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459--Complete & Total Self-Surrender; Monday,September 30,1991 New York

  Sri Bhagavan Ramana Arunachala Always Draws my mind to His Lotus Feet

Sri Bhagavan has been showering His Infinite Grace and Mercy on all of His dearest, devoted, dedicated and determined daughters and loving and kind sons, servants, servitors and soldiers and has been commanding us to depend upon Him and ever abide in His Teaching of Self-Inquiry of WHO AM I? HE is the Substratum behind each and everything in the world end there is no reason on our part to lose sight of His Infinite Grace and Mercy. All of us shall have to weather the storm and beg and beseech Him to keep our mind merged in His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," so that we are in a position to leave nothing undone for the erection of His Mandiram in this great metropolitan city of New York. Sri Bhagavan always reminds me to place my entire faith in His Power and Glory and drink deep in the nectar of Self-Absorption in the inmost recesses of the Heart. Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi Dakshinamurty Sarveshwarar Shiva is ever standing before me and within me and is exhorting me day end night to remain fixed in His Lotus Feet. HE has stationed me on the battlefield of Dharmakshetra Kurukshetra with the single command that I face the forces of the world with His Name and Form on the tip of my tongue. Whatever I happen to see and wherever I go my Heart remains surcharged with the remembrance of His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," and the surging Ganga of my love, affection, devotion, dedication, submission and surrender continues to flow to the Lotus Feet of the Silent Sage of the Holy Arunachala Mountain.

The barrage of tests, troubles,tribulations, miseries and misfortunes is a very kind and compassionate friend and reminds me to seek shelter in the Mighty Maharshi Ramana Arunachala and transfer all my weights and burdens to Him once and for all. While sitting at this desk in front of my great teacher, instructor, mentor and protector, Hermes 3000 I [am] so much inspired and insured of His Infinite Love and Affection for me that I feel like flooding the entire earth with His Unique Teaching of Self-Abidance. Each and every atom and proton of my body is seized with His Gleaming and Glowing Presence and how I would like to sing His Praises with a great deal of abandon and surcharge the entire land with iis Name and Form. Sri Bhagavan always floods my Heart with His Powerful and Hlissful Presence and tells me in the clearest tone that I must keep my mind dissolved in the Sea of Silence, Solitude and Stillness and let His Inscrutable Will be done. The ceaseless muttering of "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," is the singuler medicine for the cure of the ills of ego and ignorance and should look forward to the fulfillment of my childhood dream of building Sri Lalita Maha-Tripura-Sundari-Saraswati-Sarveshwari-Devi Mandiram on the world famous thoroughfare of Fifth Avenue in New York City. Seldom there is a moment in my life when I don't call on the Lord to remove all odds and obstacles from my path and melt me in His Name once and for all.

Sri Arunachaleshwarar Shiva, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi Paramatman ever showers His Infinite Grace and Mercy upon all of His children just by reminding us that there is no release from the bonds and bondages of the world without submitting and surrendering ourselves completely and totally to His Lotus Feet. So the best thing for us to do day and night is the unceasing inherence in His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA, and the door to the cave of the Heart would open for receiving His blessings and Benedictions. Sri Bhagavan always teaches us to drink deep in the nectar of Self-Absorption in the cavity of the Heart and then build His Temples in the world. There is a very simple answer to the nagging question of dreaming for the construction of Sri Lalita Maha-Tripura-Sundari Mandiram in New York City. This gargantuan task of erecting a temple in New York always helps me to remember the Universal Divine Mother Lalita Sundari and my mind gets dissolved in Her Lotus Feet. This childhood dream for building a temple in this part of the globe keeps my mind merged in Him and the surging Ganga of my love and affection flows to Sri Arunachala. My life is meant for serving the world with devotion and dedication to Him.

460--Complete & Total Self-Surrender: Tuesday, October First,1991 New York

  Sri Bhagavan ever teaches me to remember Him with love and affection

With my breath merged in the inmost recesses of the Heart I find Him ever shining before me and within me and telling me not to lose faith in His Power and Glory. So the best thing for me to do is to mutter His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," with unswerving faith and iron will and never allow myself to fail a victim the the forces of discouragement and disparagement and I should always transfer all my worries and anxieties to the Silent Sage of the Holy Hill of the Holy Beacon Light. Sri Ramana Arunachala Dakshinamurty Shiva is holding me by the hand, guiding my life and leading me to His Supreme Abode in the cave of the Heart whence no one ever returns to the humdrum and huddle of this earthly existence. The lifelong dream of devoting ond dedicating my life to the Lotus Feet of the Mighty Maharshi Arunachala Ramana Sarveshwera Jagadishwara has been a very powerful impetus for me that enables me call on HIM day and night with firm faith in His Infinite Kindness and Compession. How could one know what is impelling me to strive strenuously all the time to ring, resound and reverberate the ten directions of the globe with Sri Bhagavan Arunachala Ramana Maharshi's Unique Instruction of Self-Inquiry of WHO AM I? From the very beginning of my earthly sojourn I have been seized with a firy desire of singing, sounding and praising the Lord of the world with my humble and honest prayers, petitions and supplications to the Divine Mother Lalita.

Let it be recorded here right now that it is not easy for me to unfold the stimulus that never allows me to run away from the battlefield of this life. Sri Bhagavan has been holding me by the hand, guiding my life, lighting my path and is ever carrying me forward to His Supreme Abode in the Holy Arunachala Mountain so that all of us in Sri Arunachala Ashrama, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi Centre in New York and in Nova Scotia, Canada would be blessed and graced with His Infinite Grace and Mercy. This very work of pounding this great teacher and mentor, Hermes 3000 Swiss Typewriter has been the Lord Arunachala Ramana's Commission for me so that I never waste my precious time in the mental wanderings in the midst of the world. This writing work is the Mighty Maharshi Ramana Arunachala Shiva's Grace and Mercy for me and I find myself chanting and remembering His Name with unswerving faith and unflinching enthusiasm and this by allmeans gives me the rare opportunity of muttering "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," with each and every exhalation and inhalation of my breath. However hard I may try to explain the state of my life with these words and sentences and I find it almost impossible to capture the key point of my honest, sincere and simple unfoldment of the secrets of Sri Bhagavan's Love and Affection.

As a child I find myself standintg before Sri Arunachala Bhagavan Guru Ramana and imploring HER/HIM to give me Refuge in Her/His Lotus Feet and allow our life to be illumined with the Sunshine of Self-Absorption in the cave of the Heart-Lotus. I experience HER/HIM with an overwhelming mind and the constant and continuous inherence in the Direct Path of Practice of Self-Awareness melts me in such a manner that the surging Ganga of my love and affection seems to flood each and every nook and corner of this world. Sri Bhagavan is ever present before me and within me and is merging my unruly mind in His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," and is thus making it possible for me to keep on begging and beseeching Him to build His New York City Mandiram without any further delay . The Great Wealth that Sri Bhagavan has given me is the burning aspiration and yearning in my Heart and His Assurance and Re-Assurance that despite delay in building His Temple HE is determined to fulfill all our prayers, supplications and dreams. Sri Bhagavan blesses and graces me to believe in His Power and Glory and tells me to wait for the moment when HE would remove all kinds of odds and obstructions from our life and shall allow us to plant Ramana Maharshi Arunachaleshwarar Shiva's Banner of Grace and Mercy on the top of Sri Lalita Maha-Tripura-Sundari-Saraswati-Sarveshwari Mandiram on the world famous thoroughfare of Fifth Avenue in this New York City. While pounding this marvellous machine I find myself melted in Him once and for all

461—Complete & Total Self-Submission; Wednesday, Second October 1991 Newyork

  THE MIGHTY MAHATMA GANDHIJI'S MAHARAJA'S 122nd Birth Anniversary

Sri Bhagavan always keeps my mind filled with the remembrance of the Mighty Mahatma Gandhiji Maharaja with my childlike love, affection and devotion and dedication to the Rama and Krishna Avatar that Rashtrapita-The Father of the Nation of Bharatavarsha has been for me. Sri Mahatma Gandhiji Mahatman Maharaja has ever been inspiring and impelling me to keep on calling on the Silent Sage of the Holy Arunachela Mountain and let Him build His Own Mandiram in New York City. More than seven decades have passed when Mahatma Gandhiji's name came to me one afternoon in Sahuri, the villege my birth and since then he hes been thriving and thumping in my Heart-Cavity. In the year 1934 he visited the town of Monghyr which was devastated by the serious earthquake that hit the town on the afternoon of Monday, Jenuary 15, 1934. Sri Gandhiji addressed the people from a seat on the sands of the sacred river, Gangaji regarding the earthquake that had wrought so much damage to the people and property of that famous town of Monghyr in Bihar, India. I remember very vividly him sitting crossed-legs on the white sands on the river bank and the vast crowd of men and women and children listening to his heart-warming speech. Even after the lapse of more than 57 years the heart-melting and heart-moving picture of Bapuji, Mahatma Gandhiji Maharaja, melts my Heart and with my eyes closed I find myself sitting at this desk with His Name,"OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," ever thrilling and thumping my mind with a great surge of love, affectiog, devotion and dedication. I am not attending any meeting today to celebrate his birthday, but I am filled with his presence as live as it could be now.

While sitting at this desk in Sri Arunachala Ashrama, Bhagavan Sri Ramane Maharshi Centre Inc. in New York City I am still aspiring to build Sri Lalita Maha-Tripura-Sundari-Saraswati-Sarveshwari-Matribhuteshwari Devi Mandiram on the world famous thoroughfare of Fifth Avenue in New York City. Time after time the same question arises who shall contribute and how much to the realisation and construction of our lifelong dream of erecting such a structure in this city which would help the people of the world to drink deep in the necter of Self-Awareness in the Heart-Cavity. There is nothing new about my lifelong dream of planting His Flag of Faith and Fortitude on the topmost tower of Sri Arunachala Ramana Dakshinamurty Jagadeshwari Devi Mandiram on the world famous Fifth Avenue here in New York. Sri Arunachala Ramana has been building His Temple ail the time in the cave of my Heart and I have been offering ail my prayers, petitions and supplications to the Divine Mother, Durga Devi Rajarajeshwari Lalita Maha-Tripura-Sundari Akhileswari-Annapoorna, Paremeshwari by constantly end continuously by the Japa of "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA, with each and every exhalation and inhalation of my breath. The famous statue of Sri Gandhiji Mahatman finds itself standing on the front open garden and space which could catch the attention of the visitors, devotees, disciples and passersby on the avenue.

Sri Bhagavan never lets my Heart dry and day and night I find myself melted with the remembrance of His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," and the gargantuan mission of ringing, resounding and reverberating the directions of the world is Sri Bhagavan Ramana Himself for me as HE keeps me melted in His Ocean of Grace, Mercy, Compassion and Kindness. It is true that the delay in the realisation of my lifelong dream of flooding this land of the New World with His Unique Teaching of Self-Inguiry of WH0 AM I? WHO AM I? hurts me, nevertheless the very remembrance of His Name and form has been such a great help to me that I find myself almost dissolved in Bhagavan's Lotus Feet. With my eyes closed I continue sitting at this desk and now there is nothing else for me to do to build His Mandiram save and except to abide in Him with unswerving faith end unalterable belief and wait for the day when the Mighty Maharshi Remana Arunachala shall dazzle the world by fulfilling all our aspirations yearnings end dreams in the near future. The Mighty Maharshi and the Mighty Mahatma are standing before me and they are assuring me again and again that our efferts shall be rewared soon

462—Complete & Total Self-Submission; Thursday,October 3,1991 New York

  The Lifelong Dream of Building His Temple Gives me Complete Surrender to Him

Sri Dakshinamurty Ramana Maharshi Arunachala Shiva has in fact and deed not only melted me in His Name, “OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," but has made me one with His Lotus Feet. Day and night my Heart remains absorbed in Him and it is a great gift for me that Sri Bhagavan never allows me to lose sight of the early childhood goal of singing His Praises with all my love, affection, devotion and dedication and He showers His Grace, Mercy, Love and Affection upon me and keeps me seized with the single dream of doing POOJA to Him by pounding this great teacher, instructor, mentor and illuminator, The Swiss Portable typewrite, Hermes 3000, with as much love and affection as it is humanly possibie for me. The prayer for building a temple in New York City has been the greatest gift bestowed upon me by the Silent Sage of the Holy Arunachala Mountain. This mission of unfurling His flag of Self-Abidance in the Heart-lotus has been the most powerful magnet for me because it never allows me to slow down my march to the Holy Hill of the Holy Beacon Light. Sri Bhagavan Hamana Arunachaleshwara Shiva ever reminds me that HE is all-pervading and all-permeating and there is nothing in the seven worlds that is not known to Him. This prayer is such a mighty magnet that keeps my mind ever fixed at His Lotus Feet. How can I express my cheer and joy thet keeps my life submerged in the Ocean of Being, Consciousness and Bliss thet He is for the whole universe.

There is great meaning and purpose behind Bhagevan Sri Krishnachandra Maharaja's departure from the land of Yashodamayee, Nandababa, Gopis and Gopes. In Vrindaban Sri Bhagavan was the cowherd girls and boys and they were very devoted and dedicated to Him. Sri Bhagavan Krishna Maharaja's departure from Vindaban to Mathura made all milkmaids and milkmen pine for His Company. HIS foster parents also realised that the blue boy, Krishna was not an ordinay mortal being and thus were blessed and graced with His immaculate Love and Affection. Sri Bhagavan Sri Krishnachandraji Maharaja sent His Friend and Companion, Sri Uddhavaji Maharaja to Vrindaban in order to assure girls, boys, women and men that HE had not forgotten them. Sri Bhagavan keeps my Heart soaked and saturated with His Gleaming and Glowing Presence all the time by making me pine for the day when HE would build His Own Arunachala Ramana Maha-Tripura-Sundari-Jagadishwari Mandiram in New York City. The scene and sight of Sri Uddhavaji Maharaja teaching all companions of the Blue Boy of Vrindaban, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Krishnadeva brings tears into my eyes and I find myseif completely and totally melted in His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," and it is beyond of my capacity to describe my state of the Heart how the Lord Ramana Arunachala is giving us His Love and Affection by allowing us to build Ramana Guru Mandiram in this metropolitan city of New York. Day and night I find myself placing all my flowers and fruits of Tapasya at His Lotus Feet in the great and big temple that has already arisen in the cavity of my Heart-Lotus.

It makes no difference to me whether I sit here with my eyes closed or keep them open as the surging Ganga of His Grace and Mercy always flows within me. The wide expanse of my Heart never allows me to lose sight of the Shining Presence of the Lord in each and everything in the world and the silent remembrance is the most important thing in the life an aspirant to reach His Supreme Abode not far but in the Heart-Lotus. Each and every hair on my body keeps on standing on its end and melting and merging my mind in the Mighty Maharshi Ramana Arunachala Dakshinamurty Paramatman. The ceaseless muttering of His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," keeps on going and I find myseif with His Infinite Grace and Mercy ever dissolved in the Holy Arunachala Mountain. Sri Bhagavan has placed me in such a state of Self-Absorption that I simply keep quiet and drink deep in the nectar of His Presence both within and without my Heart. Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi Dakshinamurty Paramatman is ever holding me by the hand guiding my life lighting my path and thus leading me to His Supreme Abode in the inmost recesses of the Heart. HE has melted me once and for all

463—Complete & Total self-surrender; friday night, October 4,1991 New York

  Sri Bhagavan Ever Keeps me merged in His Lotus Feet with all my faith

Sri Arunachaleshwarar Shiva, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi Dakshinamurty Paramatman ever abides in the core of my Heart and exhorts me to remember His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," with devotion and dedication and never leave anything undone without His Grece and Mercy. In the present state of my life the Lord prods me to believe in Him completely and totally and let His Inscrutable Will be done. The lifelong mission of flooding the earth with His Direct Path of Fractice of Self-Inquiry of WHO AM I? remains the focal point of my march to the Holy Hill of the Holy Beacon Light and now the time has come when we shall have to plant His banner_of WHO AM I? on the topmost point of Sri Lalita Maha-Tripura-Sundari Mandiram on the world famous thoroughfare of Fifth Avenue in New York City. In the state of my life Sri Bhagavan ever keeps me completely and totally dissolved in His Ocean of Being, Consciousness and Biiss and tells me time and again that I should never tarry even for a split second in remembering His Name and Form with a great deal of love, affection, devotion and dedication. The greatest gift that the Lord has bestowed upon me is the constant and continuous inherence in His Power and Splendour and the eternal nectar of Self-Awareness couid be drunk by me with His intinite Grace and Mercy.

With my eyes closed I find myself sitting in this chair and repeating His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," with the iron will and firm determination and thus wait for the day when the Lord shall build His Own Mandiram in this land. The surging Ganga of devotion end dedication does flow in the interior of my Heart and i find myself so much surcharged with the lifelong dream of ringing, resounding ond reverberating the ten directions of the globe with the chanting and recitation of His Name... Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi never allows me to slow down my march to the Holy Hill of the Holy Beacon Light and keeps me seized with the rivers of devotion and dedication. In the midst of this creation of animate and inanimate beings Sri Bhagaven keeps my Heart overwhelmed with the remembrance of Ramana Arunachala and every day of my life is filled with the single dream of leaving nothing undone for the realisation of my mission for building Sri Lalita Maha-Trapura-Sundari-Saraswati-Sarveshwari Devi Mandiram on the renowned Fifth Avenue in New York City. Sri Bhagavan is ever beyond word, thought and speech and there is nothing more for me to do but to dive more and more in the Holy Hill of the Holy Beacon Light Sri Arunachala Mountain

There is no reason at all on my part to feel thet there has been delay in the realisation of my dream of unfurling His banner of Self-Inquiry of WHO AM I? from the topmost tower of Sri Lalita Maha-Sundari Mandiram in New York City. Day and night Sri Arunachaleshwara Shiva Dakshinamurty Guru keeps me merged in His hame, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," which is the actual realisation of our dream for the construction of New York Mandiram. However hard I may try to describe the state of my life with these words and sentences it is difficult to transform the Invisible Spirit into the cold words. Hence the best thing for me to do right now and all the time is to keep quiet and let the surging Ganga of devotion and dedication flow freely fast to the Mighty Maharshi Arunachala Ramana Sachchidananda. The mighty forces of desire, delusion ond disturbances block our onward march to the Summum Bonum of our life and we shall have to persevere and perspire all the time to move and melt Sri Arunachaleshwarar Shiva Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi to allow us to do our level best to fill the world with His Name. Sri Bhagavan makes it clear as crystal to us that under all conditions and circumstances we have to remember Him with devotion and dedication and transfer all our weights and burdens to Him and Him alone. Sri Ramana Arunachala Parameshwara ever keeps me merged in His lotus Feet and thus gives me the final opportunity of getting dissolved in His Name and Form. With my breath merged in the Holy Arunachala Mountain I find myself so much overwhelmed with His Infinite Grace and Mercy that these words andsentences are devoured by the Almighty Lord Arunachaleshvarar Ramana.

464—Complete & Total Self-Surrender; Saturday, October 5,1991 New York City

Sri Bhagavan Ramana affords me the golden opportunity of benefiting from the company of friendly friends and reminds me time and again that HE has showered His Infinite Grace and Mercy upon me by bringing into my life such friends as Arhur Coucouvitis and Hric Cassel Ford and others who have been helping me to abide in His Name with unswerving faith and unflinching belief in His Power and Glory and removing the dense darkness of ego and ignorance from my earthly existence. Last night these friends Arthur and Eric drove from Boston, Massachusetts to New York City to help us to transport Sri Mahatman Dineshaji Dayalu Maharaja to the International Logan Airport in Boston so that he would be able to fly to Nova Scotia in Canada to continue the work of holding the Lord Ramana Arunachala Shiva's Fort in the farming community of Clarence, Bridgetown, Nova Scotia,Canada. With His Name "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," dancing in the cavity of my Heart-Lotus I bow down before Him with as much devotion, dedication, love, affection, submission and surrender as it is right now humanly possiblef for me. Sri Bhagavan never allows me to slacken my march to the Holy Arunachala Mountain and endows me with a great deal of stamina and strength so that I would be pouring out all my love and affection to all the dear friends who are giving me the great good fortune of building Sri Bhagavan Ramana Arunachaleshwarar Shiva Mandiram on the world famous thoroughfare of Fifth Avenue in New York City. This is the great gifts that all these friends have been bestowing upon me from their very advent in His Abode, Sri Arunachala Ashrama, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi Centre in the world.

These words and sentences are incapable of singing the praises of all these friends who have been doing their level best to help a poor country boy to dream of building Sri Lalita Maha-Tripura-Sundari-Sarveshwari Mandiram in New York City. In this metropolitan city of New York there has always been a great occasion to build such a temple where women and men of all classes of the society would be afforded the unique opportunity of basking in the Sunshine of Self-Awareness in the inmost recesses of the Heart-Lotus with the help of the Lord Arunachala Ramana Sad-Guru's Fifth Avenue Mandiram. Friends are gathered here to instil in my Heart Sri Bhagavan Arunachala's Love and Affection and assure and re-assure me that the mission of my life of unfurling His Flag of Devotion and Dedication on the topmost tower of the Divine Mother Sri Lalita Maha-Tripura-Sundari-Saraswat-Sarveshwari Mandiram on the world famous thoroughfare of Fifth Avenue in New York City shall surely and certainly be accomplished with Her Grace and Mercy. Sri Bhagavan has given me the unique opportunity of repeating and reciting His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA, with each and every exhalation and inhalation of my breath and thus leave all my weights and burdens to the Silent Sage of the Holy Hill of the Holy Beacon Light, Sri Arunachala.

With my eyes closed I find myself sitting here at this desk drinking deep in the nectar of the friends' friendly and fruitful company. The very visit of these friends goes to tell me that this is the landscape of the future when the Mighty Maharshi Arunachala Ramana shall shower His Infinite Grace and Mercy on all of us by building His New York City Mandiram where the people from all strata of the society would wend their way to drink deep in the Sea of Silence, Solitude and Stillness which would help them in their struggle of surviving in the midst of the daily problems, projects, pains and sufferings. By gathering in Sri Arunachala Ramana Mandiram in this great city of New York all people of different strata would be able to pick a grain of Sri Bhagavan Ramana Arunachala Dakshinamurty Shiva's Grace and Mercy and with that gift they would be able to face the world with faith and fortitude by remembering "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA. There is no comparison of the great Blessings and benedictions that are ever showered upon us by profiting in the beneficial company of friends who are so devoted and dedicated to the mission of flooding the earth with faith and friendship. Sri Bhagavan has made me very fortune by raining on us the rare gifts of friendly and faithful and fruitful friends in this world. My mind is submerged in the Ocean of Peace, Bliss and Happiness. Sri Bhagavan has alreadv built His Mandiram of Jnana and Bhakti for all of us.

465—Complete & Total Self-Surrender; Sunday 9:30 A.M., October 6,1991 NYCITY

  Sri Bhagavan Melts My Mind In The Remembrance of His Name And Form

These words and sentences are never in a positon to sing the praises of the Almighty Lord Ramana Arunachaleshwarar Shiva Dakshinamurty Sadguru, but nevertheless I try my level best to keep on struggling, striving and working to pour out all my prayers, petitions and supplications to the Silent Sage of the Holy Hill of the Holy Beacon Light, Sri Ramana Maharshi. Why should I ever cry and bewail regarding the construction of Sri Lalita Maha-Tripura-Sundari-Saraswati-Sarveshwari-Matribhuteshwari Mandiram on the world famous thouroughfare of Fifth Avenue in New York City when the Lord Has dissolved me once and for all in the Ocean of Being, Consciousness and Bliss that HE is for the fourteen Spheres. The constant and continuous awareness of His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA" with the flow of the breath is the Simplest means of reaching the Self-Supreme in the cave of the Heart-Lotus. In the present state of my earthly sojourn Sri Ramana Arunachaleshwarar Shiva, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi Sachchidananda Sri Dakshinamurty Sarveshwara keeps my mind merged in the remembrance of His Glory, Grace and Greatness and Mercy in such a Simple and direct manner that I feel like Singing His Praises with as much devotion,dedication, love and affection as it is humanly possible for me and I should ever look forward to the minute when The Kind and Compassionate Lord Arunachala Ramana shall lift all of His children with the New York City Mandiram in which all women and men of the world would be able to bask in the Sunshine of Self-Inquiry of WHO AM I? WHENCE AM I? WHERE AM I? WHAT FOR AM I? here?

With my eyes closed I find myself sitting here ever absorbed in His Name and Form, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," and there is nothing else for me to do but to keep on drinking deep in the nectar of Self-Awareness and thus remaining melted in the Holy Hill of the Holy Beacon Light. Time after time it has been narrated that the Lord is beyond thought and speech and it is impossible to portray His Picture by describing His Absoluteness with words and sentences. So the best thing for me to do is plunge my mind into His Infinite Grace and Mercy and thus become completely and totally absorbed in Him forever. In the present state of my Self-Absorption in the inmost recesses of the Heart I should experience the State of Silence, and let His Inscrutable Will surprise the world with His Marvellous and Mighty Miracle of building His New York City Mandiram on Fifth Avenue. This lifelong mission of ringing, resounding and reverberating all the directions of the globe with His Glory and Greatness is the only mission that has to be accomplished, undoubtedly, with His Infinite Grace & Mercy. Sri Bhagavan has blessed and graced me with the ceaseless inherence in His Lotus Feet and has made it possible for me to remain ever submerged in the vast ocean of Peace, Bliss and Happiness. Sri Arunachaleshwara Guru Ramana has made me His Own once and for all and there is nothing else for me to do but to drink deep in the nectar of His Direct Path of WHO AM I?

For days Sri Dineshaji Dayalu Mahatman Maharaja has been striving day and night to complete the work of restoring the old movie file taken by so many devotees between the years 1930 and 1950 and this work was given to him by the Honable President, Sri T.N.Venkataraman of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi's Sri Ramanasramam in Tiruvannamalai, South India. The film company is still in the process of restoring and completing the work and some more weeks shall have to be spared for this very difficult and intricate mission. So this morning Dennis had to leave Sri Arunachala Ashrama, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi Centre in New York City for the Centre in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, Canada. Arthur and Eric drove here from Boston to pick up Dennis and take him to the Boston's Logan International Airport so that he could fly to Yarmouth Airport in Nova Scotia, Canada and reach Sri Arunachala Ramana Mandiram by the evening. Sri Arunachala melted me with His Love and Affection and made it possible for me to sit here and mutter "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA, with my unswerving faith and the iron firm belief in His Power and Glory, Sri Bhagavan has made me His Own forever and is going to build His New York Temple soon very soon

466—Complete & Total Self-Surrender; Monday 1:40 P.M. October 7,1991 NYCITY

There has never been the least doubt in Sri Bhagavan Arunachala Shiva, Ramana Maharshi Dakshinamurty Jagadishwara Jagannath Antarayami Paramatman regarding His Blessings and Benedictions for all of us in the world and I shall have to work more and more for acquiring His Grace and Mercy. All the years of my earthly sojourn Sri Bhagavan has been churning my mind with the single task of abiding in His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," with unflagging zeal and zest and never allow myself to be discouraged, disparaged and disappointed with the delay in the completion of our early mission of seeing New York City Temple built without the least delay. There has been a lot of delay in the work that has found ail of us committed to the construction of Sri Lalita Maha-Tripura-Sundari-Sarveshwari Mandiram in this great city of the world. But Sri Bhagavan Ramana Arunachala Shiva ever keeps my Heart soaked and saturated with His Instruction of WHO AM I? which is the very Substratum for rising above the din and bustle of the sense world. The world has been asking us the simple question regarding Sri Ramana Arunachala Shiva's miracle for helping His devotees in the world and there is no answer available to me but to invoke His Name and Form and beg and beseech Him to keep our faith in Him firm and allow all His sons and daughters to stay firmly established on His Direct Path of Practice of Self-Inquiry of WHO AM I? Although the surging Ganga of Jnana and Bhakti ever flows fluently faster and faster within my Heart-Cavity but Ramana Bhagavan never allows me to give room to the very powerful forces of ego and ignorance that they shall blind me to the VERACITY of Jnana and Bhakti.

Sri Bhagavan never allows me to lose sight of the supreme goal that HE has fixed for me right in the very commencement of my earthly sojourn and the time has come, come when HE would give us the rare opportunity of flooding the ten directions of the globe with His Teaching of Self-Inquiry. Sri Bhagavan keeps me ever merged in His Lotus Feet so that I become one with Him with my breath merged in the depths of my Inmost Being. I always find myself so much dissolved in His Lotus Feet that there seems to be little interest in the mundane affairs of the world, nevertheless the mission of planting His Dazzling Flag of Self-Awareness on the topmost tower of the Mighty Maharshi Mandiram in New York City remains firmly fixed in the cave Heart-Lotus. Undoubtedly I am made to strive strenuously for the Divine Mother, Sri Rajarajeshwari Lalita Tripura Sundari Sarveshwari Mandiram in this metropolitan city of New York but the end result happens to be delay so far and I come back to the same state of inherence in the Self and there is no other alternative left to me but to depend upon Her Infinite Grace and Mercy with the remembrance of His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," with a great deal of will and determination. While sitting here at this desk in front of my great teacher and mentor, Hermes 3000 Swiss Typewriter, I find my life melted in the Holy Hill of the Holy Beacon Light, Arunachala.

Now very little extraneous work is done by me simply because Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi ever keeps me absorbed in the remembrance of His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," and prods me again and again to devote full time to the unceasing muttering of His Name. This work of pounding the Portable Swiss Typewriter, Hermes 3000, is the Divine Dispensation for me because it enables me to remain ever immersed in the Ocean of Peace, Bliss and Happiness that HE has always been for the entire creation of animate and inanimate beings. Now the greatest impact upon my mind has been the complete and total reign of Silence and Submission within my Heart-Cavity. Sri Arunachaleshwarar Shiva, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi has dissolved me in His Name once and for all and there is nothing else for me to do but to ring, resound and reverberate His Name with all stamina and [the] strength Ramana has endowed me with. Time after time I find myself completely and totally melted in the Mighty Maharshi Arunachala Ramana Dakshinamurty Parameshwara. With my eyes closed I remain sitting here ever soaked and saturated with Sri Arunachala Ramana Maharshi's Infinite Grace and Mercy and I do experience HIM assuring and re-assuring me that HE is bound to build His Mandiram on the world famous thoroughfare of Fifth Avenue in New York City. I believe in His Power and Glory and consider myself very fortunate being melted in Him

467--Complete & Total Self-Surrender; Tuesday 8:45 A.M.,October 8,1991 NYC

Sri Bhagavan deposits me at this desk in order to pound this great and good friend, The Swiss Portable Typewriter, Hermes 3000, with all my love and affection for His Lotus Feet so that I would be able to pour out all my prayers, petitions and supplications to the Silent Sage of the Holy Hill of the Holy Beacon Light, Sri Arunachala Mountain. The Lord Arunachala ever keeps me merged in His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," and never allows me to lose sight of the mission for which HE has ushered me into the world, Despite odds, obstacles and obstructions in my earthly life for the constant and continuous inherence in the remembrance of Sri Bhagavan's Blissful, Beatific and Bright Presence both within and without my Heart-Cave this sacred and sanctified work of asking Sri Arunachala to build His Mandiram in New York City is the very breath for me and while sitting here to do this work Sri Bhagavan melts me in His Lotus Feet in such a manner that there is no option left to me but to drink deep in the nectar of His Unique Instruction of Self-Inquiry of WHO AM I? and remain firmly fixed in His Lotus Feet. Under all conditions, circumstances and situations the Mighty Maharshi Ramana Arunachala Dakshinamurty Sadguru allows my mind to melt and merge in His Name and Form and transfer all my weights and burdens to Him. In the present state of my earthly sojourn Sri Arunachala Shiva, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi Sachchidananda Parameshwara reminds me time and again that I should place my firm faith and iron will in His Infinite Grace and Mercy and silently and patiently look forward to the day when HE would fulfill all our prayers,petitions and aspirations.

With my eyes closed I find myself sitting here ever dissolved inside my Heart and watching the surging Ganga of love, affection, devotion and dedication flowing to the Mighty Master, Maharshi Ramana Arunachala Shiva. Sri Bhagavan has transformed me into such state that cannot be expressed in words and sentences and the best thing for me to do right now and all the time is the unceasing inherence in His Name and Form and never slow down my march to the Holy Arunachala Mountain. This work of pounding this marvellous and mighty machine, Hermes 3000, is the great gift for me so that the meaning and purpose of my being born in this human body could very well be realised, undoubtedly, with His Infinite Grace and Mercy.The ceaseless muttering of His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA,"has all along been the firm command and commission given to me by the Lord Ramana so that the dense darkness caused by the forces of ego and ignorance could soon be removed from my life and I thus be dissolved in the Sea of Silence. Sri Bhagavan Arunachala Ramana Maharshi ever bestows His Infinite Grace and Mercy upon me and empowers me to sing His Praises as much as it is now possible for me with the aid and assistance of this friend Hermes , 3000.

Sri Bhagavan ever gleams and glows as 'I-I' inside my Heart-Cavity and commands me to pay my undivided attention from where this sound of 'I-I' is issuing forth, This practice of watching the breath within the inmost recesses of the Heart-Lotus has been such an inviolable discipline in the path of practice of Self-Inquiry of WHO AM I? that a sincere and ardent aspirant reaches the goal of Self-Absorption with Sri Arunachala Ramana, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi's Infinite Grace and Mercy. The Lord has absorbed me in His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," and has nothing left for me to do but ever remain sunk in the Ocean of His Name and Form. The childhood dream of ringing, resounding and reverberating the ten directions of the globe with Sri Arunachala Ramana Dakshinamurty Sachchidananda's Instruction of Self-Awareness in the Heart-Lotus is the simple and direct path that HE has carved out for all of His children in the world. Sri Bhagavan fills my life with His Assurance and Re-Assurance again and again that HE is going to bless and grace all of us with Ramana Arunachala Mandiram in this great city of New York. There is nothing else for me to do but to dive deeper, deeper and yet deeper in the Ocean of Being, Consciousness and bliss that HE is for all the fourteen worlds. I am anxiously waiting for the moment when Sri Lalita Maha-Sundari Temple rises on Fifth Avenue in New York City for all the people of this world.

468--Complete & Total Self-Surrender; Wednesday, October 9,1991 New York

Sri Arunachaleshwarar Shiva, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi Paramatman always keeps me submerged in the Holy Hill of the Holy Beacon Light and enables me to call on Him for the realisation of our lifelong dream of building Sri Lalita Maha-Tripura-Sundari-Sarveshwari-Saraswati Mandiram on the world famous Fifth Avenue in New York City so that men and women of the New World would be in a position of wending their way to Lord Ramana. With my breath merged in His Lotus Feet I find myself sitting here at this desk so that I could pour out all my prayers, petitions and supplications to the Divine Mother, Sri Lalita-Durga-Jagadishwari for the completion of all our plans, projects and publications to ring, reverberate and resound the Lord Arunachala Ramana's Direct Path of Self-Inquiry of WHO AM I? With my eyes closed I keep on sitting here at this desk and calling [on] the Lord Sri Arunachala Ramana Dakshinamurty Akhileshwara to grant His Infinite Love and Affection to us and enable us to remember His Name and Form with as much love and affection as it is humanly possible for me. The ceaseless muttering of His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA" , with each and every exhalation and inhalation of my breath is the only work cut out for me and day and night I find myself seized with His Gleaming and Glowing Presence and there is now nothing else for me to accomplish save and except to drink deep in the nectar of Self-Absorption in the vast expanse of the Heart-Lotus.

Sri Arunachala Shiva, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi has dissolved me in His Name in such a manner that I can remain melted with the remembrance of His Name , "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," and thereby carry out all the commands ¢and commissions given to me throughout the decades of my life. Sri Bhagavan ever keeps me merged in the remembrance of His Name and allows me to dive deep in the Ocean of Being, Consciousness and Bliss that HE has been for the entire world of animate and inanimate beings. In the complete and total state of Self-Inebriation Silence, Solitude and Stillness are meant to ferry me across the sea of earthly existence. Time and again the state of Self-Abidance enables me to beg and beseech the Silent Sage of the Arunachala Mountain to remove all the bonds and bondages of ego, ignorance, forgetfulness and follies from my life. Sri Arunachaleshwarar Shiva, Sri Ramana Maharshi ever keeps my Heart merged in the remembrance of His Name and assures and re-assures me time and again that HE shall build Ramana Arunachala Lalita Maha-Tripura-Sundari-Sarveshwari-Saraswati Mandiram on the world famous thoroughfare of Fifth Avenue in New York City. The best thing that ever allows me to persevere, prosecute, strive and strenuously is The Divine Mother, Sri Lalita Parameswari's Grace and Mercy showered upon me in each and every step of my march to the Holy Arunachala Hill.

It has been recorded time after time that Sri Bhagavan has dissolved me in His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," and has indelibly dyed my mind once and for all in His Lotus Feet. Whenever Sri Arunachala Shiva, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi Dakshinamurty Paramatman deposits me at this desk to touch the keys of the great teacher, Hermes 3000 Typewriter, I find myself so much melted with His Love and Affection that the surging Ganga of my devotion, dedication, submission, surrender, love and affection begins to flow in such an overwhelming manner that I am filled with Silence and Solitude and just sit back in this chair and with my eyes closed I begin to drink deep in the nectar of the Mighty Lord's Teaching of Self-Inquiry of WHO AM I? No amount of my words and sentences would be in a position to enumerate the Countless Blessings and Benedictions that have changed my life once and for all. The childhood dream of building Sri Arunachala Guru Ramana Mandiram in New York City has been the supreme gift that keeps me ever melted in His Lotus Feet. Even in the absence of Sri Lalita Sundari Mandiram in New York I find myself so much seized with Her Grace and Mercy that these descriptions and expressiongs are completely and totally dry to flood the ten directions of the globe with Sri Arunachala Ramana Shiva's Teaching of Self-Awareness in the Heart-Cavity. With my eyes closed I am sitting here soaked and saturated with Her Gleaming and Glowing Presence. I have become merged completely in the Holy Hill of the Holy beacon Light.

469—Complete & Total Self-Surrender; Thursday, October 10,1991 New York

    Golden Anniversary of Sri Arunachala Ramana's Advent in My Life

Fifty years ago today when Sri Arunachaleshwarar Shiva, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi appeared in my Heart in Darjeeling Himachala Hindi Bhavan Middle School where I was a school teacher for two years in 1940 and 1941. The day theHindi translation of Paul Brunton's A SEARCH IN SECRET INDIA landed in my life and I began to read it rightaway without any delay and soon the chapters detailing Paul Brunton's visit to Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi not only gripped my mind but melted me in His Lotus Feet. That very moment I felt like flying to the Holy Arunachala Mountain to see Him in Person. Today is the golden jubilee anniversary of that memorable day when the lifelong dream of finding a Sad-Guru was realised, undoubtedly, with His Infinite Grace and Mercy. The vivid impression of drinking deep in the nectar of His Direct Path of Practice of Self-Inquiry of WHO AM I? remains so fresh and virile even to this moment that the wordy description would not be able to do justice to Sri Arunachala Ramana Bhagavan Shiva's descent in the cavity of my Heart. Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi devoured me so totally that from that day I kept on narrating to the whole world how Sri Ramana Maharshi Arunachala Shiva had seized me once and for all.

From the earliest years of my childhood I have been gripped with the single mission of my life that I march and move towards the Holy Hill of the Holy Arunachala Mountain. I remember very well how my mother, father and all brothers laboured hard,very hard to give me regular education in the village elementary school so that I would be able to read, recite and sing the prayers to the Lord with the help of the works of Goswami Tulasi-dasaji Maharaja such as Sri Rama-charita-manasa, Vinaya Patrika, Kavitavali and other religious writing available to us in the backward village where Sri Bhagavan ushered me into this world. There is not the least shadow of doubt in my mind that Sri Bhagavan brought to me the said book to tell me about His Advent in the Southern Town of Tiruvannamai, about 125 miles south-west of the great city of Madras on the shores of bay of Bengal. With the muttering of His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," with each and every exhalation and inhalation of my breath I am going right now on the scenes that remained shining before me and within me and I kept on praying to Him that HE take me to His Lotus Feet on the southern slopes of the Holy Arunachala Mountain. Then and now Sri Bhagavan Ramana Shiva always shines in my life and gives me Refuge in His Great Name and form.

After 50 years I am yet offering my prayers to Him to bless and grace all of us with the construction of His Temple in New York City. With my breath merged in the inmost recesses of my Heart I am looking forward to the moment when all on a sudden the Silent Sage of Sri Arunachala Mountain shall shower His Love and Affection upon all of us by giving us the means to erect the temple in this city. Sri Bhagavan ever keeps me dissolved in His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," and gives me encouragement and inspiration to strive strenuously day and night and thus keep on calling on Him with all my devotion and dedication. The slow and quiet flow of the remembrance of His Name ever keeps my mind melted in His Lotus Feet and each and every hair on my body stands erect as a result of Bhagavan's Presence both before and within me. Right now I am thinking of Darjeeling Himachala Hindi Bhavan where the Lord gave me the teaching job for two years and GUPTA BHARATA KI KHOJA, the Hindi translation of Paul Brunton's book A SEARCH IN SECRET INDIA landed in my life. So much overwhelmed I am right now that there is not energy and stamina in me to keep on pounding this friend, Hermes 3000 in order to sing the praises of Sri Arunachala. Sri Arunachaleshwarar Shiva, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi Dakshinamurty has absorbed me in the constant and continuous remembrance of His Name and has made me one with His Lotus Feet. While sitting here at this desk before this great teacher, Hermes 3000,my life is completely and totally melted in His Direct Path of Practice of Self-Inquiry of WHO AM I? Self-Inguiry of WH0 AM I? WHENCE AM I? I find myself seized with Sri Bhagavan Ramana's Gleaming and Glowing Presence

470—Complete & Total Self-Surrender; Friday 8:25 A.M.;0ctober 11,1991 NYC

  Sri Bhagavan Ever Keeps me Absorbed in His Name and Form Arunachala

With the Infinite Grace and Mercy of Sri Arunachaleshwarar Shiva, Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi Dakshinamurty Sarveshwara Sachchidanand Sadguru this work of pouring out all my aspirations, yearnings and dreams to the Almighty Lord is being done with the natural flow of the surging Ganga of love, affection, submission, surrender, devotion and dedication so that Sri Lalita Maha-Tripura-Sundari-Matribhuteshwari-Sarveshwari-Saraswati Mandiram would be built on the world famous thoroughfare of Fifth Avenue in this metropolitan City of New York so that the women and men of this land would be blessed and graced with His Teaching of Self-Awareness in the cave of the Heart-Lotus and the constant and continuous muttering of His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA,"shall remove the darkness of ego ands ignorance from the life of the populace of this hemisphere. No sooner I get up Sri Bhagavan melts me in His Lotus Feet in such a manner that there is no option left to me but to worship Him with the help of this great teacher, mentor and instructor, Hermes 3000 Swiss Typewriter. This is the work that Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi Arunachaleshwarar Shiva has commissioned me to do day and night so that the knot of the Heart-Cave would be cut once and for all and my life shall be dissolved in His Lotus Feet forever. While sitting at this desk in front of this Hermes 3000 my life becomes merged in His Gleaming and Glowing Presence and there is the result of all these years of my efforts and endeavours to reach Him.

This is true, very true that there has been the delay in the erection of Sri Arunachala Ramana Maharshi Mandiram in this city and all of us do keep on calling on Him with devotion and dedication so that the Mighty Lord would shower His Infinite Grace and Mercy upon all of us so that the time would come when the land shall be filled with the chanting and recitation of His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," our lifelong ambitionbe accomplished once and for all. In the meantime we shall have to strive as strenuously as it is possible for us and keep ourselves submerged in the Ocean of Being, Consciousness and Bliss that Sri Arunachaleshwar Shiva has been for the three worlds. While sitting here at this desk my Heart is melted with the remembrance of His Love and Mercy for the entire universe and time after time I do as much work as it is possible for me at the present time and wait for the day when in His Infinite Grace and Mercy Sri Ramana Arunachala Bhagavan shall remove all the troubles from our life and shall enable all of us to build His Mandiram in New York City. Now it has been 50 years when Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi came into my life and gave me the golden opportunity of calling on Him with unswervingfaith and firmA belief so the the knot ofthe Heart Lotus would be cut once and for all. These words and sentences are incapable of singing His Praises and there is no other alternative left to me but to plunge my mind into Silence and Stillness and let His Will be done for the well-being and welfare of us all.

With my breath merged in the inmost recesses of the Heart I find my mind merged in the Lord of the Holy Hill of the Holy Beacon Light and now there is no other mssion in my earthly existence but to worship Sri Lalita Maha-Tripura-Sundari-Sarveshwari-Matribhuteswari-Saraswati-Parvatidevi in Her New York City Mandiram on the world famous thoroughfare of Fifth Avenue. Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi Arunachaleshwarar Shiva Sad-Guru is the only hope for the realisation of this dream and day and night I find every exhalation and inhalation of my breath. Although the lifelong goal of ringing, resounding and reverberating the unique instruction of the Silent Sage of the Holy Arunachala Mountain hasn't yet been accomplished, nevertheless the very prayers, petitions and supplications continue to spring from the core of my Heart-Lotus and I find myself ever absorbed in the Gleaming, Glowing and Shining Presence of Sri Arunachala Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi. The very ceaseless inherence in His Name and Form has been the splendid experience for me and I ever believe that the Divine Mother, Sri Lalita Maha-Tripura-Sundari shall surely build Her Mandiram.

475–Complete and Total Self Surrender; Saturday, October 19,1991   New York

Sri Bhagavan ever reminds me to abide in Him with unswerving faith and unflagging zeal and drink deep in the nectar of the unceasing Japa of His Blissful and Beatific Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," and wait for the day when Sri Lalita Maha-Tripura-Sundari-Sarveshwari-Saraswati-Matribhuteshwari Mandiram shall be built on the world famous thoroughfare of Fifth Avenue in New York City. The Lord ever keeps my Heart filled with His Presence and tells me to face the various problems of the mundane world with the remembrance that HE always showers His Love and Affection upon all the children of the world. Day and night the surging Ganga of WHO AM I? flows within me and thus enables me to march along, march along towards the Holy Hill of the Holy Beacon Light. Now the major part of my life remains absorbed in Sri Arunachaleshwarar Shiva, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi Guru and there is no other interest in me but to strive strenuously to realise the Summum Bonum of my earthly sojourn. Since the earliest periods of my life I have been seized with the single dream of unfurling His Banner of Self-awareness from the topmost tower of His New York City Mandiram which is the haven for all those women and men who have been ardently earnest to bask in the Sunshine of Love, Affection, Devotion and Dedication. Sri Bhagevan has showered his Infinite Grace and Mercy upon me and has made me His Own once and for all. These words and sentences are incapable of singing His Praises and there is no other aiternative left to me but to plunge my mind in the Ocean of Being, Consciousness and Bliss that HE has been for the whole world. My mind is melted in the remembrance of his Lotus Feet.

With my eyes closed I find myself overwhelmed with His Direct Path of Self-Inquiry of WHO AM I? and the very powerful and memorable remembrance of Hiis All-pervasive and permeating Name keeps my life ever soaked and saturated with "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," and thus Sri Bhagavan is putting me to work day and night and never idle away a moment without drinking deep in the nectar of Self-Awareness within my Heartcave. Sri Bhavavan Ramana Arunachala Shiva Dakshinamurty Sad-Guru always reminds me that I should call on him day and night and ask Him to build His Temple in New York City. Sri Ramana Arunachala Jagadishwara hus given me the most meaningful task to repeat His Name with devotion, dedication, submission, surrender, faith and firmness and face the forces of the world by taking shelter in His Name and Form in the Heart-Cavity. The present state of Self-Absorption can't be described by the mere words and the best thing for an aspirant to do is to experience It with His Infinite Grace, Mercy, Kindness and Compassion. It is very clearly known to the world that by now we haven't succeeded in planting His Flag of Self-Awareness on the topmost tower of Sri Arunachaleshwarar Shiva Dakshinamurty Ramana Maharshi's Temple in New York City. Now I have become so tired of pouring out all my prayer: petitions and supplications to the Lord that the time passes without achieving much results in the world. Sri Bhagavan keeps my breath dissolved in the Ocean of Being, Consciousness and Bliss and the best thing for me to do now is to abide in Silence, Solitude and Stillness once and for all.

The world should know that Sri Arunachala Ramana Sacchidananda Shiva has devoured me once and for all and there is nothing that can be done by me. While sitting here at this desk before the Swiss Portable Typewriter, Hermes 3000, the powerful reign of Self-Abidance in the Heart-Cavity melts me forever. In the present state off all my efforts and endeavours Sri Arunachala has made me quiet and with all my prayers, petitions and supplications I look forward to the moment when the All—Merciful Ramana Bhagavan could build His New York Gity Mandiram. Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi Paramatman blesses me to mutter His Name, "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA," as much as it is humanly possible for me. However hard I may try to describe the Ineffable Cheer and Joy with these words and sentences it has never been possible to draw a picture of the Mighty Maharshi. So the best thing for me to do is to drink deep in the nectar of Self-Inquiry of WHO AM I? Time after time my mind gets merged and melted with Sri Arunachala Bhagavan's Infinite Grace and Mercy. Now there is nothing else for me to do but to abide in His Lotus Feet with love, affection, devotion and dedication.

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