Crisis We already mention in his short biography about his strange experience of death that Ramana lived with huge consequences regarding his later decision to
leave his family and home town and depart to Arunachala. This experience meant, in fact, the discovery of the Self or Jnana, the inner and eternal essence of the historical being . Water vanishes then pours again through raining on earth and reach the sea through rivers. The
same with man - in sleep, vanishes the separation from the whole, which returns in waking state. Only in the waking state the personal ego is completely separated from the wholeness or the Self.
This happens because of samskaras or the unconscious tendencies and drives which determine the embodiment of the individual being or jiva. When dying the individual being takes with him/her the
samskaras which determine a new born and so forth. His death experience Ramana recounted with his own words: (to be continued) |