Ramana Maharshi Ashrama in Tiruvannamalai 🙏
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This picture is taken in front of Ramana Maharshi Ashrama in Thiruvannamalai. There is a true story which happened in the previous century.
His name was Venkataramana. He was 16 year old boy living in his uncle's place in Madhurai, Tamil Nadu. One day when he was 16 year old youth he had very unique experience. He felt that he is going to die. But when he was in that state he experienced his conciousness was all over the place not restricted to his body. He was able to see his own body lying on the ground in sleep state. This is explained as turiya in Vedanta . No one was around him to tell what that state is, Its maha samadhi state which he came to know only later. After about an hour he came back to the body and came down to talk to his mother. His mother could not understand about his experience at all. She served him dinner. He had developed tremendous urge to go to Arunachala Shiva's adobe in Thiruvannamalai and left home and settled in Tiruvannamalai for the rest of his life. For many years he was not speaking to many when he was there in Tiruvannamalai. He simply used to sit in Skanda cave , Viroopaksha cave in Arunachala's adobe doing dhyaana and he was writing quite a lot in Tamil. Ramana Maharshi has written Ramana Geeta, Upadesha saara, and ultimate upanishad in Tamil name " Ulladu naarpadu -40 Verses on reality ". Many years later scholor and Vidwan Ganapathi Vasista Muni met him and called him Ramana Maharshi. Translated all his Upanishad work to Sanskrit and for all Vedantis , its the ultimate Upanishads called Saddarshana. People who have completed all 18 chapters of Bhagavadgeete and 8-9 upanishad, one has to read Saddarshana to understand it better. Thats where he has written to inquire " Who am I " ?. News spread all over the world and visitors started coming to see him, take blessings and ask him many questions. When someone goes to guru like him our only quest should be knowing about the self and how to do self inquiry but not to seek material possession or families better health and so on. When those questions used to come he never used to answer because even if Bhagvan Ramana Maharshi grants those, he felt that those needs are temporary only until death. He used to ask many to learn about true self which always exists even after our mortal body goes away. After many years ,one day young boy went to him in the morning and he requested to help answer his question. His question was who is he and how to know who the person within him is . Ramana maharshi replied let everyone go away then he would help him. By afternoon everyone left, that boy went to maharshi telling him that everyone has gone for lunch and now he is all alone . Can he help. Ramana Maharshi said let that "I" also go . Boy did not understand at first. Maharshi said let that "I" also go away then you will know who you are. When you are able to completely remove that "I" within yourself that alone shines and that alone exists, that is nothing but your true self. That is (body - (mind + Ahankara )) When you are able to come to this level, you will realize for that you need to do sadhana. You think you exist because of that "I" within you. Little boy sort of understood what maharshi meant. Little boy decided to seek further, did relentless sadhana and continued his quest for realization. World came to know about him later as Chinmayananda Saraswathi who inspired the formation of Chinmaya Mission, a worldwide nonprofit organisation, to spread the knowledge of Vedanta. Swamiji travelled all over the world when he was alive to teach Bhagavadgeethe . He has done thousands of Satsangh's to teach Bhagavadgeete to the world and this includes muslim countries as well. Dec 18th 2018 is Geeta Jayanthi and from the past 3 yrs we are chanting Bhagavadgeete on Geeta Jayanthi day after learning about Swamy Chinmayananda Swamiji of Chinmaya Mission.
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This picture is taken in front of Ramana Maharshi Ashrama in Thiruvannamalai. There is a true story which happened in the previous century.
His name was Venkataramana. He was 16 year old boy living in his uncle's place in Madhurai, Tamil Nadu. One day when he was 16 year old youth he had very unique experience. He felt that he is going to die. But when he was in that state he experienced his conciousness was all over the place not restricted to his body. He was able to see his own body lying on the ground in sleep state. This is explained as turiya in Vedanta . No one was around him to tell what that state is, Its maha samadhi state which he came to know only later. After about an hour he came back to the body and came down to talk to his mother. His mother could not understand about his experience at all. She served him dinner. He had developed tremendous urge to go to Arunachala Shiva's adobe in Thiruvannamalai and left home and settled in Tiruvannamalai for the rest of his life. For many years he was not speaking to many when he was there in Tiruvannamalai. He simply used to sit in Skanda cave , Viroopaksha cave in Arunachala's adobe doing dhyaana and he was writing quite a lot in Tamil. Ramana Maharshi has written Ramana Geeta, Upadesha saara, and ultimate upanishad in Tamil name " Ulladu naarpadu -40 Verses on reality ". Many years later scholor and Vidwan Ganapathi Vasista Muni met him and called him Ramana Maharshi. Translated all his Upanishad work to Sanskrit and for all Vedantis , its the ultimate Upanishads called Saddarshana. People who have completed all 18 chapters of Bhagavadgeete and 8-9 upanishad, one has to read Saddarshana to understand it better. Thats where he has written to inquire " Who am I " ?. News spread all over the world and visitors started coming to see him, take blessings and ask him many questions. When someone goes to guru like him our only quest should be knowing about the self and how to do self inquiry but not to seek material possession or families better health and so on. When those questions used to come he never used to answer because even if Bhagvan Ramana Maharshi grants those, he felt that those needs are temporary only until death. He used to ask many to learn about true self which always exists even after our mortal body goes away. After many years ,one day young boy went to him in the morning and he requested to help answer his question. His question was who is he and how to know who the person within him is . Ramana maharshi replied let everyone go away then he would help him. By afternoon everyone left, that boy went to maharshi telling him that everyone has gone for lunch and now he is all alone . Can he help. Ramana Maharshi said let that "I" also go . Boy did not understand at first. Maharshi said let that "I" also go away then you will know who you are. When you are able to completely remove that "I" within yourself that alone shines and that alone exists, that is nothing but your true self. That is (body - (mind + Ahankara )) When you are able to come to this level, you will realize for that you need to do sadhana. You think you exist because of that "I" within you. Little boy sort of understood what maharshi meant. Little boy decided to seek further, did relentless sadhana and continued his quest for realization. World came to know about him later as Chinmayananda Saraswathi who inspired the formation of Chinmaya Mission, a worldwide nonprofit organisation, to spread the knowledge of Vedanta. Swamiji travelled all over the world when he was alive to teach Bhagavadgeethe . He has done thousands of Satsangh's to teach Bhagavadgeete to the world and this includes muslim countries as well. Dec 18th 2018 is Geeta Jayanthi and from the past 3 yrs we are chanting Bhagavadgeete on Geeta Jayanthi day after learning about Swamy Chinmayananda Swamiji of Chinmaya Mission.
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