TTTTThhhhheeeee SSSSSiiiiillllleeeeennnnnttttt PPPPPooooowwwwweeeeerrrrr Selections from The Mountain Path and The Call Divine SRI RAMANASRAMAM Tiruvannamalai 2002 © Sri Ramanasramam First Edition : 2002 (1000 copies) ISBN No: 81-88225-49-5 Price: Rs. CC No: 1009 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: [email protected] Website: www.ramana-maharshi.org Designed and typeset at Sri Ramanasramam Printed by Kartik Offset Printers Chennai 600 015 Foreword Like the previous volumes Fragrant Petals and Surpassing Love and Grace, The Silent Power contains selections from The Mountain Path and The Call Divine. Besides the writings on Sri Maharshi and his beloved Arunachala, a few other interesting articles on various topics have been included. TIRUVANNAMALAI V.S. RAMANAN 15 FEBRUARY 2002 PUBLISHER CCCCC OOOOONNNNNTTTTTEEEEENNNNNTTTTTSSSSS Foreword . . . . . iii P I ART Arunachala — Lucia Osborne . . . . . 1 Arunachala’s True Shape — Aquarius . . . . 10 The Cult of the Hill — Kenneth Grant . . . . 12 P II ART Sab Jan, Sri Maharshi’s Classmate — “SEIN” . . . 19 Krishnaprem and Maharshi — Marie B. Byles . . . 25 A Perfect Image of the Life Divine — K. Ramachandra . 28 A Talk with Sri Ramana Maharshi — Pryns Hopkins . . 31 RAMANA REMINISCENCES — I Arthur Osborne . . . . . 34 — II Dr. Hafiz Syed . . . . . 38 — III Prof B.L. Atreya . . . . . 42 — IV Anonymous . . . . . 45 — V Anonymous . . . . . 47 — VI OM Sadhu . . . . . 48 — VII Anonymous . . . . . 49 — VIII Varadachari . . . . . 50 — IX Maurice Frydman . . . . . 51 — X Swami Madhavananda . . . . 52 — XI K. R. K. Murthy . . . . . 53 — XII J. Suryaprakasa Rao. . . . . 56 — XIII K. K. Nambiar . . . . . 57 — XIV P.T. Muthuswami . . . . . 58 — XV N.N. Rajan . . . . . 60 — XVI Madhavi Ammal . . . . . 65 Recollections — K.R.K. Murthy . . . . . 67 Our Natural State — A ‘Pilgrim’ . . . . 69 A Spiritual Torch — Paul Brunton . . . . 73 Bhagavan Treated for Eczema — T.K.S. . . . 77 Sri Ramana — Major A.W. Chadwick . . . . 81 Sri Bhagavan and the Mother’s temple—Major A.W. Chadwick 83 The Immutable Atmosphere — N. O. Mehta . . . 85 Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi as seen by a Bengali Devotee — Jagannath Chattopadhyaya . . . . 90 REMEMBERING RAMANA — I Miracles and Bhagavan — N. N. Rajan . . 92 — II His Divine Excellence — N. N. Rajan . . 93 The Fortunate Boy — “SEIN” . . . . . 96 LEST WE FORGET ... — I Dr. V. Srinivasa Rao . . . . . 99 — II G. Lakshmi Narasimham . . . . 101 HOW I CAME TO BHAGAVAN — I Roda MacIver . . . . . 104 — II M. S. Nagarajan . . . . . 106 — III A Seeker . . . . . 108 Bhagavan’s Solicitude for Devotees — Kunju Swami . . 112 REMINISCENCES — I A. Venkateswara Sarma and Smt. Sala . . 115 — II M. S. Nagarajan . . . . . 117 HOW I CAME TO THE MAHARSHI — I Swami Paresananda . . . . . 120 — II Sunyata . . . . . 123 — III Satya Narayan Tandon . . . . 125 Awareness Absolute — Visvanatha Swami . . . 128 Sri Bhagavan’s Bodily Health — K. Lakshmana Sarma . 133 Treatment to Sri Bhagavan - An Account — Dr. Shankar Rao 135 The End was Peaceful — Lt. Col. P.V. Karamchandani . 142 ARADHANA DAY — I Major Chadwick . . . . 146 — II Mouni Sadhu . . . . . 148 Bhagavan is Everywhere — S.G. Devaraj . . . 151 Bhagavan Sri Ramana is Personally Present Here — Swatantra . . . . . 153 How I Came to Bhagavan — Muhammad Abdulla . . 155 RAMANA’S UNIVERSAL PHILOSOPHY — Dr. M. Hafiz Syed — I Ramana Maharshi’s Spiritual Philosophy of Life . .158 — II Testimony of Islam to Bhagavan’s Life and Teachings 164 Bhagavan Sri Ramana, The Light Divine — Dr. T.M.P. Mahadevan . . . . 169 Sri Ramana: A Pure Channel for a Higher Power — Paul Brunton . . . . . 183 P III ART The Eternal Now — Major A.W. Chadwick . . . 189 There is Nothing, Be! — Major A. W. Chadwick . . 197 Uniqueness of Bhagavan — Dr. T.M.P. Mahadevan . . 201 The Miraculous and Supernatural — Marie B. Byles . . 208 An Angry Prayer — Jean Butler . . . . . 212 An Incarnate Abbot Explains . . . . . 216 Zen Stories . . . . . 221 The Story of Lila . . . . . 223 Appendix . . . . . 227 PART I O A N RUNACHALA
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