Letters from Sri Ramanasramam, by Suri Nagamma

Sundaresa Iyer remarked: “They have written correctly.

Who else can be Chiranjeevi other than Bhagavan? They
bow to the grandfather who lives eternally. They wanted
him to bless them so as to get whatever they want. What is
wrong?” Bhagavan said with a smile, “In my younger days
I wrote a similar letter to my uncle’s son Ramaswamy. I
stayed with them for some time in Dindigul where I was
studying. I came to Tiruchuli during a vacation. I wanted
to write a letter to Ramaswamy. I did not know how to
address him. In the letters written to him by my father I
noticed him writing ‘aseervadams (blessings) to
Ramaswamy’. So I also began to write to him ‘aseervadams
to brother-in-law’. He was older than me and I did not
know that I should have writen ‘namaskarams’. I thought
it would be the same for all people. I realised this mistake
when he laughed at me for this.”
One devotee said, “I believe Bhagavan was very
familiar with that Ramaswamy.” Bhagavan replied, “Yes, in
the place where my picture is now placed in the Sundara
Mandiram in Tiruchuli, there used to be a tape cot. My
father used to sleep on it. No one else but Ramaswamy and
myself could take the liberty of getting on it. When father
was not in town, we two used to sleep on it together. No
one had any familiarity with father except Ramaswamy
because he had no mother, and myself because I was by
nature very free in such matters. Father was a towering
personality.”
That devotee said, “Did that Ramaswamy ever come
here?” Bhagavan said, “He came here once long back. To
move out of his place was a great problem for him. People
who had been here used to tell him about me, it seems. He
had been putting off his visit to this place from time to time
when this Viswanath ran away from home saying he did not
want to marry and came here. He is the son of Ramaswamy.

He thought he could take Viswanath back. After all, it being
the case of his own son, he could not delay coming here.

Viswanath himself got a letter saying that he was coming.

Without telling me that news, he (Viswanath) gave me that
letter saying, ‘the Dindigul mountain has started moving’.

“On looking into the letter I understood what he meant.

Ramaswamy came here the very next day. Recently, while
writing letters to me, he himself has begun writing,
‘namaskarams to Swami’. He writes, ‘Swami should bless me’.

It means he received my blessings even when I was young.

Whoever expected at that time, that it would turn out like
this? I wrote something. That was all.”