The 60th anniversary of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi’s Maha Nirvana was honoured in Ramanashram on Tuesday 11th May. Every year this day is celebrated as the Aradhana festival with great devotion and respect.

Sri Ramana attained Maha Nirvana on April 14th 1950 and devotees may wonder why Aradhana is being celebrated in May. This is because, religious and spiritual anniversaries are usually observed according to the astrological constellation and so the day of commemoration may vary from year to year in lieu of the appearance of the constellation.  The Tamil calendar has a cycle of 60 years with a name for each year. The present year is called “Vikruthi” and 60 years ago, it was in this same year of Vikruthi in which Sri Ramana left his mortal frame and attained Samadhi.

This year, in the Ashram,  the usual Aradhana programme was observed. The morning began with special chanting of Ramana sthuthi panchagam and Aksharamana malai after which the Brahmin priests commenced the Rudra japam in preparation for the grand Ekadasa Mahanyasa Rudra abhishekam in the shrine of Ramana’s samadhi which was the main event of the day. Breakfast, lunch and dinner were served to one and all and devotees partook happily at all the meals.

In the evening there was a vocal music concert rendered by Smt.Ambika, a singer from Bangalore, hailing from a family of Ramana devotees. She sang songs in praise of Ramana in Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit, many of them being compositions of present day devotees.

May the Divine Grace of Ramana be showered over the whole world on this Aradhana !!!

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