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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
The author said: The child creates the ‘home’ atmosphere.
Sri Bhagavan: Yes. The children are always in the ‘home’. We too
are there but are dreaming and imagining that we are outside the
home.
Sri Bhagavan added: I have rendered the word ‘youth’ (yuva)
in Dakshinamurti Stotra by ‘child’ (bala). This seems more
appropriate.
To be reborn is to become children over again. One must be reborn
before gaining jnana, i.e., recovering the natural state.
Talk 415.
Sri Bhagavan read out some stanzas on the greatness of the Tamil
language from the preface to a Tamil-Tamil Dictionary and explained
the references in a very interesting manner. Of the three tests for
establishing the superiority of Saivism over Jainism, the first related
to Tirujnanasambandar entering the royal presence for curing the
Pandya king of his illness. The queen was anxious because of his
tender age, i.e., 12 years. Tirujnanasambandar set her doubts at rest
by composing a stanza which said that, though tender, he was more
than a match to the strong group of innumerable Jains. While reciting
the stanza Sri Bhagavan choked and could not proceed with it.
The second test was the fire leaving the cadjan leaf unburnt, and the third
the cadjan leaves opposing the current of the river (Tiruvedakam).
Sri Bhagavan also related the story of God Isvara begging food as an
old man, taking food as a youth and saving the devotee woman as a
babe, all at once.
He again pointed out ‘like babe, lunatic, spirit’ (Balonmattapisachavat)
describing the states of jnanis. There babe (bala) is given precedence
over others.
Talk 416.
Sri Bhagavan said that Kamba Ramayana consists of 12,000 stanzas
to Valmiki’s 24,000. Kamba’s can be understood only by the learned
and not by all. Tulasidas had heard Kamba Ramayana recited to him
in Hindi by a Tamil saint and later wrote his famous Ramayana.
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