Arunacahala Ramana

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OM NAMO BHAGAWATE SRI RAMANAYA

 

Dear Ramana-List member,

 

Here is mail on Arunachala Ramana sent to a friend some time ago.

It may be of interest to you.

 

Suryanarayan

 

 

 

Dear .....

 

Surely it is a great experience to be at Tiruvannamalai and

particularly, in Sri Ramanasramam. It takes about five to six hours by

road from Bangalore. You can stay in the Ashram. You get free boarding

and lodging. Donations are accepted but not linked to your stay! You can

send them an email and you will get a prompt reply. You will get simple

and confortable accomodation and very sattvic and delicious food.[Gandhiji

once asked Smt. Sarojini Naidu " Are the Idlis here (in Sabarmati Ashram)

as delicious as those of Sri Ramansramam?"] The Ashram may limit the

duration of your stay during the peak festival periods to 2 or 3 days.

Alternate accomodations are avaialable nearby.

 

I can give you some inputs on how you should plan your trip there.

It will be good to read about the place and the life of Sri Ramana

before you land there. That will help you relate your stay there to

the experience that you are walking on the land where Sri Ramana once

walked in the body, the places he frequented and showered His Grace on

all. Sri Arthur Osborne, the founder of the Moutain Path magazine and

a great Ramana devotee has categorically observed that the spiritual power

of the place continues there undimished. So is the "Presence of Ramana".

 

My own personal experince is that the whole place is charged with

spirituality. The Tomb of Ramana, the "Ramaneswara Mahalingam" radiates a

silent peace so powerful that the mind which is naturally noisy, quietens

so perceptibly.

 

Namaste.

 

Suryanarayan