This book covers twenty-three first person accounts of first meetings with the Maharshi. The memory of their meeting with him never faded for it was indeliby engraved on their hearts. The list includes some well known names, Swami Ramdas, Paul Brunton, Osborne, Papaji, Mouni Sadhu, Cohen, Walter Keers and K. Swaminathan. The very reading of these emotionally surcharged narrations thrills one to the core.