I was unsure of the travel plans. I feel that God plans.
Padmaja arranged a driver through our servant's son. Padmaja cooked for carry. The driver came and we are on our way to the great Tiruannamalai temple, where great saint Ramana Maharshi was there. Going by asking and asking the routes. On the way, Padmaja telephoned one of her friends. A Doctor working at Tiruannamalai. She immediately arranges our stay at Adhiti Ashram. A great stay with food. Did Girivalam by car. In the evening prayed at Annamalai Siva Temple. A great temple with lot of prakarams and sub temples. I had read of Ramana Maharshi. But we will weep when we go to Padala Lingam. Ramana had slept here inside a cave like place in the temple where he allowed himself to be bitten by rodents and insects and had it not been the swami who brought this great saint to the public, we would never have come to know of this great saint. I read in some book that there are a lot of seers souls even now is staying in this hold hill.
I was sorry to see that a new and big ashram called Yogi ram saratkumar ashram has come in this holy city exactly replicating the famous Ramanashram.
Adhiti Ashram swamiji was working in Bank of Maharashtra and was staying in Ramana ashram. He wanted to help some of the old sadhus who did not want to become a burden to Ramanashram. A great thing happened. Once, he was forced to go to Mumbai to visit a friend, where the owner of the house, a lady gave a book to swamiji. The book was written in Kannada by her father and being an alien language, she never read it. So she asked swamiji, about the contents. Then swamiji told that it was written by one RKD regarding a sculpture of Ramana Maharishi. In that book, he had written how he was able to get permission fom Ramana maharishi to draw his profile. Maharishi had to pose for 2 hours and the profile was drawn and later a small sculpture was made. But it was not known to the outer world, nobody knew of it. Then the lady took swamiji to an old dusty room where her father's works were kept. And lo! the statue is there and it was gifted to swamiji, who carried it on return journey. When he did not know what to do with the statue, a couple wanted to gift some land to swamiji, who didn't want to be dragged into worldly treasures. However, he accepted the land and with a gift from another friend, the Aditi ashram was born with the intention of giving medical help to old sadhus which is going on and now lot of doctors, medical shops give free help to these sadhus.
We also visited the Gosala and Padasala attached to this ashram, situated some six kms away.
With the advices from Mataji of this ashram we began our journey to Kumbakonam
Padmaja arranged a driver through our servant's son. Padmaja cooked for carry. The driver came and we are on our way to the great Tiruannamalai temple, where great saint Ramana Maharshi was there. Going by asking and asking the routes. On the way, Padmaja telephoned one of her friends. A Doctor working at Tiruannamalai. She immediately arranges our stay at Adhiti Ashram. A great stay with food. Did Girivalam by car. In the evening prayed at Annamalai Siva Temple. A great temple with lot of prakarams and sub temples. I had read of Ramana Maharshi. But we will weep when we go to Padala Lingam. Ramana had slept here inside a cave like place in the temple where he allowed himself to be bitten by rodents and insects and had it not been the swami who brought this great saint to the public, we would never have come to know of this great saint. I read in some book that there are a lot of seers souls even now is staying in this hold hill.
I was sorry to see that a new and big ashram called Yogi ram saratkumar ashram has come in this holy city exactly replicating the famous Ramanashram.
Adhiti Ashram swamiji was working in Bank of Maharashtra and was staying in Ramana ashram. He wanted to help some of the old sadhus who did not want to become a burden to Ramanashram. A great thing happened. Once, he was forced to go to Mumbai to visit a friend, where the owner of the house, a lady gave a book to swamiji. The book was written in Kannada by her father and being an alien language, she never read it. So she asked swamiji, about the contents. Then swamiji told that it was written by one RKD regarding a sculpture of Ramana Maharishi. In that book, he had written how he was able to get permission fom Ramana maharishi to draw his profile. Maharishi had to pose for 2 hours and the profile was drawn and later a small sculpture was made. But it was not known to the outer world, nobody knew of it. Then the lady took swamiji to an old dusty room where her father's works were kept. And lo! the statue is there and it was gifted to swamiji, who carried it on return journey. When he did not know what to do with the statue, a couple wanted to gift some land to swamiji, who didn't want to be dragged into worldly treasures. However, he accepted the land and with a gift from another friend, the Aditi ashram was born with the intention of giving medical help to old sadhus which is going on and now lot of doctors, medical shops give free help to these sadhus.
We also visited the Gosala and Padasala attached to this ashram, situated some six kms away.
With the advices from Mataji of this ashram we began our journey to Kumbakonam
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