Tune Into Jnani's Vibrations

Sri Annamalai Swami

Q: I was not here yesterday, but it seems that someone asked a question about the vibration that comes off a jnani. You also apparently talked about the vibrations that ordinary people and bad people give off. Can you repeat what you said?

AS: A jnani's vibrations stay even after he leaves the body. All people leave vibrations in the places they have been and lived. Jnanis leave a good vibration and bad people leave a bad vibration. I am not talking about a gross physical phenomenon that everyone can feel. The vibration that a jnani leaves is subtle. Radio broadcasts can only be heard if one has a radio that is tuned to the right frequency. You tune into a jnani's vibrations by having a quiet still mind. This is the wavelength of the broadcast. If you have not tuned yourself to receive this frequency, you cannot expect to experience or benefit from the vibrations that a jnani may have left in a place.

Q: Is the intensity of the vibration more if we stay close to a living jnani?

AS: Yes.

Q: Is it the same with Arunachala?

AS: Yes, no doubt about it. Bhagavan himself has said that if one lives at the foot of Arunachala, one does not need any kind of initiation. If one's intentions are pure and holy, merely living here can be a good sadhana. Guhai Namasivaya, a saint who lived on the hill a few centuries ago, said in one of his poems that this Arunachala hill draws seekers in the same way that a magnet attracts iron. In ancient times the shakti, the power of this hill was hidden, but Bhagavan made it open to everybody.

B sang about this in Aksharamanamalai, verse 98: 'I have made public your doings. Do not hate me for this.'

It was rare for B to make such an open declaration about something that he had done or accomplished. He rarely used the word 'I' when he referred to some event that had happened in earlier eras of his life. Sometimes he would use the passive form: 'Something happened to me..' At other times he would go to the extreme of using someone else's name when he was telling a story about something that had happened to himself.