A few weeks ago a very long
anonymous comment was posted on one of my recent articles,
Self-attentiveness, effort and grace. Though this comment was posted under the identity ‘Anonymous’, the name ‘Michael Langford’ was written at the end of it.
I do not know whether or not this comment was actually posted by Michael Langford (though I suspect it probably was not), but except for his name at the end of it, the entire comment is a verbatim copy of a webpage that he wrote entitled
Sri Sadhu Om - Self Inquiry, which is one of the many pages in the
Awareness Watching Awareness section of the
Albigen.Com website.
Most of this webpage,
Sri Sadhu Om - Self Inquiry, is an edited copy of chapter seven of
Part One of
The Path of Sri Ramana, a
PDF copy of which is available on my website,
Happiness of Being. However, before his edited copy of chapter seven, Michael Langford has written the following two introductory paragraphs:
Sri Sadhu Om spent five years in the company of Sri Ramana Maharshi and decades in the company of Sri Muruganar. Sri Sadhu Om wrote a book called The Path of Sri Ramana, Part One, which contains what has been called the most detailed teaching on the method of Self-inquiry ever written. Sri Sadhu Om points out that:
Self-inquiry is only an aid to Self-Awareness;
only Self-Awareness is the True Direct Path.
However, Sri Sadhu Om never actually wrote or said that ‘Self-inquiry is only an aid to Self-Awareness; only Self-Awareness is the True Direct Path’, either in this chapter of
The Path of Sri Ramana or elsewhere, and to say that he pointed out such an idea is misleading and confusing. Before explaining why this idea is misleading, however, I should first say something about the way in which Michael Langford has edited the copy of this chapter on that webpage.
