Maharshi - Talking of the innumerable ways

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Talking of the innumerable ways of different seekers after God, Bhagavan said:

 

'Each should be allowed to go his own way, the way for which alone he may be built. It will not do to convert him to another path by violence. The Guru will go with the disciple along his own path and then gradually turn him into the supreme path when the time is ripe. Suppose a car is going at top speed. To stop it and to turn it at once would lead to a crash.'

 

from The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi

Arthur Osborne