Yogananda-a pilgrimage to Arunachala - (repost)

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Before leaving South India , Mr. Wright and I made a pilgrimage

to the holy hill of Arunachala near Tiruvannamalai to meet

Sri Ramana Maharshi . At his ashram the sage welcomed us

affectionately and pointed to a nearby stack of East-West

magazines. During the hours that we spent with him

and his disciples , he was mostly silent , his gentle face

radiating divine love and wisdom.

 

To help suffering humanity regain its forgotten state of perfection,

Sri Ramana teaches that one should constantly ask himself "

"Who am I?" - the Great Inquiry indeed. By stern rejection of all

other thoughts the devotee soon finds himself going deeper and

deeper into the true Self , and the sidetracking bewilderments of

other thoughts cease to arise . The illumined rishi of South India

has written :

 

Dualities and trinities on something do hang,

Supportless they never appear ;

That support searched for , they loosen and fall.

There is the Truth. Who sees that never wavers.

 

taken from

Autobiography of a Yogi

Paramahansa Yogananda