Monthly Archives: March 2015
Oh God, I Don’t Believe You: By Belle Heywood
Oh God, I don’t believe you
Break through my eyes and skin
If you are true, then sing through me
or make me silent for years
Editors Note: Belle Heywood is a Bodhisattva Poet and lives in Australia.
Rest in Beauty: By Dr. Harsh K. Luthar
Rest in Beauty.
Rest in beauty
awaken in love.
Myself, yourself
we rise like waves.
Splash and play
on the banks of life.
Sign our names
on this lovely sand
and then back again.
Ocean calls.
This embrace has no beginning or end.
Love, Heart, and Enlightenment: By Dr. Harsh K. Luthar
Love, Heart, and Enlightenment
Sri Ramana Walking
Sri Ramana once said that many advanced souls get liberation after reaching higher planes and that a few rare ones attain mukti (liberation) right here and now. In such cases their Prana along with mind (Kundalini Shakti) gets fully absorbed in the Spiritual Heart and the individual identity is dissolved into Brahman, the Self, the universal Heart and consciousness.
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The Meaning of the Term “Ji” in the Indian Culture: By Dr. Harsh K. Luthar
Pride and vanity in spirituality.
In the Indian culture, we sometimes add the word “ji” at the end of someone’s name to convey respect.
For example, if someone’s name is Ashok, and we want to convey warmth and respect, we call him Ashok-ji. If someone’s name is Maya, we call her Maya-ji.
However, in the Indian culture, no one will ask or demand that we add “ji” when addressing them to show respect. That would be very uncool. It would actually be humorous. It is up to us when we want to add the “ji” after the name of the person. There is no compulsion that we have to add “ji” to the name of everyone we meet and greet.
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Face of Fullness: By Dr. Harsh K. Luthar
the gate to freedom exists
within the eye of the I.
There are no free thoughts;
the gate to freedom exists
within the eye of the I.
It may be known
when you are alone
and completely empty.
Or when lovers meet
to spend their passions
and rest in the heart.
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We Did Not Go To Him For Profit: By T.K. Sundaresa Iyer
T.K. Sundaresa Iyer talks about his experiences with Sri Ramana as a youth.
Note: T.K. Sundaresa Iyer (T.K.S) met Sri Ramana in 1908 when T.K.S was only a twelve year old boy. Bhagavan, although a full blown Self-Realized sage, was also quite young and in his late 20’s. Many early devotees have described how Bhagavan by his sheer look would give them experience of the Self. However, this was not true in every case.
T.K.S’s cousin Krishnamurthy had been visiting Bhagavan Ramana regularly and would sing songs of devotion to him. One day T.K.S asked his cousin where he went every day. Krishnamurthy told him about Ramana and said, “The Lord of the Hill Himself is sitting in human form, why don’t you come with me.” Both of them then climbed the Hill and went to Virupksha cave to visit the Sage.
Now the story in T.K.S.’s own words:
I too climbed the Hill and found Bhagavan sitting on a stone slab…
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Surrender and Salvation: By Voruganti Krishnayya
The story of bargain of a lifetime between Sri Ramana and a visitor devotee.
Voruganti Krishnayya was a great devotee of Bhagavan Sri Ramana. He has narrated many incidents that he observed while in Bhagavan’s company. The following story is one of my favorite.
Bhagavan Ramana
Bhagavan was most tender with people who thought themselves for some reason or other to be miserable sinners and who went to him torn by repentance.
During summer evenings we used to sit in the open space near the well. We would collect in the dining hall for dinner and come back to the well. Suddenly, one day, a visitor started weeping bitterly, “I am a horrible sinner. For a long time I have been coming to your feet, but there is no change in me. Can I become pure at last? How long am I to wait? When I am here near you I am good for a time, but when I leave this place I become…
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Ramana on Psychic Powers: By Dr. Harsh K. Luthar
Today, we see that the New Age spiritual business is literally a circus. There are so many gurus and many different types of “spiritual masters” offering a variety of services and products including enlightenment, super natural miracles, healing, and so forth. This is nothing new and in every age there are such people.
The path of Yoga has many branches, and not all of them are the straight path to Self-Realization.
Bhagavan Ramana
I find amusing that many of the so called “spiritual masters” who claim affinity with Bhagavan Ramana (to bolster their own status) actually teach things which are completely opposite of what the Sage of Arunachala taught.
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