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Articles: Devotion | The Secret of Bliss
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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All these things that we have to do with the physical world – with the satisfaction of our desires and so on - all that we find is that what we are really striving for or long for is that fountain of ecstasy; that fountain of Bliss coming up from within!
One person called Swami Rama – maybe you have seen some of his books - he wrote about his life in the Himalayas – he has a big organization in the Mid-West; very nice man. And he grew up as a boy in the Himalayas Mountains – living with the yogis and the people there, wandering around as a boy.
He wrote a very interesting book about his experiences as a young man. And in one instance, I remember he came to a well-known yogi. He had somebody with him who wanted to talk to this yogi. They waited and made some noise and finally the yogi came out of where he was (meditation) and said: “What do you want?” So Swami Rama said: “This man wants to talk to you!”
And he said: “Alright; but why did you do it?” He said: “I was in such bliss with my Guru – my God – and now you called me out of that to talk.” So he found that source of Bliss when he was in deep meditation in his Samadhi.
But with Swami, there is no Samadhi necessary. He has that fountain of Bliss coming up within His heart every moment of the day and night.
It was the same with Sri Ramana Maharshi – he had that fountain of Bliss with him all the time! You remember this great sage? Ramana had cancer coming out of his arm. And the devotees wanted to operate, but he didn’t want to. So the operation wasn’t successful and the tumor kept coming out again. And someone asked him: “Swami! There must be terrible pain with that tumor pushing through your arm?”
And he stopped for a moment and said: “Yes, there is pain, but I am not in pain.” He made a clear distinction between the body and himself. He knew from his early experience as a young boy when suddenly he had felt that he was going to die and he lay down on the floor and felt his body as though he were dead! And then he realized that: “Body is dead; I am lifeless and yet I am still there!”
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