With a Great Master in India

Language: EnglishPages: 256ForewordFirst and foremost, this book is a personal expression of a man’s relationship with his spiritual Master; a book about love, about wonder, about worship and surrender, a book about the path to God. It speaks of the absolute importance of the Master, the gracious Master who is the soul and very canter of all worthwhile spiritual endeavor, whose supreme quality is manifest love, the same quality which is the essence of his teachings, it conveys the living Master as the ideal, the highest and best in actual life, because he himself has actualized in his own person the highest ideals of all religions. The book bears witness to the fact that by emulating such an ideal, the disciple is given a practical path to follow, whereby he too may achieve the same results.Apart from a brief description of the inner spiritual path, and a gist of the teachings which shaped so gloriously the last ten years of the author’s life, the book consists of letters written by Dr. Johnson to his fellow disciples and seekers in America. Julian Johnson was the first man from a Western background to travel to India (which in those days seemed so remote and alien) in order to meet and live with a Master of the Beas line of Perfect Masters. In his own words, this book “is a personal testimony to all those who may be seeking the light”-a testimony for which his own personal ec perience provided the base.Written during the first fourteen months he spent with the Master, living with him in continuous and close personal association, sometimes in Beas and sometimes traveling through northern India, Dr. Johnson’s letters are anecdotal and replete with finely observed contextual detail. Now more than sixty years have passed since t