After I posted this, a friend emailed me the following paragraph:<\/p>\n
We have read and re-read <\/em>Ramana Periya Puranam and every time I read it, tears start to flow down my face. I feel an outpouring of grace whenever I read it. It\u2019s one of the most powerful books that both my husband and I have come across, and I was very happy to see it mentioned in your blog.<\/em> <\/p>\n That’s a better introduction to this book than anything I wrote, so I’m making it the new beginning of this post. Here’s what I wrote originally:<\/p>\n If you’ve been captured by Ramana’s gravitational field like I have been, you’ve probably read or at least heard of many books about him. I think there are well over two hundred.<\/p>\n I want to briefly mention a book that you may not have heard of: Ramana Periya Puranam<\/em> by V. Ganesan.<\/p>\n This book will probably bring you as close as you can come to knowing what it felt like to be a direct disciple of Ramana at his ashram.<\/p>\n The author is Ramana’s grandnephew. As a boy he spent a lot of time in Ramana’s ashram and got to know many of Ramana’s direct devotees. This book contains biographies and reminiscences of 75 of them. Lots of photos, too.<\/p>\n Ganesan passes on to us teachings which he received from these people, which they in turn received from Ramana.<\/p>\n The subtitle is Inner Journey of 75 Old Devotees<\/em>.<\/p>\n