ramana maharishi's influence on somerset maugham

by MaxEntropy_Man Wed Jan 07, 2015 4:48 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/books/review/Shaftel-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

also this interesting bit on the title of the razor's edge from wiki:

Maugham himself visited Sri Ramana Ashram, where he had a direct interaction with Ramana Maharshi in Tamil Nadu, India in 1938.[3][4] Maugham's suggestion that he "invented nothing" was a source of annoyance for Christopher Isherwood, who helped him translate a verse 1.3.14 from the Katha Upanishads for the novel's epigraph – उत्तिष्ठ जाग्रत प्राप्य वरान्निबोधत | क्षुरस्य धारा निशिता दुरत्यया दुर्गं पथस्तत्कवयो वदन्ति || (uttiṣṭha jāgrata prāpya varān nibodhata| kṣurasya dhārā niśitā duratyayā durga pathas tat kavayo vadanti|| ) – which means "Rise, wake up, seek the wise and realize. The path is difficult to cross like the sharpened edge of the razor (knife), so say the wise."

now i have to either read the book or watch the movie.

by FluteHolder Wed Jan 07, 2015 5:08 pm

I have watched the movie. Not great, kind of boring.

by FluteHolder Wed Jan 07, 2015 7:57 pm

Not sure you may be interested but I will post it anyway.

Born in Pakistan and worked in British Army/India and looking for 'God' and then meets Ramana Maharishi...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._W._L._Poonja

Meeting Ramana Maharshi[edit]

After all his attempts had failed he returned to his family in Lyallpur. A sadhu appeared at the door soon after and Poonja asked him the question he had asked swamis throughout the country: "Can you show me God? If not, do you know of anyone who can?" The sadhu told him that there was a person, Ramana Maharshi, who could show him God and explained how to find Ramana Maharshi at Tiruvannamalai in southern India. At the soonest opportunity, Poonjaji travelled to Tiruvannamalai to meet the sage Ramana Maharshi at Ramanashramam at Arunachala. This happened in 1944 when Poonja was thirty-one.
However, rather than giving another vision of God, Ramana pointed him in the direction of his own self:

I cannot show you God or enable you to see God because God is not an object that can be seen. God is the subject. He is the seer. Don't concern yourself with objects that can be seen. Find out who the seer is.^{[web 2]}

by bw Wed Jan 07, 2015 9:15 pm

i didn't enjoy the movie as much as the book.

by Kris Wed Jan 07, 2015 9:30 pm

bw wrote:i didn't enjoy the movie as much as the book.

>>>I saw the movie and think I read the book. I could be wrong on the book. That is a vague memory. I did find the movie gripping, but it was more my mental state at that time. I was looking for answers (Sadhguru time! Smile

In the end, didn't find any. I knew about the Ramana maharishi connection, but was not that knowledgeable about Advaita at that time.

by bw Wed Jan 07, 2015 9:56 pm

Kris wrote:
bw wrote:i didn't enjoy the movie as much as the book.
>>>I saw the movie and think I read the book. I could be wrong on the book. That is a vague memory. I did find the movie gripping, but it was more my mental state at that time. I was looking for answers (Sadhguru time! In the end, didn't find any. I knew about the Ramana maharishi connection, but was not that knowledgeable about Advaita at that time.

there are two movie versions. which one did you watch? i watched the 40s one.

by Kris Wed Jan 07, 2015 10:06 pm

bw wrote:
Kris wrote:
bw wrote:i didn't enjoy the movie as much as the book.
>>>I saw the movie and think I read the book. I could be wrong on the book. That is a vague memory. I did find the movie gripping, but it was more my mental state at that time. I was looking for answers (Sadhguru time! In the end, didn't find any. I knew about the Ramana maharishi connection, but was not that knowledgeable about Advaita at that time.

there are two movie versions. which one did you watch? i watched the 40s one.

>>>The one with Bill Murray.

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