In Gratitude
The Heart is filled with gratitude for the more than seventy old devotees, who still throb alive within the deepest core of my being. Though they also spoke to me about themselves, the main stream was about their devotion, dedication and total surrender to satguru Bhagavan Ramana. I feel blessed that I could successfully share with you, dear reader, such face-to-face conversations through these pages. My Heart continues to express a deep sense of gratitude to these remarkable gems of devotees who flocked to the sacred feet of the great master, and with most of whom I had close contacts. Equally, my gratitude goes to those old devotees I have not written about in these pages. Indeed, they are in no way less significant than those that I have written about. The list of these ‘unwritten’ devotees is probably longer: Grant Duff, Da vid McIver, Dr. Mees, Duncan Greenlees, Miss Merston, Mrs. Roda McIver, Mrs. F. Taleyarkhan, Rani Prabhavati Raje, Rani Padmavati Devi, Sujata Sen, Arvind Bose, Dilip Kumar Roy, Harindranath Chhattopadhyaya, , Kumbakonam Rengaswami Iyengar, Vasudeva Sastri, Raju Sastri, Kapali Sastri, Ramanapadananda, Madhava Swami, Krishnaswami, Kumara Swami, Rengaswamy, Vadivudayar Swami, Santhanam Iyengar, ‘Hall’ Natesa Iyer, ‘Barber’ Natesan, ‘Paraiyan’ Veeran, Polur Ranga Rao, Gopala Rao, Seshu Iyer, N.N. Rajan, Girdhalur Subba Rao, Girdhalur Sathyanarayana Rao, Girdhalur Sambasiva Rao, G.L.Narsimha Rao, Swami Rajeswarananda, Dr. T.M.P. Mahadevan, Prof. K. Swaminathan, P.V. Somasundaram, Sadhu Om, Dr. S. Nath, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Dr. S. Srinivasa Rao, Gudipati Venkata Chalam, Souris, Dr. K. Subramaniam and others.
Latest, but not the least in importance, is Kanakammal who dropped her body on January 1, 2010, in Bhagavan’s Samadhi Hall, soon after entering it by the northern door, on Sri Bhagavan’s Jayanthi Day! To my knowledge, no one else had that unique, blessed privilege of getting absorbed in Arunachala near the Bhagavan’s shrine of grace itself!
My Heart expresses very deep gratitude to all of them, for blessing me, yet not enabling me to write about them in this volume. Perhaps, they will bless me to write about them in a later volume – by Bhagavan’s grace.
Ramanarpanamastu
Blessings from Sri Bhagavan
Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi’s Samadhi (Sacred Shrine of Silent Grace)