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Yogi Shuddhananda Bharathi was the first and until recently, the only biographer of Ramana in Tamil. His book, “ Ramana Vijayam” was published in 1931. But it still holds the candle after seven decades for its poetic flow and awareness of Ramana’s presence. The best years of the spiritual life of Bharathi were the years that he spent at Arunachalam. He was then staying in the Virupaksha Cave and he used to spend some hours each day in Ramana’s physical presence at Sri Ramanasramam in its earlier years. Even though Bharathi did not, to our knowledge, revisit Sri Ramanasramam, this does not matter. For those who are aware of the power of Sadguru Ramana’s glowing eyes and initiation by look, do know for sure that their magnetism is not bound by time. For me this translation into English has been a special boon because, every page of Bharathi’s book drips with the honey of love for Ramana. The fascination of a biography on Ramana is that when one reads it, he is in Ramana’s physical presence enjoying its beatitude.