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Madurai

Madurai is an ancient temple city on the Vaigai River in southern Tamil Nadu, south India, site of the Mīnākṣi temple. It is the city where the young Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) had, in 1896, the experience of self-inquiry that shaped his teaching, before he left for Aruṇācala.

Teachers who lived here