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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
picture you're talking about. But I can't say that that necessarily is
the case. We have many people, who come through, and I'm not
sure how to decide which ones were which, but again it's really
depends, and I guess beauty is in the “I” of the beholder, no pun
intended. And so we have so many people come through, and I
think that may not necessarily be the standard.
WIZARD: Divinity in the eye of the beholder beautifies.
TRIP: A lot of things that are considered to be a leg up in the
larger culture, such as having a really keen intellect, or being very
good looking, actually end up being burdens in the realization of
the Truth of who one actually is, because they're things that give
you a leg up in your idea of yourself as a person, a separate person.
Wouldn't you agree?
NICK GANCITANO: That is the paradox. It could work for you,
and it could work against you in a sense. But since there really is
no such thing as an individual that attains enlightenment anyway,
that really doesn't hold much water under that particular, I guess
you would say perspective on how that works. I've never really
considered what you're describing. And I don't even know that
that's necessarily true, other than the fact that you happen to find
a picture that had maybe a lot of pretty women in it, or something.
But we have many different people who come, so it's really luck of
the draw I guess. There are some who need to let go of their
attraction to their body, the idea that I am a person first, and then
sometimes that can be the last to go.
WIZARD: Ganesan shared with us one time that his guru had
counseled him that his work would be to dissolve the idea, the
body idea, of being the grand nephew of Ramana Maharshi would
bind him to his body more than anything else. And it's been an
obstruction for him, that golden chain.
NICK GANCITANO: Yes and the pride can evolve in having that
particular reputation, particularly when people can look to you as
they did to Ramana based on what I've read in his books, where
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