He is the only person in ancient India who is both – a Sanskrit and Tamil scholar. In his early years, Maharishi Valmiki was a highway dacoit known as Ratnakar, who used to rob people after killing them. There is a community named Balmiki. It is a name given to a group of people...
Ramana, born Venkataraman Iyer, was born 1879 in South India in the state of what is now known as Tamil Nadu. Right when Ramana entered his teens his father died suddenly in 1892, he and his brother were separated from their mother and ended up in the care of their uncle Subbaiyar ins...
Palaniswami used to always have spiritual books in the Indian Tamil language with him which he attempted to study. But he had difficulty doing so because of his weak grasp of the Tamil language. After seeing Palaniswami struggling to understand the scriptures, the Maharshi finally consented to ...