A SPIRITUAL SHARING from Sri V. Ganesan

[Guest guest]

!

>

> Namaskar.

>

I opened the book:

> " **Day by Day with Bhagavan** " by A.Devaraj

> Mudaliar

> and it opened on p.108. I am sharing it with you !

>

>

> ** Bhagavan was reading a letter from Mr.Appu Sastri, who

> had visited one Haridyal Maharaj living in a boat on the

> Ganges at Varanasi. The Maharaj is reputed to be two

> hundred years old.

>

> In this connection, Bhagavan said : " When I was at

> Gurumurtham, my nails had grown about an inch long and

> I had a long flowing jata (matted hair) and people used

> to talk I was very old in years, though so young in

> apperance, and that I had existed like that for centuries

> ! "

>

> The visitor (referred to in the last entry**) told

> Bhagavan:

> " I am going back to my place this night. I have

> mentioned

> my difficulties...... "

>

> Bhagavan : Yes. They will go gradually.

>

> Visitor : I pray for Bhagavan's kripa drishti

> (Glance of Grace).

>

> Bhagavan did not reply.

>

> Only a few minutes before this, Colombo

> Ramachandran's

> two small girls had finished singing and almost the last

> song

> (composed by their father, an ardent and long-standing

> devotee)

> contained the lines : " He who remains at Arunachala as

> the

> Compassionate Guru and who bestows His Glance of Grace on

> all

> devotees, dissolving their sorrows and problems, thereby

> immersing them in Salvation. "

>

> ** The previous entry:

>

> " The visitor said: " I am a grihasta (family

> man). Still I want

> to practise brahmacharya (countenance) even with my wife.

> But I am not able to succeed. What should I do ? "

>

> Bhagavan replied : " That is because of age-long

> vasanas

> (latent tendencies). The sankalpas (desires) are so

> powerful

> because they have existed so long. But they will

> go. "

>