[Fwd: Humour Of Bhagavan Ramana]

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Anand Natarajan wrote:

> Namo Narayana,

>

> I thought I could write a few lines on some episodes from

the life of Sri Ramana which are humorous yet full of meaning.

>

> In the last days of his physical body, Bhagavan's left hand had been affected

severely by sarcoma. Yet he never cared for his body. The tumour would be

dressed and bandaged everyday. Once when the bandage was removed and the wound

was being washed with alchololic spirit, excess of spirit flowed out of the

bottle, on to Bhagavan's hands and down his leg. Bhagavan exclaimed , "Spirit

Snanam (Spirit bath). Very Good! All must do Spirit Snanam . All must be

immersed in the Spirit always !".

>

> A Malayali devotee once came to Ramana Ashram and said that he would write the

first biography of Bhagavan Ramana and that it would be in malayalam. Permission

was given for this. So the devotee went around the town quickly collecting

information from here and there about what they knew about Bhagavan. He seemed

to be in a hurry and consequently whatever information he got was hearsay.

Still, he wrote all of it down and finished his biography in Malayalam. Now

there was only one other devotee in Ramana Ashram (Kunju Swami) who could read

malayalam and he was out of town. The only other person who knew Malayalam was

Bhagavan Himself. So this devotee took his work to Bhagavan and told Him that

this was His biography in Malayalam. Bhagavan carefully went through the full

"biography".

> According to this ,Bhagavan was a lawyer from Madurai who had been

married and who had left everything and come here, that he had miraculous powers

which he displayed etc etc. All of which was sheer falsehood. Yet Bhagavan

meticulously went through the manuscript , corrected a few spellings, changed

the grammar a bit and then gave it back to the devotee , saying it was ok. The

devotee was ecstatic, the first biography has been written in malayalam and

Bhagavan had approved it.

> Since none of the other inmates knew malayalam , they were all happy since

Bhagavan Himself approved it and hence must be true.

> After a few days Kunju Swami appeared. He was very happy when

informed about the biography in malayalam and immediately went through the full

manuscript. To his horror , he found it full of rubbish. He took the author to

task saying ,"This is all false , you cant publish this ." The author was

stubborn saying, "Bhagavan Himself has corrected and approved it ". Kunju Swami

then saw Bhagavan's handwriting in the manuscript. With a sad heart, he went to

Bhagavan and showed him the false biography and asked Him, "Bhagavan , Is this

all true then ?".

> Bhagavan smilingly replied , "You mean only This is false and everything else

you see around you is True ?"

> Kunju Swami later added , "To Bhagavan who was supremely established in the

Self , the actual biography was probably of the same level as this fake

biography".

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