Message #16773

[Swami Peevananda]

Actually Yogananda didn't devote an entire chapter to Ramana Maharshi. He included a short mention of him and a photo at the end of his chapter on his visit to South India. Of all the saints in the autobiography, his account of his meeting with Ramana was conspicuously brief. I read somewhere that someone asked Yogananda about this and he is reported to have said it was because Paul Brunton had already written about him (i'm not sure the validity of that quote). Still, I get the feeling that there may have been some philosophical tension when he visited Ramana Maharshi' ashram.

There is a more detailed account of Yogananda's visit and conversation with Ramana online somewhere which didn't make it into Yogananda's autobiography.