Sri Bhagavan's Aradhana

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..WEdnesday April 22nd. was the Aradhana Day of Sri Bhagavan. To commemerate this

event we print below a few memories of the day itself.

 

Regards to all, Alan

 

ARADHANA DAY I Major Chadwick

 

ON MAY 11TH the Ashram celebrates Sri Bhagavan’s third Aradhana, when one will

be carried back to that momentous night three years ago when he passed. One can

still see the tense crowds seated in rows under the veranda of the new hall,

waiting,waiting, waiting till the last breath should be breathed and the

one they all loved so much should once and for all relinquish his body. Most of

us felt it would be a happy release. We prayed he might be spared any further

suffering. The sickness and pain had been so long drawn out, it was an agony to

watch the loved one being slowly wasted away by the malignant disease.

 

Doubtless he was a jnani and was beyond all suffering, he was dwelling in the

bliss of the Self, but suffering there undoubtedly was, though he himself would

have asked, “To whom is the suffering?†It is a mystery beyond my

comprehension. Vaguely, I sense that if one is liberated, one is free from all

pain as the Self is all bliss. Behind even suffering there must be a special

bliss for such. It is only a surface appearance, though very real and painful

for the onlooker.

 

II Mouni Sadhu

 

The anniversaries of the mahasamadhi of Sri Bhagavan will come one after another

and one year will see the last one for me on this earth. But at the last moment

he will be with me, as with every one of you who knew him, if you keep to the

end, his legacy of love.

 

BHAGAVAN SRI RAMANA IS PERSONALLY PRESENT HERE Swatantra

 

Once when someone wrote a booklet criticising Sri Ramanasramam, Sri Bhagavan

remarked that the author had done a great service to the cause of Truth. When

asked for an explanation, he said that this book would keep away the insincere

and superficial people and only the sincere Truth-seekers would continue to

come. In the same way the Maharshi himself has done a great service to the cause

of Truth by withdrawing himself from the physical plane. He has made himself

unavailable to the worldly eye, while to the seeker with spiritual sight his

living presence is very much here.

 

Om Namo Bhagavathe Sri Ramanaya!