GURU KRIPA
For as long as I can remember my paternal side of the family have been devotees of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi, introduced to the maharish i through his devotee, Gurudevi Janaky Matha. Despite this blessing, my spiritual focus has been more off than on. My first real spiritual immersion happened in 1991 while climbing the Arunachala hill in Thiruvannamalai (from the Ramanashramam side), it was a divine experience. No wonder this red hill has drawn to itself so many sadhus and rishis . It was also the year I first got to experience Guru Sri Raghavendra Swamy in Mantralayam . Over the years I had been drawn to Sri Raghavendra Swamy many times. I am sharing an amazing incident that happened in late 1990s when I was living in Tambaram, Chennai and working for an American software company. In the summer of that year, I had decided suddenly that I would visit Mantralayam and booked a weekend train ticket a ...