Arunachala Siva

Most of Bhagavan Sri Ramana's compositions were written in answer to a query, a doubt raised, or a request made by some devotee or other.

Some of them came out of him as the expression of an inner urge. He was no author in the ordinary sense of the term. The Truth he saw he revealed to those who wanted to have a glimpse of it. When Sri Ramana was staying at the Virupaksha cave on the Arunachala Hill, the devotees who were then with him desired that he should compose a song which they could sing while going out for begging alms. But there was no response then.