One of the things we did was take the inland motor tour. There really wasn't much adult supervision and for the most part we pretty much got to do whatever we wanted. They put us up in a sort of tent-like village about two blocks behind the main street and straight up from the pier in the little town of Avalon. The boy won and during the first part of September 1946, a few weeks before school started, he went, taking me along with him after convincing his boss how much work I had done.Įarly one morning we were dropped off at the Wilmington boat terminal south of Los Angeles, sailing the twenty-six miles to Catalina on the Great White Steamer, newly refurbished in July from war duty.
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ĭuring the summer of that year, well before I went to live with my stepmother, the newspaper had a contest that offered a free one week trip to Catalina Island, all expenses paid, for selling the most subscriptions. Every afternoon during that period of my life, if my uncle allowed it, I would go over to the boy's house and help fold papers, drink Bireley's grape or orange, and just hang out until he left on his route.
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When that didn't turn out so hot I was sent to live with my grandmother for a short time before joining my Uncle, eventually to be supported by my Stepmother, her ever watchful eye, and at that stage of her life, buckets full of money.īy the time I came under the auspices of my uncle and the memory of being with my grandmother and a couple of foster couples faded into the background it was edging toward the end of summer. After that I was sent to live with my younger brother near San Diego for awhile. Within a week or so of her death I was sent to live with a foster couple - an arrangement that ended dismally in that I ran away from home the first chance I got, ending up staying with an ex-Marine taxi driver. I came to know him because of my mother's illness followed later by her death. To me, at the time, he seemed really cool, delivered his papers using an even cooler motorized Whizzer bike and, unlike myself and most of my own age friends, always had money to spend. When I was a young boy there was was an older boy who lived down the street from me that had an afternoon paper route. THE EAGLES NEST, SANTA CATALINA ISLAND, CALIFORNIA The feeling of I, ahambhava will vanish either by jnana marga or by saranagati.THE MEETING: An Untold Story of Sri Ramana He will have no ahamkara (feeling of ‘I’). He does not commence any work for his own sake, and he becomes a “sarva arambha parityagi” (vide Gita, chapter 14). There will be “udasina bhava” and he will not feel any anxiety about acts or results. When one surrenders there is no kartrtwa bhava, i.e., there is no sense of agency in him. Reminiscences-II -K.R.K.Murthi (Surpassing Love And Grace) The person’s ahamkara or the little self is doing nothing. The all pervading infinite Self brings about the actions and they are done through the means of indriya karanas.
Ramana and Seshadri both God incarnate! May they bless all! Reminiscences-II -S.Kannikeswarier (Surpassing Love And Grace) Reminiscences-II -S.Subramania Iyer (Surpassing Love And Grace) At such moments people were struck with awe and a deep searching of the heart. However, on occasion, he could be stern and look forbidding. Most of the time he was a very pleasing person with a fascinating welcome smile. Reminiscences-II -R.Narayana Iyer (Sub-Registrar) (Surpassing Love And Grace) He said, “Why do you think that what you are seeing with your physical eyes is the truth?” I had no answer for this question. He asked, “Who told you that I am sitting quiet?” I replied in all humility that I had seen it with my own eyes. I am puzzled as to whom to follow.” The Maharshi’s face broadened with an unparalleled smile. Taking courage I posed the following problem: “The Maharshi by his example directs his followers to keep quiet, but Mahatma Gandhi whose statue is here, by his own example, goads everyone to be continuously active. He showed his willingness by a broad smile. I got up and prostrated before him and requested him to clear a doubt of mine. Reminiscences-II -K.Arunachalam (Surpassing Love And Grace)Ībout Ramana Maharshi, Surpassing Love and Grace In His teens He woke up to the reality of the Self not apart from the Divine (Brahman) - the Fourth State - turiya the shock of death. He was a knower (Jnani) by birth, ike Suka and Vamadeva. The Maharshi’s Greatness (At the Feet of Bhagavan – 2)Ībout Ramana Maharshi, At the Feet of BhagavanBHAGAVAN Sri Ramana Maharshi’s greatness needs no recapitulation here.
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