Consciousness is deeper than Arousal x Wakefulness

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From ~~~ At the Feet of Bhagavan, Ch.15

THOUGHT TRAVELS TOO

MR. and Mrs S. were visitors from Peru to the

Ashram. They had heard of the Maharshi and His

greatness, of how He was accepted by Arunachala, and

how He and Arunachala are one. To the couple,

Sri Maharshi’s presence on earth seemed the second coming

of the Christ Himself, so they had longed for years to

meet this God-Man once in their lives.

They were too poor to find the money for their

passage to India. But in their burning desire to see the

God-Man in flesh and blood, they laid by each week a

few coins out of their small wages, and in a few years they

had enough money to become deck-passengers without

the pleasant luxury of the higher classes on the ship. So

they sailed for several months, and at last reached India

and Tiruvannamalai.

The couple narrated all their story to Bhagavan, all

the privations they had undergone to have a look at Sri

Maharshi. Bhagavan was all kindness to them. He heard

their story with great concern, and then remarked: “You

need not have taken all this trouble. You could well have

thought of me from where you were, and so could have

had all the consolation of a personal visit.” This remark of

Sri Bhagavan they could not easily understand, nor did it

give them any consolation as they sat at His feet like

Mary. Sri Maharshi did not want to disturb their pleasure

in being In His immediate vicinity, and so He left them

at that.

Later in the evening Sri Maharshi was enquiring about

their day-to-day life, and incidentally their talk turned to

Peru. The couple began picturing the landscape of Peru

and were describing the sea-coast and the beach of their

own town. Just then Maharshi remarked: “Is not the beach

of your town paved with marble slabs, and are not coconut

palms planted in between? Are there not marble benches

in rows facing the sea there and did you not often sit on

the fifth of those with your wife?” This remark of Sri

Maharshi created great astonishment in the couple. How

could Sri Bhagavan, who had never gone out of

Tiruvannamalai, know so intimately such minute details

about their own place?

Sri Maharshi only smiled and remarked: “It does not

matter how I can tell. Enough if you know that in the Self

there is no Space-Time.”

This confirmed in the minds of the couple Sri Maharshi’s

original statement that they could well have thought

of Him even at their own home and so obtained

His blessings.

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