Somerset Maugham and The Razor’s Edge

This article was first published in The Mountain Path, 1988, pp. 239-45. In January 1938 Somerset Maugham, the British novelist, visited Sri Ramanashram for a few hours. The brief contact he had with Bhagavan inspired Maugham so much, he decided to use him as the model for a fictional Guru in The Razor’s Edge, a novel of …

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Eat, Pray, Love… 10 Things to Know about Staying at an Indian ashram

Christine Ka’aloa  A female solo travel blogger and a top female travel YouTubers of GRRRLTRAVELER, a solo travel blog helping travelers find confidence in traveling alone, one destination at a time. She left her life in New York, as a reality TV camera operator and producer  to live/work abroad in South Korea.  From there, she launched into …

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Gerald Heard: Grandfather of the New Age

by Charles E. Vernoff, Ph.D. One of the most remarkable experiences of my life was a several-year acquaintance with Gerald Heard that began in 1959 during my freshman year at the University of Chicago. Due to a unique personal history, I was a precocious “spiritual seeker” before the New Age had officially dawned in the …

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