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In this article I have collected all the stories on or by Narayana Iyer about his time and his relationship with Bhagavan.

In this article I give a brief assessment of some scholarly articles that appeared about Paul Brunton and Bhagavan. Links to the articles are given so readers can come to their own conclusions about their author's opinions.

Lakshmi the cow was one of the two devotees of Bhagavan to have her liberation publicly confirmed by Bhagavan himself. This article contains a long account I wrote on her about fifteen years ago. I originally posted it…

Swami Ramanagiri came to India in the 1940s and travelled in North India for while before coming to Ramanasramam. He took Sri Ramana as his Guru and eventually became a distinguished and well-respected yogi in an ashram that…

Prof. T. M. P, Mahadevan was a professor of Indian philosphy at Madras University as well as being a devotee of Bhagavan. This is an interview he gave in the 1980s about Bhagavan's life, state and teachings.

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…

In 1938 Somerset Maugham visited Bhagavan. Years later, in 1944, he used some of his experiences there to write a novel about a westerner who visits an Indian ashram and gets transformed. The Guru in that ashram is…