Guru Ramana 24th September The old Mudaliar lady-Patti-who has been daily serving Maharshi with rice cooked in her own house and at her own expense for forty years, passed away at about midnight. As soon as the news of her death reached Sri Maharshi, he started talking about her and went on the whole day telling her story from 1908 one year after Echammal came, when she first came to him in Virupakshi Cave, upwards, and how she stuck to him all these years with unflagging devotion and wholehearted service. He enquired about the place of her burial and, when told that it would be in the Hindu general burial-ground, he said that it should be in the place where she died. His order had to be obeyed, and a pit was dug withhin that compound which is not far from the Ashram proper. Her body was made to sit cross-legged in Yoga asana, as it is customarily done to the bodies of sannyasis, then garlanded with flowers and sprinkled with sacred ash and camphor and finally buried for final rest. S.S.COHEN
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 11:10:06 +0000
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