Naham!!!!

We are so entangled in the web of life and caught up with so much else that it takes a minimum forty years or more for us to wake up and ask ourselves the question, 'what is the purpose of my life?? why am I here,who am I'??

Naham Deham Koham Soham.....

These four simple sounding words are not as simple as they seem to be.They set you thinking into finding the truth about ourselves.

Naham deham .........I am not the body,

Koham..........Who am I???
Soham......Iam the Self,I am the Brahman....

Sadguru Ramana Maharishi taught this truth alone to whoever came to him seeking his guidance and relief.Infact it is said that even to animals Maharishi imaprted this knowledge,Sometimes his disciples asked him why he was preaching this highest truth to ignorant illiterate people,and he used to reply saying "this is all that I know",so this what I teach.....Let us others who know something else teach that.....
There was a tender little three year old girl who was very dear to Sri Ramana Maharishi and he taught her too this ultimate truth of life which the girl accepted and always kept chanting to herself 'Nahaam Deham, Koham, Soham'.......It is said, once this girl had come to Ramanashram with her father and stayed there for a few days.The day she was to leave the ashram Maharishi saw her playing in the mountains,he too played with her for a while and told her "now you go your way,and I will go mine, but always remember what I told you, 'Naham Deham,Koham Soham'....,the little girl left her body soon after at her home,all the while remembering this.
In Srimad Baghavatham too there is a beautiful story of a yogi who in spite of his very high yogic practices gets blinded by 'Maya',and is attracted to a deer,which involves him so much that he is unable to concentrate on anything else. After years,the deer when it grows up and is on his own goes off to the forest leaving the yogi very upset and in deep sorrow. Finally the yogi realises his mistake of involvement with the deer and thinks of measures to get over his attachment,while he is just getting out,the deer returns back and looks at him with such longing eyes that he is once again attracted to the deer and it is said that the yogi gives up his body, thinking about the deer. This story of the yogi in Baghavatham is to bring to our notice that the deer is quoted only as an example,but in reality we are totally attached and involved all our lives in one thing or the other.The story goes on in Baghavatham that the yogi is reborn as a realised soul,and from the day he is born,he never opens his mouth,he never talks,never expresses any feelings any hunger or any emotion whatsoever. He is hence considered an insane person and is used by one and all to get all their work done.One day he is taken by a group of people who are in search of a person whom they can sacrifice for Devi. Since he does not protest or express any opinion of his own,they think he is the best to offer to Devi.After all the procedures involved in making sacrifice,when they are about to offer him Devi appears there and kills all the people in the group.The yogi walks away from there as if nothing happened.He is later made to carry the palanquin of the king,which he again does without any thought.The king irritated that the palanquin is not going fast looks out and questions the yogi and even makes fun of him, saying that since he is so weak and fragile(the yogi is actually very well built) he is unable to walk fast.The yogi probably for the first time may be in his life looks at someone.He looks the king in the eye and tells the king "I am not the body,I am not walking.....and so on so forth,goes on to tell the king that I am not this body.The king jumps down from the palanquin ,falls at the yogi's feet and asks forgiveness for whatever he said and asks him to give him the highest knowledge.The story goes on................
It is important to now and understand this physical body which we are given is not me....,if that is not me then who am I ?This is a question which we all need to ask ourselves...and the day we ask this question to ourselves then we can be sure the search has begun and it will sure help us go within ourselves and look within and may be reach the I within sometime.........................
Jai Guru Dev!!!!