"Seshadriswami recognized in Ramana a kindred spirit, whose exceptional depth of absorption he valued." (Ebert, "Life", p.39).During the first, the glory had been concealed and he had accepted the same conditions of life as previously, with the same obedience to teachers and elders during the second he was turned inwards, completely ignoring the outer world and this, as will be shown, merged gradually into the third, lasting for half a century, during which his radiance shone like the midday sun on all who approached him." (Osborne, "Self-knowledge", p.26) Have you ever considered the possibility that these are "religious narratives", and that those biographies also copy each other - just like the Gospels copied the structure and contents of Marc? And that they highlight those aspects which fit into pre-existing notions and expectations, presenting them in a specific narrative? Anyway, here's what Ebert writes: ( Iddli ( talk) 00:53, 20 October 2015 (UTC)) It's akin to Osborne: ' "So began the second phase of his life after Self-realization. Yes, his behavior was exemplary - but that was not what stopped them in their tracks, changed them profoundly, and kept them devoted to him for the rest of their lives. It was so powerful that they all seem to describe it as if it happened a day or two ago. In the videoed interviews of old devotees, what is so striking is their descriptions of Ramana's extraordinary and silencing-of-the-mind radiance. " That, I believe, is a far more accurate description of why people were so drawn to him. This radiance attracted a small circle of followers. This sentence was originally based on this line in Be As You Are: "After a few years of living on its slopes his inner awareness began to manifest as an outer spiritual radiance.
It was not primarily Ramana's exemplary behavior which attracted devotees. yet again, the meaning got changed but the reference remained. This sentence in the lead section does not seem accurate: "He soon attracted devotees because of his exemplary behaviour as a silent ascetic.
15 Dakshinamurthy Stotram and "deathbed stuff".4 Over-use of references and use of foreign references.