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In fact, they have been the main sources of inspiration in our life for over last 5000 years. By investing shrines and sacred places with religious and spiritual significance, the saints have enabled us to maintain unimpaired sense of the unity of India and, of the continuity of her cultural life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is not easy to write about the saints. They are rare and sometimes even difficult to understand; but because of the rarity and difficulty one ought not to turn away from trying to discourse. It is better to attempt something magnificent and even fail than to accomplish inconsequential ends. 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Aged 60 and recently retired from his position as President of Bank of India, Ramesh began attending Maharaj’s daily talks, eventually serving as a translator for the growing number of westerners drawn to Maharaj by publication of his book, I am that, Within one year of meeting Maharaj, awakening happened.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe writings in this book, Ramesh’s first, were spontaneous, the notes of a devotees reflecting on his Master’s teaching. 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Unless some saving power comes to the rescue of humanity to extricate it from the hopelessness of inadequate concepts and imperfect ideologies, the humanity would be irretrievably lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is another work of Master Sivananda, the Master of the New Age, containing a masterly exposition of the principles and methods of practice of the life-saving spiritual science. Aptely is habeen names as Divine Nectar, as the apirant once tasting the drop of it willnot rest contents until he gulps down the whole lot.  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Included is a longer work on the ‘question of Progress’ as well as 16 hitherto unpublished poems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaken together, they form a powerful testament of the clarity and dedication he brought to bear upon his chosen task as a devotee of Sri Ramana Maharshi. Whether elucidating the subtleties of Bhagavan’s life and teachings, bridging the apparent diversity of religious practice and belief, or simply surrendering to the exquisite inspirations of his Muse, Arthur Osborne’s energetic writings from the last decade of his life continue to strike an inner-chord at the turn of the millennium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Remains?\u003cbr\u003eThe Song\u003cbr\u003eThis Dream\u003cbr\u003eThe Poet The Wind \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword \u003cbr\u003e   By Kitty Osborne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArthur Osborne \u003cbr\u003e    By Lucia Osborne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSri Ramana Maharshi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHinduism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuddhism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIslam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristianity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComparative Religion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Articles by Arthur Osborne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSRI RAMANA MAHARSHI\u003cbr\u003eThe Look that Pierced\u003cbr\u003eRamana still Lies\u003cbr\u003eThe Ascent\u003cbr\u003eThe Maharshi’s Place in History\u003cbr\u003eThe Essential Teaching of the Maharshi\u003cbr\u003eThe Nature and Function of the Guru\u003cbr\u003eSelf-Realisation as taught by Bhagavan\u003cbr\u003eStilling the Mind Through Vichara as Taught by Bhagavan\u003cbr\u003eWhy Bhagavan Ignored symbolism\u003cbr\u003eEffort, Grace and Destiny\u003cbr\u003ePhysical Supports of Grace\u003cbr\u003eThe Two Kinds of Guru\u003cbr\u003eAusterity\u003cbr\u003eVegetarianism\u003cbr\u003eThe Collaborator\u003cbr\u003eSri Bhagavan’s Teaching – The Literary Testimony\u003cbr\u003eHappiness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHINDUISM\u003cbr\u003eAdvaita\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHINDUISM (Continued)\u003cbr\u003eBhakti Marga and Jnan Marga\u003cbr\u003eThe Threefold Scripture\u003cbr\u003eThe name\u003cbr\u003eKrishna, Teacher of 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It speaks of many things which have hitherto been studied and discussed within a comparatively small circle, consisting of students well versed in Theosophical knowledge, and ready to study statements concerning regions which they could not yet enter for themselves, but hoped to enter later, and then to verify for themselves the statements made by their seniors. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI desire to associate myself with the statements made in this book, for the accuracy of nearly all of which I can personally vouch; and also to say on behalf of my colleague as well as of myself, that the book is issued as a record of observations carefully made and carefully recorded, but not claiming any authority, nor making any demand for acceptance. 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