Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00182)

Did C. Ramiah visit the same place that Damodar did
as described in the posting at:
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/36392>?

In an issue of THE THEOSOPHIST for 1884, C. Ramiah wrote:

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In the middle part of the year 1883, one night, I was carried in my 
dream to a great chain of mountains when some one led me into their 
recesses. There I found a great rock temple in the form of a hall of 
oblong size, and I perceived the same Mahatma [Koot Hoomi], who had 
shown himself to me on the two previous occasions, seated on a low 
stool with a shrine opposite to him, and there were two rows of 
Mahatmas, one on each side, all dressed in Buddhist's gown except 
the Chief. I prostrated as usual and was ordered to rise. I was then 
told to go round the shrine, and some one led me round, and there I 
found two or three ladies in deep devotion. On the shrine I observed 
a very brilliant substance resembling phosphorus, in a dark place 
irregularly coiled like a serpent, and I expressed a wish to know 
what it was; and one of the ladies then opening her eyes told me 
that the shrine is earth, to which state all our physical bodies 
must be brought down sooner or later, and the brilliant substance is 
the spirit, or essence, or "Jyoti" which moves all universe. I came 
back to the Chief, and after prostrating before him once more, I 
left the place which was said to be "Harthayery", by one of the 
Mahatmas standing.
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To the above paragraph the Editor of The Theosophist (probably T. 
Subba Row as acting editor while HPB was in Europe in 1884,) wrote:

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"The correspondent probably means an altar and not a shrine. But the 
details he gives of the Jyoti (flame) seem to correspond to what is 
alleged to exist in a certain temple in Thibet. The flame symbolises 
what the Hindu philosophers know as paramjyoti, which is sometimes 
represented by the Buddhists as the "yellow Sun in the lotus." -- 
(Ed.)"
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Mr. Ramiah had another experience later.  He wrote:

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....they took me to the rock temple in "Husthagerry" [previously 
described] ... where to my surprise and infinite joy I found the 
Mahatma K. H. seated before the altar on the same low stool as 
before. We all prostrated before him, and thus ended this 
interesting vision....
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In regards to this series of "dreams" and "visions" that Mr. Ramiah 
had, he also wrote:

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...In my dream again about two months ago, I was told to go to Mr. 
T. Subba Row, the worthy President of the Madras Branch of the 
Theosophical Society, and to him I went after the voice repeated 
itself a second time. To him I explained my whole experience, and he 
kindly asked me to call at the Head-Quarters of the Theosophic 
Society in order to see if I could recognize the features of the 
Mahatma who appeared to me in my dream.

I went thither the same evening, and at about 4 P.M., the "Shrine" 
doors were opened, and to my surprise I identified in the photo of 
the Illustrious Mahatma K. H. the exact features of the Mahatma of 
my dreams. With my hands joined in a state of supplication, and with 
the words "O Mighty God" on my lips, I went down on my knees, and in 
an hour afterwards I became a fellow of the Theosophic Society.
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Quoted from:
http://blavatskyarchives.com/ramiah1.htm
and 
http://blavatskyarchives.com/ramiah2.htm

Daniel
http://hpb.cc