Ramana Maharshi
Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu

 


Sri Ramana Maharshi's Ashram is situated 2 km southwest of Tiruvannamalai on the road to or from Bangalore. A calling took him to Arunachala Mountain at the age of seventeen. The year before, at the age of sixteen he had experienced his awakening:
"September 1th 1896 he got of the train in Tiruvannamalai. With quick steps, his heart throbbing with joy, he hastened straight to the great Shiva Temple. The gates and all the doors, even to the inner shrine stood open and he entered the shrine alone and stood before his Father Arunachaleswara. There in the bliss of the union, the quest was achieved and the journey ended."

Ramana Maharshi spent years in meditation in the Virupaksha cave, before the Ashram, at the foot of the Arunachala hill, was established. Sri Ramana Marharshi died in 1950 after more than 50 years in deep contemplation at his home at Arunachala Mountain.


"Aruna Sadashiva"

Listen to the Mantra "Aruna Sadashiva" on the official website og Ramana Mahrashi:
http://www.sriramanamaharshi.org


Entrance to Ramana Maharshi's Ashrama at the foot of Arunachala, the holiest mountain in India


Huge tree at the entrance to the Ashrama


Ashram information board


The story of Ramanas enlightenment at the age of sixteen


Entrance to Bhagvan Ramana's Samadhi Shrine


Peacock in front of the Samadhi Shrine


Life in front of the Samadhi Shrine
 

 

The first meeting with "the local saints"


Pictures on the wall in the hotel room


Sri Ramana Marharshi and Sri Sheshadri Swamigal,
whose Ashrama is next to Ramana Maharshi's


Hotel roof and weiv to Arunachala,
the reason Ramana Maharshi settled in Tiruvannamalai
 

 


The Shiva Temple in Tiruvannamalai seen from Arunachala on the way to Virupaksha Cave

 

The Virupaksha Cave on Arunachala Mountain

 


Paradise like scenery on the way to the cave


Entrance to the cave compound


Yard in fromt of the Virupaksha Cave


Entrance


Sign at the entrance door


Inside in the front room


Ramana Marharshi's bed


Information on the bed about the Virupaksha Cave


One of the few photos of Ramana


Frontroom with entrance to the medititioncave.
 

The meditation cave had a small altar opposite the entrance from the frontroom. For good reasons it was not possible to take pictures. The cave is a very holy place and people were meditation there. The "energy" for meditating were well prepared, you instantly went into meditation, feeling that the cave had been used only for meditation for many many years.


Decorations on the floor in the front room
 

 

Mother's Enlightenment Cave



Further up to the cave of Ramana's mother, where she got the enlightenment


Entrance to the room where Sri Ramanas
mother got the enlightenment by His touch


A small altar with a photo of Sri Ramanas mother,
is worshipped daily by the caretakers of the place


Wiev over Tiruvannamalai from the path to the caves
 

 


 

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