Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: Yes, I stepped off an airplane, like a wasp from
Connecticut, stepped off an airplane and we went to Tiru, and we
did that circumambulation of Arunachala. Have you done that,
you've done that I'm sure?
MUZ MURRAY: Yes, yes.
TRIP: That blew my mind, oh my gosh; I mean, you'd look down
at the asphalt and there'd be this person sort of growing up out of
it, who hadn't received treated here some kind of disease that we
conquered here like 60 years ago, and they're like growing up out
of the asphalt. And over there somebody's doing a spiritual
blessing of their new car, and here's a monkey running across the
street, and then a bunch of street urchin kids that don't have any
parents who are playing and running off, and Sadhus in orange
robes, and senses going around, and cows walking. It was like the
Wizard of Oz.
WIZARD: Yes.
MUZ MURRAY: Yes, you should be at Deepam when there's
something like 15,000 people marching around the mountain in a
steady stream, and it's impossible to cross the road, the amount of
people are so… it's like a flowing river of humanity, it's impossible.
If you step into it, you're swept up and you go round the mountain
with everyone.
TRIP: I wanted to ask you, I jump around here just from thing to
thing; you actually met with Krishnamurti, the great sage.
MUZ MURRAY: Yes, I knew him quite well because one of my
original masters was Dr. Ramamurti Mishra, who had an ashram
in Catskill Mountains and in California, and he was a friend of
Krishnamurti. So I was able to sit having tea with Krishnamurti
once or twice, and I also worked in his school teaching meditation
which caused a furor there, because Krishnamurti was against
meditation at the time, but when I explained how I operated he
was quite happy about it.
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