A MIRACLE HAPPENS IN THE PRESENCE OF SRI RAMANA

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prof laxmi narain (prof_narain)

 

Source and courtesy: Sri Ramana Kendram, Hyderabad

This article was published in Sri Ramana Jyothi,

monthly magazine of the Kendram.

 

A MIRACLE HAPPENS IN THE PRESENCE OF SRI RAMANA

 

Day by Day with Bhagavan by Devaraja Mudaliar records the following

event of December 8, 1945.

 

" When I went to the pathshala to bring some Sanskrit books at

Bhagavan's instance, an incident occurred in the hall. Miss Kamdin

(now Mrs. McIver) [Last month's issue carried an article on her.] was

sitting next to a lady who went into a trance and purported to have

received a sugar candy from Narayana, that is, God. She thinks that

there was no trickery at all in it and the candy came mysteriously

into the lady's hand. I also was given a bit of the candy. The

incident as recorded by K.A.Mahatani [A devotee from Karachi

(Pakistan), who was a regular visitor to the Ashram till Bhagavan's

mahanirvana, and stayed for long periods during his visits.] is as

follows:

" On December 8, 1945,at about 3.45 p.m., I saw a Gujarati widow aged

about 50 years sitting in the hall with two girls of about eight and

ten years in the front row on the side reserved for ladies. I could

see that she was in samadhi.

" After a few minutes she fell on her back quietly in samadhi posture

without stretching her legs. People in the hall thought that she was

in a hysterical fit, but those two girls said that she was in samadhi

and that it often happened to her. Then those two girls started

singing a Gujarati bhajan song in a nice tune.(The song begins `Haji

mare gher thaya lils ler'. )

" Bhagavan was all the time attentively looking at the lady and

enjoying the tune, keeping time by beating his knee with his hand. I

had never before noticed Bhagavan so interested in any song.

" After a few minutes the lady got up without anybody's help and sat

in samadhi in the same posture, and began to mutter something in

Gujarati. I asked her whether she saw any vision. She said in

Hindustani, " Yes " and added that Sri Narayan gave a message for all

in the hall. " Let them close their eyes, be still, without any

pravritti(i.e. without any thought or action) and I will give darshan

to one and all. "

" I translated to Bhagavan what she said. For two or three minutes she

was bowing her head with hands clasped towards Bhagavan. Then we

noticed that she handed over a piece of sugar candy to one of the two

girls sitting near her.

" Before that we had seen her open hands quite empty. I asked the

girls what was that sugar candy and how it came into her hands. The

girl replied, " This is a prasad given to the lady by Bhagavan

Narayan; and whenever she goes into samadhi she gets different things

(such as fruits, flowers, garlands, sandal, kumkum and sweets) on

different occasions.

" Then the lady said that she used to get such moods since she was six

years old. The girls presented the piece of sugar candy to Bhagavan.

He partook a little of it and the rest was distributed among the

others who were present in the hall.

" I remarked that this was very miraculous. Bhagavan indicated `Yes',

with only a gesture of his hand, but said nothing. After a few

minutes, the lady left the hall with the two girls. Before leaving

she bowed low to Bhagavan and asked for his blessings and his

permission to go back to Bombay.

" I learnt that she had come that morning and left the same evening.

She gave her name in the office as Mataji Maniben Samadhiwallah, C/o

R.G.Rawat, Purshottam Building, opposite Opera House, Bombay. " (Pp.

54-5)

It would not be out of place to reproduce the following from an

article by Mahatani(who recorded the above event in his diary) in

Surpassing Love and Grace ( page 205), a Ramanasramam publication

available at the Kendram's bookstore.

To me Bhagavan is more than all other gods or prophets so far

incarnate on earth, such as Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Christ, Mohamed,

Nanak and others. I have only read and heard about them, and cannot

have proper conception of them. Even the numerous pictures of them

are only imaginary, and naturally, they are all different from one

another, therefore it is impossible to have an exact conception of

any of them. On the other hand, I have seen Bhagavan and therefore I

have a very clear conception of an ideal to meditate upon. In my

humble opinion, he was just demonstrating what a jivanmukta is. Many

have heard and read a great deal about the state of a jivanmukta, but

he actually demonstrated that state of being above body-

consciousness.