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Date Posted: 05:51:48 03/18/06 Sat
Author: H - 9 Feb 2006
Subject: Re: Yogi Ramiah?.. Ramana Maharshi
In reply to: Anon - 9 Feb 2006 's message, "Yogi Ramiah?.. Ramana Maharshi" on 05:50:22 03/18/06 Sat


The narrated event took place in either late 1922 or early 1923. Ramdas had just taken sannyas when he met Ramana (as described in the text), and in another account he mentioned that Ramana had just ended his many years of tapasya in the cave and come down from the hills when he met him.

It was definitely Ramana himself, because in another autobiographical work written many years later Ramdas explicitly lists Ramana's disciple Yogi Ramiah being one of the visitors to his own ashram (Anandashram, Kerala), so he must have known them both. Here is the complete paragraph:

"Yogi Ramaih, one of the prominent disciples of Sri Ramana Maharshi, came with two other friends. Ramdas felt very happy to see him. His eyes have a light which is perfectly otherworldly, and you feel that he is imbued with the spirit of dispassion. When he sat silent at any place Ramdas could clearly see that he was conscious of only one existence. This is the attitude of those whose mind is ever in tune with the Eternal. Their look shows that their heart is elsewhere. Ramdas remembers the instance of the hen that sits on its eggs for hatching. If you observe a hen thus occupied, you find a peculiar vacant look in its eyes, as its internal gaze is fixed on the eggs. The eyes then appear blank, devoid of every kind of expression. Such are the eyes that see and see not. For, they look into the Infinite and not at the relative world. Yogi Ramaih knew only Telugu; Ramdas could, therefore, communicate with him only by signs. Ramaih attempted to express himself, but his language was a jumble of Telugu and Tamil with a sprinkling of English words. We used to have a good laugh on this, in which he also used to join. Ramdas cannot forget the delicious mangoes he brought for him. They were as sweet as he himself."

-- "In the Vision of God", Indian one-volume edition, pp. 445-446

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