How can we claim that the body is ours? When did we begin to claim it was ours? The body is born not because of us. If so how can we claim it is ours? Life is an event that follows birth as death is another event that follows life.
"In spite of the repeated deaths, and continued lives, does not every one endure and preserve himself intact?" asks Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha in his book "Quietude of the Mind", Narayanashrama Tapvanam, Paralam, 1975.
"Does not the "I" in him exist and survive ever and ever? The self in us is clearly transcendental. It is beyond life and death. The nature of the body is completely opposed to the nature of the soul. The body is made, the soul isn't. So the question arises, "How can two things opposed to each other exist together?" Interesting question.
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha puts forward an interesting theory: "It is not the lack of the souls presence that makes the body inactive and lifeless but the last natural and irrepairable defect or disorder of the body itself." Pretty interesting.
Now we are confused, right? On another note, even Yogi Ramsuratkumar once explained that "Some days all was clear to him, and he felt as if he were standing in the highest heaven, and he knew he was a son of God. While at other times he was dragged down from pure ecstasy into the depths of abysmal gloom."
Writes Truman Caylor Wadlington in "Yogi Ramsuratkumar of Thiruvannamalai."
Writes Truman Caylor Wadlington in "Yogi Ramsuratkumar of Thiruvannamalai."
"His spiritual receptivity grew, and he became subject to downpours of illumination through the higher principles of his constitution. The powerful auric influences of the two masters combined with his own persevering effort stretched the radius of his consciousness to encompass greater fields of awareness. He could sense the many evolutions of our system, the deva, human, animal, plant, the mineral and elemental, all proceding in unison beating in a regular rhythm. The flower and the stone were not senseless or inanimate objects, all things in nature were to some extent cnscious, depending upon their level of terestrial evolution. As this out flowering soul became stabilised in the higher principles of his being, through a conscious alignment with them, he was made increasingly aware of the plan and purpose of his soul."
In noting the work of his three masters, the Yogi says, "There was much work done on this beggar. Aurobindo started, Ramana did a little, and Ramdas finished." Note that Yogi did not say it was all his effort but subtly meant that the divine had a hand in his spiritual upliftment through these masters.
If others saw their guru as a human torch that lit their consciousness, I saw the many holy and sacred places my guru's feet had stepped upon; I saw the number of people his hands had handed out food and the basics to; and I saw the thousands of images of people who stood before him for a favor imprinted in his retina and mind. I saw the love he carried for us and the rest that he showed the moment we stood before him, occasionally giving us a much-needed hug too. I sat listening to his talk almost about anything under the sun. I saw the child in him as he cuddled up on the cold ground and dozed off to sleep.
With both my gurus leaving their physical forms, Agathiyar and Lord Muruga with Ma and Aiya have come to care for us and guide us. Lord Muruga has asked us to open up to him and let him do his work too. While Agathiyar laid the path for us to grow spiritually sending Supramania Swami and Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal along with many upagurus, Lord Muruga has come to take us forward. But as for me, he told me to remain with Agathiyar knowing that if given a choice I would pick Agathiyar.