When Cow Lakshmi arrived in 1926, devotees began donating cows to the Ashram. Because of Lakshmi’s “golden touch”, a donation from Salem Magistrate Sundaram Chetty helped establish a large gosala in 1930. Pictured (right) with the Ashram President, Dr. Venkat S. Ramanan and Mrs. President, Dr. Nitya Ramanan, is the Ashram gosala staff who works tirelessly to milk, feed and maintain Ramanasramam’s 250 cows, (from top left): Sundaresa Kannan, Narayana, Kanjumalai, Anandan, Raja, Nagapath, G. Murthi, N. Radha; (sitting from left) Ezhumalai, Sambhath, Kumaresan, Vediyappan, Selvaraj, and Murugan.] —