Suresh,

Thank you!  It's beautiful!, beautiful.

The only thing better than a first-hand account is your own account.

--Joe

> SURESH JAGADEESAN <varamtha@...> wrote:
>
> From Ramana Maharishi - (very thought provoking)
> 
> "I have never done any sadhana. I did not even know what
> sadhana was. Only long afterwards I came to know what sadhana
> was and how many different kinds of it there were. Only if there
> was a goal to attain, I should have made sadhana to attain that goal.
> There was nothing which I wanted to obtain. I am now sitting with
> my eyes open. I was then sitting with my eyes closed. That was all
> the difference. I was not doing any sadhana even then. As I sat with
> my eyes closed, people said I was in samadhi. As I was not talking,
> they said I was in mauna. The fact is, I did nothing. Some Higher
> Power took hold of me and I was entirely in Its hand."16




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