Tiruvannamalai town

[Guest guest]

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om namo bhagavate sri ramanaya

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Now as we have left the Temple we will have to walk through town on our way back to Ramanashram.

We also could take one of the Riksha's which are found everywhere, but it is also interesting

to walk the way to see more close how people are living here. Mostly we will have to walk on one

of the busy main streets.

 

Town is very noisy, busy, hot and dirty and filled with trafic of all kinds. So

one has to take care.

In general most people are poor and many of them are very poor.

Sometimes it was heart-aching to see. This pictures are inside and have found no

display in the photo-camera.

 

The buildings and huts in town are very close together. Room is restricted.

There are many people selling something on the streets and there are lots of very small shops.

Cows, dogs and pigs are found everywhere.

For the Westerner newcomer it is a very strange scene to see.

 

The first photo shows a street with shops near the Temple, the other one is not on our way,

but on another street leading outside in direction of the Hill.

It is always refreshing, to have a look from busy town to the silent Hill. It

stands there - unmoving,

silent and majestetic, bringing the unchangable Truth to remembrance - and the whole town as it is

lays at Its feet. What a symbolic!

 

The Ashram of Seshadri Swami is on our way, some minutes before we reach Ramanashram.

Let us go inside and have a rest here. It is very silent there - not many visitors.

The Samadhi-temple is well-built and the whole Ashram looks very neatly.

We can go for an outside and an inside pradakshina round Seshadri Swami's

Samadhi. Afterwards we can take a coffee or tea in the shop in front of the Ashram.

 

Tomorrow we will reach Ramanashram and stay there for longer.

 

 

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