Journey to Arunachala

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Dear Friends,

 

Today is August 29th. Even though time and space do not have meaning in this

context, it was on this day young Ramana had started His journey to Arunachala -

to complete the outward unification, the inward unification was already over

(the letter informing the event had no signature - there was no one to sign).

 

The journey from August 29th to September 1st is very symbolic - in a way

comparable to the inward quest

 

Pranams ...

Ramanendu

 

 

 

 

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om namo bhagavate sri ramanaya

 

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'Well, this body is now dead. It will be carried to the funeral pyre and

there reduced to ashes. But do I die with the death of this body? Is the

body I? It is silent and inert; but I feel the full force of my personality

and even the voice of the 'I' within me, apart from it. So I am the Spirit

transcending the body. The body dies but the Spirit that transcends it

cannot be touched by death. That means that I am the deathless Spirit.

 

....All of a sudden, the boy called Venkataraman had flowered into a sage and

saint. It was 29 August 1896.

 

(Mahadevan, The Sage of Arunachala, 1977)

 

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> Dear Friends,

>

> Today is August 29th. Even though time and space do not have meaning in this

> context, it was on this day young Ramana had started His journey to Arunachala

> - to complete the outward unification, the inward unification was already over

> (the letter informing the event had no signature - there was no one to sign).

>

> The journey from August 29th to September 1st is very symbolic - in a way

> comparable to the inward quest

>

> Pranams ...

> Ramanendu