Venkataraman was now wishing devoutly to have came to him soon,Īnd quite unexpectedly. Without any apparent earlier preparation,Ī longing arose in him to emulate the spirit of renunciation andĭevotion that constituted the essence of saintly life. Him and in the inner recesses of his heart he found something He read the book and wasĮnthralled by it. Lay his hands, on a copy of Sekkilar's Periyapuranam which Which attracted Venkataraman's attention to Arunachala, there wasĪnother happening which also contributed to the turning of theīoy's mind to the deeper values of spirituality. My mind, it drew me up to it, and I came close, I found that it Tiruvannamalai I did not understand its meaning. When I came to know through another that it was the same as Intelligence that Arunachala was something very great. Its action is difficultįor anyone to understand. Sage says later on in one of his hymns to Arunachala : 'Oh, great Reply that Tiruvannamalai was Arunachala. "What! From Arunachala! Where is it?" And he got the The very name 'Arunachala'Īcted as a magic spell on Venkataraman, and with an evidentĮxcitement he put his next question to the elderly gentleman, The boy asked him where he had come from.
One day an elderly relative of his called on the family in Venkataraman heard about Arunachala when he was sixteen years ofĪge. He would be carriedĪway or even beaten without his waking up in the process. In this he was rather unusual : he would not know ofĪnything that happened to him during sleep. If some of them had any grievance against him atĪny time, they would dare play pranks with him, only when he wasĪsleep. His school mates and other companions were afraid of There he was sent to Scott's Middle School and then to This necessitated his going to MaduraiĪlong with the family and living with his paternal uncle He was sent to an elementary school in Tirucculi, and thenįor a year's education to a school in Dindigul. Image of the temple at Tirucculi was taken out with all theĪttendant ceremonies, and just as it was about to re-enter, the future Maharshi, given the name Venkataraman, was born.Ībout Venkataraman's early years. In the year 1879 on the Ardra day the Nataraja Nataraja, is taken out of the temples in procession in order toĬelebrate the divine grace of the Lord that made Him appearīefore such saints as Gautama, Patanjali, Vyaghrapada, and As for the Maharshi himself, the date of the his birth coincided with an auspicious day for the Hindus, December 30th, Ardra-darsanamĮvery year the image of the Dancing Siva, The destiny and fate of the other numbers of disciples, devotees, or followers who knew or met him in the flesh, although known for some, is not known for all, having played out for each in a myriad of ways. Of the western disciples, only one, an American, mentioned in the above quote, is still alive that studied under the grace and light of the Maharshi in his ashram. Now, all these years later, out of all of the hundreds of devotees and disciples who interacted with the Maharshi, both east and west, few remain who actually met and interacted with him. Humphreys was Sri Ramana's first western disciple. The Maharshi's first devotees started showing up as early as 1900. Sri Ramana Maharshi was born on the 30th of December, 1879 and entered mahasamadhi on the 14th of April, 1950, over 60 years ago. THE MEETING: An Untold Story of Sri Ramana "This young American boy, without any formal religious background or training, according to Ramana himself and the scribes recording it, was Enlightened to the same degree as found in the spiritual Awakenings attributed to the ancient classical masters and is now fully grown and living in the United States today." WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM recalling meeting the Maharshi for the first time. He smiled and said, 'Silence is also conversation.' " His eyes with a gentle benignity rested on my face. His mien (i.e., bearing, appearance) was cheerful, smiling, polite. "He bore himself with naturalness and at the same time with dignity. Professor of Philosophy, University of Madras
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