ships. At the time of his return there was heavy

storm and the worried parents prayed fervently to the Lord for his safe return.

On the young son’s return the parents thanked the Lord. But, after a day or

two the father asked the son, ‘what have you earned from your visit abroad?’

The son showed a needle with a broken ear and a ‘ratti’.

 

Pattinathar was shocked and said to him angrily, ‘All the young men who went

along with you have brought precious gems; but, you have returned empty hand.’

 

At once the son asked Pattinathar, ‘What did you pray to the Lord when I was

caught in the storm? Did you not pray for my safety? Do you prefer wealth over

my well being? Father! Know that when you leave this world even these - the

needle with the broken ear and the ‘rãtti’ - will be of no use to you. Then

what to speak of wealth and relatives?’

 

Hit by these words, Pattinathar at once gave up everything. He left his home in

search of God. Pattinathãr says, ‘Deem the relatives as only a crowd in a

market place.’

 

Once, Pattinathar found a family crying over their dead. He sat outside this

house and began to weep, too. The relatives of the dead stopped weeping and

looked wonderingly at this stranger who wept for their dead. They enquired of

him, ‘who are you? Why do you weep for the dead? Are you related to him?’

 

Pattinathar said, ‘No I do not weep for him. I weep for you. Those that are to

die are weeping for the dead!’

 

In ancient times was found a kind of deer (‘kavari man’). This deer ended

its life if even a single hair on its body was lost. It is also said that

‘Anna pakshi’ (the Swan) could separate milk from water and drink it up.

But, today a child would refuse to believe that such a kind of deer or swan ever

lived. Why? This is because the child has never seen the swan or this kind of a

deer. So, too, unless we see a Jivan Mukta we will not be able to believe that

such a state does exist. Hence, the birth of Ramana Bhagavan. The experience

that is generally achieved through thousands of years of penance was achieved in

a moment by Bhagavan Ramana. The death of his father had raised a question in

him about death. One day, while he lived at Madurai, a sudden fear of death

seized him. He did not seek a doctor nor did he seek the help of any elder. He,

at once, went up to the room on the first floor and lay down. Controlling all

his senses he fixed them in

his ‘hrudaya’ (heart center). ‘I am dead now. But, am I really dead? It

is only the body that has died. I AM alive!’ (these were not mere words

uttered). In a fraction of a second he ‘Realized’ the Truth.

Soon after, he left Madurai for Tiruvannamalai. Reaching the Temple he rushed

inside and hugged the Linga. Only then did his ‘tãpam’ subside. For

sometime he lived in the Temple precincts. As the urchins troubled him, he went

into the underground cave in the Temple (‘Pãtãlalingam’).

What is the ‘pramana’ (proof) for the state of Jivan Mukti? Verily one’s

charitra (life history).

 

When Ramana Bhagavan went into the ‘Pathala lingam’ - today it has been

renovated and is being maintained in an excellent condition; but it was not so

in the days when Ramana Bhagavãn entered it. At that time it was an underground

cave inhabited by snakes, scorpions, lizards and other poisonous creatures - as

a teenager, his head was clean-shaven. Later, when he was brought out by

Seshadri Swamigal, we observe, from the picture taken of him then, that he has

long hair and his nails. This goes to show that he had been inside not for a day

or two but for a very long period. He sat in the cave without food and sleep.

His body had become a skeleton; poisonous creatures had attacked his body.

Sitting there without any movement his body had got stuck to the ground. He had

to be literally pulled out of the stuck ground. The skin peeled due to this.

This is verily the state of Jivan Mukta. One does not become a Jivan Mukta by

mere claim.

 

!!! Will Continue !!!

 

Regards

 

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

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