Letters from Sri Ramanasramam, by Suri Nagamma

As soon as he left, a devotee sitting near Bhagavan asked,
“What about the dream you referred to?” Bhagavan replied:
“Oh that! While living on the hill, one evening I casually
asked Palaniswamy if he had a lime fruit. He said, ‘No’. ‘If
so, don’t worry’, I said. It seems that very night this person
dreamt that I had asked him for a lime fruit. Next morning,
as I came out he was already there and said, ‘Swami, take
this lime fruit!’ ‘Yesterday, I asked him (Palaniswamy) if he
had one. How did you know about it?’ I asked. In reply, he
said, ‘You appeared to me in my dream and told me that
you wanted a lime fruit. That is why I have brought it now’;
and he placed the fruit in my hand. That is how it happened.”
The devotee asked, “Is it a fact that Bhagavan appeared to
him in a dream?” Bhagavan replied with a smile, “I don’t
know. Who knows? He said so. That is all.”
Another devotee asked, “K. K. Nambiar’s notebook also
happened to be brought here in the same way, isn’t it?”
Bhagavan replied, “Yes, that is so. At that time Madhavan
was here. I was telling him to take out from the bureau a
long notebook with a black cover so that I could write a
commentary on Sri Ramana Gita in Malayalam and copy it
out in that notebook. He said he would get it but forgot
about it for four or five days. Meanwhile Nambiar came here
and gave me a notebook of the exact size and description I
was asking for. When I asked him how it was that he had
brought a notebook of the sort I was asking for, he said,
‘Bhagavan appeared to me in a dream and asked me for a
notebook, describing the number of pages, the breadth and
length. When I went to the shop, I found one of the exact
description. I have brought it.’ In the meantime, Madhavan
came. I said to him, ‘Look, here is the book. You have given it
to me, haven’t you?’ He was surprised and, remembering my
instructions, took out my notebook from the bureau which
was found to be exactly of the same size. It was just sufficient
for Sri Ramana Gita with the slokas and the commentary. As
soon as that work was over, Nambiar came and took it away,
saying he would get it printed but at the same time hesitated
to hand over the book containing Bhagavan’s handwriting to
the press. So, he got another copy made, which he sent to the
press and kept the original himself. It must still be with him.

Even Rajagopalan did almost the same thing once. As the
stock of our ink was finished I told the people here once or
twice to replenish it. The next day or the day after he brought
a big jar of ink while returning from some place. When I
asked him how he came to know that the ink was needed
here, he said that Bhagavan appeared to him in a dream and
told him that ink was needed. ‘So I brought it,’ he said. That
is how things happen from time to time,” said Bhagavan.

That devotee said, “They say that Bhagavan himself
told them. Is that a fact?” Bhagavan replied, “What do I
know? They said so. That is all.” The devotee again said,
“Even so, isn’t it surprising that what was needed here should
be seen by them in a dream?” Bhagavan nodded his head in
approval and kept quiet.