She has paid Gandhi the following tribute: I thank you for having had the privilege of being your lifelong companion and helpmate. The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man’s slavery. Just as invisible images of persons on the earth can be dug out of the ether and made visible by a television apparatus, later being dismissed again into space, so the God-created, unseen astral blueprints of vegetables and plants floating in the ether are precipitated on an astral planet by the will of its inhabitants. ‘I have freed you tonight from painful death. Mukunda will understand the meaning of the talisman from the great ones. Only one reason, therefore, can motivate Babaji in maintaining his physical form from century to century: the desire to furnish humanity with a concrete example of its own possibilities. I smilingly took a large white scentless flower from a near-by vase. Masters often ignore the panorama of the world’s ado, out of focus till centered in the ages. “Bricks and mortar sing us no audible tune; the heart opens only to the human chant of being.”. “Dear friends, will you not honor my home for a visit?”, “You are kind; but the plan is unfeasible. First came my founding of a boys’ yoga school on a Ranchi plain, then my American headquarters on a Los Angeles hilltop, finally a hermitage in southern California by the vast Pacific. “My guru’s glance was quizzical. My divine guru approached and passed his hand over my head. Sri Yukteswar caught my thought; he turned to me and whispered: “Don’t flatter yourself; Auddy is not nearly as entranced with the scenery as he is with the prospect of leaving us long enough to have a cigaret.”. “When the thing which the individual is doing is also a cosmic event, the effect experienced in the body (the innervation), unites with the emotion of the spirit (the universal idea), and out of this there develops a lively unity which no technique, however scientific, can produce. “Ah,” I exclaimed, “Kashi’s soul must be living in the womb of some mother whose home is in this lane.”. My thanks are due also to Miss Ruth Zahn for preparation of the index, to Mr. C. Richard Wright for permission to use extracts from his Indian travel diary, and to Dr. W. Y. Evans-Wentz for suggestions and encouragement. His intense joy of God-communion is slightly revealed in a somewhat enigmatic smile. . “One evening my father entered my room in pensive mood. “And,” he told me, “at the end of three years, I found the Infinite Light blazing within my shattered form. Ananda Moyi Ma sank into a deep meditative state. I have no bodily excretions. No spiritual benefit accrues by knocking beasts unconscious. “‘I have something else to do at present.’ He gave me an enigmatical glance. Though born a mortal like all others, Master had achieved identity with the Ruler of time and space. It made itself known by a cold, smooth touch. The three-hour gap became daily more interminable. “You and your intuition!” My friend’s voice was edged in scorn. The 7:00 P.M. prayer hour found us back at the Maganvadi ashram, climbing to the roof where thirty satyagrahis were grouped in a semicircle around Gandhi. We soon crossed the English Channel to the continent, for I wanted to make a special pilgrimage to Bavaria. “You are the one I have chosen to spread the message of Kriya Yoga in the West. “Sir,” he said, “shall I be a monk? The translation is: “This institution has deeply impressed my mind. Enlightenment Experience - Paramahansa Yogananda's Enlightenment (Autobiography of a Yogi) - Duration: 18:21. This evening Bhaduri expounded various philosophical points connected with the life of Mirabai, a medieval Rajputani princess who abandoned her court life to seek the company of sadhus. It is a disciplined life, like the life of a soldier. It is September, 1936; I am in England to fulfill a promise, given sixteen months earlier, to lecture again in London. “Two amazing incidents of Babaji’s life are known to me,” Kebalananda went on. The British National Council of the World Fellowship of Faiths organized a meeting on September 29th at Whitefield’s Congregational Church where I addressed the audience on the weighty subject of “How Faith in Fellowship may Save Civilization.” The eight o’clock lectures at Caxton Hall attracted such crowds that on two nights the overflow waited in Windsor House auditorium for my second talk at nine-thirty. The father finally said he would take the boy away with the help of the police. You have neglected your duty in safeguarding the ashram; you must be punished.”, I thought he was obscurely joking when he added: “Your six cauliflowers will soon be only five.”. Riding over a bridge of the Jumna River, we enjoyed a magnificent view of the skyline of Brindaban just as the sun set fire to the sky—a veritable furnace of Vulcan in color, reflected below us in the still waters. Instead of laughing lightly over this impractical scheme of a small boy, Ananta made it a definite point to ridicule me. You are fortunate, young man, to have a guru with divine healing powers! The billions of dollars that went up in the smoke of explosive nothingness would have been sufficient to have made a new world, one almost free from disease and completely free from poverty. “If you really show your devotion and inwardly kneel before him, your life will be spared!”. Gone was an age-old delusion by which bodily imperatives outwit the soul. “It is true that the subconscious reveals much of the mystery that can explain human actions, but not all of our actions. “What is behind the darkness of closed eyes?” This probing thought came powerfully into my mind. Without very much guile, I added, “Father, perhaps God will put it into your mind to help me.”. 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