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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
10th January, 1937
SOME REMINISCENCES
Talk 324.
(1) While in Skandasramam, Sri Bhagavan saw a white toad, small
and long, at a distance of about 10 feet from Him. Sri Bhagavan stared
at it and it stared at Him. Suddenly, it took a long jump and lodged
itself precisely on one of the eyes of Sri Bhagavan who quickly closed
it and so it was not injured.
(2) There were two peacocks which used to strut with their feathers
spread out like a spangled fan. A cobra too used to take part in the
pastime and raised its hood and moved about in their midst.
(3) Sri Bhagavan says that the peacock, as soon as it sights a green
lizard, goes straight to it and meekly places its neck down before the
lizard which bites it off and kills the peacock.
(4) Rangaswami Iyengar was once out on the hill. A leopard was
nearby. He threw a stone. It turned towards him. He hurried away for
his life. Sri Bhagavan met him on the way and asked what the matter
was. Iyengar simply said ‘leopard’ as he was running. Sri Bhagavan
went where the beast was and it moved away soon after. All this
happened at the time of the plague. Leopards used to roam freely by
the side of the temple, sometimes in twos and threes.
(5) Sri Bhagavan said, “A frog is often compared to a yogi. It remains
quiet for a long time, the only sign of life being the rhythmic movement
of the under-skin below the neck.”
“Again frogs can remain for extraordinary long periods with their
animation suspended. They are said to swallow their tongues.
Swallowing the tongue is a yogic practice. The animation is suspended.
The yogi does not die but the tongue must be drawn out by someone
else before life-activity is resumed. It is a wonder how the frog brings
out the already swallowed tongue and resumes activity.”
11th January, 1937
(6) While reading “Raghuveeran” - Ramayana written in easy
Malayalam prose - there was a passage relating how Hanuman
reached Lanka mentally before he crossed over physically to that
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