Sri Lakshmana Swamy
Q: A foreigner at Sri Ramanasramam went crazy a few months ago. He was very disturbed for several weeks. I looked after him for a while, but now he has partially recovered and returned to Satya Sai Baba's ashram. He lived there for several years before coming to Sri Ramanasramam. He was claiming to be God for several weeks and at times he got quite violent. What can one do with such people?
LS: If he went mad then one can only say that it was his destiny.
Q: His problems seem to be spiritual rather than mental. When he is with Saibaba or at Arunachala he seems to become mentally unbalanced, but when he stays somewhere else, he seems to be normal.
LS: He probably has no sattwa in his mind, and that is why spiritual power unbalances him.
Q: He wants to come here and see you. What should I tell him?
LS: It might be dangerous for him to come. When a jnani looks at a devotee, the power of the Self enhances the sattwa in the devotee's mind at the expense of the rajas and tamas. Mentally unbalanced people often have little or no sattwa and so the jnani's power enhances their rajas and tamas instead. If there is no sattwa in his mind, and if he is completely mad, then the power of the jnani may even kill him. There is nothing that can be done with people like this because they have no sattwa to work with.
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