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Louise Maunsell Field, writing a review of A Search in Secret India in a New York literary journal, once asked a pertinent question. She said: "The sympathetic reader, following Paul Brunton's experiences, his encounters with other Masters more or less resembling the Maharishee [Ramana Maharshi], cannot but wonder how much influence these Indian mystics have on the teeming millions of their fellow countrymen. Can the intensely spiritual, somewhat rarefied atmosphere wherein they live and move penetrate the lives and thoughts of those many others?" This same question kept on coming into my mind, too. I was forced in the end to give it a negative answer. But this very answer was one of the contributing causes which led me to seek and find the higher teaching.

-- Notebooks Category 12: Reflections > Chapter 2 : Philosophy and Contemporary Culture > # 172