Ramana Maharhshi was a guru of international renown from
southern India who taught during the first half of the twentieth
century. He was born in 1879
near Madurai, Tamilnadu. His father was a farmer. He was the second of
three sons. The family was religious, giving ritual offerings to the
family deity and visiting temples. One unusual aspect
of his family history was a curse that was put on the family by a
wandering monk who was refused...
