FRITHJOF
SCHUON
and Spirituality
"Inasmuch
as he is the guide of the personal way of the disciple, always within
the general way laid down by the Divine authority through tradition,
the spiritual master becomes in a certain sense a continuation of
the ego of the disciple. Every spiritual alchemy involves an anticipated
death and consequently also certain losses of equilibrium, or periods
of obscuration, in which the disciple is not fully master of himself;
he is no longer completely of this world, nor yet of the other, and
his experience seems to call in question all the existential categories
of which we are so to speak woven. In these 'trials' and in the 'temptations'
which accompany them, (...) the spiritual master plays the role of
'motionless center'."
Logic and Transcendence
(London: Perennial Books, 1975) p.220.
"A
master whose spiritual outlook is limited by a particular formal or
traditional framework is not a complete master (although a true master
may in practice be unfamiliar with traditions other than his own); and
a master who rejects all forms is a false master (although a true master
may reduce
traditional form to its essential elements, and he surely will)."
Titus
Burckhardt
"
'Ishvaro GururAtmeti,'
God, the Master and the Self
are identical."
Shri Ramana Maharshi
Someone
said to the Maharshi: thou art full of illusion -
Thou art no master. The Maharshi laughed and said:
If there were no false masters in the world,
False disciples would not have their teachers.
The
German Poems of Frithjof Schuon
Page of texts on Ramana Maharshi written by Frithjof Schuon