Referring to Sri Ramana Maharshi Paul Brunton says.."One could not forget that wonderful pregnant smile of his, with it's hint of wisdom and peace won from suffering and experience. He was the most understanding man I have ever known: you could be sure always of some words from him that would smooth your way a little, and that word always verified what your deepest feeling told you already.The words of this sage still flame out in memory like beacon lights." I pluck golden fruit from rare meetings with wise men" wrote trans-Atlantic Emerson in his diary, and it is certain that I plucked whole basket-fuls during my talks with this man. Our best philosophers of Europe could not hold a candle to him..."