Ramana

... a guest house several blocks away with no hot water. At least the ashram food is still good. We spent the rest of the week at Ramana Towers, which is nice but blocks away from anyplace to eat. They also did a bait and switch by giving us a room that ...

   Ramana Maharishi was a great saint of India who left the body in the 1950's.  His disciples maintain a lovely ashram where Gary had stayed during past visits.  They have a schedule of activities as well as set meals times in which ...

   We are a few meters out of the town proper near the Ramana Ashram.  I only packed one Indian outfit and planned to have some clothes made while we are here.  We have been looking for bikes  and did not have any luck, so ...

... to me at the time. Off to the temple I would go. In the morning I would do circuambulation, or so I thought. I figured I needed eat and Ramana temple served food promptly at 7:30pm. I couldn't miss my last good meal at the temple so I had to act fast. ...

... , water all over our heads, to cool down. In we then went, into the inner chamber, where a single flame burnt before Ramana Maharshi's picture. Rosina played the priest, putting bindi on us, and we managed to dissuade George from his attempts to blow out ...

... spezieller Mensch und hat in seinem Leben auch die Erleuchtung erlangt. In der Naehe meines Gaestehauses befindet sich uebrigens der Ramana Aschram, der sehr beliebt bei "Westlern" ist, die auf der spirituellen Suche sind....man sieht sie haeufig ...

... sat a stone statue of Sri Ramana that many devotees circuambulated. I joined in. Afterward I read a big sign describing Ramana Maharshi's simulated death experience at the age of sixteen which freed him from identification with mind permanently. Some of ...

... I can accept that I grieve, not despairing of this as a weakness in me, no need to be a superhuman, overwise and detached. Ramana Maharshi cried too. We got a taxi all the way to Auroville, our driver being a man from Tiruvanamalai called Balamurugan. ...

... female seekers. But there are also many humble souls, and I meet someone who will  become a great friend here. The Ramana Ashram deserves special mention, I can really recommend picking up a book about Sri Ramana Maharshi who was one of the most ...

... . I performed prayers here, at the Siva Parvathi Urchavamurthy shrine and at Lord Murugan’s shrine. I saw the patala lingam where Ramana Maharishi had meditated. I left for the hotel at 2.30 pm. Today was the day where devotees go around Mount Tiru ...

Tiruvannamalai was a very pleasant, interesting place. It has a beautiful Hindu temple and a very interesting temple to Ramana Maharshi. A whole community has sprung up here around Ramana Maharshi. It is sort of a new-age Western community (with an Indian ...