Know About Saints - Mahan Ramana Mahrishi

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Know About Saints - Mahan Ramana Mahrishi

 

Venkataraman (later to be known as Ramana) was born 30th December 1879 at 1 a.m., in the village of Tiruchuli, Tamil Nadu. The day of his birth was the auspicious Arudra Darshan, which, according to Puranic legend, commemorated the manifestation of Lord Siva on earth. Venkataraman was the second of three sons born to Sundaram Aiyar and Alagammal, who both belonged to the Saivite Brahmin caste that worshipped Lord Siva as the Supreme Being. Sundaram Aiyar, of whom Ramana would later call a ¡towering presence¢, was a self-made man who built up a large practice as a pleader at the local Magistrate¢s Court. The mother Alagammal, a noble woman; was a devoted wife and loving mother. Next to the family home was the Bhuminatha Temple, and the young Venkataraman and his friends would sometimes play in the temple¢s open spaces or in its large exterior hall and at other times would

go outside the village to Koundiniya River to fly kites and sail paper boats. When Venkataraman was twelve, the tragic death of his father ...

 

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