Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
ears to hear” what he’d been sharing all along, and he, in his
wisdom, had not pushed any teaching on me. He simply shared
freely with me and affirmed my realization.
At this point, no pushing was required. If you have seen the movie
“The Matrix” where the main character is strapped in a chair and
absorbing life threatening doses of downloaded kung fu expertise
through direct stimulation of his brain, you might appreciate the
comment, “he’s a machine”. With the possibility of heaven on
earth at hand, I paid attention to the answers to my every question
as though my life depended on it - and not just once. I recognized
that assimilation of Truth would take time, and would need to
penetrate to the core. This would require attention to repetition
and so I listened with rapt attention to the same answer 100 times.
I yearned to own every shred of wisdom and experience contained
within the corporeal form of a teacher. Wouldn’t you if
immortality and heaven on earth were the payoff? That yearning
was so intense that it quickly drew to me the grand nephew of
Ramana Maharshi for additional affirmation.
As a grand nephew, V. Ganesan had been raised near Ramana
Maharshi himself, had a graduate degree in philosophy, spent a
lifetime caring for the old devotees of his great uncle and with
modern sages, and had an encyclopaedic knowledge of spiritual
nomenclature he was happy to download into me on a silver
platter. I sucked it up.. Now, not only had I the direct wisdom of
my wizard mentor, but also the wisdom of the ages as accurately
recollected by this second skilful teacher, who would say, “here is
what Christ said about your question,” and “here is what Buddha
said,” and “here is what Ramana said” and “here is what the
Japanese grand Zen master I met in 1957 said.” And not only that,
but I was given the behind the scenes look into Ramana
Maharshi’s ordinary life, the never before shared stories of
compassion and transformation that took place between the
venerated sage and those in his company, some of whom were
animals!
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