Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: I recall hearing that chant at Ramanashram. You've been
all over the world, you've been to so many ashrams that you've
written a book about traveling through India.
MUZ MURRAY: Yes, I visited 360 ashrams on my three years of
the wandering monk around India.
TRIP: That's incredible. And in additional to personally visiting
all those ashrams, you also checked in with other people who were
visiting ashrams and you gathered up all of this data on all of these
different ashrams.
MUZ MURRAY: Yes, because as I was traveling around so many
people kept asking me where can I go for this teaching, or that
teaching? And so I started to compile information on every
ashram about the kind of things they taught there and eventually I
realized that a book was necessary. So I created that, it was kind
of bible of India goers for about ten years.
TRIP: And the title was?
MUZ MURRAY: Seeking the Master: A Guide to the Ashrams of
India and Nepal.
TRIP: And every other year, you will take a group of young people
or is it anybody?
MUZ MURRAY: No, everybody, so I think the youngest I took was
16 and up to 92.
TRIP: And you do this every couple of years?
MUZ MURRAY: Yes, sometimes every year, and I had a sabbatical
last year and in fact in about seven days I'm already off with
another group to India, we're starting in Kerala and going up to
Tiruvannamalai to Ramana Maharshi's ashram.
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