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The New York Times

Sunday, April 16, 1950

 

Religious Recluse Mourned in India;Shri Ramana Maharshi Was Called a 'Living

Saint' — Made Abode in Cave

 

NEW DELHI, India, April 15 – Hindu India mourned today the death of one of

her greatest " living saints " and a remarkable man of his time, Shri Ramana

Maharshi, who died last night at the age of 71 in his Ashram retreat at

Tiruvannamalai near Pondicherry.

 

Shri Ramana was renowned as a religious recluse and seer whose piety and

philosophy of self-abnegation gained him followers in many countries. His

devotees in Tiruvannamalai, who include men and women of many nationalities,

held to their master's own philosophy as he was taken from them. They

believe, like him, that there is no death, but that Shri Ramana's physical

form has ceased to function, while his inner-being continues on an exalted

plane.

 

It was his development of this theory that made the second son of an obscure

village lawyer one of India's most revered sages.

 

Shri Ramana had humble beginnings, and his school record was far from

brilliant. Neglecting his studies, he brooded on religious subjects. One day

in July, 1896, while reflecting on the mystery of death, the young

Venkataraman, as his name was then, conceived the idea that death of the

body is a relative thing and that the intellect belongs to a power beyond

which never dies.

 

After a month of profound meditation on this subject, he left home abruptly

and repaired to the temple of his particular God, Arunachala, in

Tiruvannamalai. Here he shaved his head and adopted the robe of the Sanyasi

(holy man). Soon he came to be regarded in the neighborhood as a queer one

and he was jeered, stoned and eventually disowned by his family.

 

To escape persecution, the young ascetic took abode in a cave. He became so

immersed in meditation that, according to his own later accounts, he was

totally unaware of the terrible ravages to his physique by starvation and

the bites of scorpions and insects that nearly devoured him alive.

 

Though he rarely spoke-but composed religious expositions that later became

famous throughout the Hindu world-the recluse attracted followers.

Eventually, his dwelling became a place of pilgrimage. In later years, the

large Ashram grew about the odd man, who made no effort to proselytize and

continued in silent meditation and writing. His followers changed his name

to Maharshi, which means great saint.

 

Here in India, where thousands of so-called holy men claim close ties with

the infinite, it is said that the most remarkable thing about Shri Ramana

Maharshi was that he never claimed anything remarkable for himself, yet

became one most respected of all.

 

Source: http://www.arunachala.org/newsletters/2000/?pg=may-jun

 

Original article can be purchased from this newyorktimes website

 

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10610F9345A11708DDDAF0994DC405B\

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