Arunachala. The Spiritual Axis of the World !

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ARUNACHALA!

THE SPIRITUAL AXIS OF THE WORLD

Reading the following extract from A Sadhu's Reminiscence, by Sadhu

Arunachala (Major A. W. Chadwick), it would appear that Bhagavan was

quite certain about a corresponding holy hill exactly opposite the

globe to Arunachala. Major Chadwick writes:

 

" He used to say that Arunachala was the top of the spiritual axis of

the earth. 'There must,' he said, 'be another mountain corresponding

to Arunachala at exactly the opposite side of the globe, the

corresponding pole of the axis.' So certain was he of this that one

evening he made me fetch an atlas and see if this was not correct. I

found, according to the atlas, the exact opposite point came in the

sea about a hundred miles off the coast of Peru. He seemed doubtful

about this. I pointed out that there might be some island at this

spot or a mountain under the sea. It was not until some years after

Bhagavan's passing that a visiting Englishman had a tale of a spot,

supposed to be a great secret-power centre, in the Andes somewhere in

this latitude. Later I found that though a centre had certainly been

started, it had failed. Since then I have been told of another person

who is practicing meditation in solitude in the region of the Andes

in Ecuador. So it does appear as though there were some strange

attraction about that part of the globe. The earth is not an exact

sphere and maps are not so accurate as all that, so we are unable to

pin it down to any definite point. It is quite possible that more is

going on in that part of the world than we know and this would fit in

well with what Bhagavan said. However, I could never discuss the

matter with Bhagavan, as it was not until many years after his

passing that I had any indication that anything of this sort was

happening in those parts. I had many years ago traveled extensively

in that country, but had never seen anything which would lead me to

think that there might be important spiritual centres there. "

 

From " The Maharshi Newsletter " , Feb-Mar 2003.