Ramana Maharshi's life, teachings and devotees
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Manikkavachagar was a Tamil saint who lived over 1,000 years ago. Tiruvachakam, an anthology of his devotional poetry, is one of the most celebrated poetic texts in Tamil literature. This article chronicles his life and focuses on the…
Read article →Umapati Sivam is one of the major figures in the Saiva Siddhanta tradition, composing many of the works that now comprise the Saiva philosophical canon. He was also involved in an incident in which a thorn bush was…
Read article →This is an account of Kumaradeva, a distinguished Tamil saint and scholar who lived several centuries ago. It contains extracts from his hagiography and translations of verses in which he declares his liberation.
Read article →Maragathamma was a devotee of Murugan who was blessed by him to sing spontaneous compositions in his praise. Her story is a scarcely credible account that seems to belong in an ancient purana, rather than the twentieth century.
Read article →King Vallalan was a South Indian ruler who was based in Tiruvannamalai in the first decades of the 14th century. His exploits are chronicled in the Arunachala Puranam. In this article I compare the puranic version of his…
Read article →· Biography, Sri Ramana Maharshi
For those who know little or nothing about Ramana Maharshi, here is a brief summary of his life, his teachings and his teaching methods.
Read article →In 2008, in response to some comments and queries that had appeared on my blog, I put together this post in which I outlined what I had learned from Ramana Maharshi, Lakshmana Swamy and Papaji on the nature…
Read article →· Devotees
This is the story of how Ganapati Muni gained his title 'Kayvakantha' (‘One who has poetry in his throat’) from an assembly of pandits while he was still a teenager.
Read article →When Ramana Maharshi lived at Virupaksha Cave in the early years of the last century, there were several sadhus who tried to drive him away because they were jealous of the numbers of devotees he was beginning to…
Read article →Here is an account of how Robert Adams met Ramana Maharshi, followed by a dialogue in which he explains the process of self-enquiry.
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