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Date Posted: 00:30:08 05/08/03 Thu
Author: ketch - 21 March 2003
Subject: The greatest error

On another visit he finds me in a pessimistic mood. He tells me of the glorious goal which waits for the man who takes to the way he has shown.

“But, Maharishee, this path is full of difficulties and I am so conscious of my own weakness,” I plead.

“That is the surest way to handicap oneself,” he answers unmoved, “this burdening of one’s mind with the fear of failure and the thought of one’s true failings.”

“Yet if it is true ---?” I persist.

“It is not true. The greatest error a man can make is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is to divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.”

His words come as an invigorating tonic. They refresh and inspire me. From another man’s lips, from some lesser and feebler soul, I would refuse to accept them at such worth and would persist in refuting them. But an inward monitor assures me that the sage speaks out of the depths of a great and authentic spiritual experience, and not as some theorizing philosopher mounted on the thin stilts of speculation.



Paul Brunton writing of his talks with Ramana Maharishi in “A Search in Secret India.”

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