Review of

The Natural Man

in Mountain Path (the journal of Sri Ramanashram in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India)

THE MOUNTAIN PATH:

June `95.

THE NATURAL MAN: by Larry Morris. Pub: Akshaya Publications, 201 Gandhi Bazaar, Bangalore 560004. pp. 200. US$ 12.

Larry Morris has given us a delightful collection of so-called poems (epiphanies would be a better description), about his relationship with that scourge of fossilized traditions of God-fearing seekers, viz. U.G. [U.G.Krishnamurti] himself, iconoclast extraordinaire and unabashed scoundrel, in short, a `useless guy'.

U.G. has the cunning knack which relieves you of your illusions with his implacable eye and not quite reputable behaviour. He does not respond to people's expectations of how he should respond. He is unique.

I come away from Larry's jottings with a chuckle and a glow. What he communicates so simply and with such insight is truer than any number of massive, turgid tomes. He is light, and dare one say, enlightening.

Try these:

DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE

Driving
Mr UG
Foot to trembling pedal
brake brake brake
hope I don't
blow it
doing 20
in
a
50 zone
oops almost hit
that one
hope I make it
going soooooo
slow....
with
that
eerie
presence
next to me
ET
the
man
from
the
moon.
My
shy
heart
racing
faster
than
the
car
ah,
U.G.


NOTHING TO DO, NOWHERE TO GO


Nothing
is
happening -
No
one
to
be
just
hanging
out
in
the
void
with
UG
Every
thought
sets
a
goal
we
automatically
cancel
"Why
bother"
yet
still
all
this
energy
peace
freedom.
Nobody
cares
who
we
are
here.
What
a
release
from
ourselves
our
needing
to
be
Somebody -
yet
not
Nobody
either -
Just here
orbiting
around
a
Quantum
Leap.



Your appetite is whetted?


--`A. S. Rao'