He spoke so little, casual visitors who only saw him for a short while wondered whether he ever spoke. Sri Bhagavan’s manner of speaking was itself unique.
Whatever in them was worth remembering stuck to my mind.’ ‘People speaking different languages would come to me and make discourses exhibiting all their erudition. Sri Bhagavan once explained how he acquired all this learning. I was familiar with the Hindu classics and with large areas of secular literature as well, but Sri Bhagavan would occasionally astound me and everyone else in the hall by delivering appropriate quotations from sources and texts I had never even heard of. As a Telugu and Sanskrit scholar I considered myself to be a fairly well-read man. In the course of a casual talk he might suddenly give long verbatim quotations from scriptural and scholarly works, and not just the standard works such as the Upanishads and the Gita. Sri Bhagavan could appear learned if the occasion demanded it. There were no confusing technicalities when he spoke, for he would give homely, concrete illustrations along with his answers that always made his meaning crystal clear. He went to the root of any question and simplified its terms. He said what he knew he knew what he said. Like Christ he spoke as a man of authority because his words came not from book learning or hearsay, but from first-hand knowledge and experience.
His replies to questions were never recondite or bookish, but always simple and direct. One result of the originality of Sri Bhagavan’s Self-realization was that his approach to problems addressed to him was equally original.
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