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THE GLORY OF
ARUNACHALA
Translated by
M. C. Subramanian
SRI RAMANASRAMAM
TIRUVANNAMALAI 606 603
2004
© Sri Ramanasramam
Tiruvannamalai
First Edition: 1999 - 1000 copies
Second Edition: 2004
2000 Copies
CC No. 1098
ISBN: 81-88018-31-7
Price: Rs.
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Sri Ramanasramam
Tiruvannamalai 606 603
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Publisher’s Note
The Tamil translation of Arunachala Mahatmyam
(Sanskrit) done by Sri Munagala S. Venkataramiah (later
Sri Ramanananda Saraswati, compiler of Talks with
Sri Ramana Maharshi) is already published by
Sri Ramanasramam. The English translation of this by
Sri M. C. Subramanian was serialised in The Mountain Path.
This has been reissued now and includes a few alterations
and additions. A long-felt need of devotees has at last been
realised with the publication of this in book form.
An unavoidable feature of the original is the repetition
of stories as compiled from various Sanskrit sources. This
has been retained in translation in order to emphasise the
glory of Arunachala as the main theme.
Appended to the Arunachala Mahatmyam (English),
which forms the main body of the text, is the Arunachala
Puranam as vignettes, translated by Sri J. Jayaraman from
the Tamil poetic work of Saiva Ellappa Navalar, often
referred to by Sri Bhagavan. This too originally appeared
as a serial in The Mountain Path.
TIRUVANNAMALAI V. S. RAMANAN
1st September 1999 PRESIDENT
SRI RAMANASRAMAM
Contents
Page
Publisher’s Note iii
Contents v
ARUNACHALA MAHATMYAM (SANSKRIT)
Invocation 3
PART I
SKANDA MAHAPURANAM
(Arunachala Mahatmyam)
First Section 5
PART II
SKANDA MAHAPURANAM
(Arunachala Mahatmyam)
Second Section 85
PART III
SIVA RAHASYA
(Upamanyu Sivabhakta Vilasam: Arunachala Mahima) 157
PART IV
SIVA MAHAPURANAM
(Vidyeswara Samhita: Arunachala Mahatmyam) 187
(Vidyasara Samhita) 200
vi
Page
PART V
SKANDA UPAPURANAM
(Kshetra Khandam) 205
Sri Bhagavan’s
Arunachala Linga Pramana Vakyani 208
ARUNACHALA PURANAM (TAMIL)
Vignettes 216
PART - I
IN VO C AT I O N
Siva Mahimna Stotra
O Hara! Even the words of Brahma and other Gods
are inadequate to sing your Glory. It is therefore impossible
for an ignorant man to speak of your greatness.
Nevertheless, this, my deep desire to describe you as
Indescribable, cannot be wrong.
Even the Srutis could only indirectly describe you as
‘not this, not that’, and your greatness as being beyond
words and thought. How can one say what you are and
who can visualise you? Yet, how can one remain without
thinking or speaking of your revealed form? I am inclined
to speak of your Glory so that I may become pure.
O Hill Supreme, when you stood as this Column of
Effulgence, the utmost efforts of Brahma and Vishnu to
realise your greatness were of no avail Later, full of devotion
and faith, they praised you and you appeared before them!
Can devotion fail to achieve anything?