Sri Ramana Maharshi
22-11-1945 Morning
Later in the morning, at Rishikesananda's request B recounted his first experience of the Self in his upstairs room at Madurai.
"When I lay down with limbs outstretched and mentally enacted the death scene and realized that the body would be taken and cremated and yet I would live, some force, call it atmic power or anything else, rose within me and took possession of me. With that, I was reborn and I became a new man. I became indifferent to everything afterwards, having neither likes nor dislikes." Dr. Srinivasa Rao asked B how he first came to have bhakti. B replied, "The first thing that evoked bhakti in me was the book periya puranam, which I came across in my house, which belonged to a neighbour and which I read through. It was however only after the experience described above that I used to go daily to the temple and pray that I should become devoted like one of the 63 saints (nayanmar) of periya puranam."
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