How does A Jnani Act? Ramana Maharshi Shows

Here is one example of how a Jnani behaves.

Day by Day with Bhagavan
Diary of Devaraja Mudaliar
March 31, 1945

After talking about erasing Vasanas and conquering Passions, Bhagavan drank a little water from his kamandalam (waterpot) and turning to his attendant enquired whether he had already drunk some water (i.e., after he returned to the hall about 3-30 P.M.). The attendant said ‘yes’. Thereupon Bhagavan said he had forgotten it, and to make sure he drank some again.

He further added, almost in an unguarded moment, as he rarely gives expression to such experiences of his, that sometimes he does not even know whether it is morning, mid-day or evening and has to look at the clock and try to remember before he knows what time of day it is.

Once when I was concerned over some physical pain of his, he told me he feels that pain as if it was a passing and faint experience like that in a dream.

These are clues to the sort of life Bhagavan leads in our midst, seeming to act and move and feel as we do, but really living in a world of his own where the things we experience don’t exist.