His medicine was his presence and his powerful words. I think he saw himself as a kind of doctor who diagnosed and treated the perceived spiritual ailments of the people who came to him for advice. Why hasn’t Maharaj spawned a similar genre? Nisargadatta Maharajĭavid: Maharaj very rarely spoke about his life, and he didn’t encourage questions about it. Did no one ever bother to record the things that were going on around him? Ramakrishna had The Gospel of Ramakrishna, Ramana Maharshi had Day by Day, and a whole library of books by devotees that all talk about life with their Guru. Harriet: Every book I have seen about Maharaj, and I think I have looked at most of them, is a record of his teachings. This, therefore, is a record of a pleasant afternoon’s talk, supplemented by recollections of related incidents that somehow never came up. As I went about recording the conversation, a few other memories surfaced, things I hadn’t thought about for years. After she left I felt prompted to write down some of the things I had remembered since I had never bothered to record any of my memories of Maharaj before. This prompted a wider and lengthy discussion on some of the events that went on in Maharaj’s presence. I knew some of the people in the pictures and narrated a few stories about them. I was sitting with a visitor in 2002, looking at a new book on Nisargadatta Maharaj that consisted of photos and brief quotes.
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