By Arthur Osborne
"The phrases of this sage nonetheless flame out in my reminiscence like beacon lighting. "I pluck golden fruit from infrequent conferences with clever males" wrote trans-Atlantic Emerson in his diary, and it really is convinced that I plucked entire basketfuls in the course of my talks with this guy. our greatest philosophers of Europe couldn't carry a candle to him..." Such was once the compliment by way of Paul Brunton,who grew to become one of many ardent devotees of Sri Ramana Maharshi. one other such,Arthur Osborne,decided to calm down at Tiruvannamalai,where the Ashram of Sri Ramana Maharshi is located.He has written numerous books approximately his religious studies. This booklet recounts the phrases of the nice Sage. "There is one flak of the mountain the place the ascent is sheer,with no friendly groves to leisure in at the way,where to catch up on this,the course is direct and crest already seen from the plains lower than and in the course of the ascent.This is the direct direction taught via Bhagavan." learn on and revel in the booklet.
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Therefore our modern civilization, far from being the highest achievement of mankind, is an aberration foredoomed to destruction by its very nature, while our modern sciences consist of such knowledge as traditional civilizations would not have thought worthwhile accumulating, since they have no spiritual basis and do not further the spiritual development of those who acquire them. All this he expounds with brilliant lucidity, vast erudition, and unshakable conviction that he was right and scathing contempt for all who disagreed.
This is, in its deepest sense, the sin of shirk, of associating any ‘other’ with God, which is described in Islam as the one unforgivable sin— naturally, because when this is finally overcome there remains no other-than-God and therefore no sin or sinner to forgive. The second phrase describes the entire utterance of the name of God. And the men who spent their evenings in this manner were neither scholars nor men dedicated to the spiritual quest but simple merchants. It was amazing and very refreshing to feel the warmth and depth of their faith and to see the naturalness with which they regarded their religion as an absorbing reality and a constant topic of conversation, so unlike either the normal Western indifference or the truculent assertiveness often found in those who are religious.
I objected that in modern times knowledge is far too extensive for one man to possess it all, and he explained that he did not mean detailed factual knowledge but integral or essential knowledge. I did not understand what he meant by that and he was unable to explain. Looking back now, it seems extraordinary that he should not have been able 30 to tell us the simple essence of what a spiritual outlook implies: the Oneness of Being and the possibility of Self-realization. Instead he asked me to read the books for myself.