David Godman

Ramana Maharshi's life, teachings and devotees

The Blessed Days with Muruganar

This is an account by Padma Venkataraman of the time she spent serving Muruganar in the 1950s. It also contains a film of her speaking in Tamil about her association with Bhagavan.

The Shining of My Lord

‘The Shining of my Lord’ is a new collection of verses that have been selected from Sri Ramana Jnana Bodham and other Tamil works by Muruganar. The translation has been done by T. V. Venkatasubramanian and David Godman.

Muruganar on Facebook

I run a Facebook page on Muruganar. I update it occasionally with translations of his verses and articles written by people who knew him. the link is inside.

‘Summa iru’ (Keep quiet)

This is an interview I had with Papaji in 1993. The interview is available as a DVD and it was included as the final chapter of Papaji Interviews.

Guru Vachaka Kovai verses

Guru Vachaka Kovai is the most authoritative collection of Ramana Maharshi’s spoken teachings. Compiled by Muruganar and edited and corrected by Bhagavan himself, it covers the whole spectrum of Sri Ramana’s teachings. This excerpt contains the first 57 verses of the work, taken from the edition made by T. V. Venkatasubramanian, Robert Butler and David Godman.

Upadesa Tiruvahaval

Upadesa Tiruvahaval is one of the poems of Sri Ramana Sannidhi Murai. In addition to lines that praise Bhagavan and express gratitude to him, Muruganar also includes explanations of the first two benedictory verses of Ulladu Narpadu.

Lakshmana Swamy

This is Lakshmana Swamy’s account of how he became a devotee of Ramana Maharshi and eventually realised the Self in his presence in 1949.

Discovering Mastan

Mastan was an extraordinary devotee of Ramana Maharshi whose liberated state was more or less confirmed by Bhagavan himself. This is the story of Mastan’s association with Bhagavan, along with an introduction on how I managed to find information about his life.