About Ramana Maharshi, At the Feet of Bhagavan
After breakfast one fine morning, I was in the assembly of Sri Bhagavan’s devotees. Sri Bhagavan was expounding some remote point in philosophy; He went on talking till it was 10-45, and we were all so much absorbed that we had no sense of time, space or...
About Ramana Maharshi, At the Feet of Bhagavan
One morning K. was cutting down the ripe coconuts from the trees while Bhagavan was returning from the cowshed (gosala). Bhagavan asked K: what rod he was using to pluck the coconuts, whether it had a bamboo bit attached to the end or an iron point. K. remarked that...
About Ramana Maharshi, At the Feet of Bhagavan
IT was a Sivaratri Day. The evening worships at the Mother’s shrine were over. The devotees had their dinner with Sri Bhagavan, who was now on His seat, the devotees at His feet sitting around Him. At 8 p.m. one of the Sadhus stood up, did pranam (offered...
About Ramana Maharshi, At the Feet of Bhagavan
Devotees of Bhagavan Sri Ramana know well that the one book which radically influenced His inner life while He was still at school was the Periapuranam in Tamil, written by the poet-saint Sekkilar. This book contains the lives of the sixty-three saints of Tamil Nadu...
About Ramana Maharshi, At the Feet of Bhagavan
IT was about 1927 when Sri Bhagavan’s Nool Thirattu1 in Tamil was under preparation to be published. There was talk among the Ashram pundits that the book must have a preface although the devotees of Maharshi considered that nobody was qualified to write a...
