Paul Brunton's first visit to Sri Ramanasramam

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Paul Brunton visited the Ashram for the first time in the early

thirties . His book "A Search in Secret India" became very famous and

many seekers as Major Chadwick, Bhakta Bhagawat (founder of Arunachala

Asramam in NY) and others found to Sri Ramana through this book.

 

About his first visit Paul Brunton wrote:

 

"There is something in the man which holds my attention as steel filings are held by a magner.

I cannot turn my gaze away from him.

My initial bewilderment, my perplexity at being totally ignored,

slowly fade away as this strange fascination begins to grip me more

firmly.

But it is not till the second hour of the uncommon scene that I become

aware of a silent, resistless change which is taking place within my

mind.

One by one, the questions which I have prepared in the train with such

meticulous accuracy drop away. For it does not now seem to matter

whether they are asked or not, and it does not seem to matter whether

I solve the problems which have hirtherto troubled me.

I know only that a steady river of quietness seems to be flowing near me,

that a great peace is penetrating the inner reaches of my being,

and that my thought-tortured brain is beginning to arrive at some rest."

 

(Paul Brunton: A Search in Secret India, Rider & Company, 1970, p.133)

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.....yes!....always and forever the aspect of the beloved, in whatever

manifestation it chooses for each of us as individuals, silences our

minds and opens for us the rainbow arch into the eternal

present.....i follow my true beloved through the valleys and over the

mountains.....i am all things in her and she is all things in

me....there is only one and i am her.....^^~~~~~~

further up and further in,

white wolfe

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Gabriele Ebert

MillionPaths ;

Monday, January 07, 2002 9:19 PM

Paul Brunton's first visit to Sri Ramanasramam

Paul Brunton visited the Ashram for the first time in the early

thirties . His book "A Search in Secret India" became very famous and

many seekers as Major Chadwick, Bhakta Bhagawat (founder of Arunachala

Asramam in NY) and others found to Sri Ramana through this book.

About his first visit Paul Brunton wrote:

"There is something in the man which holds my attention as steel filings are held by a magner.

I cannot turn my gaze away from him.

My initial bewilderment, my perplexity at being totally ignored,

slowly fade away as this strange fascination begins to grip me more

firmly.

But it is not till the second hour of the uncommon scene that I become

aware of a silent, resistless change which is taking place within my

mind.

One by one, the questions which I have prepared in the train with such

meticulous accuracy drop away. For it does not now seem to matter

whether they are asked or not, and it does not seem to matter whether

I solve the problems which have hirtherto troubled me.

I know only that a steady river of quietness seems to be flowing near me,

that a great peace is penetrating the inner reaches of my being,

and that my thought-tortured brain is beginning to arrive at some rest."

(Paul Brunton: A Search in Secret India, Rider & Company, 1970,

p.133)/join

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