Quote from Sri Ravi:
It just recalled to my mind what Sri Aurobindo once said:"No one can write about my life because it has not been on the surface for man to see".
This can be said about the inner spiritual being in every earnest sadhak....this inner development and position cannot be seen from outer activities and stances.
I love this thought,and find it quite beautiful and truthful. Inner life is most important of all,and no one can say with any certainty what happens in someone's heart and soul. Sure,it can be sensed from some gestures and similar,like Sri Ravi said,from that sensitivity and compassion. But it needs,also, very sensitive and perspicacious eye to see all this. Our heart and being has a much greater depth and richness,that even we ourselves cannot know it completely. It is known to itself only...
About meditation (from Mr Dennis Hartel's letter),well,meditation does not need to include certain posture,or spending time on some particular place with lots of people. I remember Sri Graham posts about his severe exercises for concentration,and talk of many hours spent in practice of selfenquiry. The real meditation is actually abidance,and it can and should be done all through the day. We could look at this person and could not at all discern he is meditating.
I believe it all comes in phases,and every period of time brings a little different approach.
When i think about it,i came to see that mind should not be brought to the point it begins to do some things automatically,and to made them just a habitual routine. Every practice,or meditation should be done with total absorbtion. Otherwise,it learns to camouflage itself very well...
it is this inner fire that is paramount and Graham had this in a great measure ....and this is the true 'Graham'.
I also saw him in this way...
And many thanks dear Sri Balaji for posting Sri Graham's picture!
With love,
