The Children of Nature: The Life and Legacy of Ramana Maharshi | Free Book
Susan Visvanathan
An autobiographical interpretative work, The Children of Nature is an
attempt to understand the role of spirituality and its social
relevance. Susan Visvanathan also tries to comprehend the volatility
of the town of Tiruvannamalai: abode of Ramana Maharshi. Using
published material as well as diaries and letters from Sri
Ramanasramam, the author uses the method of collage to splice together
many moments in telling of history. Battling her own illness, Susan
meets people, makes friends and learns that solitude has a grammar
which is completely acceptable within community life. Ramanasramam
becomes home to her, and a place she associates with a sense of
well-being and life. The book tries to explicate the extent to which a
person’s experience of the divine can be explained by social
anthropology. What are the limits of interpretation, how can
boundaries of a discipline get extended when its object of study is
often a moment of subjective revelation, and how far is it possible to
understand the interweaving of the sacred and the profane in the lives
of ordinary human beings.
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