[Advaita-l] Sannyasa and Ramana (was Re: Sankara on sannyAsa for Steadiness in GYAna)

[Dr D Bharadwaj]

Dear Sri Karthik,

Let me verify and get back to you.

SrIramaNArpaNamastu


Dr. D. Bharadwaj
dr.d.bharadwaj at gmail.com

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On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:07 PM, S Jayanarayanan <sjayana at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- On Fri, 10/23/09, Dr D Bharadwaj <dr.d.bharadwaj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [..]
>
> > *On one occasion he was asked by a Govt official,*
> > *on record,  what 'ashrama' he belonged to  if
> > not the sannyaasaahrama.  He
> > said, on record, that he belonged to the ateetaahrama. *
>
> Ramana said that he belonged to ati-varNa-Ashramam: beyond all varNa and
> Ashrama.
>
> > As for the description in the Ramana Leela, the views were
> > entirely the
> > author's. That it was written while Bhagavan was in the
> > physical body does
> > not mean that
> > *every page whetted, verified or approved my him.*
>
> “We are poor sannyasis, we survive on what others give us. We never had any
> money at all,” said Bhagavan.
>
> The above is Bhagavan himself speaking, not the author's opinion.
>
> > That it was written while Bhagavan was in the physical body does
> > not mean that
> > *every page whetted, verified or approved my him.*
> > *
> > *
> > *There are a few biographical works on him written by stalwarts in
> > Bhagavan's life time, that were read out to him and were scrupulously
> > corrected based on his comments. The Leela unfortunately was not one of
> > them.*
>
> That is indeed strange, because Sri Ramana Leela is almost universally
> acknowledged to be an accurate record of Ramana's life. For instance,
>
>
> http://sri-ramana-maharshi.blogspot.com/2008/05/authenticity-of-bhagavans-writings-and.html
>
> "Bhagavan replied that the authors of Self-Realization and Sri Ramana
> Vijayam had left shortly after completing their works, whereas Krishna
> Bhikshu had stayed and updated his book from time to time. I would take this
> to imply that Bhagavan thought that Ramana Leela was more accurate than the
> others because the author had taken the trouble to check the revisions with
> Bhagavan himself."
>
> Regards,
> Kartik
>
>
>
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