Sadhus Reminiscences of Raman Maharshi

Author(s): Arunachal Sadhu
Publisher: Ramanasramam Tiruvannamalai

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A Sadhu's Reminiscences of Ramana Maharshi 71 Guru and disciple. If such does not exist “why has he come all these thousands of miles to this place and remained here?" For the seeker, God in his Grace takes a form in order to lead him to the formless state. “Has he any doubt about it? Ask him, does he want me to give him a written document? Go and call Narayanier, the Sub-Registrar, and tell him to make one out for him.” Then later he added humorously, “Go and get the office stamp and put it on him. Will that convince him?"
Actually to reconcile the two points of view of the Jnani and the disciple is almost impossible. Anyhow Bhagavan did clear the doubts of many by this conversation, in spite of which there are still some who say it was useless to go to Bhagavan because he gave no initiation and did not even recognise the relationship of Master and disciple.
One day when someone was talking of doing this and that, Bhagavan asked, “Why do you think that you are the doer? There lies all the trouble. It is quite absurd, as it is obvious to all that I does nothing. It is only the body that acts, I is always the witness. We so associate ourselves with our thoughts and actions that we continually say, 'I did this or that,' when we did nothing at all. Concentrate on being the witness and let things take their course, they will go on anyhow, you cannot prevent them.”
That's the point! Things will go on anyhow, but Bhagavan taught that though we had no power to stop them, we did have the power to observe them from a