Soldiers Visit Maharajji ♥ राम राम ♥ On one occasion a caravan of army trucks stopped at the gate, and hundreds of soldiers came and stood in line. Maharajji was talking to a farmer sitting beside him. One by one the soldiers and officers came forward, bent over and touched Maharajji’s feet, looked at him for another moment, and then turned away. That experience was all most of them seemed to want. But every so often one would come forward who seemed different – perhaps seeming to have a bit more light or perhaps seeming to suffer more. Many times I watched as such a person bent forward. Maharajji would hit him on the head, or give him a flower, or interrupt his conversation to say something to him, such as, “Your mother will be alright,” or “You shouldn’t fight with your superiors,” or “You love God very much.” We could only see the tiniest fraction of what Maharajji saw. The soldiers wanted pictures of Hanuman (the protecting deity of the Indian army) and of Maharajji, to carry as protection in war. Maharajji said, “The army has good and simple and spiritual men.” It is not as if Maharajji were “deciding” to do this or that; rather, the nature of the seeker was eliciting from him, as from a mirror, this or that response. -- Ram Dass from “Miracle of Love,” pp. 61-62.
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