The smile was beautiful, ne a flower in full bloom. As I looked at the photograph in 'The Mountain Path' I could feel joy pouring out. The radiant infections smile captivated me. Shri V. Ganesan had described his expErience with Sri Yogi Ramsuratkumar, and I felt that I now had an opportunity to have darshan of a saint.

Some months later my family and I went to Tiruvannamalai from Delhi. Armed with an introduction from Shri V. Ganesan we had the good fortune of having darshan of Yogiji. When the tum came of our one year old son,Yogiji blessed him, with a long life. It was only a few months earlier that our son had suffered a very severe attack of asthmatie bronchites. All of a sudden in the middle of the night he started gasping. In the hospital the Doctor had to give him four injections at once, attach an intravenous line and start oxygen. After a week in the hospital he became alright. But that night was one of the most terrible nights we had to endure, and it was only by the grace of God that everything became okay. So when we heard the blessings from Yogiji it eased the anxiety in our hearts.

Yes we also witnessed the smile we had seen in the photographe When Yogiji smiles a radiant joy envelops the atmosphère like the full moon shining in a cloudy night. His laughter is even more exhilarating. A belly shaking, roaring rapturous j oyous laughter. I also witnessed his anger, making me tremble like a dry leaf in a dark storm. I prayed to God, pLease let me not do anything to make him angry. Then I remembered something I had read earlier. They say that a saint showers his blessings in everything he does. When he is angry he bestows his grace even more pointedly. A disciple of Maharishi Ramana had written, that sometimes they used to play some pranks on the Master in the hope that he would get angry with them, and thereby, bestow grace even more in anger.

It is the smile that remains in the memory. Yogiji your smile is a sight for depressed hearts.