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Maharshi teaches us the Advaita vedanta or self-realization through rigorous self-inquiry.
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Ramana walked over every inch of the Arunachala hills during his lifetime and absorbed its overpowering energy.
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Devotees take up Giri Pradakshina on the full moon, which is the act of walking around this holy hill from 14 kilometers away in a clockwise direction.
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It is believe that the Hindu God Shiva ordained that anyone living close to these hills will be able to unite with the Supreme power. The stillness of the Arunachala the beloved hills of Ramana Maharshi is said to offer salvation to everyone around the world who is seeking. His soul can certainly be felt within and around the ashram where his teachings are followed by hundreds of devotees. His followers strongly believe that this wise sage did not die like a mere mortal, but has returned to his formless self instead. Here, he founded the Ramana Maharshi Ashram in 1923 and lived there for 27 years until his death in 1950. He experienced a great spiritual awakening at the tender age of sixteen, and left his home for Arunachala to spread his vedanta or philosophy of Advaita. Sri Ramana Maharshi was born as Venkataraman Iyer in Madurai, South India. The powerful energy of these two sites is tangible. There are two caves: Virupaksha cave where Sri Ramana Maharshi lived from 1899 to 1916 to and another one called Skandashram where he lived from 1916 to 1922. Otherwise I walk up Arunachala hills and meditate in the caves where Ramana Marharshi meditated himself. I also spend time meditating in the old hall where Ramana Maharshi used to give satsang. Nature has blessed this land with overflowing energy and grace, which prompted Sri Ramana Maharshi to found this ashram or spiritual hermitage here.Įvery day I go to the ashram‘s main hall, Sri Maharshi’s Samadhi and to the Matrubhuteswara Temple to receive darshan “blessings” or simply sit quietly. I have been staying for the last week nearby the Ramana Maharshi Ashram situated at the foot of the rolling Arunachala Hills in Thiruvannamalai, South India. This is the only place where I have taken this form for the benefit of those who wish to worship me and obtain illumination. The absorption in the Self has continued from that moment right up to now".“As the moon derives its light from the sun, so other holy places shall derive their sanctity from Arunachala. Fear of death vanished at once and for ever. The I or myself was holding the focus of attention with a powerful fascination.
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I was something very real, the only real thing in that state, and all the conscious activity that was connected with my body was centred on that. All this was not a feat of intellectual gymnastics, but came as a flash before me vividly as living Truth, which I perceived immediately, without any argument almost. The material body dies, but the Spirit transcending it cannot be touched by death. But I am still aware of the full force of my personality and even of the sound of I within myself as apart from the body. But with the death of my body, am I dead? Is the body I? This body is silent and inert. It will be carried to the crematory and there burnt and reduced to ashes. ‘Well then’ I said to myself, ‘this body is dead. I held my breath and kept my mouth closed, pressing the lips tightly together, so that no sound could escape. I imitated a corpse to lend an air of reality to my further investigation. I extended my limbs and held them rigid as though rigor mortis had set in. I said to myself mentally, ‘Now that death is come, what does it mean? Who is it that is dying? This body dies’. The shock of the fear of death made me at once introspective or ‘introverted’. I felt I had to solve the problem myself then and there. I did not care to consult anyone, be he a doctor, elder or friend. I felt I was going to die and at once set about thinking as to what I should do. But a sudden and unmistakable fear of death seized me. One day I sat up alone on the first floor of my uncle’s house. "It was about six weeks before I left Madurai for good, in the middle of the year 1896, that the great change in my life took place" said Sri Ramana Maharshi, when asked by devotees as to how he was transformed, "It was so sudden.