Dear David, listening to this in 2023..yes, you are blessed and destined to live there in Arunachala...our outer appearance may look totally different but our karma from previous lives is the magic that decides our present situation or lifestyle.. last time when I wrote to you, you were out of India.. hope you're back to that place.... What you are doing is simply incredible and helping many ppl like me to know more about the scared place.. Salute to you 🙏

Dear Mr. Godman, this has been a quite remarkable series! It could go on forever, if it was up to me... Thanks a lot for all the stories, the insights, and the rare, often previously unseen, images you have shared. I sincerely hope there will be more videos from you in the future. I'll keep watching this space. Thanks!

David, thanks so you very much. I came to yoga and my guru baba Hari Dass through a book a man gave me called Reflections, a Ramana book. In 1994-95 I traveled to Arunachala, with the blessing of my guru, who also respects Ramana very much, and arrived on Ramana's Birthday, without my knowing it was such an auspicious day. I stood in the main hall with hundreds of pilgrims watching movies projected on the wall of the hall, such peace I felt then. I stayed at the ashram, walked up the mountain barefoot, due to priests telling me to remove my sandals, wow the mountain showed my feet what tapas was, and heart was touched. Later, I walked around the foot of the hill barefoot thinking I was looking for some swami that lived near by, and 2 young men encouraged me to walk around the mountain with them. I felt later that the mountain was really having its way with me. I will always remember that stay there and your videos are a rare and wonderful gift. When ever the mind wants to make things difficult and complex, I partake of Ramana's teachings and all becomes so much clearer. Om Jai Ramana!

This is so good and fitting for the last of this series of films. I've been to Tiru a dozen times over the last 10 years and have downplayed the significance of the mountain. Watching this has made me reevaluate that notion. Thanks David, hopefully there will be another batch of films on the way. KZfaq is how a lot of people get their information these days and Arunachala Ramana should be well represented for future generations.

Thank you for what you are sharing. I am in hospital in Abergavenny, Wales, after a small stroke, looking out over a mountain called Blorenge (the only rhyme for 'orange' in English). I see the sun's last rays and think of Arunachala.

Thanks a million David. Finishing the segment with your own personal story makes it all the more powerful of what is this force called Arunachala.

Listening to David is like living with Bhagavan. His descriptions of the events in the blessed life of Bhagavan are vivid. May God give David long lifespan and energy to write and talk about the sages and saints of India, who are numbered in hundreds. 🙏

David. I join other commenters in thanking you for this series. I have loved every talk that you have done, and have been moved by them all. I have never been to Arunachala, and may never have the opportunity to visit, but you have brought both Ramana Maharshi and Arunachala close to me.

I did not know about this mountain or Ramana till few weeks back when on 23rd of Nov I called an ambulance to my home in Sydney Australia due to a spinal injury. What has ensued since is a major awakening and I am now totally immersed in Ramana's teachings and this mountain. I now learn that 23rd was also the day this year when light was lit on top of Arunachala. It is calling and pulling me in.

Thank you so much David for this series of videos. I have loved every one and now they are finished, I think I shall have to go back and watch them all again. One day, I hope and pray that I can come and see Arunachala with my own eyes and feel its grace. Since I found the book 'Be as you are', around 15 years ago, my life changed and I feel I have been inspired by Baghavan. The stories you tell about his life and teachings are beautiful, they have kept me company and held me spellbound. They have such a magnetic attraction to me, and I'm sure I'm not alone. Thank you so much.

Thank you Mr.David Godman for the wonderful series.

Great man , David Godman.

Fascinating talk David as ever. I should like to worship this hill...

3 people are the greatest spiritual teachers of all! Om Sri Bhagavan!

wonderful video on the holy mountain.....can not thank you enough!

Especially now we all need Arunachalas grace and blessings.thank you for all

25:38 David Godman got Arrested by Arunachala for life. What love! Amazing!

Thanks so much for the series! I watched "Call Off the Search" over and over back in the VHS days and have been loving this now in the KZfaq era. Whatever you decide to post will be eagerly received.

Jai Shree Ramana Maharshi !!! David, Namaste !!! I was in the Ashram from 05-05-2015, and just been in the Ashram grounds, I did nothing nor did I ask anyone for prayers, for some reason something was happening to me, that was not good, which I would never do, this took place the second day we stayed there near by the ashram, but after that experience , I became very calm, I felt a lightness and it was like I got back my life,and from then on, the questions that was in my mind for all my lifetime, now I was able to form these questions into words and sentences, then speak out those word, so I am saying that inside and the surroundings of the Ashram have given me back my life, that was taken away from childhood, now the people who was my attackers is saying I am more mad, because I can now explain what was happening to me, but the man who married me, says he cannot remember anything in all those years of marriage, and nothing is wrong with him, now that I am cleared from his evils, he is now saying that place is evil, because he is now been exposed by that God that resides there in the mountain of Arunachala, at this time he is still uncomfortably, so my advice base on my experience at that power spot every single persons in the world should be there for at lease three days, to feel that power of shakti, I again wish to get the blessings to go back in this life, I would, providing I am accepted, my story is much much deeper, but it will have to be told so everyone would understand as to why certain things took place in my life, and as to why that experience above happened to me and all my life before 05-05-2015. SCBM. Not even in my everyday life would I ever utter those words, much less in a ashram, to the Ashram If I have offended anyone I am sorry, I request from everyone in the Ashram to please forgive me and that experience that took place there, in 2015, And many many many thanks for everything. scbm

Thank you, David. Ever grateful for the blessed work that you are doing, in helping the like of me to discover Ramana, years ago, and now to continue to enrich and to fan my quest for Realisation. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Loved hearing your personal story David thank you for sharing

Dear David Godman, Thanks so much for your work. There is a enlightened teacher I know, G Venkataramana who highly recommends the Telugu translation of your book on Ramana Maharshi and quotes some of the sections in the book in his talks when he visits Arunachala. He himself has published books on the Ribhu Gita. His guru, Sivananda Murthy also used to have visions of Sri Ramana Maharshi. Thank you again for your work. Om namo Arunchalalaya namah. Om namah Shivaya namaha.

Dear David, I thoroughly enjoyed this whole library of videos on your channel and found the nuggets in there to be very, very enriching. I hadn't known about Mastan Swami, for instance, and a flood of other inside information about the scene and without your stories I probably never would have. Thanks a lot for the work ! It has been almost 15 years since I visited the ashram and Arunachala in 2001, my only time, and would wish I could go again. There is one memory of that trip, BTW, that I didn't find so inspiring and that was a very strange sadhu who seemed to be living close to the top of the mountain when I climbed up there. He seemed to be very busy giving oral instructions to his disciples while trying to preserve his vow of silence by simply keeping his lips closed. That was bizarre and I am still having doubts whether that guy wasn't simply totally nuts, lol.

Om Ramana! Thanks David for providing countless hours of Ramana and Arunachala Smarana.

I hope you will continue to make these wonderful videos! I just love them. I was last in Tiru 20 years ago and I'm longing to return. Thank you.

Really wonderful series, +DavidGodmanArunachala, to immerse oneself in the biography, historical context, and workaday life of an extraordinary teacher, as well as the teachings themselves... Thank you!

beautiful, that personal story of yours at the end!

You are very blessed, David. Thank you for these videos. Through these, I try to visualize Bhagavan.

Thank you for these videos. Sending love from Scotland.

Thank you for sharing your personal story. I would love to listen more of this stories.

Deeply grateful. Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya!

Thank you for all this series, very much appreciated..

The burning sensation within ramana sounds a lot like the experience of an awakened kundalini.

Thanks Mr David. Your narrations are awesome.

My longing to come to Arunachalam and visit Ramanashram has intensified manifold after listening to your talks, especially this particular one. I owe you this, in the sense that you are no doubt a chosen medium for people like me to find peace and clarity in their quest. Being Indian, an urge, to bow and touch feet of a pious sadhak, comes naturally to me. Listening to your videos, has that effect on me, and I mentally bow at your feet, not just as reverence but as gratitude to Him that he has seekers like you who knowingly unknowingly guide and help amateur seekers everywhere in the world. Thanks for being there and available to us in this form.

I hear the voice of an enlightened being in mr godman voice❤

What a story. Hope one day I too can see arunachala. His grace has to be there for that.

Thanks David for sharing some of your personal experiences. Would love to hear more or if you can write a book on it.

Thank you sir for the wonderful video.

Some years ago I started to worship ARUNACHALA (I am far away in Germany) and one day ARUNACHALA visited me with its holy presence and gave darshan

so grateful to you. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.

thank you with all my heart!

Thank you David 🕉❤️🕉 what a privilege to hear the sacred truth. 🙏

Many thanks for your radiating passion !

Hi David you uploaded new videos just a day back. However, I can’t see them now. Could you upload them again ? They were very good. Thanks again for your wonderful service to Arunachala Ramana

Thank you so much Mr Godman, I see life differently now I know about Bhagavan. My dream is to go to Arunachala before my death

Dear David Namaste some amazing shots of the Holy Mountain so inspiring so intriguing thanks so much

Many thanks David...Given a great experience thru your video. Shiva is infinity ...If one can reach the nothingness can get the enlightenment.

The DHARMA that is ones lifescript,is also based on the location one resides. Ramana Maharshi knew he had to go to Arunanchala which was was the catalyst for what would be his gurus shakti. Just as St Francis needed to be at ASSISI for his DHARMA to unfold to its highest level of spiritual KNOWLEDGE,so RAMANA needed to be in this location for its energy to push his spirituality to its HIGHEST level of understanding.

Thank you for sharing this information. It is very helpful. ~Namaste.

I am not sure how to express my gratitude to you...i hope we meet..cuz u r a guru to me..lots of l9ve and respect to u...

Many (many) thanks!

Thanks a lot David

I love you David!

Thanks very much David.

I love this video!! Thank you David , beautiful! Someday I will come to Arunachala!!!! 🌿🌵🍀☘🌳🍃

Namaste !!!

David, it has been a wonderful experience watching all your videos. Thank you. I had a brief visit to thiruvannamalai and met a sadhu there, yogananda swami. Do you know him?

I sincerely pray to Lord Arunachala to pull me to him and never let me go. .

Beautiful!

thank you for this

Wonderful time Arunachala Shiva

David Sir: I think Maharshi also said that the Arunachala was within and not without. It would have been doubly blessed if you had touched this point too.

David, thank you very much for all your dedicated work and commitment to the life in Arunachala. I would like to know whether the attainment of the wisdom in "the ultimate experience of reality or enlightenment" that Ramana Maharshi experienced and taught to others, has any resemblance to the Nirvana that Gouthama Buddha had attained, 2600 years ago. Your understanding about this matter is very much appreciated by me, as a Universal Truth seeker. Thank you!

Thanks David

Divine insight

Thank u David .

About the Deepam,looking through the beautiful translation of the (Tamil ) Arunachala Puranam by Robert Butler,from v. 388 to v.400,there is a description of Parvati merging in Arunachala after Giri-pradakshina; (pp 103-105).Moreover,to be fair to Suri Nagamma,R.Butler quotes letter 98 (the importance of yatra & pradakshina ),where Bhagavan says that Amba did pradakshina & then was absorbed in Arunachala Siva on the day of the Krittika star.(p xxiii).Verse 159,p 48,mentions Kartikai Deepam but without mention of Parvati.

Thank you.

Dear Godman u r 😍😍😍

It baffles me how Bhagavan could be so enchanted by that mountain or any other form, given his teachings concerning the illusory quality of all form. Could he simply have had it in his destiny to come here, for no other reason that people feel called to be anywhere else? We all have to be somewhere. I'm interested in anyone’s thoughs on this matter, dear Satsang.

WOW. Incredible! I believe I remember that Moses and his people were led by a pillar of fire. And a question: is the correct pronunciation “Maha-REE-shi”? I’ve been saying “Ma-HAR-shi”.

thank you very much sir.

There is an excellent article on David's site by a Michael James, who states that devotees can use Arunchala as a mantra if they so wish. Bhagavan suggested the mere thought of the mountain would bestow liberation...

Thank you, Sir

🔥thank you🙏

Very wonderful. Thank you David for posting this. Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya! I love the song which incorporates the mantra and is the music on this video. I presume it is in Tamil but maybe in Sanskrit. I have Bhagavan's picture on my home altar and make offerings each morning before sitting. I chant the offering mantra a few times, but would love to incorporate the words as sung on the video. Any way to get a copy of them in roman letters? and perhaps a translation? I can learn the tune from the video.

You can see divine power in a pencil once you totally believe it. Much of this is the power of suggestion.

Namaste David.

Can someone tell me what is the introduction tune name?

Sir, I watched all the talks in this series and felt so happy to know all the details you have given in the talks. Though i have been to Tiruvannamalai few times, we couldn't visit all the places associated with Sri Ramana Maharshi.I would like to know if you have given any talks on Tiruchuli, Sri Ramana Maharshi's birth place and Ramana Mandiram, Madurai.

Thank you 🙏

Om Sri Ramana. Om Namo Bhagavade Sivanandaya. Thank you for this beautiful video. I have been to Sri Ramana Ashram in 2004 and 2014. I did not walk around the Holy Arunachala. Is possible to get this video 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Watching this again..probably 3rd or 4th time.

🙏🏻💙🕉 THANK YOU

You are very good at what you love to do. You must be very good at it because you love it so much. You have a talent of explaining Sri Ramana Maharshi's teachings like no one else I've come across. Thank you to you and to the self for placing that love in your heart!

I see right now you are in Perth, Australia. Have you left Tiruvannamalai Or Covid concerns. I am so happy to listen to you and can't thank you enough. I hope one day before leaving this body I also get to visit Arunachala. Thank you Sir.

Thanks David for bringing these great videos to us. They make me feel connectioned to Ramana and Arunachala. And I realize more the illusion of the I :-) I find stunningly magical that the three calfs where born on Ramanas birthday! A real myth if it were. I collected pictures of cows when I was young so you can imagin. David sorry I tried to find the word you use a lot meaning 'the formless reality' you say. But can't find it .. non of the variaties I think I hear .. Nyana, Niana, Niania give anything .. could you tell me how it is spelled.

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The association of a unique spiritual power with Arunachala is, for me, comparable to associating the Self with the Heart-centre on the right side of the chest. That is, the teaching is valid and can be extremely useful, but ultimately it is not strictly true in an absolute sense. That which lies beyond space and time, and which alone is, cannot be pinned down to a particular location either within the body or within the world.

ARUNACHALA SHIVA 🙏💖

Namaste, David ! :) Maybe you know where I can download all Papaji's satsangs in high quality? I will be very grateful! Om Shiva Arunachala Om

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David, you've been there all your life, you must have an answer: why are Indians so passionate about honking? Does it ever stop, can you run anywhere from it?

I'm so depressed but is too lazy to do self-enquire, what should I do?

🙏🙏🙏🙏 grazie!

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thanks

A few months later Bhagavan spoke again about the greatness of Arunachala: This hill is not one which was formed at a certain time and which will be destroyed at another time. It is a swayambu [spontaneously manifesting] lingam. The word lingam can be subdivided: 'ling' means 'union' and 'gam' means 'that which forms'. There are many other meanings for the word such as God, Atman, form, and Siva.' Swayambu lingams appear spontaneously as an act of God. They are not created or caused by any human or geologically natural activity. 'This hill is not really on earth. All the heavenly bodies are attached to it. The name of that which is the source of both arising and subsiding is lingam.'

Are there any books translated into English where Bhagvan himself supervised or edited their publications? Thanks