215B Chicago Private 25 2/6

You see one of the faults of our students, of all students, is that as soon as they hear a little truth they want to get out on a platform with it. They want to save the world. Everybody else is going to be saved. They haven’t been saved. They’re going to save the world. They’re going to give this away right away. Now, because they’ve got nothing to give, words in the book the other people could have found for themselves. Continue reading 215B Chicago Private 25 2/6

Jnana Marga in Christianity

The teaching of Joel Goldsmith is a remarkable reminder of the possibility of jnana-marga that it contains. It is an illustration also of the truth that jnana-marga, the ‘ path of knowledge’, does not imply philosophy or erudition but is as simple as it is profound. If any followers of the Maharshi, trained to equate jnana-marga with Self-enquiry, find Joel Goldsmith’s method of concentrating on biblical texts strange, they should recall that it is very close to the use of Mahdvdkyds recommended by Shankaracharya. Continue reading Jnana Marga in Christianity