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By Arthur Osborne

THERE WAS A TIME when the Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshiwould frequently roam the holy

hill of Arunachala, as well as climbing to the summit and making Pradakshina (circumambulation), so

that in the end, he knew every part of it. And then one day, when he was wandering alone, he passed an

old woman gathering fuel on the hillside. She looked like a common outcast woman, but she addressed

the young Swami fearlessly, as an equal. Beginning with the rough cursing common to such people, she

said: "May you be put on the funeral pyre! Why do you wander about in the sun like that? Why don't

you sit quiet?"

"It can have been no ordinary woman," Sri Bhagavan said when he told the devotees about it; "Who

knows who she was?" Certainly, no ordinary outcast woman would have dared to speak to a Swami like

that. The devotees took it to be a manifestation of Arunagiri Siddha, the Spirit of Arunachala. From

that time Sri Bhagavan gave up roaming the hillside.

FACE ON TURTLE ROCK, NEAR SITE OF SRI RAMANA'S 2nd DEATH EXPERIENCE
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When Sri Bhagavan first went to Tiruvannamalai he sometimes moved about in a state of trance. This

did not completely end until about 1912 when there was a final and complete Experience of Death.

He set out from Virupaksha Cave one morning for Pachaiamman Koil, accompanied by Palaniswami,

Vasudeva Sastri and others. He had an oil-bath there and was nearing Tortoise Rock on the way back

when a sudden physical weakness overcame him. He described it fully afterwards.

Later, to correct wrong accounts that began to be spread, he added: "I did not bring on the fit

purposely, nor did I wish to see what this body would look like after death, nor did I say that I will not

leave this body without warning others. It was one of those fits that I used to get occasionally, only this

time it took a very serious form."

What is, perhaps, most striking about this experience is that it was a repetition, heightened by actualphysical demonstration, of that certainty of endurance through death which had constituted Sri
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more than a successful sales pitch by a teacher (sincere or not). It may be a combination of the

previous factors, or some intuitive awareness beyond expression. For whatever the reason, the saying

often applies and the coming together of the results of inner and outside forces, some within one's

control, some without, can be found most eloquently as they all come together in the following:

SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI: THE LAST AMERICAN DARSHANRECOUNTING A YOUNG BOY'S NEARLY INSTANT TRANSFORMATION INTO THE

ABSOLUTE DURING HIS ONLY DARSHAN WITH THE MAHARSHI

It should be noted thatAdam Osborne, who, as a young boy grew up at the Ramana ashram and the

son of Arthur Osborne the author of this article and one of the foremost Ramana biographers, played a

prominent role in theLast American Darshanas linked above. The Wanderling, who met and played

together with Adam Osborne at the Ramana ashram as young boys, had, interestingly enough, as

nearly an excruciating experience surrounding an old woman out collecting firewood as Sri Ramana.

For the results of that meeting please see:

THE MAYAN SHAMAN AND CHICXULUB

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TURTLE ROCK, ARUNACHALA

Fundamentally, our experience as experienced is not different from the Zen master's. Where

we differ is that we place a fog, a particular kind of conceptual overlay onto that experience

and then make an emotional investment in that overlay, taking it to be "real" in and of itself.
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THE AWAKENING EXPERIENCE IN THE MODERN ERA

FIVE QUALITIES OF A DHARMA TEACHER

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From:Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self Knowledge

And as reprinted in The Maharshi, September/October 1994 Vol. 4, No. 5
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