* 1950 – Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher ( b. 1879 )

* 1879 – Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher ( d. 1950 )

Sri Ramana Maharshi mentioned that the kundalini energy is nothing but the natural energy of the Self, where Self is the universal consciousness ( Paramatma ) present in every being, and that the individual mind of thoughts cloaks this natural energy from unadulterated expression.

) Maugham himself visited Sri Ramana Ashram, where he had a direct interaction with Ramana Maharshi in Tamil Nadu, India in 1938.

* Sri Ramana Maharishi

Mayor Sabbam Hari presenting the 1995 Raja-Lakshmi Literary Award to Sri Mullapudi Venkata Ramana

Ramana ’ s association with Sri.

The dialogues by Sri. Ramana for this film were run away hit with all generations alike and popular even now.

During the years 1985-90, Sri Ramana along with Sri Bapu made videos for school subjects for children thru Television media.

He also paid special attention to Self-enquiry meditation advocated by Sri Ramana Maharshi, and was reformulating the principles of this exercise with reference to his human biocomputer paradigm ( described in Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments and The Center of the Cyclone ).

spent five years with Sri Ramana and about 28 years with Sri Muruganar.

His deep understanding of Sri Ramana's teachings on self-enquiry are explained in his book The Path of Sri Ramana – Part One.

Each letter was corrected by Sri Ramana before it was sent.

Attendants of Sri Ramana included Palaniswami ( from 1897 ), Kunju Swami ( from 1920 ), Madhava Swami, Ramanatha Brahmachari, Krishnaswami, Rangaswamy, Sivananda, Krishna Bhikshu and Annamalai Swami ( from 1928 ).

Paul Brunton's writings about Sri Ramana brought considerable attention to him in the West.

Other Westerners who wrote about Sri Ramana include Arthur Osborne ( the first editor of the ashram journal, The Mountain Path ), Major Chadwick ( who ran the Veda Patasala during Ramana's time ), Ethel Merston, and S. S. Cohen.

More recently, David Godman, a former librarian at the ashram, has written about Sri Ramana's teaching, as well as a series of books ( The Power of the Presence ) vividly portraying the lives of a number of lesser-known attendants and devotees of Sri Ramana.

Another famous follower of Sri Ramana Maharshi is Jinnuru Nannagaru ( born Bhupathiraju Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha Raju ), who has taken upon himself the task of taking people to a ‘ sorrowless ’, and ‘ tension-free ’ state.

After much persuasion, Sri Ramana Maharshi composed Sri Arunachala Aksharamanamalai ( The Marital Garland of Letters ) in praise of Lord Shiva, manifest as the mountain Arunachala.

* Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi by Munagal Venkataramiah

* Be as You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi by David Godman ( ISBN 0-14-019062-7 )

* Ramana Puranam, composed by Sri Ramana Maharshi and Sri Muruganar ( ISBN 8162890599 )

* Origin of Spiritual Instruction, by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi ( ISBN 978-0970366733 )

* Padamalai: Teachings of Ramana Maharshi, recorded by Sri Muruganar, edited by David Godman ( ISBN 0971137137 )

Some of them were Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Ramana Maharshi and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

One of the 20th century's exponents of the school of Advaita Vedanta philosophy ( nondualism ), Sri Nisargadatta, with his direct and minimalistic explanation of non-dualism, is considered the most famous teacher of Advaita since Ramana Maharshi.

This ultimate reality can be called " Spirit " ( Sri Aurobindo ), " Brahman " ( Shankara ), " God ", " Shunyata " ( Emptiness ), " The One " ( Plotinus ), " The Self " ( Ramana Maharshi ), " The Dao " ( Lao Zi ), " The Absolute " ( Schelling ) or simply " The Nondual " ( F. H. Bradley ).

Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi.

The work was known, appreciated and quoted by Ramakrishna and his disciple Vivekananda, as well as by other well known gurus such as Sant Shri Asaramji Bapu, Swami Chinmayananda, Ramana Maharshi, Osho and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

" One day he visited Sri Ramana Maharshi at his Arunachalam Ashram.

* Frithjof Schuon and Sri Ramana Maharshi: A survey of the spiritual masters of the 20th century

He had great regard for Sri Ramana Maharshi.

During this period, he also studied along with the renowned Sri Ramana Maharshi.

* 1989 – A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.

* 2006 – Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing.

* 1977 – The 1977 riots in Sri Lanka, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamil people, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power.

* 2000 – Second Battle of Elephant Pass: Tamil Tigers capture a strategic Sri Lankan Army base and hold it for 8 years.

** Tamil New Year, or Puthandu ( India's Tamil Nadu state, Sri Lanka )

* 1987 – The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo, killing 106 people.

A fast attack boat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam | rebel LTTE in Sri Lanka in 2003 passes the hulk of an LTTE supply ship that had been sunk by government aircraft, Sri Lankan Civil War ( 1983-2009 )

* Sri Lankan Tamil dialects

* 1995 – The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.

* 1986 – Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers the eastern province of Sri Lanka.

* 2009 – Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en-route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the Sri Lankan Civil War, the Afghan Mujahideen in the Soviet war in Afghanistan, George Grivas and Nikos Sampson's Greek guerrilla group EOKA in Cyprus, Aris Velouchiotis and Stefanos Sarafis and the EAM against the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the German Schutztruppe in World War I, Josip Broz Tito and the Yugoslav Partisans in World War II, and the antifrancoist guerrilla in Spain during the Franco dictatorship, the Kosovo Liberation Army in the Kosovo War, and the Irish Republican Army led by Michael Collins during the Irish War of Independence.

Its king Chandrabhanu used it as a base to attack Sri Lanka in the 11th century, an event noted in a stone inscription in Nagapattinum in Tamil Nadu and in the Sri Lankan chronicles, Mahavamsa.

A South Asian version of a harp known in Tamil as a ' yaal ' (' ய ா ழ ்'), is the symbol of City of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, whose legendary root originates from a harp player.

* 1991 – 1991 Kokkadichcholai massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.

* 1998 – A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills 8 people and injures 25 others.

* 1995 – The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1200 Army soldiers.

* 1983 – The Sri Lankan Civil War begins with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Terrorist group.