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I am the Soul their body, are so effective that they bring about a turn in the life of a person.
Many people have experienced such a thing in the company of Ramana Maharshi. Authors who have written his biography have themselves experienced it, and have also recorded such experiences of many others. Not long ago, I read an essay by Dhirendra Jani. He has written that in 1949 he had been to Tiruvannamalai to see Maharshiji. Maharshiji was meditating in his Meditation Hall. The author went and sat before him. Just sat there, there was no preaching, no prayer, no devotion - not a single word was spoken. There was nothing at all that happened, yet Jani writes, “The transformation that occurred within me, in his presence was something wonderful, out of this world. I had never believed in such things, yet there was some strange power; the effect that the positive vibrations there had on me, was something unique.”
Another similar matter - In the south, towards south of Karnataka, there is a place by name Udupi, where there is an Ashram. The founder of that Ashram, Swami Ramdas writes in his autobiography, that when he had once been to Arunachalam, Maharshiji was residing in a cave near a Banyan tree. He was meditating under the tree. Swami Ramdas stood before him for just about 25-30 minutes and he had a self-realisation. Such is the effect of the direct satsang of the saints!
The words that emanate from the mouth of satpurushas are indeed only inanimate pudgal, yet as they come replete with the feelings of sadhana, they cannot but have an effect on the sadhaka. In just the same way, the atoms which are released from the body, mind, chitta and intellect of the satpurushas, are soaked in the feelings of their chetan atma and as such they have a tremendous effect.
Here, the proximity that the disciple got during the period of the Gurudev's samadhi, turned out to be extremely beneficial
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