Quote from Sri Ravi:
"I have booked Asram accommodation for five of us from 29th January to 31st and one member of our team has to drop out for some other reason.Wonder whether you can wait that long after your finishing your session in Bangalore on 18th and join us.
You are most welcome to come and stay with me in Chennai."
Dear Sri Ravi, Sri Atmavichar, Sri Sadhak, Sri Balaji, Friends and Devotees,
Pranam,
Dear Sri Ravi bhai saheb, I am overwhelmed with such love and affection that you have in your heart for me! How ardently I wish to visit, stay and spend, I am certain, some beautiful time with you in Chennai, and benefit immensely from the Satsanga with you and your family! When I saw your post I knew that I had lost a great opportunity to be with you in Sri Ramanasramam on 29th Jan, 2016. But since my official engagement at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore was over on 14th Jan, and I had to report what transpired in the Conference on Dam Safety, in Bangalore, I could not afford to stay away from the Headquarter that long, however much I wished otherwise. However, heart-felt thanks for such solicitude for anilbhai and a fellow-devotee!
Dear Sri Atmavichar, Sri Sadhak, Sri Balaji, friends and devotees, so ultimately I accepted your advice and suggestion regarding my visit to Sri Ramanasramam. After my session in Bangalore was over on 14th Jan., and after spending some time with relatives in Bangalore, I set out for Sri Ramanasramam on 16.01.2016 by a taxi at 6.00 a.m. and reached the Ashram at 10.00 a.m.
Dear friends and devotees, while at long last in my cherished Sri Ramanasramam, I remained mostly glued in the Samadhi Hall, sitting at His Lotus Feet and weeping copiously, uncontrollably, most of the time, not knowing why. Though I could not sit and meditate for long this time in the August Old Hall and the Mother's Shrine, on account of paucity of time, I experienced His Presence and Grace, beyond expression, so vividly, in the Old Hall and Mother's Shrine as deeply and palpably as in the Samadhi Hall!
Dear friends and devotees, Sri Ramanasramam, in my mind inexplicably, is the Ultimate Abode of Peace and Grace!
There is nothing much to narrate. However, I would like to narrate one incidence which happened this time which was my ninth visit to the Holy Ashram. When the bell rang for the lunch, I had been sitting at His Lotus Feet in the Samadhi Hall and meditating. I didn't rise and proceed for the lunch because I felt that since I was not a guest this time, I should not have the temerity to enter the Holy Dining Hall to take the lunch. So, I didn't move. However, I had met Dr. Sri Murthy and he knew that I was in the Ashram. When he asked me at 1.00 p.m. why I didn't come to take my lunch and when he came to know the reason, he took me himself to Dining Hall from the Office, asked me to sit on a desk, and himself served the leaf, carried the food-pots and served me whatever food was there in the pot, and didn't allow me to lift the leaf after the lunch was over!
Dear friends and devotees, I have only one earnest wish, and that is, remaining always in the state of enquiry, and here I was totally choked with love and emotion, and weeping copiously and wondering. I know beyond an iota of doubt whatever that Sri Bhagwan has infinite solicitude for His loving devotees, even for such an ordinary and lowly devotee like me, such that one can never fathom!
I purchased a diary, a pendent, a few books from the Book-depot and set out from Sri Ramasramam for Bangalore by the same taxi at 5.0 pm.
Dear friends and devotees, I have returned back in Patna on 19.01. 2016, and hope to keep on posting and sharing my understanding and experience with you when I feel like it and when I have some free time.
Thanks you all so much for your care, love and affection.
Pranam,
Anil