Bhagavan was asked once about his teaching, “Is not your teaching merely an intellectual one?” Bhagavan responded, “I urge devotional enquiry.” He called Kamatchi inside the hall the one morning at four- thirty, and then gave her a book, Srimad Bhagavatam. This is the Sanskrit book on the lives of Gods, particularly Lord Krishna, which induces so much devotion in Indian culture. He showed her a place in the hall to “sit there and read it.” And when people started coming, he would call her and then put a bookmark on the page where she had studied, then told her, “come next day.” Until she finished, he asked her to come again and again, because Bhagavatam was both Wisdom-oriented and Bhakti-oriented. Thus, he coaxed her to imbibe the devotional enquiry. Another day when she was walking around, he called her in and handed her a slip of paper. She read it, and on it the Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaaya mantra was written. She read it out loud. She had a beautiful voice. Then Bhagavan was presenting to her an intent look. She understood. “Bhagavan, should I be chanting this every day?” she asked. Bhagavan said, “Always,” and got back that chit, that paper, and put it on the stove and burned it. Traditionally, if some oath was taken in front of the fire, it meant, “Yes. I will do that.” Two persons must take such an oath. Bhagavan assured her Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaaya was her mantra. The mantra means, “Obeisance to Bhagavan Sri Ramana.” (From THE HUMAN GOSPEL OF RAMANA MAHARSHI (AS SHARED BY V. GANESAN) pp. 374-375)
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