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to come to me frequently and who had requested me to explain
the Stotra. In those days I was still generally silent and people
thought I was observing mauna. My uncle suddenly appeared
on the scene and I was caught in the act of explaining the Stotra.
I was taken aback and for a moment hesitated whether I should
continue the talk or observe mauna. But, seeing my uncle had
already learnt that I did not mind talking, I continued the discourse.
This convinced my uncle that I knew a great deal which he thought
I could not have known.” Bhagavan added, “The Swami who
informed my uncle first that I knew nothing had also to change
his opinion. This is how it happened. One day, returning from
my pradakshina round the hill, I entered the Easanya Mutt and
there I found this Swami. He showed the Vivekachudamani and
asked me about some stanza there. When I explained it, quoting
other portions from the same book and also other books, he
completely changed his estimate of me.”
I may also record here, since it does not seem to have
been recorded so far, that Bhagavan told us that when his
uncle came and had to send a written message to Bhagavan
before he could get admittance, the poor gentleman had no
ink or pen and wrote his message on a piece of paper with
some twig for pen and the juice of prickly-pear fruit for ink.
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Bhagavan told me that one morning, when he was
sitting on the verandah in Virupakshi Cave, the words
LÚ|VôùXu{ VôiP ¿ came to him very insistently, but
he took no special notice of them. It seems the same thing
happened the following morning also. Then Bhagavan composed
the first stanza of ‘@Ú÷NX T§Lm’ (Eleven Verses on
Arunachala). The next morning the words beginning the second
stanza similarly came to him and he composed the second stanza;
and so it went on every day, until the last two stanzas were
composed on one day. On that day, after composing the two last
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