Sadhus Reminiscences of Raman Maharshi

Author(s): Arunachal Sadhu
Publisher: Ramanasramam Tiruvannamalai

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54 A Sadhu's Reminiscences of Ramana Maharshi Bhagavan explained in detail and the Yogi left his presence completely satisfied.
The classic examples of these four Yogas in modern times are: Inanam, Sri Ramana Maharshi; Bhakti, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa; Yoga, Sri Aurobindo of Pondicherry; and Karma, Sri Shankaracharya of Kanchi Peetam, the only one of the above still in the body.
Bhagavan would go for a stroll on the Hill several times during the twenty-four hours and would sometimes tell us that he had seen inside the Hill a great city with large buildings and streets. It was all very mysterious. There he had seen a big company of Sadhus chanting the Vedas, most of the regular devotees were among the company, he said, and he saw me there. “But that's only a vision,” some one remarked. “All this is only a vision too,” he would reply, meaning our world. “That is just as real as this.”
We know that a Jnani is beyond time, that past and future are all contained in his present, so it used to intrigue me exactly what that vision of Sadhus really was. Was it something that had happened in the past? I did not feel so, though Bhagavan had said that I had been here before, or was it something to happen in a future incarnation? Who could tell? Bhagavan would give no help. He had many similar stories but never any explanation. “I don't know what it means,” he would say.
As I have stated above, for an Advaitin there is no such thing as re-incarnation. Egos being completely impermanent, what is there to re-incarnate? Bhagavan would always deny that anybody is born now, so how could such