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At the Feet of My Master (Krishna's diary) BHAVAN RAMSURATKUMAR YOGI At the feet of my Master 1 BHAVAN RAMSURATKUMAR YOGI 1996 - Yogi Ramsuratkumar Bhavan https://yogiramsuratumar.info http://pages.intnet.mu/ramsurat/ Email : [email protected] 2 This diary contains excerpts of the notesBHAVAN that Krishna was taking systematically right after the events they narrate. His notes concerning his inner experiences have been removed, the same for almost all his conversations that took place out of His Master's presence. Notes about his trips have been removed too, in order to keep only the facts. As these are personal notes, the reader will be kind enoughRAMSURATKUMAR to forgive the countless "i" he will find. YOGI 3 BHAVAN RAMSURATKUMAR YOGI 4 BHAVAN 1990 RAMSURATKUMAR YOGI 5 BHAVAN RAMSURATKUMAR YOGI 6 18th December On the 18th of December early morning, we leave Anandashram to reach Tiruvannamalai through Salem. It is there that lives Mayi Ma, the Mother of Kanya Kumari. Arrived at this house outside the town around 9:00 AM, we are said that Ma does not give darshan anymore, that she does not receive anybody. So we go away from the house. We walk for some fifty meters when the person appears again at the door and call us back, make us enter and wait. Soon we areBHAVAN said Mayi Ma rarely give her blessings now. However, shortly after, we are called in the room where Mayi Ma is. A woman is doing her hair. Mayi Ma's face seems deformed by an extreme age. And Mayi Ma blesses us, without a word since she seems not able to speak, laying her hands on our heads. After some time, we go out and reach the town to take the bus to reach Tiruvannamalai. My intention is not to speak about Mayi Ma's life. One must know that she was living at Kanya Kumari, destitute, withRAMSURATKUMAR a pack of dogs. The sadhu Rangarajan met her some day and Mayi Ma cured him of a lung cancer by making him swallow a pan on which she spat saliva. It YOGIis Mayi Ma who directed the sadhu to Yogi Ramsuratkumar. It is with great impatience and hope that we reach Tiruvannamalai. Shall we have the darshan of this great saint, as it was planned and accepted? First we went through the entire Tamil Nadu and visited holy places, 7 then we stayed for some days at Anandashram, the ashram of Swami Ramdas, Yogi Ramsuratkumar's master, where we met Swami Satchidananda, Yogi's gurubhai, and then we were blessed by Mayi Ma! Now it must be the successful conclusion of this trip, its crowning touch, its culmination. Once in Tiruvannamalai, we find an accommodation at the entrance of the town when coming from Salem, at the ashram of Ramana Maharshi (another Yogi Ramsuratkumar's guru). John1 is accommodated a little further in another ashram. At 5:40 PMBHAVAN we are in the Arunachaleshvar Temple. Let us not forget that it is at Tiruvannamalai that Ramana Maharshi and Swami Ramdas, notably, reached illumination. On the 1st December, Yogi Ramsuratkumar's Jayanti day, we were in Madras. It was also the Dīpam day, when Tiuvannamalai is overcrowded because of the Feast (a big fire is lighted at the top of the hill and pilgrims go around it in pradakshina). RAMSURATKUMAR YOGI 1 Yogiji's devotee from Madras we took with us during this pilgrimage. 8 19th December One of my goals is to make the pilgrimage of Arunachala hill, that is to say the pradakshina that represents 15 kilometres, barefoot, around the hill. For the Hindu, this hill is Shiva Himself. I go around 7:40 am. Millions of billions of years ago, this hill was already there. Creation just happened when Shiva (Arunachala) shows His superiority to Brahma and Vishnu2. He appears in the form of a column of light. Brahma and Vishnu look for whom created this columnBHAVAN but, as high and low as they are able to go, none of them is able to find the cause of that column. They end up understanding that it is Shiva and they implore Him to show Himself under the more concrete form of a hill. Then Shiva decrees that the mere sight of that hill or the mere thought of it will be enough to do away with any karma and to impart Knowledge. For the Shaivists, the hill stands for the Adi lingam, the primordial form of Shiva. During Treta Yuga, the column of Light became a mountain of diamond, during Dvapara Yuga a mountain of ruby, andRAMSURATKUMAR during Kali Yuga a hill of volcanic rocks. Great sages and rishis came here and lived and continue to live on the hill, among whom Sri Shankaracharya of course.YOGI Ramana Maharshi says that Puranas affirm that the hill is hollow, that its core is a cavity where the siddhas live (‘It is said that all the siddhas are there... Mount 2 O course this is just an allegory, as the three of them are The same. 9 Kailash is the abode of Shiva, while the Hill is Shiva Himself… The entire world is condensed in this hill… Arunachala means the hill of the Fire of Wisdom… The hill is manifested wisdom in a visible form… All those who contemplated the hill are muktas…’) But the best is to refer to Shiva Purana and Ramana Maharshi. At 9:15 am both John and i are in the temple, on the other side. At 10:50 we are at the level of the Temple and Sannadhi street where Yogi Ramsuratkumar's abode stands. At 11:00 we are back at the Ramanashram. BHAVAN In the afternoon we go with John to the Ramana Maharshi ashram and take profit of that to take video. At 5:10 PM we go to meet a sage who took a vow of silence and blesses us, Ishvari and me. Yogi Ramsuratkumar received us (was it on the 18th or the 19th?). John knocks at the door once, but nobody answers. He knocks a second time. Many people come but are not received. I even saw a sâdhu casted out by the Yogi with a wave of His hand. We go up the few steps. To theRAMSURATKUMAR left, all along the house, bars where countless dried garlands are hanging. He receives us in the entrance (verandah) and closes the door. We brought someYOGI offerings. He makes us sit the He asks Ishvari for her name. When he asks for mine afterwards, i answer « Krishna ». Then He closes His eyes and says smiling: « But John, how Krishna was able to marry Ishvari? He would have said Shiva, all right, but Krishna!... » and here He goes in an immense burst of laughter. Like a child, it is marvellous. 10 There i feel spirituality in all the pores of my skin. There, near the Yogi, seated in this little house, on the bare ground, it is fabulous. Time is annihilated. We speak, He asks me questions. At a point, as my English is not of a fantastic level, i search for a word and, not finding it, i softly say: "Ah! Stupid English!" And there again the Yogi bursts in laughter. This laugh is unforgettable, it transforms you, everything becomes peace. I feel like, after a long trip, I can put my luggage down, I’m at home. BHAVAN Then He talks to Ishvari, asks her which vegetables are available in France, etc., etc. and Ishvari answers! Both of them speak in Hindi or Bhojpuri3. Here they go in a conversation. As for me, i am there, seated, and i feel such a peace, an inner well-being; i don't say any word, i don't feel any need. I feel 'at home'. Yogi Ramsuratkumar, all the time, all the time, repeats Ram's name, and He blesses us. There is little to say; words are only a support. Being in YogiRAMSURATKUMAR Ramsuratkumar's presence is something where words become totally useless. YOGI 3 Her ancestors are from Bihar. 11 20th December Well before 8:00 AM, we went to climb the hill upto the Skandashram, passing through the Ramanashram. We reach there at 8:15. The view we have on Tiruvannamalai, and particularly on the Arunachaleshvar Temple, is just wonderful. About 9:10, we begin to come down through another path to reach the cave where Swami Ramdas reaches illumination in 1923. First we arrive at the Virupaksha Cave where Ramana Maharshi lived for some time. We continueBHAVAN to go down and, around 9:30, we arrive at a tirtha near which a swami lives. He is a white man who is there since some twenty years and who is clearly sick. He is just recovering from a viral hepatitis, he coughs, has a sore throat, etc… We take leave of him after some minutes and continue to go down. At 10:00, we reach Swami Ramdas' cave and there i get the opportunity to meditate for some time. I take profit of that to take some video. I leave the cave around 10:12. We goRAMSURATKUMAR down. This day, we know the great blessing to be received againYOGI by Yogi Ramsuratkumar. We come in. After our arrival, while we are seated and as John repeats singing the name of the Yogi, the latter allows two white women to come in. They start asking questions about His relationship He had with Ramana Maharshi! Somehow this shocks me. How is it possible not to realise what huge blessing it is to meet such a being and to tell him 12 about somebody else? As if, for them, He was just a tool to get information about Ramana Maharshi! But the Yogi kindly ousts them … We stay, almost without speaking, but in a common meditation.
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