When, under the instructions of the sarvadhikari, Kunju Swami was serving Bhagavan [Ramana] as an attendant, he noticed Bhagavan's body and head were shaking and faltering and so when there was no-one else present but close disciples he asked Bhagavan, "Bhagavan, although only in middle age, strangely enough has a shaking of the head and of the body necessitating his walking with the aid of a stick; what could be the reason for it?". Bhagavan replied, with a smile, "What is there so strange in it? If a big elephant is tied down in a small hut, what else will happen to that hut except troubles of all sorts? This is the same".