Arthur Osborne : from My Life and Quest

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Arthur Osborne :================........It was about 6 o'clock one June morning in 1956that the first awakening to Reality occured.I was alone in the room when I awoke and set upin bed. I just was - my Self ,the beginningless,immutable Self. I had thought 'nothing ischanged'. In theory I already understood that itis not anything anew ; what is eternalcannot be new , what is new cannot be eternal.The only description is what Bhagavan has given:"It is as it is."Only now I experienced it. There was noexcitement , no joy or ecstasy , just animmeasurable contentment, the natural state,the wholeness of simple being. There was thethought: 'It is impossible ever to be bored.'The mind seemed like a dark screen that had shutout true consciousness and was now rolled up andpushed away.I do not know how long this experience lasted .In any case, while it lasted it was timeless andtherefore eternal. Imperceptibly the mind closedover again , but less opaque , for a radianthappiness continued . I had my bath and shavedand dressed and then went into the sitting room,where I sat down and I held the newspaper up infront of me as though I was reading it , so thatno one would see the radiance.I was too vibrant with happiness really to read.Why did I want to hide the radiance?Why did I not shout and dance with joy?.........................taken from'The Maharshi' Newsletter , Mar/apr. 2002from Arthur Osborne's new book"My Life and Quest"