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20 November 2021

Arunachala Karthigai Deepam Lighting—Friday November 19, 2021


The below photographs are of the lights of Arunachala starting with small deepams inside the Temple compound, the lighting of the Deepam on the Hill summit and thereafter darshan of the light on Arunachala from the rooftops of Tiruvannamalai. 


Below there is also an extended video with commentary and footage of the actual lighting of the Deepam Cauldron on the Arunachala summit and a video of the celebrations of Tiruvannamalai. 













Lighting of the 2021 Karthigai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai




The 2021 Arunachala Karthigai Deepam




An extraordinary photograph circulating amongst Arunachala devotees, many of whom believe shows the manifestation of Lord Siva at the time of the lighting of the 2021 Karthigai Deepam




First appearance from distance of the 2021 Arunachala Deepam at 6.05 p.m. Friday 19 November




2021 Arunachala Deepam



Extended video with commentary of the lighting of the Deepam Cauldron on Arunachala Summit






Celebrations in Tiruvannamalai of 2021 Karthigai Deepam of Tiruvannamalai devotees

    






27 February 2021

Nisargadatta Maharaj Website


Please bookmark to a resource website on Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj at this link here. The website includes a number of videos, interviews, photographs and information about books and DVDs of this great Saint.


"You are never without a Guru, for he is timelessly present in your heart. Sometimes he externalises himself and comes to you as an uplifting and reforming factor in your life, a mother, a wife, a teacher; or he remains as an inner urge toward righteousness and perfection. All you have to do is obey him and do what he tells you. What he wants you to do is simple, learn self-awareness, self-control, self-surrender. It may seem arduous, but it is easy if you are earnest. And quite impossible if you are not. Earnestness is both necessary and sufficient. Everything yields to earnestness." [Nisargadatta Maharaj]




Go to this link here to read a fascinating narrative by David Godman on Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. 


An excerpt concerning a portion of the narrative concerning Sri Ramana Maharshi is reproduced below:- 


Question: What was Maharaj's attitude to Ramana Maharshi and his teachings? Did you ever discuss Bhagavan's teachings with him? 


David Godman: He had enormous respect for both his attainment and his teachings. He once told me that one of the few regrets of his life was that he never met him in person. He did come to the ashram in the early 1960s with a group of his Marathi devotees. They were all on a South Indian pilgrimage tour and Ramanasramam was one of the places he visited. 

With regard to the teachings he once told me, 'I agree with everything that Ramana Maharshi said, with the exception of this business of the heart-centre being on the right side of the chest. I have never had that experience myself.' I discussed various aspects of Bhagavan's teachings with him and always found his answers to be very illuminating. He asked me once, 'Have you understood Ramana Maharshi's teachings?' Since I knew he meant 'Had I actually experienced the truth of them?', I replied, 'The more I listen to Maharaj, the more I understand what Bhagavan is trying to tell me'. I felt that this was true at both the theoretical and experiential levels. 

His explanations broadened and deepened my intellectual understanding of Bhagavan's teachings and his presence also gave me experiential glimpses of the truth that they were all pointing towards. 

I have to mention Ganesan's visit here. V. Ganesan is the grandnephew of Ramana Maharshi and in the 1970s he was the de facto manager of Ramanasramam. Nowadays, his elder brother Sundaram is in charge. Ganesan came to visit Maharaj for the first time in the late 1970s. As soon as he arrived Maharaj stood up and began to collect cushions. He made a big pile of them and made Ganesan sit on top of the heap. Then, much to everyone's amazement, Maharaj cleared a space on the floor and did a full-length prostration to him. When he stood up, he told Ganesan, 'I never had a chance to prostrate to your great-uncle Ramana Maharshi, so I am prostrating to you instead. This is my prostration to him.'

30 September 2014

2014 Navratri at Ramana Ashram



Every year Ramana Ashram celebrates the Navratri Festival with its beautiful types of alangarams of the Goddess. The photographs on this posting are of Sesha Sayanam on the sixth day of the Navratri Festival as celebrated at Ramana Ashram. A video of the puja was posted at this link here.



Devotees watching the puja inside the Shrine at Ramana Ashram


Each evening between 6.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. (IST) a live webcast of the Navaratri Celebrations as observed at Ramana Ashram are being posted at this link here. Such live video coverage of the Festival will continue until Vijayadasami on October 3rd, 2014.



Young boys studying at the Ashram Veda Patasala


To view earlier photographs of the Festival as celebrated at Ramana Ashram, you can visit their official website at this link here.



Sesha Sayanam, 6th Day of Navratri Festival

27 May 2014

Two Short Videos Mukkupodi Swamigal


Ananda Vishesh a devotee of Arunachala Shiva and reader of Arunachala Grace kindly sent information about two new short videos on Mukkupodi Swamigal which have been posted on You Tube. I am embedding both videos below. 

I previously posted a long narrative sent by Ananda about his meeting with Mukkupodi Swami, and to read the earlier posting with photographs please visit this link here

There is now available a book in Tamil on Mukkupodi Swamigal entitled 'Arunai Vazh Podi Sittarin Arpudangal' written by S.A.Vennila. This book is available through the Mukkupodi Madam (ashram) opposite Vayu Lingam on the Girivalam pathway.








24 November 2008

New Vodpod and Photographs


I have updated the display photographs at the left column of Arunachala Grace with new photographs related to upcoming Deepam – as the mood is definitely gearing up in town. Most of those photographs are in fact from last year's Deepam. I have also posted a new VodPod at the bottom left column of this page with the following videos:


Spirit – Born Free
Beautiful, inspirational song composed for the movie Born Free (1966) about a real-life couple who raised an orphaned lion cub to adulthood, and released her into the wilds of Kenya. The video is of a later animated movie about a horse born free in the Cimarron.

Our Place in the Universe
The incomparable Carl Sagan says it best when he says – “The Universe is not supposed to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.” A video describing the awesome immensity of space.

A Previous Deepam
A beautiful, well-shot inspirational video of a previous Deepam celebrated several years ago.

Lingashtakam by S.P.B
Devotional chant sung for Lord Shiva (in linga form) by S.P. Balasubramaniam. Two versions on this video, first -- Tamil version and the second is in Sanskrit.

Sparsa Hotel, Tiruvannmalai
Musical montage of Tiruvannamalai's new 3-star eco-sensitive luxury Hotel