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The following excerpts are from 'A
Sadhu's Reminscences of Ramana Maharshi by Sadhu Arunachala
(A.W. Chadwick), Alan Chadwick, a retired British military officer was one of the first European devotees of Ramana Maharshi. He came to his Guru in November of 1935 and stayed until Ramana's passing in 1950 (April 14, 1950 at 8:47 p.m.). He had the remarkable experience of being intimate with Ramana on a daily basis which gives this book it's unique insight into the day to day life of this great Sage of Inida. Sadhu Arunachala passed away in
April 1962.
He would wander out on to the Hill a few times a day, and of him, it was surely an attachment to the Hill. He loved it and said it was god Himself. He used to say that it was the top of the spiritual axis of the earth; there must he said, be another mountain corresponding to Arunachala exactly at the opposite side of the globe the corresponding ple of the axis. So certain was he of this that one evening he made me fetch an atlas and see if this was not corret. I found, according to the atlas, the exact opposite point came in the sea about an hundred miles offf the coast of Peru. He seemed doubtful about this. I pointed out that there might be some island at this spot or a mountain under the sea. t was not until some years after Bhagavan's passing that a visiting Englishman had a tale of a spot, supposed to be a great secret power centre, in the Andes somewhere in this latitude. Later found that though a centre had certainly been started it had failed. Since then I have been told of another perons who is practising meditation in solitude in the region of the Andes in Ecuador. So it does appear as though there were some strange attraction about that poart of the globe. The earth is not an exact spere and maps are not so accurate as all that, so we are unable to pin it down to any definite point. It is quite possible that more is going on in part of the world than we know and this would fit in well with what Bhagavan said. However I could never discuss the matter with Bhagavan as it was not until many years after his passing that I had any indication that anything of this sort was happening in those parts. I had many years ago travelled extensively in that country but had never seen anything which would lead me to think that there might be important spiritual centres there.
Talks With Ramana Maharshi | The Heart | Do Guru's Feel Pain | Ramana's Appearance | Chadwick's First Darshan | Saints Turn Into Light | Somerset Maugham | Mercedes D'Acosta | Ramana's Teaching According to Adi Da | Published from the Ashram | The Seer and The Seen | Mandukya Upanishad | Three States of Consciousness | The Five Great Elements | India and Peru | Ramana's Will | |
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