Talks on Sri Ramana Maharshi: Narrrated by David Godman - Mother's Temple

The film starts with an account of the death of Ramana Maharshi's mother and is followed by a long narrative that includes details of her funeral and the buildings that came up over the samadhi once Bhagavan had moved to the foot of the hill to live in the community that was starting to grow up there.

[@rpodury]

Many Telugu speaking people came to know about Bhagavan through her 'letters from Sri Ramanasramam' published in Telugu weekly. Of course Search in secret India brought many Western devotees to Bhagavan's fold. I think the present series of your talks bring much more people from east as well as west in a significant way. This YT medium is very powerful compared to the print media . You have surpassed all and your extempore description of minute details indicate how much time you dedicated to the research. Your devotion to Bhagavan is unique.

[@Zepster77]

Well said, and I am sure many viewers agree...

[@binduanand1]

Thank you David. What a great service to leave such treasure for generations to come!

[@seemajherwar4955]

Very true

[@swapneelchitale4122]

so very true!

[@arunachulashiva]

Oh David, thank you so very much for these wonderful stories. Love every one.

[@todkington6656]

Thank you Mr. Godman. It's so rich hearing the stories.

[@dreamsofturtles1828]

Thank you very much for this series. I doubt i will ever get to India to see this in person, but maybe seeing- and absorbing the messages behind what i see- in the peace & quiet of my home is good too.

[@mortalclown3812]

I think about this, as well... Decades ago, I had a spontaneous OBE and could 'fly' to whatever location popped into my head. Weirdly, perhaps, I thought of my grandparents' house and then rose far above the Earth's upper atmosphere. It was all very beautiful and seemed to last for hours, yet it was only a few "Earth minutes'. If it happened now? With India so much on my mind & in my soul - I reckon I would zoom there. I hope so at least. As it is, I'm grateful for these tales of mystics in a land where gods come in waves. ✨🇮🇳🙏☺️📿🍃🌎✨ Namaste.

[@seemajherwar4955]

Mr Godman through your beautiful narrative of Bhagvan rRaman Maharshi I hv got ans to my questions thank you

[@abhishekkumar-ik4uc]

mr david thank you very much you changed my life thank you bhagwan

[@prasadp8265]

Thanks very much David.

[@meditating010]

Hey David - I love your descriptions. I don’t care much about places, people as such. But it always inspires others to pursue and do Sadhana whilst hearing stories about lives of these exalted beings. Please do post more of these - Hari 🕉 Tat Sat.

[@sumitabanerjee4643]

Sir, pranams. You are a veritable mine of information on Bhagavan. Thank you.

[@danielcamilleri1213]

love this man :) thanks mate!

[@mattmccartney5996]

Thank you David.

[@meta2011]

David Your videos has excellent concentrated content about sri bhagavan. Nice

[@cheenusrinivasan2697]

Thanks David.

[@matthewz2065]

thank u!

[@filoblack]

Thanks

[@mikemartian6217]

thanks

[@celebratinglife6075]

Thanks David

[@martinkuba6476]

Děkuji za české titulky:)

[@skyni1]

The background noise of a busy, almost chaotic sounding city is an interesting contrast to your talk.

[@David_Godman]

skyni1 I used one of those microphones that has a fluffy ball on the end that is supposed to pick up nearby speech but filter out noises that are further away. The ambient noise was probably worse than what you were hearing. I also had to stop several times during this recording to let the temple bells peal. They were even louder than the road noises.

[@swapneelchitale4122]

@@David_Godman That's how India is.. Its ironic that the Saint who conveyed his message through silence is now resting in a place surrounded with sounds.

[@rpodury]

@@swapneelchitale4122 sound is a dynamic aspect of Brahman

[@mortalclown3812]

@@rpodury Glad you wrote this. Crowded places filled with so many lives, desires and levels of dreams coming true are bound to make unique music. ☺️📿🇮🇳🙏

[@is-ness]

🙏

[@esneliamunoz4475]

🕉🕉🕉🙏

[@rahulkeni8801]

David Sir, it would have been very nice if you would have also covered the episode involving Kanchi Shankaracharya's initial refusal to consider shrine as a temple.

[@BoWannaGoldstein]

Rahul Keni ?

[@rahulkeni8801]

G Sexton : www.kamakoti.org/souv/5-58.html

[@ZenMountain]

@@BoWannaGoldstein G Sexton ?

[@karelmorawetz9023]

Actually In 1939-49, Ramana Maharshi built up for himself and his mother a very expensive stone Matrubuteswarta Temple - God in the form of his Mother in Ramanashram. Ramana’s brother only managed the Temple construction, architect, Vaidyanatha Sthapathy was entrusted with the construction of this Ashram Temple in 1939. This Temple was divided into parts; Ramana Maharshi’s Temple Hall built also as a future ‘pharaoh’ Ramana Maharshi’s Samadhi tomb and the second part as Ramana’s ‘divine’ Mother Samadhi Shine. (She died in 1922, Ramana died in 1950). Photos: Ramana Maharshi’s Temple Hall was also built as future Ramana Maharshi’s Samadhi tomb during his life with his youthful statue on the roof of this Ramanashram Temple, in The LIFE magazine, 1949: books.google.com.au/books?id=1k4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA92

[@awaitingbee7085]

33:19 - Mathrubhutheswar Mahasannidhaan

[@lalalaXify]

I try to pay attention and realize, whno is aware of this thought or sound or sensation...Is it the same as inquiring Who am I? When I try to search for Who is aware, my thoughts start disappearing. Searching for I seems more difficult for me. I am a bit cinfused. Not sure if I go the right way.

[@tarnum113]

Эти вопросы должны перенаправить ваше внимание от объекта на субъект. Однако нужно стараться ощутить чувство (мысль) "Я". То небольное безмолвие, которое следует сразу за вопросом полезно, но не должно быть целью самоисследования. Я когда то тоже думал, что нужно постепенно расширять это безмолвие, однако это никуда не привело. Затем в какой-то момент стало очень легко "захватывать" чувство (мысль) "Я". Это очень тонкая и хрупкая "материя", так как очень легко спутать мысль "Я" с каким либо внутренним ощущением. Раньше я концентрировался на небольшом напряжении в районе сердца, но это было ошибкой, так как это была обычная медитация на объект. Цель самоисследования - концентрироваться на субъекте, покак тот полностью не исчезнет. Но это лишь мой личный опыт. Я не эксперт в self enquiry, так что лучше самому методом проб и ошибок подобрать лучшую методику для себя.

[@zain4019]

It's the same. Asking who is aware is finding the 'I'. :)

[@mortalclown3812]

I'm probably the least qualified person to answer, but, by golly, it sounds like you're doing it right. ☺️🕉️

[@vijayeshwarc]

David did you really get to meet Bhagavan, if so you are one of the most blessed souls on earth.

[@mortalclown3812]

Bhagavan passed away a few years before David Godman was born.

[@stop_and_smell_the_roses]

Thank you for this. It seemed that something was out of place, or not ''right'' but I soon discovered it's the honking of horns. Car horns? So many honkers. It's very different to experience the horn honking background. It feels like going to a place from your childhood and everything's changed and it doesn't seem like it's the same place. Although I've never been there in my life.

[@alesdostal1]

In 1959, the Madras High Court ruled that the structure raised over the remains of Bhagavan’s mother could not be described as a Hindu temple. The Bhagavan’s mother buried beneath it had not been a divine being, but merely a Brahmin widow. The lingam installed over her remains was not an embodiment of God, but just a symbol, comparable to a cross on a Christian tomb. No matter what ceremonies might be performed there, the building was therefore not a temple, but an ordinary grave. In 1959, Ramana Maharshi’s brother descendants and ashram lawyers agreed with the Madras High Court decision and devotee Sadhu Om was even instructed to go through the ashram’s Tamil publications before new editions were brought out, excising all references to the Mother’s Temple and replacing them instead with references to the Mother’s Stone Building. In 1949, some fifteen thousand people had gathered for the consecration of the Mother’s Temple, which had been performed by some two hundred Brahmin priests. All those people might have been surprised to learn that ten years later the ashram agreed in court that the building was not a temple at all, but just a particularly magnificent expensive monument raised over someone’s grave and Ramana Maharshi’s mother had been no more than an ordinary Brahmin widow.

[@mortalclown3812]

The vast, plural nature of what's sacred in India must overwhelm devotees and bureaucrats alike.

[@kaisermaligator203]

I was watching another short film about Sri Ramana Maharshi and a small sentence had a resonance, I am paraphrasing but it was in relation to free will, choice Sri Ramana was using a fan or fanning himself but talks of not making the decision that this was a predetermined action. Would you say we are just a passive agent in this life and that choices we think we make are not really are choices at all. In essence we should just sit back and watch the show. Kind regards N

[@David_Godman]

+Neil Jaynes Sitting back and watching the show is also a choice, and not one that will help you. Bhagavan says that, though actions are predetemined, we always have the freedom to not identify with the body that is performing its scripted activities. However, this requires immense, focused vigilence, not a passive 'there's nothing I can do' attitude.

[@kaisermaligator203]

+David Godman thank you for your reply Mr Godman, I really appreciate it. Sometimes I feel like I don't have a choice at times and it's a struggle to contain this mind of mine which from the moment I wake is stuck in conditioned and often destructive (to me) thought processes. However, this isn't the correct forum for discussing my "problems".... Many thanks again for your reply and the extensive effort you put into producing these wonderful snippets of information and stories x

[@kaisermaligator203]

+David Godman If our actions are predetermined and we have the freedom to not identify with the body, performing the scripted activities. Who is it that is making that choice. Is this the personal 'I' that makes the decision? Sorry for my obvious lack of understanding. Also, Do you mean that although the actions are predetermined and we have the freedom to not identify with the body that is performing the scripted activities that these predetermined actions will carry on but we will not be a part of them in some way - an observer as it were? Or are you implying that by not identifying with the body we change the actions in some way. I guess I'll mull over this for a few days and fry my brain some more! Kind regards N

[@geetanair879]

David are still staying n Arunachal?

[@theself5738]

As I listen to your talks, it seems that many people came to the ashram, became realized, and left. You had said in your talks that although Bhagavan only publicly recognized 2 beings as fully enlightened (his mother and cow Lakshmi), there were likely many others who became fully realized in his presence. So, why was there a temple for his mother only (and that too a large building, instead of investing in more construction to house devotees)? Was he showing preference for her? And why a burial and not cremation? Cremation symbolically destroys the attachment to that body/form. I mean no disrespect here and just want to understand.

[@mortalclown3812]

Reading David Godman's books and/or website can fill in a lot of those blanks, fwiw. A few of the details you seek are also in other interviews. ☺️🕉️

[@aliabdulqadir5704]

Good cop bad cop

[@desertusful]

Thank you David.