In remembrance of Sri Ramana's death: April 14., 1950, 8.47 pm

[Guest guest]

"A groups of sadhus and devotees sat together on the temple ramp just opposite the little room

and began singing Arunachala-Siva, the supreme song of Divine Love that Bhagavan has given us.

More joined in.

The singing swelled louder to drown murmurs and cries of grief.

 

Inside the room, Bhagavan bade them sit him up.

The pain must have been intense, but he found it appropriate to die sitting, as our Guru.

At the sound of Arunachala-Siva, he opened his luminous untroubled eyes, with a brief smile

of indescribabel tenderness, and a tear of bliss trickled down from the outer corner of his eyes.

 

And then, at 8.47, breathing stopped. There was no struggle or spasm, no other sign of death:

only that the next breat did not come.

 

For a few moments people stood bewildered. The singing continued. A French press photographer

who had been pacing the road outside came quickly into the throng and

asked a devotee at what precise

moment it had happened. The devotee, taking it to be journalistic

callousness, answered bruquely that

he did not know, and then, recalling Bhagavan's unfailing courtesy,

gave as precise an answer as he could;

and the photographer thereupon declared that at that very moment an enormous star had passed slowly

across the sky. Many had seen it; even as far away as Madras. Many who

were not present felt it protended."

 

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The Last Days & Maha-Nirvana of Bhagavan Sri Ramana, p. 21f

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