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lime juice: lime juice is not good for this.” One devotee Rangaswamy
Iyengar has in the meantime become wide awake from his meditation
and looks on. The attendant is still holding out his hand with the pill.
Sri Bhagavan continues: “Who is to munch it?”
Rangaswamy Iyengar: “It need not be munched. It may be kept in
the mouth and sucked.” The attendant hastily agrees. “Yes - yes it
is only to be sucked.”
M.: “Give it to him” pointing to Rangaswami Iyengar. “Let him munch
it or suck it. I do not want it.”
The attendant returns disappointed and squats on the floor; again rises up.
M.: “Eh! - Eh! What do you do? I do not want.” The attendant moves up
to the medicine chest, murmuring “Kasturi pill - it will be effective”. Sri
Bhagavan: “I shall soon be right even without it. Do not take it out. Eh!
- Eh! - keep it there - I won’t take it - do what you like.” The attendant
again settles down and all remain silent before retiring to bed.
13th February, 1937
Talk 359.
At about 7-30 a.m. Sri Bhagavan was climbing up the hill after
breakfast. Padananda went and prostrated, stood up and said, “All
right, I have had darsan ... I shall return.”
Sri Bhagavan smilingly, “Whose darsan? Why don’t you say that
you gave darsan to me?”
At about 9 a.m. a devotee from Poona (Mr. Parkhi) saluted Sri
Bhagavan and read out his ashtaka praying to Sri Bhagavan for
Grace. The piece finishes with a prayer for quick liberation (jhatiti
mukti) and the devotee emphasised it.
M.: Mukti, i.e., liberation, is not to be gained hereafter. It is there for
ever, here and now.
D.: I agree, but I do not experience it.
M.: The experience is here and now. One cannot deny one’s own
self.
D.: That means existence and not happiness.
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