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© Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai First Combined Reprint in 1968 (3000) Second Reprint 1977 (5000) Third Reprint 1989 (3000) Fourth Reprint 1995 (3000) Fifth Reprint 2002 (3000) ISBN: 81-88018-82-1 Price: Rs. CC No: 1013 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: ashram@ramana-maharshi.org Website: http://www.ramana-maharshi.org
PREFACE A word as to the origin of this work may not be out of place. It was my great good fortune to live for more than four years, from August 1942 till the end of 1946, at Sri Ramanasramam and to have the inestimable benefit of daily contact with our Bhagavan. After I had been there for some months various people who visited the Asramam began to suggest that it would be a good thing if I recorded Bhagavan’s utterances on spiritual topics, either in answer to questions from visitors or in any other context. For a long time, however, I was too lazy to make the effort. Nevertheless, whenever I read the ‘Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa’, as I used to now and then, I felt how desirable it was that a similar book should be compiled in the case of our Bhagavan. When I had drifted on like this for some years, on the morning of January 1st, 1945, within the space of about an hour, three different persons — a lawyer’s clerk, son of Sankara Ammal doing service in the Asramam, a businessman of Madras by name M.V.P. Sastri, whom I had known since his boyhood at Chittoor, and O.P. Ramaswami Reddi, who later became Chief Minister of Madras — all urged me to undertake the task as, in their kind opinion, I was best fitted for it besides having the necessary facility of constant close contact with Bhagavan. The appeal coming from such widely different persons on the first day of the year and all of them approaching me in such quick succession and without any previous consultation amongst themselves made such a deep impression on me that I took it as a call really from Bhagavan. So, that very day I started keeping an Asramam Diary. My idea was to preserve for Bhagavan’s devotees all that took place in the Asramam
Page 1: DAY BY DAY WITH BHAGAVAN From the D
Page 5 and 6: Day by Day with Bhagavan ________ 1
Page 7 and 8: [This was apparently shortly before
Page 9 and 10: 24-3-45 4-3-45 Af After Af er ernoo
Page 11 and 12: move to depart from here. What can
Page 13 and 14: After all this talk Bhagavan drank
Page 15 and 16: Which moulded us, what though witho
Page 17 and 18: looked at Bhagavan and, not being a
Page 19 and 20: where God can be realised as ‘I
Page 21 and 22: 14-9-45 4-9-45 Three or four days a
Page 23 and 24: the light of consciousness or Self,
Page 25 and 26: UôPm the niche, which is now a sma
Page 27 and 28: Janaki: If I am always doing nama s
Page 29 and 30: our daily work it helps to think of
Page 31 and 32: giving diksha.” In this connectio
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Page 35 and 36: stanzas Bhagavan, it seems, started
Page 37 and 38: Later he asked Bhagavan, “While a
Page 39 and 40: Czechoslovakia, to this effect: “
Page 41 and 42: Bhagavan and Bhagavan said, “Of c
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Page 45 and 46: disturb me. The more I try, the mor
Page 47 and 48: In this connection Bhagavan also sa
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Page 51 and 52: hole. Later on a gentleman who was
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of penances to become what one alre
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After breakfast Bhagavan went to Sk
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The lame one had afterwards six chi
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1-1 1-12-45 1-1 2-45 I returned her
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He also said that Mr. Narasimha Aiy
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after putting oneself the question
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whom he — the companion of Vittha
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thus only twenty-seven stanzas with
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candy to Bhagavan. He partook a lit
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the streets for food and bring it u
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12-1 2-1 2-12-45 2-1 2-45 Mor Morni
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where the Ashta Dik Lingams are now
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found that Bhagavan sets great stor
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visitor. They were accordingly take
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thought and thinking, all merge in
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him when he was under the iluppai t
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Question 2: Is atma a subject of sa
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Af After Af er ernoon er noon A dev
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Question 3: I find surrender is eas
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Visitor: I want to know if Bhagavan
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Answer: In the enquiry ‘Who am I?
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“It descends and acts, only when
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observe these with fasts, feasts, e
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Mr. T.P. Ramachandra Aiyar said in
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Wonder of wonders, beyond understan
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ut left it to commentators like Mr.
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first appears the figure of a king.
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us. We have just removed the earth
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Another young man from Colombo aske
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went away with their bodies to heav
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Af After Af er ernoon er noon Yeste
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misdeeds on his part. The poor man
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and discussed some alternatives wit
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And I that turns to what is known,
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many sayings or songs of his would
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place here on Mattu Pongal day. She
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used to go to her now and then. I w
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ight. All this is unnecessary fuss.
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efore, during and after meals, and
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satisfied with only one mango. The
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spoil it. What is required is that
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vimanam of his body he was traversi
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to dry my clothes and thus by chanc
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Question: What is the difference be
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4-2-46 4-2-46 Last night Bhagavan r
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ig lock. There was not a person to
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ground, saying ‘This sum, the lad
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photo of his taken. He liked to hav
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and they used to come here and tell
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13-2-46 3-2-46 Mor Morning Mor ning
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from the editors of the journal cal
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only accept a bhiksha in which a th
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there.” Bhagavan said, “Yes. Th
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Bhagavan: Yes. It is quite good. Yo
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has happened. Your “gentleman”
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26-2-46 26-2-46 Mor Morning Mor nin
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one great thing about these squirre
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throwing myself completely on him,
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Ev Evening Ev ening When I entered
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too want to know why different sain
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Question: Does this hold good even
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not name and form, then name and fo
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imagine we are different, i.e., we
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mind two things do not exist at the
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questions are useless. But to us, s
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‘Uô²u úSo ®¯’ and Bhagavan
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of God. So, if one finds out about
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animal or a tree, there is no need
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the megha mandala, the earth, man a
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IÓdLm’ (Ozhivil odukkam) that Gu
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looking at each other, and so engro
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they claim they give more reality t
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the monkeys. Bhagavan’s question
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Bhagavan: Yes. Yes. Our whole troub
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discovered Ekanath lying down on th
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Lô¬VUôm ©WUôiP ùUu² PjúR Lt
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and it means that both classes of p
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Bhagavan took up the English transl
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there is something imperishable, so
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ought it back three or four days ag
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morning train, he should have arriv
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going to do. The Ashtakam, which R.
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I am the beginning, the middle and
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Bhagavan: The only thing to know is
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are used for sthita prajna.” Ther
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jnani without his identifying himse
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I could not judge these poems, as t
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9-5-46 -5-46 Nagamma asked me to ge
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Bhagavan said, “Yes, she rushed u
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you call it. The intellect is of us
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14-5-46 4-5-46 At 11 o’clock this
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composed of a stanza by Avvai. Avva
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that creation exists objectively be
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towards his mother. Is it because B
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The third question is: Where does i
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now that he had completely lost the
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liked and then put me back to bed,
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the proper and effective discharge
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we went near he would run away. And
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eligious subjects. Bhagavan wanted
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ecause we existed, and when we wake
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Dr. S. Mani, Assistant Director of
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Bhagavan said, “That state is cal
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In the evening the Senior Maharani
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I asked him which of the poems in h
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Bhagavan’s small bottle for const
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learned commentaries are written on
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(I took this to refer to Bhagavan
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Bhagavan: Yes, they are granted. No
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Bhagavan: It is not a matter of bec
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when I was at Gurumoortham birds an
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“Yes,” I said, “I want to go
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anything of the sort, because these
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Bhagavan: Find out whence the ‘I
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Then Bhagavan continued speaking on
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A little later Ramamurti asked, “
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duly registered, so that nobody can
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Iyer of Singapore. I found later th
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town late in the night and wanted t
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here. Some who are here are suddenl
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11-8-46 1-8-46 This morning, the yo
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composed by him today in which he h
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Bhagavan at once went through them
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can feel like that, you can go on d
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Canarese. But soon he began deliver
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Madras University, in English, Just
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and Bhagavan has not denied it. So
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swollen. The doctors couldn’t dia
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eplied that I had seen the poem and
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was a Tamil translation of one of t
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18-9-46 8-9-46 This morning, when I
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published from here the above work,
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In the evening after parayana, Dili
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about 8-30 a.m., Bhagavan sat on a
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Vasudeva Sastri recounted another i
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Mr. T.V. Krishnaswami Aiyer asked,
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without any effort on our part. In
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ended, “My conscience pricks me.
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things, i.e., real-ising these thin
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has travelled to America, Japan and
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Bhagavan: The mind is a bundle of t
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hall, be ever raising the incense o
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29-1 29-10-46 29-1 0-46 This mornin
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dining hall this night. The show co
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dead, it seems to strike at the roo
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23-1 23-11-46 23-1 1-46 A letter wa
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one simply repeats ‘I’, ‘I’
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practise sadhana. (I was not presen
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way. This is the only way, to go ba
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“Yet, O Lord, my sinful soul Is n
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“He came only once when we were a
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GLOSSARY GLOSSARY Abhaya : State of
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Bindu : A dot; in yoga the dot over
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Ishta devata : The deity whom one d
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Mantapam : A raised platform of sto
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Pranayama : Regulation or control o
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Sthapati : An architect of temples
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Vikalpa : Doubt; wrong concept. Vik
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- Gurumoortham, 79, 125, 142, 249,
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- uncle (Nelliappa Aiyer), 29, 142-
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Bondage, 102 - and liberation, 221
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- service to, 263 - (see also Iswar
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- actions in view of onlooker, 101,
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O Objects - are thoughts, 1 - have
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Sakti and siddhis, 290 Samadhi, 56,
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Vairagya, 294 Vaishnavism, comments
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WORKS WORKS ON ON SRI SRI BHA BHAGA
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Jnanasambandhar, 130, 178-9, 203 Jn
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Chellam Iyer, 302-3 Chellammal, 309
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Karpoora Bhattar, 338 Kasturi Chett
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Nelliappa Aiyar (Bhagavan’s uncle
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Santhamma, 79, 206 Sarathi, V. P.,
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Vasudeva Sastri, 318-9, 321 Venkata
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Maschendranath, 150-1, 313 Muhammad
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Dhanurdasa, composition dedicated t
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