Ramana devotee Paul Brunton #8

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Brunton's earnest search for truth and his sacrifices to become aware of it had

fructified by Ramana's guided grace. however, Brunton himself has cautioned , as

a footnote at the end of his book 'Search in Secret India', the reader should

not be misled into believing that such an experience remains continuous and

permanent. They are moments of illumination. It is temporary, valuable in

raising the consciousness."

 

The onset of fever forced him to take a reluctant farewell. This too was to be

only in the physical sense. For Ramana was always with him particularly during

his meditation. Writing several years later, in 1971, Brunton says,

 

"Forty years have passed since I walked into his abode and saw the Maharshi

half-reclining, half-sitting on a couch. After such a long period most memories

of the past become somewhat faded, if they do not lose their existence

altogether, But I can truthfully declare that in this case nothing of the kind

happened. On the contrary, his face, expression, figure and surroundings are as

vivid now as they were then. What is more important to me is that - at least

during the period of my meditation the feeling of the radiant presence is an

actual and as vivid as it was on that first day." What better testimony can

there be to the time-transcending constant magnetism of Ramana's inner

presence?

 

When Brunton was in a small Quaker village in England, and ready to set sail to

Egypt in search of its secret, he had a vision of the Maharshi. "Ramana whom he

would always refer to as his beloved Master appeared to him and told him that

before he left for this land of waving palms he should write a book and share

the upliftment he himself had obtained." Brunton immediately wrote "The Secret

path". Words flowed effortlessly for it was a task assigned to him by Ramana.

 

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