Body Is Not Bhagavan

Sri Annamalai Swami

Bhagavan (Ramana Maharshi) had become very weak because had only been able to eat small amounts of food. It was easy to tell how weak he was because his gait became stumbling and unsteady. As B entered Palakottu a man called Jagadeesa Sastri, who was a devotee and a great vedantic scholar, approached him and told him how worried he was to see B in such a feeble state.

B listened for a while to these sympathetic remarks and then commented, "The Sankaracharya of Kanchipuram has given you the title Vedanta Ratna Bhushanam. How can you, with all your vedantic knowledge, still take Bhagavan to be the body? Is this body Bhagavan?