"I happily noticed all these parallels to various aspects of my own experience and Realization. And, because of all of this, I felt that (even though he never functioned as Guru for me) Ramana Maharshi had, via his Confession of experience and his language of Realization, in effect provided me with Communications (and technical language) that directly linked me to the "great tradition" that has preceded me in time." The Knee of Listening - Chapter 18   Devotion to the Spiritual Master obliges the heart, mind, and life of the devotee as long as these remain. Bubba Free John is such a devotee, whose Spiritual Master passed out of bodily manifestation in 1950, before devotee and Master could meet in the ordinary way. Bubba Free John has not seen his Master, known us Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, in either gross or subtle form during this lifetime. The spiritual contact was established independent of such conventional meetings. Bubba Free John was served by two principal teachers in gross bodily form. These were Albert Rudolph (Rudi, or Swami Rudrananda, now deceased) and Swami Muktananda. He was also served by others in subtle form or through subtle agency, principally Swami Nityananda, Shirdi Sai Baba, and Sri Ramakrishna. But the Spiritual Master whose Teaching and incomparable Spiritual Power or Siddhi finally revealed, awakened, and confirmed by Grace the very and perfect Truth beyond all doubt is known as Sri Ramana Maharshi. Bubba Free John writes this and attests that he has visited the site of his Master's burial and the places wherein Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi was active during his lifetime in gross bodily form. Bubba Free John proclaims that he has found his Master still literally Present and communicative through transcendental and silent Power of in-luence and attractiveness. Bubba Free John is forever and gratefully surrendered at the Feet of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, which Bubba has found standing in his own heart. All who read this should take it into account and know that Bubba Free John is, like all devotees, in constant service of his own Master and recommends such devotion as the very Principle of spiritual life. Unless the literal Grace of the Spiritual Master is received by the devotee, the whole exercise of his living, however holy, is without merit and empty of Truth. Just as Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi claimed literal Grace from beyond the conditional realms to be his Master, so that he remained a devotee all his life, even at the Feet of Arunachala, Bubba Free John claims the intervention of the same literal Grace from one he has not seen but whose name he may speak. Therefore, Bubba claims, with his Master, that perfect surrender, or devotional sacrifice, necessarily coincides with radical intuition of the Real. Bubba Free John January 7, 1977 see: Vision Mound Magazine on trip to india From 1974: The Dawn Horse Magazine, Vol 2. No. 2., page 66 .....You must understand how I have worked with those who have functioned in my life. It was never my intention to get a smack from somebody and then run. I have always assumed the traditional attitude toward those who functioned in my own case. I have always treated them respectfully and honored them as Guru, without making all kinds of false claims about them. It is simply that at this point in my work, quite a different relationship to.all those things is appropriate. In Muktananda's case, because of the position he is determined to maintain, no relationship is possible any longer. There has been only one Guru in my case. That Guru has used many instruments all throughout my life, but that Guru is not separate from my own state. That Guru is my own State, my own Nature. That Guru is the perfect Guru, the Maha-Siddha, the very Divine. In order to perfect the Siddhi of this work, this function in which I am involved, it was necessary for there to be a series of manifest experiences. And the key agents of experience included Rudi and Muktananda, but the primary ones, those who functioned in Truth, were Nityananda, Shirdi Sai Baba, Ramakrishna, and Ramana Maharshi. Why are you going to India? | Return to Adi Da's Guru's | Bubba's Article "Demonstration of Grace" | Index of Ramana Maharshi on Beezone Index of Ramana Maharshi on Beezone

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