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All Enveloping Light
I am asking myself – What has Bhagavan meant to me, and what does he still mean to me? And I find that it is impossible to give a neat answer to this question.
The
first
thing,
perhaps,
is
that
he
opened
my
heart.
Immediately
when
I
saw
him,
even
from
a
distance,
I
recognised
that
this
was
what
I
had
been
looking
for.
But
when
I
say
that
this
was
radiating,
all-penetrating
and
all-overthrowing
love,
striking
me
with
the
power
of
lightning,
I
know
that
only
those
who
had
the
same
experience
will
know
what
I
mean.
To
anybody
else,
all
this
is
verbiage,
at
best
creating
an
image
of
someone
very
magnificent.
Well, Sri Ramana Maharshi was the Unimaginable, and therefore the Indescribable.
In literature, all over the world, one finds magnificent descriptions of sorrow. But who can describe happiness? Happiness is a state without ego and therefore without a someone in it to describe it, or even to remember it. What we remember is its afterglow, its reflection in feeling and body, not the moment when we were present as happiness itself, as happiness only.
Ramana Maharshi is not the frail, old, body that I saw reclining on a chair, but the Unimaginable, egolessness, pure radiance, and the body, however much we may have loved its appearance, was merely like a glittering diamond reflecting the light that he really was.
I did not understand all this when I first arrived. To me, he was something like a divine person, and I was inclined to compare him with Jesus or the Buddha. But Jesus or the Buddha were images in my head, formed on the basis of the belief in which I had been brought up, and on stories heard and read later on. And Sri Ramana Maharshi, from the first second I saw him, was anything but an image in my head. He was a bomb, exploding the myth of my life until then, within a few minutes, and without a word.
About the author
Walter A Keers
Walter
A
Keers
was
one
of
the
followers
of
Ramana
Maharshi.
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