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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
concept into a real icon for Shiva, the formless in the silence.
[Silence] When Jesus was walking around and the lady tugged on
his robe and felt healed, and she was laying praise on Jesus for the
healing, Jesus says that it's not I but thy own faith that is the
healing power. [Silence]
So I noticed it, too, when I'm there, the ease in which to… it's like
being in a lock, like in the Panama Canal, and you're in the upper
manmade lake, and it's a little restrictive, and you get into even a
little more restrictive thing on the lock. And the doors close on the
lock and the water lets out, then the locks open, and you're
seamless with the sea. And that's kind of how it feels at
Arunachala for me.
A. RAMANA: Yes, I just returned a month or so ago. Every year
our group or someone from our association goes to
Tiruvannamalai the city, the township, actually Tiruvannamalai is
Tamil. It's the Tamil word for the Sanskrit Arunachala; they mean
the same thing basically. And we also have a center there, we've
had it about eight or nine years, and I'm very happy to say the
consciousness, the presence, is very pronounced and felt in our
center there, in our sanctuary, people comment on it when they
come and visit us where we give programs where I receive people,
and we meditate together in Satsang and conscious company.
The hill has a very special place in my heart, in fact I had conferred
on me the name, the A in Ramana also stands for Arunachala, it
used to be Aham, but Ganesan gave me the name of Arunachala
about six or eight years ago. So I've just accepted it, I don't
actually use it, but sometimes do, people call me that occasionally,
but it's a meditation in itself, it's like a mantra. When you give
attention to Arunachala, as we're doing right now, just giving our
attention to it by thinking it, considering it, that in itself will
quicken to those who consider it as a holy place, which it is.
Bhagavan Ramana called it the center of the universe, the holiest
place on Earth, the holiest place in the universe, according to
Bhagavan Ramana. It is the stillness and silence, and it represents
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