Letters from Sri Ramanasramam, by Suri Nagamma

When I asked Bhagavan in what books they are to be
found, he said, “They must be in those big notebooks bearing
numbers one, two and three. Please see,” and again,
“Whenever anyone asked me, I used to write them out on
small bits of paper and give them to them. They used to take
them away. Some of them were noted down in these books
and some were not. If all of them were here, there would by
now have been a quite a lot. I wrote many more while l was on
the hill. Some of them were thrown away. Who had the desire
or the patience to preserve them? If you want them, you may
gather them now.” I felt pained that the Divine voice expressed
in verses had not been preserved for future generations and
had thus been wasted. I took up volume one, and found verses
under the heading, “Bhagavan’s Compositions.” I asked him
what those verses were and he replied:
“When I was in Virupaksha Cave, Nayana came there
once with a boy named Arunachala. He had studied up to
the school’s final class. While Nayana and I were talking, the
boy sat in a bush nearby. He somehow listened to our
conversation and composed nine verses in English, giving
the gist of what we were talking about. The verses were good
and so I translated them into Tamil verses in ahaval metre.

They read like Telugu dwipada metre. The substance of the
verses is as follows:
From the sun of Bhagavan’s face, the rays of his words
start out and bestow glow and strength on the moon of
Ganapathy Sastry’s (Nayana’s) face which in turn lights
the faces of people like us.

“One thing more. Ganapathy Sastry used to say that
Sahasrara is the source and the centre of all. The Heart is the
support of Sahasrara, is it not? The Heart bestows light on
the Sahasrara. I used to say that the Heart is the source of all
and that the force that emerges out of the Heart shines in
the Sahasrara. To include this idea, the verse suggests a double
meaning that the Heart is the sun, the solar orb, and the
Sahasrara is the moon.”