Some devotees lived in this house taking care of organizational needs. We know it as the “main house” on the SAT Temple grounds. and seemed like a very good place to make a home for Bhagavan Ramana’s teaching. At that time, Santa Cruz was a small town. A few devotees at the time suggested finding a place in Santa Cruz. This altar resides in his home today!Īround 1984, devotees realized the need to acquire a more permanent place, a home of spiritual Truth. This is Eric in the early 1980’s standing in front of the altar. The altar in San Bruno, built by devotees in 1978. After that, satsangs were also held in the living rooms of the homes of many different devotees and other facilities such as the waiting room of a chiropractor’s office (does anyone need an adjustment from the unreal to the real? The way to supreme alignment?) and even rented space in a karate dojo (how about a wallop into the Absolute!) They were held in Boulder Creek, several places in Santa Cruz, San Francisco and San Bruno. Would you believe on a steep incline on a suburban street? Satsangs were solely held here in the semi-subterranean satsang hall between 19. In the end, as he falls from a building along with the kid, he dies, saving the kid, thus earning the good will of Suchitra.As the number of Ramana devotees coming to satsang grew, either through learning about it through a poster or by being invited by a devotee already attending, satsang was moved to the house of some devotees, located in San Bruno, high on a hill. He snatches Suchitra's new born kid and escapes into the city with the police searching for him. He is hospitalized again, but manages to escape from there. As he recovers, they suggest him to get married but Maharshi turns crazy at the suggestion and runs away shouting. Tilak tries to help Maharshi by being friends with him and helping him mingle with Suchitra. Maharshi slaps his friend and explains that he wants her affection and love and not her body, and they carefully take her back. Maharshi's pure love for Suchitra is shown when his friend Ramana (CVL Narasimha Rao) drugs Suchitra and brings them to Maharshi's home, assuming that Maharshi wants a physical union with her. Gradually Maharshi slips into a depression and is hospitalized. He tries to attack Tilak at their own home but stops when he sees Suchitra open the door. However, he assumes that Tilak has used his power as sub-inspector and locked him up. When Maharshi comes to know of this, he tries to stop the wedding but is locked up in a police station at the insistence of his own father. Soon after she expresses her wish to marry him, more with the objective of getting rid of Maharshi. Suchitra meets her childhood friend Tilak (Krishna Bhagavan) who is working as a police sub-inspector in the same town. Maharshi then scares and turns away the prospective bride grooms who come to Suchitra's home.
Suchitra turns down the offer even after her parents show interest.
Maharshi takes a liking for her and tries to win her by approaching her parents and showing off his wealth. She is averse towards him owing to his rough and rude behaviour and does not even talk to him when he approaches her. However, things change when he meets Suchitra (Shanti Priya) in college. He is well noted in the college for his rough behaviour of maintaining a gang of friends, teasing lecturers and beating up classmates. Maharshi (Raghava), is a carefree college youth from a rich background.