| Preface | iii |
Guru’s Grace |
1. | Introduction — A lifetime with Bhagavan | 3 |
2. | The Maharshi’s Greatness | 10 |
3. | A Voice from the Hill of the Holy Beacon | 11 |
Reminiscences |
4. | Sri Ramana Gives Rama Darshan | 17 |
5. | Initiation for Sri Bhagavan? | 22 |
6. | Deepavali Darshan | 24 |
7. | Introduction to the Collected Works | 26 |
8. | Bhagavan tells of Kannappar the Saint | 28 |
9. | The Teaching in Silence | 32 |
10. | Can a cracked egg be hatched? | 33 |
11. | Does it not pain the tree? | 36 |
12. | He was my remembrancer | 37 |
13. | Walk with Bhagavan to the lake | 38 |
14. | The Pontiff and Sri Bhagavan | 42 |
15. | Thought Travels too | 45 |
16. | That Hoomkar | 47 |
17. | Proxy Cure at a Distance | 50 |
18. | The Ekarat and the Princely Beggar | 52 |
19. | I am not talking to you! | 54 |
20. | In Brute and Man alike | 55 |
21. | “Who am I, Nayana?” | 57 |
22. | Bhagavan as a Classical Sanskrit Poet | 58 |
23. | How the Mantra came | 61 |
24. | Envoi | 63 |
The Guru’s Teaching |
23. | The Essence of the Teaching | 67 |
26. | What does the Guru say? | 68 |
27. | The Knower and the Magician | 71 |
28. | How the “Five Hymns to Arunachala” came | 75 |
29. | Where is the Divine World? | 82 |
30. | Who am I? | 84 |
31. | Where can the Self be found? | 86 |
32. | Silence, self-imposed or Imposed by the Self? | 87 |
33. | The Divine Ruler | 90 |
34. | The Ribhu Gita | 92 |
35. | Questions and Answers | 99 |
Appendix |
36. | Tiruvannamalai-Arunachalam | 105 |
37. | My Little Ones | 110 |
38. | Six Verses in Praise of Sri Bhagavan | 111 |