Quote from Sri Jewell:
“I am also deeply thouched with Your post, answer to Sri Subramanian. It was like that in my own case. Only look on Bhagavan has made me mad after this path. His gaze is verily one spiritual sadhana itself. So much Power and Grace in that Beautiful, Gentle, completely overpowering, sweet look of Bliss. While watching Him, i have impression that He is with me, answering in His Silent way. And it really Is. Ever Present, ever with us, and in us. Our Sadguru, our true Self. Such is the Glory of our Father Bhagavan Ramana.”
Dear Sri Jewell,
Yes. This is beautiful. You are, dear friend, among the graced ones who recognise the deathlessness, the immortality of Sadguru Bhagwan Sri Ramana. For, only by recognising and having single-mined faith in this truth, one can have conviction in the certainty of His continued Presence and realise and experience It as you do. It is for this reason that Sri Bhagwan stressed time and again that God, Guru, Self, Grace, Bliss and Love are all synonymous , eternal and immanent AND THAT HE IS NOT THE BODY. Therefore, in my view, it is a great misnomer to think that with the ‘the shedding off the mortal coil’, the spiritual Guidance will cease and it is ridiculous to think that body’s end is the cut-off point in anyway in the relationship between the Sadguru and devotees who are coming to Him, overwhelmed with Love for Him and His Teaching. HE IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN THE HEARTS OF HIS ADORING DEVOTEES AS THE SELF AND THEREFORE HIS SPIRITUAL MINISTRATION CONTINUES, AND, I AM SURE, IS ON, AND IT WOUD GO ON AND ON. His Grace is showering and envelops and fills one’s being with love and bliss, as is obvious from your above quotes. SURELY, HIS ADVENT is not and cannot be CONFINED TO the limits of TIME AND PLACES.
My dear, dear friend, Sri Bhagwan is timeless and His Teaching bears the stamp of eternity. It is not for nothing that Sri Bhagwan allowed photographers freedom to capture His Physical Presence, while in body, as they wished. THAT IS ALSO THE ACT OF GRACE. For, these photographs of Sri Bhagwan are not mere photographs, but fully alive and are undoubtedly capable of transmitting Power as His Gaze used to do in the past. What is needed is a little love kindled for Him and His Path in the heart, and His Gaze of Grace would work wonders. Sometimes gentle, sometimes smiling, sometimes stern, His Presence, is always radiating the Power of the Self, which has a silent compelling attraction, which cannot be explained.
The magical four syllables SRI RA-MA-NA are there surely for all times as Names, such as Sri Krishna, Sri Rama, Sri Budha, Sri Jesus Christ, etc. Being Sadguru of the age, His Charm and Appeal can never diminish, but on the contrary, are growing more and more, as is obvious from the more and more hearts He is drawing by His magnetic spiritual power.
Dear friend, whether we realise it or not, we are lost in the vastness of Bhagwan Sri Ramana. Guru and God who is the Self incarnate, is working from within and guiding us on the right Path, making the mind vibrantly silent immersing it steadily in the Self, sweetening our lives with Grace and Bliss which is nothing but Love, True Love, in which there is no ‘I’, You’, etc., but only the Self, the Being.
Thanks very much, my dear friend.
Pranam,
Anil