An autobiographical interpretative work, The Children of Nature is an attempt to understand the role

of spirituality and its social relevance.

Susan Visvanathan also tries to comprehend the volatility of the town of Tiruvannamalai:

adobe of Ramana Maharshi. Using published material as well as diaries and letters from Sri Ramanasramam,

the author uses the method of college to splice together many movements in telling of history.

Battling her own illness, Susan meets people, makes friends and learns that solitude has a grammar

that is completely acceptable within community life. Ramanasramam becomes home to her, and a place

she associates with a sense of well-being and life. The book tries to explicate the extent to which a personal

revelation, and how far is it possible to understand the interweaving of the sacred and the profane in the lives

of ordinary human beings.