Ramana Maharshi Recollects Heavy Downpour Of Rains On His Arrival To Arunachala(1-9-1896)

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Early in the morning, old Mr. Ranganatha Iyer told Bhagavan, “We have had a very good shower of rain last night.It is fortunate that it did not interfere with our celebrations yesterday, but came on only in the night after everything was over.”

Bhagavan said, “I remember the same thing happened on the night of 1-9-1896, when I arrived here. It seems they had no rains for a long time then. But on that night there was a heavy downpour. I was then staying at the mantapam in front of the Big Temple.

Only that morning for the first time I had discarded all my clothes, except a cod-piece and, on account of the rains beating in, and the cold winds blowing about, I found the cold unbearable, and so I ran from there and took shelter on the pial of a house nearby.

About midnight some inmates of the house came out opening the street door and I ran into the Big Temple. For some days after that too, it rained!”

Source: DAY BY DAY WITH BHAGAVAN From the Diary of A. DEVARAJA MUDALIAR

Readers interested are requested to read below articles as well

http://prashantaboutindia.blogspot.com/2009/09/ramana-maharshi-recollects-his-first.html

http://prashantaboutindia.blogspot.com/2009/06/ramana-maharshi-recollects-about-his.html

My Spiritual Friend Subramanian.R wants to add few points

I would rather say that Bhagavan's first bath was on 1st September,1896.It was a Tuesday, around 11 am.He went straight into the Big Temple.No one was surprisingly seen inside the Temple.He went into the sanctum sanctorum and hugged Arunachaleswara,
saying:"Father! As per your command, I have come to you."

Soon,He came out of the main temple and was near Ayyankulam Tank.A barber asked Him: "Sami! Should I give you a tonsure?" Bhagavan agreed and the tonsuring was complete. Now bath? Where to bathe? More importantly, why should there be a bath for this body? - He was thoughtful for a while.-

But Mother Unnamulai,Nature,thought it otherwise.Why should He leave the customary practice? Soon there was a downpour! Mind you, it was September, and the monsoon was yet to start in Tamil Nadu.But rains did come and He was fully drenched in the rain.The bath was complete.

Source: http://www.arunachala-ramana.org/forum/index.php?topic=4976.msg13834#msg13834