Sadhu Natananda, an old devotee of Sri Bhagavan and the compiler of Spiritual Instruction, came to Sri Bhagavan for the first time in 1918. With the fervant heart of an earnest sadhak he climbed up the hill to Skandashram and besought thus:
"It is my great desire that I should actually experience your gracious wisdom. Kindly fulfil my desire."
In those days Sri Ramana was not speaking much. Still he spoke kindly as follows:
"Is it the body in front of me which desires to obtain my Grace? Or is it the awareness within it? If it is the awareness, is it not now looking upon itself as the body and making this request? If so, let the awareness first of all know its real nature. It will then automatically know God and my Grace. The truth of this can be realised even now and here."
~ Bhagavan Sri Ramana, A Pictorial Biography, compiled and designed by Joan and Matthew Greenblatt
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Or is it the awareness within it? If it is the awareness, is it not now looking upon itself as the body and making this request? If so, let the awareness first of all know its real nature.
Beautiful words of Bhagavan!
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