I know somebody who used to visit him. She said, what you also can feel in these videos, that he was like Rudra, destroyer of concepts. She had no problem going to see other saints as well, that's why I know her. You can see that he had a lot of experience on the path, he quite knows the scene.
I like what he says here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x0QKAgLTek a far cry from the screams of our resident enlightened, who shout at you to acknowledge their fake realization. Probably he owes most to the other Krishnamurti, this recording is obviously one sooner to his 'calamity' (the way he describes his realization) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3jl7cm3LQ0 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@...> wrote: > > Then so many things > happened. There was one man called Sivananda Saraswati in those days -- > he was the evangelist of Hinduism. > > > Between the ages of fourteen and > twenty- one (I am > skipping many of the unnecessary events) I used to go there and meet him very > often, and I did everything, all the austerities. I was so young, > but I was determined to find out if > there was any such thing as moksha, and I wanted that moksha for myself. > > > I wanted to prove to myself and to everybody that there cannot > be any hypocrisy in such > people -- "These are all hypocrites" -- so I practiced yoga, I practiced > meditation, studied everything. > > > I experienced every kind of experience > that the books talked > about -- samadhi, super-samadhi, nirvikalpa samadhi, everything. > > > Then I said to myself "Thought can create any experience you want -- bliss, > beatitude, ecstasy, melting away into nothingness -- all those > experiences. So, this can't be the thing, because I'm the same person, > mechanically doing these things. Meditations > have no value for me. This is not leading me anywhere." >
