History of sri ramana maharshi
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Sri Ramana Ashram
Hindu spiritual school
Sri Ramana Ashram, also known as Sri Ramanasramam, is the ashram which was home to modern sage and Advaita Vedanta master Ramana Maharshi from 1922 until his death in 1950. It is situated at the foot of the Arunachala hill, to the west of Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, where thousands of seekers flocked to be in his presence. His samadhi shrine continues to attract devotees from all over the world.[1]
History
[edit]The ashram gradually grew in its present location after Ramana Maharshi settled near the Samadhi shrine of his mother Alagammal, who died on 19 May 1922. In the beginning, a single small hut was built there. By 1924 two huts were set up, one opposite the samadhi and the other to the north.
Amongst its early western visitors was British writer Paul Brunton in 1931, who is credited with introducing Ramana Maharshi to the West through his books "A Search in Secret India" (1934) and "The Secret Path". Writer W.
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In the Kitchen with Bhagavan: The Story of Sri Ramana Maharshi and the Ashram Dining Hall
Description
First Edition, 2024, Paperback, Pages 251
The book tells the life story of Sri Ramana Maharshi through ordinary daily encounters with the Maharshi, centering on scenes involving the preparation, offering, and receiving of food.
Table of Contents:
- Part I: In the Beginning
- A Family Legend
- Ratnammal and Desurammal
- Feeding the Brahmana Swami
- Days at Gurumurtham
- The Boy Discovered
- Meeting at Pavala Kunru
- Part II: Early Days on the Hill
- Virupaksha Cave
- Sri Ramana, the Good Cook
- Echammal and Chellamal
- Mother comes to stay
- Mudaliar Patti
- Establishing an Ashram on the Hill
- End of an Era
- Establishing Matrubhuteswara
- Part III: Birth of Sri Ramanasramam
- First Beginnings
- Ensnared by the Divine
- Mudaliar Patti at Ramanasramam
- Prasad from the Pen
- Building an Ashram
- The New Dining Hall
- Part IV: Daily Life in the Dining Hall
- Bhagavan the Compassionate
- At work
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An Introduction to Sri Ramana’s Life and Teachings
About ten years ago an Australian man at Ramanasramam asked if inom would meet with a group of Australian devotees and talk to them about Ramana Maharshi. inom agreed, but when inom turned up, I discovered that it was going to be a formal interview with him, with the Australian devotees as an audience.
Our dialogue covered a wide variety of topics. Because the interviewer, John David, seemed to have very little knowledge of Bhagavan’s life or teachings, much of the interview was spent correcting many of the wrong ideas he seemed to have. When inom read the transcript later, I realised that, serendipitously, this format of going back to basics and correcting his erroneous beliefs had turned the interview into an ideal introduktion of the life and teachings of Bhagavan for people who knew little or ingenting about them. For years I had it posted on my old site as a recommended read for people who were new to Bhagavan.
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