The Maharshi and His Message by Paul Brunton (2002).pdf

The Maharshi

and

His Message

By Paul Brunton

SRI RAMANASRAMAM

Tiruvannamalai

2000

Sri Ramanasramam

Tiruvannamalai

Twelfth Edition

2000

2000 Copies

CC No: 1026

Price: Rs.20

Published by

V.S. Ramanan

President, Board of Trustees

Sri Ramanasramam

Tiruvannamalai 606 603

Designed and typeset at

Sri Ramanasramam

Printed by

Kartik Offset Printers

Chennai 600 015

CONTENTS

I NTRODUCTION

T HE H ILL OF THE H OLY B EACON

I N A J UNGLE H ERMITAGE

T ABLETS OF F ORGOTTEN T RUTH

Introduction to the Three Chapters

taken from

A Search in Secret India

Messrs. Rider & Co., of London brought out in 1934 a

remarkable book with the title A Search in Secret India . It has

passed through several impressions in a very short time and is

easily the latest bestseller on India. In view of its notable success,

the Editor of the London Forum invited the author Paul Brunton

to give an outline of the cause and motives which led up to his

pilgrimage to India. Mr. Brunton wrote a short interesting

autobiographical note which was published in the August

number of the Forum .

A Search in Secret India lucidly narrates the author’s

acquaintance with, impressions of, and relation to the Maharshi

who has so influenced him. The book is at present too expensive

to the ordinary Indian reader and therefore the three chapters

— IX, XVI and XVII — relating to the Maharshi, are reprinted

in the form of a booklet with the kind permission of the author,

in order to place this most important part of the work within

the reach of the reader. Of course, these chapters shine better in

their original setting and are best read from A Search in Secret

India by those who can afford it.

The author had an instinctive attraction for India and it is

graphically described by himself: “The Geography master takes

a long, tapering pointer and moves over to the large, varnished

linen map which hangs before a half-bored class. He indicates a

triangular red patch which juts down to the Equator and then

makes a further attempt to stimulate the obviously lagging

interest of his pupils. He begins in a thin, drawling voice and

with the air of one about to make a hierophantic revelation,

‘India has been called the brightest jewel in the British Crown...... .’

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At once a boy with moody brow, half wrapt in reverie, gives a

sudden start and draws his far-flung imagination back into the

stolid, brick-walled building which constitutes his school. The

sound of this word India falling on the tympanum of his ears, or

the sight of it caught up by the optic nerve of his eyes from a

printed page, carries thrilling and mysterious connotations of

the unknown. Some inexplicable current of thought brings it

repeatedly before him. Ever and anon he makes wild projects to

go there. He plans an expedition with a school-mate who is

discovered and the enterprise is reluctantly abandoned. The desire

to view India never leaves the promoter of that unfortunate

expedition.”

With the dawn of manhood, he turns to spiritualism, joins the

Theosophical Society and learns more of the East. His experiences

in spiritualism convince him of the survival of the spirit after the

death of the body. Then other interests and his own duties hold

him. He dropped his “mystic studies and concentrated upon

professional work in journalism and editing”. Some years pass “until

he meets unexpectedly with a man who gives a temporary but vivid

life to the old ambition. For the stranger’s face is dusky, his head is

turbaned and he comes from the sun-steeped land of Hindustan”.

He was tempted to go out and investigate the subject of yoga .

He arrived in India in 1930, and he later visited several remarkable

places but few remarkable men until some inscrutable, impelling

force, which he cannot understand, but which he blindly obeys,

hurries his pace so that sometimes he rushes onwards as though

he were a tourist. At last he is on the train to Madras.

In Madras, he accidentally met the “Anchorite of the Adyar

River” who took him later to the “Sage who never speaks”. In

the Sage’s hermitage, a stranger, Mr. Subramanya by name,

obtrudes on him and solicits his visit to his own Master Sri

Ramana Maharshi of Thiruvannamalai. The obtrusion of

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