When he was seventeen years old, Ramama left for Arunachala, arriving after four days of mostly train travel. Naturally, he planned to go to Arunachala, the place which was the focal point of all his religious ideals. He had been reading a book on famous Tamil saints and resolved to leave home and lead the life of a religious seeker. Ramana was nearing the end of high school when a careless criticism describing him as a person not fit to be a student jarred him into making a final decision to leave school. Place called Arunachala actually existed (the modern town's name is Tiruvannamalai) and this brought him great happiness. At the age of sixteen, Ramana heard that a Reliance on the physical body or material world.Īlong with these intuitions came a fascination with the word "Arunachala" which carried associations of deep reverence and a sense that his destiny was closely intertwined with this unique sound. These events, he felt himself to be an eternal entity, existing without Where he perceived himself as an essence independent of the body.
He also had spontaneous flashes of insight He experienced what he understood to be his own death, and later In the summer of 1896, Ramana went into an altered state of consciousness which In the Ramayana who slept soundly for months. He was sometimes jokingly called "Kumbhakarna" after a figure He could be beaten or carried from one place to another while One peculiar aspect of Ramana's personality was his ability to sleep He was always seeking to find the answer to the mystery of his own identity and origins. He used to askįundamental questions about identity, suchĪs the question "who am I?". He had a marked inclination towards introspection and self-analysis.
Ramana was largely disinterested in school and absent-minded during work. The monk decreed that in every generation, one child in the family would renounce the world to lead a religious life. Of his family history was a curse that was put on the family by a wandering monk who was refused food by a family member. The family was religious, giving ritual offerings to the family deity and visiting temples. Ramana Maharhshi was a guru of international renown from southern India who taught during the first half of the twentieth century. Saints, Teachers, and Seekers in the Indian Tradition
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