Yogi Ramsuratkumar was born on December 1, 1918, along the banks of the Ganges in a small village adjacent to Kashi, near Varanasi (Benares), India. In his childhood, he loved very much to meet the yogis and monks. He was befriended by a number of holy men who built their huts on the Ganges shore or simply wandered nearby.
When he was 12 years old he had an initial spiritual Awakening. When pulling water from a well one night he saw a sparrow on the stone coping of the well wall. In a child-like impulse he threw the rope towards it, striking the bird causing it to fall to the ground. Stricken with uncontrollable sorrow and drenched in tears, he took the bird in his hands and pouring water into its beak in an effort to revive it, but the bird was dead. The bird's death raised a number of questions in his mind. He regretted his act and resented the fact that he acted impetuously, and if had not, the incident could have been averted. The suffering that he experienced filled his heart with compassion towards all creatures.
When he was 16 years old, moved by an immense impusle to search for God, he left his home carrying nothing with him and began his journey in search of a Guru. In 1947, at the age of 29, he was visiting the ashram of Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry. A disciple there suggested he visit Sri Ramana Maharshi at Tiruvannamalai.
He traveled to Tiruvannamalai and lived there for three days and was filled with an even greater spiritual energy. There he happened to see a newspaper clipping that led him to Swami Ramdas at Kanhangad in Kerala.
He then returned to Varanasi. The following year, in 1948, he returned to Sri Aurobindo ashram. Then he went to Ramanashram and stayed there for two months, in proximity of Sri Ramana Maharshi.
Still, he felt the need for a Guru and returned to Swami Ramdas, then returned once again to the Himalayas. In 1952, moved by a powerful inner force, he returned to Swami Ramdas, and this time found in Swami Ramdas the spiritual light he was searching for.
Swami Ramadas initiated him into the holy mantra "Om Sri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram", by pronouncing it thrice in his ears. Yogi Ramsuratkumar often refers to this instance as his "death", since from this moment on, his ego no longer existed, and he had a profound spiritual transformation.
Yogi Ramsuratkumar travelled across India from 1952 to 1959. Not much is known about the exact whereabouts of him in this period. He finally reached Thiruvannamalai in the Southern India in 1959. He was a "hidden" saint during this early period, with not too many individuals realizing that this "beggar" was someone who is in a high state of consciousness. He was seen near the Tiruvannamalai Temple chariot, at the corners of the Road, under the trees of the Temple. As more and more people started acknowledging the divine presence in him, he then began living in a small house in Sannadhi Street beneath the Temple. He continued to bless the devotees who thronged by the thousands to his house at the Sannadhi Street.
In 1993, his devotees became too many to be handled in a small house and the devotees wished him to have an Ashram which he gently accepted after much persuasion for the sake of his devotees. The Yogi Ramsuratkumar Ashram was constructed at Agrahara collai and occupies total area of 3.5 Acres. The ashram is located in Ramananagar of Tiruvannamalai, within a walking distance from Ramana Ashram, not far from the southeast Lingam on the circambulation route.
On February 20, 2001 at 3:19AM in the Ashram at Thiruvannamalai, Yogi Ramsuratkumar left his body with Mahasamadhi being celeberated the next day, February 21st, at 3P.M.
" He always Live in all Pure Devotees heart"
In our next post We See lot of Miracles done by Swamiji &also more details about This Saint
YOGI RAM SURAT KUMAR JAYA GURU RAYA!!!!!!
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