Sri Arunaachala Ramana Nilayam and the Life of Sri Sadhu Om Swamigal

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Sri Arunaachala Ramana Nilayam

This was founded by Sri Sadhu Om Swamigal in Thiruvannamalai.

 

Life of Sri Sadhu Om Swamigal

He was born in 'PunnaiNalloor' alias 'Maariyamman Koil' near 'Tanjore' in

TamilNadu in India in 1922.

He was naturally endowed with a mind that always sought the Divine.

 

When he was around 20 years old, sometime in 1942, he read for the first time

the Life of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and he was deeply indrawn with the

thoughts of Sri Ramakrishna filling the inmost recesses of his mind. Then, he

had the Divine Vision of the 'Face of Sri Ramakrishna, beaming with a Divine

Smile and Radiance'.

 

In June, 1946, when he was 24 years old, he read a magazine by the name, 'Sri

Ramana Vijayam', and he came to know about Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharshi in

Thiruvannaamalai.

 

He enquired with his friends about the rules and regulations, if any, which were

being followed in Sri Ramanaasramam,-the 'hermitage' which by then, had got

built around the Divine Presence of Bhagawan,- and for having the 'Dharshan' of

Bhagawan.

 

His friends referred him to one 'Maa Jaanaki' staying in Ganapathy Nagar,

Tanjore. In her house, the assembled lady devotees sang then the 'Arunaachala

Akshara Mana Maalai', a garland made of 108 Divine Couplets composed by Bhagawan

on 'Arunaachalaa', the Name of the Divine Hill in Thiruvannaamalai, a

solidification of the Lustrous Form of Lord Shivaa. Then, Maa Jaanaki gave him

a copy of the sacred text.

 

He got by heart all the 108 Divine Couplets and sang the same in front of

Jaanaki Maa during his next visit to her the very next day, in a new raagaa.

 

-To Continue-

 

 

Dr C S Shah <drcssha

Ramakrishna <Ramakrishna >; Bhavaprana/Vedanta

Society <bhavapr

Saturday, August 07, 1999 2:49 PM

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>Dr C S Shah <drcssha

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Dear Shankar,

Thanks. please continue to send subsequent parts.

dr cs shah

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Dear Dr CS Shah

 

Thanks very much. Continuing the Life of Sri Sadhu Om Swamigal:

 

Sri Muruganaar was a pre-eminent householder devotee of Bhagawan. He was a

Tamil Teacher in a school.

 

On 5th July, 1946 (a Friday), a conversation ensued between Bhagawan and

Muruganaar. Bhagawan said in reply to Muruganaar that there was no connection

between one's education and one's poetic ability and further observed that sages

like 'Thirugnana Sambandhar, Arunagirinaathar, and Ramalinga Adigal, had their

'poetic' faculties opened up with the Grace of the Divine alone, and shone as

'Divine Poets', although they did not have a great formal education.

 

Bhagawan further went on to say that even in the current days, there would be

young poets without much education, but with their 'poetic' faculties opened up

by Divine Grace alone and upon getting in touch with 'poets' and getting a basic

idea of the 'grammar and syntax of poetry', they would begin to shine as great

Divine poets.

 

On 6th July, 1946 (a Saturday), went to meet Bhagawan together with Jaanaki Maa.

Everybody went to the hall where Bhagawan normally used to sit and prostrated

before Bhagawan.

 

When Sadhu Om Swamigal went, as the last person, to prostrate before Bhagawan,

he did not see Bhagawan's Divine Form. He saw only Bhagawan's seat. Thinking

that Bhagawan had gone out and when he was not there it was the custom to

prostrate before Bhagawan's seat, he prostrated and got up.

 

Now, he saw upon the hitherto empty seat, a 'Dense Mass of Light', appearing and

as he was seeing it, it gradually took the form of 'Bhagawan's Lustrous Physical

Frame'. Thus, Bhagawan revealed His 'Nirguna Sath Swaroopa' for Sri Sadhu Om

Swamigal to understand, during his first visit itself.

 

 

Dr C S Shah <drcssha

Ramakrishna <Ramakrishna >

Sunday, August 08, 1999 6:38 PM

Re: [ramakrishna] Sri Arunaachala Ramana Nilayam and the Life of

Sri Sadhu Om Swamigal

 

 

>Dr C S Shah <drcssha

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>Dear Shankar,

>Thanks. please continue to send subsequent parts.

>dr cs shah

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