Homage To The Presence Of Sri Ramana (Sri Ramana Sannidhi Murai) (A Garland of Adoration)
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ISBN / ASINB008O6JBZM
ISBN-13978B008O6JBZ8
Sales Rank5,167,980
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Pages: 190 (Black & White Illus: 9)
Publisher's Note
The foremost duty to the Guru of a fully dedicated aspirant is to live the Master's teachings in such a way that his own flowering benefits not only himself but radiates its fragrance for all to imbibe. As mystic, poet and devotee par excellence, Muruganar fulfilled this duty to perfection. His life was an example in perfect devotion, and his poetical outpourings, composed in the most exquisite classical Tamil, display the merging of bhakti into Jnana, leaving a legacy for all time.
Muruganar's two main works, Guru Vachaka Kovai (The Garland of Guru's Sayings) and Sri Ramana Sannidhi Murai (Homage to the Presence), stand alone as pillars to Jnana and bhakti, Jnana mata. The Garland of Guru's Sayings is a treatise, a Sastra, of 1254 verses expounding the highest Jnana as taught by Sri Bhagavan. In Homage to the Presence, his stotra, or hymn of adoration, Muruganar expresses his well of devotion to the Guru in 1851 verses of soul-stirring poetry.
Both works were translated into English by Professor K. Swaminathan and serialized in The Mountain Path from its inaugural issue onward. The Garland of Guru's Sayings was re-edited and published as a book in 1990, as a centenary tribute to Muruganar. It was immediately acclaimed "a treatise which provides the most precise, systematic and authoritative exposition of Bhagavan's teaching".
We are now happy to be able to offer a selection of 473 verses of Homage to the Presence. As with The Garland of Guru's Sayings, all credit for the newly edited verses goes to Professor K. Swaminathan for his unfailing perseverence in rendering Muruganar's poetry into English verse. We are confident that the rasa, or essence of unswerving and irreproachable devotion embodied in these verses will be received as amrita, nectar supreme,
Publisher's Note
The foremost duty to the Guru of a fully dedicated aspirant is to live the Master's teachings in such a way that his own flowering benefits not only himself but radiates its fragrance for all to imbibe. As mystic, poet and devotee par excellence, Muruganar fulfilled this duty to perfection. His life was an example in perfect devotion, and his poetical outpourings, composed in the most exquisite classical Tamil, display the merging of bhakti into Jnana, leaving a legacy for all time.
Muruganar's two main works, Guru Vachaka Kovai (The Garland of Guru's Sayings) and Sri Ramana Sannidhi Murai (Homage to the Presence), stand alone as pillars to Jnana and bhakti, Jnana mata. The Garland of Guru's Sayings is a treatise, a Sastra, of 1254 verses expounding the highest Jnana as taught by Sri Bhagavan. In Homage to the Presence, his stotra, or hymn of adoration, Muruganar expresses his well of devotion to the Guru in 1851 verses of soul-stirring poetry.
Both works were translated into English by Professor K. Swaminathan and serialized in The Mountain Path from its inaugural issue onward. The Garland of Guru's Sayings was re-edited and published as a book in 1990, as a centenary tribute to Muruganar. It was immediately acclaimed "a treatise which provides the most precise, systematic and authoritative exposition of Bhagavan's teaching".
We are now happy to be able to offer a selection of 473 verses of Homage to the Presence. As with The Garland of Guru's Sayings, all credit for the newly edited verses goes to Professor K. Swaminathan for his unfailing perseverence in rendering Muruganar's poetry into English verse. We are confident that the rasa, or essence of unswerving and irreproachable devotion embodied in these verses will be received as amrita, nectar supreme,
