I am afraid either the cow is very sick or she has died, and I have to go and look for her.” He lived on a mountain in the south of India, Arunachal. One day she did not appear, and Shri Ramana said, “Today satsang cannot be held, because my real audience is absent. As the satsang would disperse she would move away. People came and went, new people came, but the cow remained constant, coming at the exact time, never late. But every morning he was sitting, people were sitting, and a cow would come and stand outside, putting her neck through the window, and she would remain standing there while the satsang lasted. Naturally, very few people were benefited by him. His teaching was mostly to be in silent communion with the disciples. His literature is confined to two, three small booklets. Then too his answer was very short – having profundity, but you had to look for it. He never talked much, unless asked something. Every morning he used to sit for a silent satsang, communion. Ramana Maharshi was a silent pool of energy. Ouspensky who were only teachers – profound teachers, but not mystics. They don’t even know him as they know Sri Aurobindo or P. He was not a master that’s why people don’t know him as they know George Gurdjieff or J. Shri Ramana Maharshi was one of the most significant people of this century. Perhaps once in a while a rare animal uses the window. Their windows – whether opened or closed – don’t make much difference. Their windows are open, but their intelligence is not enough to look out and see the stars and the sky and the birds and the trees. Then there are animals who know that they are, but they don’t have the intelligence to inquire what it is that they are. They are closed, their existence is windowless. These are the three differences, or three categories the world can be divided into: there are things which are, but they do not know that they are, hence there is no opening for any inquiry. Truth simply means, “I am, but I do not know who I am.” The question is natural – “I must know the reality of my being.” It is not curiosity. It is not something learned or adopted later on in life. What are the qualities of the seeker of truth?Įvery child is born with an innate search for truth.
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