Ramana Maharshi was indeed none other than Sri Dakshinamurti Himself

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The Self alone, the Sole Reality,

Exists for ever.

If of yore the First of Teachers

Revealed it through unbroken silence

Say, who can reveal it in spoken words?

– Ekatma Panchakam, Sri Bhagavan.

 

Sri Bhagavan once told the story that follows to Sri Muruganar. This brings

out the profound significance of the Supreme Silence in which the First

Master,Sri Dakshinamurti is established.

 

Sri Bhagavan said,

 

“When the four elderly Sanakadi rishis first beheld the sixteen-year-old Sri

Dakshinamurti sitting under the banyan tree, they were at once attracted by

Him, and understood that He was the real Sadguru. They approached Him, did

three pradakshinas around Him, prostrated before Him, sat at His Feet and

began to ask shrewd and pertinent questions about the nature of reality and

the means of attaining it. Because of the great compassion and fatherly love

(vatsalya) which He felt for His aged disciples, the young Sri Dakshinamurti

was overjoyed to see their earnestness, wisdom and maturity, and gave apt

replies to each of their questions. But as He answered each consecutive

question, further doubts arose in their minds and they asked further

questions.

 

Thus they continued to question Sri Dakshinamurti for a whole year, and He

continued to clear their doubts through His compassionate answers.

Finally,however,

Sri Dakshinamurti understood that if He continued answering their questions,

more doubts would arise in their minds and their ignorance (ajnana) would

never end. Therefore, suppressing even the feeling of compassion and

fatherly love which was welling up within Him, He merged Himself into the

Supreme Silence. Because of their great maturity (which had ripened to

perfection through their year-long association with the Sadguru), as soon as

Sri Dakshinamurti assumed Silence,they too automatically merged into Supreme

Silence, the true state of the Self.”

 

Wonderstruck on hearing Sri Bhagavan narrating the story in this manner, Sri

Muruganar remarked that in no book was it mentioned that Sri Dakshinamurti

ever spoke anything. “But this is what actually happened”, replied Sri

Bhagavan curtly.From the authoritative way in which Sri Bhagavan replied and

from the clear and descriptive way in which He told the story,Sri Muruganar

understood that Sri Bhagavan was none other than Sri Dakshinamurti Himself!

 

Source: SPIRITUAL STORIES AS TOLD BY RAMANA MAHARSHI

 

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Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

Prasanth Jalasutram

 

Love And Love Alone