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Date Posted: 05:49:14 03/18/06 Sat
Author: Bill - 9 Feb 2006
Subject: Swami Ramdas & Ramana Maharshi
In reply to: Bill - 9 Feb 2006 's message, "Re: An interesting site by a disciple of Robert Adams" on 05:48:05 03/18/06 Sat


"One day, the kind sadhu-Ram took him (Swami Ramdas) for the darshan of a famous saint of the place, named Sri Ramana Maharshi. His ashram was at the foot of the Tiruvannamalai mountains. It was a thatched shed. Both the visitors entered the ashram, and meeting the saint, fell prostrate as his holy feet. It was really a blessed place where that great man lived. He was young but there was on his face a calmness, and in his large eyes a passionless look of tenderness, which cast a spell of peace and joy on all those who came to him. Ramdas was informed that the saint knew English. So he addressed him thus:
'Maharaj, here stands before thee a humble slave. Have pity on him. His only prayer to thee is to give him thy blessing.'
The Maharshi, turning his beautiful eyes towards Ramdas, and looking intently for a few minutes into his eyes as though he was pouring into Ramdas his blessing through those orbs, shook his head to say that he had blessed. A thrill of inexpressible joy coursed through the frame of Ramdas, his whole body quivering like a leaf in the breeze. O Ram, what a love is Thine! Bidding farewell to the mahatma the sadhu-Ram and he returned to the goldsmith's residence."

IN QUEST OF GOD
The Saga of an Extraordinary Pilgrimage
by Swami Ramdas
ISBN #1-884997-01-5
Publishers Blue Dove Press

"Life can be understood only by going to the very root of it. And the root is ever sweet and eternal."
Swami Ramdas

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