Tiruvannamalai - Ramanashram

This ashram was advised to me at Arnaud Desjardins' ashram in France as a true spiritual place to visit. This ashram was founded by Ramana Maharshi. 'Maharshi' means great sage. He is very famous in India and also all over the world. He spent 20 years meditating in some caves on the Arunachala hill before opening his ashram. Now people worship in the ashram's temple, and mostly on his grave. They chant the vedas several times a day. There is a good energy there, that means for me I feel more equanimous there, and it is a place where my concentration in meditation is better. But nothing very interesting. There is a bunch of other ashrams in the area, and in one of them, twice a day during 15 minutes, the guru, who is a woman, comes, sits silently in front of the people coming there, then walks in the room and looks at the people. Most people are in a kind of meditation during that time. That was an interesting experience. The kind of experience I was expecting before coming to India.


Roof of the Ramanashram from Arunachala hill







This is Ramana maharshi.



Inside the ashram









Monkeys in the ashram



Lol



Local food. No spoon, of course :-)