The full specifications of the CD Are on this page. *** Please read it fully! ***

Purchase Information

The CD is now available for purchase from Arunachala Ashrama in the USA, in the UK and from Sri Ramanasramam. For details on how and where to purchase the CD please click here - Purchase Information

Arunachala-Ramana CD

A unique multimedia CD, designed to provide existing devotees and those new to Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi with a unique source of information and high-quality photographs. This CD has taken 18 months to construct and has gone far beyond its original parameters. No effort has been spared in the making of it and the CD contains over 1,400 specially prepared photographs and 1,350+ pages, there are also audio files and video previews.

The files on the CD are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format for cross-platform compatibility, the retention of high-quality images and font styles - including Tamil and Sanskrit. These files can only be read with Acrobat 4.0 or higher. Acrobat Reader 4.0 for PC and Mac are included on the CD. The video previews are in MPEG-1 format.

CD Contents

• 75 full-page high-resolution restored photographs of Bhagavan, including the only known colour photograph, plus digitally coloured images*
• The Ashram archival catalogue of 520 high-resolution photographs - small size*
• 71 pages of high-resolution stunning photographs of Arunachala taken by various photographers, 62 of them full-page size*
• The Giri Pradakshina map and photographs of the shrines at the eight directions. A map of Sri Arunachaleswara Temple and many photographs of the Temple itself.*
• A greatly expanded 'Tour of Sri Ramanasramam' with high-quality photographs.*
• The Ashram staff photographs complete with their names.*
• Samples of Bhagavan's handwriting as high-resolution images*
• The entire contents of the 'Nirvana Room' have been photographed and added as detailed images - devotees rarely get the chance to see these items used by Bhagavan.
• A list of prints and videos available for purchase, complete with high-resolution images.
• Information on visiting Sri Ramanasramam, plus help for devotees.
• Sri Ramanasramam's complete English Publications list including prices and a list of new editions and cover designs.
• Extracts from 39 of the most popular books on 258 pages.**
• 4 complete books to print out on 62 pages.**
• The 4 complete editions of The Mountain Path Journal from 1964, laid out in the original format on 271 pages.**
• The complete set of The Maharshi Newsletters, produced by Arunachala Ashrama on 469 pages.**
• Addresses and information on how to purchase any items on the CD.
• Details and photographs on four of the the local charities.
• MP3 sound files - the Introductory Verses and Arunachala Aksharamanamalai (both from the Monday parayana) recorded live at Sri Ramanasramam.
• Previews of the following videos - 'The Sage of Arunachala', 'The Archival Films', 'Guru Ramana' and 'Arunachala Giripradakshina'. The latter two are new and 'Arunachala Giripradakshina' is due to be released during the summer of 2001. No date has been set for the release of 'Guru Ramana'
• Bhagavan's medicinal skill - complete herbal recipes included .
• 2001-2005 calendar with important dates and full-moon times.

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* All of the photographs in the files are prepared in EPS format; this means that detail is not lost during conversion into the compressed PDF files, and zooming into an image actually increases the detail. When the photographs are printed out through Acrobat on any good quality printer (Postscript or otherwise), the detail in the original image is produced in the print.

** These files have been prepared in a format that enables them to be printed out on either A4 or Letter size paper on any desktop printer.

Price

UK and within Europe £8.00 (UK) including postage and packing.
USA & Canada $13.00 (US) including postage and packing.
India Rs.300 including international postage and packing
Outside Europe £10.00 (UK) including postage and packing.

It is now also available from Watkins Book Shop in London

Please remember to include details of your postal address with order.

PDF Format

PDF is short for Portable Document Format. A method developed by Adobe Systems to enable information to be transferred between different computer platforms without any modification to either the systems or the files. Acrobat automatically resizes the pages to fit your screen and allows you to zoom right into images and text without loss of detail.

This has become very popular in the past two years due to refinements in the programme used to compose the files and a lot of comprehensive computer manuals are now produced in this format to accompany software on CD's.

PDF has very important advantages over most other methods of passing electronic information. In a nutshell, whatever you see on a magazine page can be reproduced in PDF and you don't have to install additional software or fonts to view the file as it was originally designed. It is also gaining ground rapidly as the best way to provide data-sheets via the web, primarily because of its ability to display images and text in the way the designer wants, whatever the system used to view the files.

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