Ramana and his siblings moved to the home of his paternal uncle in the city of Madurai. The early death of his father in 1892, when Ramana was only twelve, resulted in the relocation of this family. At the age of eleven, he went to school in Dindigul, a larger town close to his home. He attended elementary school at the local temple complex in Tiruchuzi. Ramana had an older brother (Nagaswami) and younger brother (Nagasundaram) and sister (Alamelu).įrom all available accounts, Ramana was a normal child. He was the second child of Sundaram Iyer, a rural lawyer ( vakil) and his wife Alagammal.

You will know in due course that your glory lies where you cease to exist.Venkataraman Iyer, (known later as Ramana, Ramana Maharshi, Bhagavan Ramana or simply Bhagavan), was born on 30 December 1879, in Tiruchuzi, a small town in Tamil Nadu, South India. “The ego is a very powerful elephant which cannot be brought under control by any creature less powerful than a lion, which, in this instance, is none other than the Guru, whose very looks make the elephant-like ego tremble and die. The spiritual quest must be kept up right through a fast if it is to benefit spiritually. Complete fasting makes the mind too weak. There must be spiritual development side by side. Ramana Maharshi : Yes, but it is temporary. Question : Can fasting cure sexual desire? Be the Self and then you will have no sex troubles. Ramana Maharshi : By rooting out the false idea of the body being the Self. Question : How do we root out our sex idea? When the mind is destroyed, the other desires are destroyed also. If a man has a strong desire for the higher life then the sex tendency will subside. Ramana Maharshi : The householder’s life is not a bar, but the householder must do his utmost to practise self-control. Question : Is marriage a bar to spiritual progress? Ramana Maharshi : What is the use of that ? If it exists in the mind, what use is it to force people to abstain ? Question : At one of the Indian ashram there is a rigid rule that married couples are permitted to live there on condition that they have no sexual intercourse. Then there is no question of desires any more. Ramana Maharshi : A true brahmachari is one who dwells in Brahman. Question : Do you approve of sexual continence? Ramana Maharshi on Sexual Sin and Sexual Desires

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