21.
"WHO AM I, NAYANA?"

SRI Bhagavan was in the Virupaksha Cave on the Hill.

      One evening after 7 p.m., they were all coming down
the Hill to go round Arunachala. The other devotees had
all gone in advance; only Sri Kavyakanta Ganapati Muni
was in the company of Sri Maharshi, and they were slowly
climbing down the steps from the cave.

      When they had walked a few steps, all of a sudden
Sri Maharshi stopped, and with Him Sri Kavyakanta as
well. The full moon was shining bright in the starry sky.
Pointing to the moon and the beautiful sky, Sri Bhagavan
said: "Nayana! if the moon, and all the stars have their
being in ME, and the sun himself goes round My hip
with his satellites, who am I? Who am I??"

This remark of Sri Maharshi made His blessed disciple
envisage the Master as the Great Person of the Vedas, as
described in `Sri Rudra,' the `Purusha Sukta,' and the
`Skamba Sukta' of the Atharva Veda. He is verily all these,
and That beyond; there is nothing that is not He.

      Sri Kavyakanta later made this revelation known to
all the devotees.

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