Sadhus Reminiscences of Raman Maharshi

Author(s): Arunachal Sadhu
Publisher: Ramanasramam Tiruvannamalai

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82 A Sadhu's Reminiscences of Ramana Maharshi distracted me. Eventually I could stand it no longer and called out.
“Why do you ask Maharshi to realize it for you? The Kingdom of Heaven is within you. Your own scriptures tell you that.”
He turned round in surprise to see who was this impertinent person who dared intervene and question a pillar of Congregationalism.
“I don't,” he snorted angrily.
“Yes, you do. Why don't you follow your own Christian teaching and find the Kingdom of Heaven within?”
S. J.: “It doesn't say that. It says “come among you'.”
I.: “No, that is not correct, 'within you.' Also it adds, seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and then all things will be added unto you.' Why don't you do that?”
Stanley-Jones deciding that he was not receiving the reception that was his due as an important person, said, "we have over-stayed our time.”
The secretary bundled up her precious papers and the party got up and left the Hall.
Bhagavan laughed after they had gone and remarked that I had certainly paid him back in his own coin.
Some time after, an article appeared in a Punjabi paper on his visit to the Maharshi. In which he said that Bhagavan's teaching was the usual negative, ‘make the mind a blank,' a thing never taught by Bhagavan and never even mentioned in the above interview. So we see how useless it is for a person who is not fit to receive