When he finally passed us he was very easy to spot because he was being driven to the meeting in an open car. When the day of the speech came, I, along with many other devotees, waited at the ashram gate in the hope of catching a glimpse of Gandhi as he drove past. Since the organizers had selected a piece of open ground about 400 yards from the ashram as the location for the event, many people in the ashram had hopes that the Mahatma would also pay a call on Bhagavan. In the 1930s Mahatma Gandhi came to Tiruvannamalai to make a political speech. Spiritual Stories as told by Ramana Maharshi The cave is your heart only, the In-dweller thereof is called God and I am That.” Seek the In-dweller (the cave-dweller) and you will once for all rid yourself of the disease of birth and death.
Prabhulinga then expounded Brahma vidya to Gorakhnath as follows: “Gorakhnath, do not think your body to be your Self. Thus his pride was humbled, and he prayed to Prabhulinga, to teach him the truth. Only then was Gorakhnath, the Siddha, ready to acknowledge the superiority of Prabhulinga, the Jnani. It was as if the sword was passing through empty space! To the great surprise of Gorakhnath, the sword passed easily through the body of Prabhulinga without affecting it in any way. But when Prabhulinga insisted, he took up the sword and tried to cut his body. At first Gorakhnath hesitated to do so saying that Prabhulinga would die. Prabhulinga feigned surprise, and asked Gorakhnath to try cutting his body. When the sword struck the body of Gorakhnath, it caused him no injury but was itself blunted. However, Gorakhnath could not be persuaded and would not budge an inch from his ground he proudly challenged Prabhulinga to try cutting his body, handing him a long, bright and sharp sword. Prabhulinga remarked that knowledge consists in realizing one’s Self and not in immortalizing the body and went on to explain at length that the body cannot be the real Self. Therefore one who had not gained such immortality dies.” Gorakhnath, who identified his body as himself, replied, “That person alone who has gained the immortality of the body, by the favor of Siva and consumption of gulikas (medicinal herbs), will never die. Prabhulinga replied that only the One who had destroyed his ego, root and branch, and who had thereby realized himself could know who he was, and wondered what he could say to a non-entity, a person, who clung to his perishable body. He considered his guest more or less his equal, expressed pleasure at meeting him, and upon greeting him, asked who he was. The yogi welcomed him respectfully, but was however, proudly conscious of his own extraordinary powers over the elements. He met the famous Yogi Gorakhnath in Gokarnam (a famous place of Hindu pilgrimage on the west coast of India). PRABHULINGA, THE FOUNDER of the Lingayat sect (now mostly prevalent in Karnataka State only), was touring the land for the uplift of the spiritually minded. One day, while speaking about hatha yoga and related subjects, Sri Bhagavan narrated the following story from Prabhulingalila, a well-known Tamil work by the Sage Sivaprakasa Swamigal.