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BHAGAVAN IS EVERYWHERE
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Someone asked Bhagavan to bless them upon their departure knowing that possibly they might never get the chance to be at
Ramanasramam again:
“M.: You do not go anywhere away from the Presence as you imagine. The Presence is everywhere. The body moves from place to
place; yet it does not leave the one Presence. So no one can be out of sight of the Supreme Presence. Since you identify one body with
Bhagavan and another body with yourself, you find two separate entities and speak of going away from here. Wherever you may be,
you cannot leave ME.
“To illustrate it: The pictures move on the screen in a cinema show; but does the screen itself move?
No.
The Presence is the screen: you, I, and others are the pictures. The individuals may move but not the Self.”*
So when we say Bhagavan is everywhere what do we really mean?
Bhagavan is telling us that our goal is here and now but we keep identifying with the pictures and not the screen on which it happens.
Bhagavan does nothing. How can he when he is not identified with or controlled by a body? This may sound strange because the power
of Grace which we ascribe to ‘him’ works wonders but it is true.
It is ‘automatic divine action’ which happens because we are receptive.
For a moment we are in tune with this stillness and are not identified with any thought or feeling. There is no sense of opposition or separateness.
There is no desire, no fear. This simple step is the beginning.
We slowly come to understand that Bhagavan is not bound by time or space nor our concepts as to who ‘he’ is. Once that indelible
revelation is given to us through an unmistakable encounter at the Samadhi, or a dream, or an instant of recognition when we see his photograph or a sentence in his teachings, we are joined to his Name.
We begin to realise that Bhagavan is everywhere and wherever any of us gather in his Name he is there; wherever any one of us prays to him, he is there; wherever any one contemplates him, he is there.
For each one of us, we only need to remember him any time and in any place, he is always there.
We may not always be aware of Bhagavan but Bhagavan is certainly aware of us.
* Venkataramiah, M., (comp.), Talks with #SriRamanaMaharshi
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Someone asked Bhagavan to bless them upon their departure knowing that possibly they might never get the chance to be at
Ramanasramam again:
“M.: You do not go anywhere away from the Presence as you imagine. The Presence is everywhere. The body moves from place to
place; yet it does not leave the one Presence. So no one can be out of sight of the Supreme Presence. Since you identify one body with
Bhagavan and another body with yourself, you find two separate entities and speak of going away from here. Wherever you may be,
you cannot leave ME.
“To illustrate it: The pictures move on the screen in a cinema show; but does the screen itself move?
No.
The Presence is the screen: you, I, and others are the pictures. The individuals may move but not the Self.”*
So when we say Bhagavan is everywhere what do we really mean?
Bhagavan is telling us that our goal is here and now but we keep identifying with the pictures and not the screen on which it happens.
Bhagavan does nothing. How can he when he is not identified with or controlled by a body? This may sound strange because the power
of Grace which we ascribe to ‘him’ works wonders but it is true.
It is ‘automatic divine action’ which happens because we are receptive.
For a moment we are in tune with this stillness and are not identified with any thought or feeling. There is no sense of opposition or separateness.
There is no desire, no fear. This simple step is the beginning.
We slowly come to understand that Bhagavan is not bound by time or space nor our concepts as to who ‘he’ is. Once that indelible
revelation is given to us through an unmistakable encounter at the Samadhi, or a dream, or an instant of recognition when we see his photograph or a sentence in his teachings, we are joined to his Name.
We begin to realise that Bhagavan is everywhere and wherever any of us gather in his Name he is there; wherever any one of us prays to him, he is there; wherever any one contemplates him, he is there.
For each one of us, we only need to remember him any time and in any place, he is always there.
We may not always be aware of Bhagavan but Bhagavan is certainly aware of us.
* Venkataramiah, M., (comp.), Talks with #SriRamanaMaharshi