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R AMANA M AHARSHI
AND THE
P ATH OF S ELF -K NOWLEDGE
A Biography
by
ARTHUR OSBORNE
Foreword
by
Dr. S. RADHAKRISHNAN
Vice-President of India
S RI R AMANASRAMAM
Tiruvannamalai
2002
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© Sri Ramanasramam
First Edition : 1997
Second Edition : 2002
2000 copies
ISBN No: 81-88018-11-2
Price: Rs.
CC No: 1052
Published by
V.S. Ramanan
President, Board of Trustees
Sri Ramanasramam
Tiruvannamalai 606 603
Tamil Nadu
INDIA
Tel: 91-4175-37292
Fax: 91-4175-37491
Email: alagamma@vsnl.com
Website: www.ramana-maharshi.org
Designed and typeset at
Sri Ramanasramam
Printed by
Kartik Offset Printers
Chennai 600 015
P UBLISHER ’ S N OTE
Since the printing of this work as an Ashram publication
in 1997 there has been demand for a reprint.
A second edition has therefore been brought out, also
utilising the opportunity to effect some improvement.
The improvement consists in the addition of illustrations
appropriate to the contents of each chapter.
T IRUVANNAMALAI
V.S. R AMANAN
15 F EBRUARY 2002
P UBLISHER
iii
L IST OF I LLUSTRATIONS
Page No.
Sri Sundara Mandiram, Tiruchuli, where Bhagavan
was born in 1879
1
Sri Ramana Mandiram, Madurai, where Bhagavan
realised the Self in 1896
7
Arunachala as seen from the railway bridge mentioned
by Bhagavan, where the Big Temple appears in line with the
Mountain Peak
17
Pathala Linga, the cellar-shrine where Bhagavan took shelter
25
Pavalakunru, where mother Alagamma found her son
35
Arunachala, Panchamukha Darshana or all the fice faces
of Arunachala
45
Virupaksha Cave. Sri Bhagavan lived here for 16 years,
from 1900 to 1916
64
Alagammal, Sri Bhagavan’s Mother
73
Sri Bhagavan in Mango Tree Cave at the age of twenty one. This is
the earliest surviving photo of Bhagavan which was taken in 1900
86
Bhagavan with devotees at Virupaksha Cave (circa 1913)
91
Bhagavan feeding a monkey
121
Early view of Mother’s Shrine. Sri Bhagavan is standing to the right
132
Sri Bhagavan attending a special occasion in the Ashram
140
Sri Bhagavan in the old hall
155
Sri Bhagavan with devotees in front of the Ashram office
181
Ink sketch of Arunachala by Sri Bhagavan and verses to Arunachala
in Bhagavan’s own handwriting
193
Sri Bhagavan’s last photograph taken ten days
before Mahanirvana in 1950
202
The Samadhi Shrine of Sri Bhagavan today
214
iv
P REFACE
In writing this book I have tried to make the meaning clear
without using more foreign words than necessary. However, every
language contains words which have no direct equivalent in
another, and every science, spiritual as well as physical, has
technical terms which scarcely admit of translation. Therefore it
was necessary to use a certain number of Sanskrit and other
words. These have been explained in the text, but for easy
reference and for an approximate idea of their pronunciation, a
glossary has been added. Since it is intended to help the general
reader in his understanding of the book, I have not given simple
dictionary definitions but rather an idea of the sense in which a
word is used and of the doctrinal implications it carries.
A RTHUR O SBORNE
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