Important Events in Sri Bhagavan’s Life

APPENDIX

1879	December 30, Monday – corresponding to 16, Margali of
	Tamil Year Pramadi – Star Punarvasu – Ardra Darshan
	Day – Born at 1 a.m. at Tiruchuli (‘Sri Sundara Mandiram’).
1891	Moves to Dindigul, after completing elementary
	education at Tiruchuli.
1892	February 18: Death of father, Sundaram Iyer. Moves to
	Madurai. Studies at Scott’s Middle School and American
	Mission High School.
1895	November: Hears of ‘Arunachala’ mentioned to him by
	an elderly relative.
1896	(about middle of July): ‘Death Experience’ at Madurai
	ending in complete and permanent Realisation of the
	Self (‘Sri Ramana Mandiram’).
	August 29, Saturday: Leaves Madurai for Arunachala.
	September 1 – Tuesday: Arrives in Arunachala – Stays in
	the Temple premises within the Thousand-pillared Hall,
	beneath the Illupai Tree, in Pathala Linga (underground
	cellar), sometimes in the Gopuram.
1897	Moves to Gurumurtam in the outskirts of the town (early
	in the year).
	Stays in the shrine and the adjoining Mango grove.
1898	May: Uncle Nelliappa Iyer visits Bhagavan at Mango
	grove.
	September: Moves to Pavalakkunru.
	December: Mother Alagammal visits Bhagavan at
	Pavalakkunru.
1899	February: Moves to the Hill, Arunachala. Stays in various
	caves up the Hill, but mostly in Virupaksha Cave, using
	Mango Tree Cave as summer residence.
1900	Replies to questions put by Gambiram Seshayya, at
	Virupaksha Cave.
1902	(The above published as Self-enquiry)
1902	Answers to questions asked by Sivaprakasam Pillai
	(Who am I?)
1905	Moves to Pachaiamman Koil for six months during the
	plague epidemic – returns to the Hill.
1907	November 18: Momentous meeting between Bhagavan
	and Kavyakanta Ganapati Muni. Bhagavan imparts
	upadesa to Muni.
1908	(January to March): Stays at Pachaiamman Koil (with
	Ganapati Muni and others) and again goes back to
	Virupaksha Cave.
	Translates into Tamil prose Adi Sankara’s Viveka
	Chudamanai and Drik Drisya Viveka.
1911	November: F.H. Humphreys, the first Westerner, meets
	Bhagavan.
1912	Second death experience at Tortoise Rock in the presence
	of Vasudeva Sastry and others.
1914	Offers prayers (songs) to Arunachala for Mother’s recovery
	from illness.
1915	The Song of the Pappadum written for the sake of mother.
	The following were also written during Virupaksha days:
	Arunachala Aksharamanamalai, Arunachala Padikam,
	Arunachala Ashtakam, Translation of Devi Kalottara,
	Translation of Adi Sankara’s Hymn to Dakshinamurti,
	Guru Stuti and Hastamalaka Stotra.
1916	Moves to Skandashram.
1917	Composes Arunachala Pancharatnam in Sanskrit.
	Mother settles at Skandashram. Sri Ramana Gita in
	Sanskrit written by Ganapati Muni.
1922	May 19, Friday: Mother’s Maha Samadhi.
	Middle of December: Moves to the present site of
	Sri Ramanasramam.
1927	Composes Upadesa Sara in Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit and
	Malayalam.
	April 24: Composes Atma Vidya (Self Knowledge).
1928	Composes Ulladu Narpadu (Forty Verses on Reality) in
	Tamil and Malayalam (Sat Darshanam).
1930	Sat Darshanam in Sanskrit (translated from Tamil by
	Ganapati Muni).
1933	Translated into Tamil the Agama: Sarvajnanotharam –
	Atma Sakshatkara.
1939	September 1, Thursday: Foundation laid by Bhagavan
	for the Matrubhuteswara Temple.
1940	Selects 42 verses from The Bhagavad Gita (now entitled
	The Song Celestial) and translates them into Tamil and
	Malayalam.
1947	February: Composes Ekatma Panchakam (Five Verses on
	the Self) in Telugu and Tamil.
1948	June 18: Cow Lakhsmi attains Nirvana.
	Translates into Tamil Atma Bodha of Adi Sankara.
1949	March 17, Thursday – Kumbabhishekam of
	Matrubhuteswara Temple in the presence of Bhagavan.
1950	April 14, Friday: Brahma Nirvana of Bhagavan at 8-47
	p.m. At that moment a shooting star, vividly luminous,
	coming from the South (the present Nirvana Room) and
	moving slowly northward across the sky and disappearing
	behind the peak of Arunachala was observed by many in
	various parts of India.

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Sri Ramanarpanamasthu