AN UNEXPECTED MEETING at the Ramana Ashram

AN UNEXPECTED MEETING at the Ramana Ashram

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An Unexpected Encounter in India is a quiet and intimate spiritual book about grace, surrender, and the mysterious way in which a deep longing can become reality as an encounter. In January 2026, Guri de Blok reads in the library of the Ramana Ashram about Hari Chand Khanna’s final journey to Sri Ramana Maharshi. That very same day, he unexpectedly meets Khanna’s daughter, Kusum Khanna Kapur — the child Ramana once took by the hand and with whom he played. What follows are ten mornings of conversation in her ashram room: a living memory of Ramana, told with simplicity, warmth, and silence.

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Some encounters cannot be planned. They appear as if called by the heart.

On January 18, 2026, Guri de Blok is sitting in the library of the Ramana Ashram, at the foot of Mount Arunachala. While working on translations of * Who Am I? *, he opens a Dutch book about the life and teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi. There, he reads the moving story of Hari Chand Khanna, a devoted disciple who felt an inner calling to travel to Ramana with his wife and young daughter during the latter's final days. The story touches him deeply: the love between master and disciple seems to transcend distance, time, and circumstances.

Only a few hours later, a woman who cannot walk appears outside his room in the ashram and asks for help. Guri fetches a wheelchair, takes her to the dining hall, and visits her later in her room. There, she looks out at her father's samadhi. His name was Hari Chand Khanna.

The woman is Kusum Khanna Kapur, now well into her eighties — the young daughter who was present in the ashram as a child during the final days of Ramana Maharshi. As a little girl, she sat close to him; he held her hand and bestowed his loving attention upon her. Yet she had rarely spoken of these memories. Over the course of ten mornings, in the silence of her ashram room, she begins to speak freely.

An Unexpected Encounter in India is neither an ordinary biography nor a formal spiritual teaching. It is an account of an encounter: a living conversation about Ramana Maharshi, Arunachala, surrender, silence, devotion, and the quiet power of grace. Kusum’s voice remains warm and unpolished, with the simplicity of someone who has lived her entire life close to the source.

For readers drawn to Ramana Maharshi, self-inquiry, Arunachala, Indian spirituality, Advaita, or true spiritual stories, this book offers something rare: not explanation, but presence. It invites the reader into an encounter that seemed to arrange itself — and into the mystery of what happens when desire, memory, and surrender come together.

Key Selling Points

  • A deeply personal spiritual encounter connected to Sri Ramana Maharshi and Arunachala.
  • Includes rare spoken memories from Kusum Khanna Kapur, daughter of devotee Hari Chand Khanna.
  • Explores surrender, grace, silence, predestination, and the master-disciple relationship.
  • Written for readers of Ramana Maharshi, Advaita, self-enquiry, Indian spirituality, and true spiritual stories.
  • A gentle, intimate book that feels less like instruction and more like transmission.

 

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An Unexpected Encounter in India

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