Lakshmi's samadhi

[Guest guest]

om namo bhagavate sri ramanaya

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On the Ashram compound 4 animal samadhis are found:

of cow Lakshmi, of Jackie, the dog, of a crow and of Valli, the deer.

 

There is a moving story found at Nagamma about the death of Lakshmi,

which shows Bhagavan's compassion and that he cared for each one who came to him until

the very last (so being until today).

Ramana was with her some time before she died.

Lakshmi died then very peaceful.

"Ten minutes later (after her death], Bhagavan came into the shed saying, 'Is all over?'

and squatted by her side, took her face in both his hands as though

she were a little child, and lifted it and said, 'Oh Lakshmi, Lakshmi, '

and then, to us, controlling his tears he said, 'Because of her,

our family (i.e. Asramam) has grown to this extent.'" (Nagamma,

Letters, p. 329)

 

The door left hand side leads to the accomodations for visitors.

This was the daily walk.

But before we will follow it and look at the beautiful banyan trees there -

we will first visit the samadhi's of Muruganar and other great devotees.

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