Mother Divine Miscellaneous

IMAGE - COURTESY https://mahaperiyavaa.blog/2018/01/26/rare-photo-of-mahaperiyava-and-bagawan-yogi-ram-surathkumar/   ஸ்ரீ காஞ்சி  மகாப்பெரியவர் திருவடிகளுக்கு போற்றி        'Maithreem Bhajata' is a benediction composed in Sanskrit by Jagadguru Shri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati (Kanchi Maha-Periyavar). The song was set to a Ragamalika by composer Shri Vasant Desai. It was rendered at the United Nations on UN-day-1966 by Bharat Ratna Smt. M. S. Subbulakshmi and Dr. Radha Viswanathan and received a standing ovation.         I have been trying for long to do Tamil translation of 'Maithreem Bhajata'. After a while, I realized that I am not competent enough to do the same and hence I surrendered and prayed to Bhagawan Sri Yogi Ramsuratkumar. Almost instantly the following lyrics flashed in the mind and hence I believe that this Tamil translation is close in meaning to the original Sanskrit song :          அன்புடன...

I developed a special attraction towards the sacred mountain Thiruvannamalai when I was about 10 yrs old; thanks to the Tamil movie 'Arunagirinathar', telecasted by Door-Darshan (Chennai) then. Though I have been hearing about Ramana Maharishi since my adolescence, I realized the greatness of beloved Baghavan only when I was about 24 yrs old. This strange yet strong divine experience embraced me when I happened to read Ramana Maharishi's story in 'Amar Chithra Katha'  (a story book series meant for kids, with pictorial representations). This story about Bhagavan made me realize that what I have been wanting to become, all these years, is what Ramana was and is. In other words, my hidden and incomprehensible yet constant quest, ever since my childhood, that has been dominating my existence, suddenly revealed itself to me in the form of Ramana Maharishi. The Maharishi attracts and the Mountain absorbs