Sadhus Reminiscences of Raman Maharshi

Author(s): Arunachal Sadhu
Publisher: Ramanasramam Tiruvannamalai

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A Sadhu's Reminiscences of Ramana Maharshi When I came to Tiruvannamalai, Bhagavan was well past middle age. He was widely known and had been established in the Ashram at the foot of the Hill, known as Sri Ramanasramam, for the past thirteen years. Accounts of his life and books on his teaching are easily available from the Ashram and will give the reader a complete sketch of his life. This small book makes no attempt at being either comprehensive or chronological.
May Bhagavan bless it and may it be a light to guide at least a few readers to his feet.
I first came to Sri Ramana Ashram on November 1st 1935. I had heard of Bhagavan through Brunton's book, A Search in Secret India, and immediately decided that here was my Guru. Directly I could settle up my affairs I left my house and possessions in Majorca and went home to England for a short stay with my sisters before finally leaving for India.
Off and on for a number of years I had been practising some form of meditation on my return from work in the evening, (I was at that time employed in Chile), and, after I finally retired, in my own home. This meditation of mine actually turned out to be very much the same that I learnt later when I came to Tiruvannamalai. I had argued that since God had created the world, (there must be some beginning somewhere, and this necessitated a Creator), it was only out of Himself that He could have done so, for if there was some other apart from Himself then He could not be God, undisputed and omnipotent.