By Paul Brunton
Touching on Sri Ramana Maharshi Paul Brunton says.. "One couldn't fail to remember that significant pregnant smile of his, with it truly is trace of knowledge and peace received from discomfort and adventure. He was once the main figuring out guy i've got ever recognized: you'll ensure regularly of a few phrases from him that may soft your approach a bit, and that note constantly validated what your inner most feeling informed you already. The phrases of this sage nonetheless flame out in reminiscence like beacon lights." I pluck golden fruit from infrequent conferences with clever males" wrote trans-Atlantic Emerson in his diary, and it truly is yes 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..."
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The ancients consecrated them to the gods; Zoroaster, the founder of the Parsi faith, practised his meditations in a cave, while Muhammad received his religious experiences in a cave also. The Indian yogis have very good reasons for preferring caves or subterranean retreats when better places are not available. For here they can find shelter from the vicissitudes of weather and from the rapid changes of temperature which divide days from nights in the tropics. There is less light and noise to disturb their meditations.
Yet he became obsessed with this notion and immediately began to prepare for the coming event. He stretched his body prone upon the floor, fixed his limbs in the rigidity of a corpse, closed his eyes and mouth, and finally held his breath. “Well, then” said I to myself, “this body is dead. It will be carried stiff to the burning ground and then reduced to ashes. But with the death of the body, am ‘I’ dead? Is the body ‘I’? This body is now silent and stiff. ” Those are the words which the Maharshi used in describing the weird experience through which he passed.
During the ensuing days I endeavour to get into closer contact with the Maharshi, but fail. There are three reasons for this failure. The first arises naturally out of his own reserved nature, his obvious dislike of argument and discussion, his stolid indifference 25 to one’s beliefs and opinions. It becomes perfectly obvious that the Sage has no wish to convert anyone to his own ideas, whatever they may be, and no desire to add a single person to his following. The second cause is certainly a strange one, but nevertheless exists.