Yogananda, Paramahansa, 1893-1952; Yogis -- India -- Biography
“Dear brother, how reluctant we are to disturb Master at this hour!”
One man addressed me apologetically. “We made a mistake about train
schedules, but felt we could not return home without a glimpse of
our guru.”
“He has been expecting you and is even now preparing your food.”
Sri Yukteswar’s welcoming voice rang out; I led the astonished
visitors to the kitchen. Master turned to me with twinkling eyes.
“Now that you have finished comparing notes, no doubt you are
satisfied that our guests really did miss their train!”
I followed him to his bedroom a half hour later, realizing fully
that I was about to sleep beside a godlike guru.
{FN15-1} Puri, about 310 miles south of Calcutta, is a famous
pilgrimage city for devotees of Krishna; his worship is celebrated
there with two immense annual festivals, SNANAYATRA and RATHAYATRA.
{FN15-2} The 1939 discovery of a radio microscope revealed
a new world of hitherto unknown rays. “Man himself as well as all
kinds of supposedly inert matter constantly emits the rays that
this instrument ‘sees,’” reported the ASSOCIATED PRESS. “Those
who believe in telepathy, second sight, and clairvoyance, have in
this announcement the first scientific proof of the existence of
invisible rays which really travel from one person to another. The
radio device actually is a radio frequency spectroscope. It does
the same thing for cool, nonglowing matter that the spectroscope
does when it discloses the kinds of atoms that make the stars. . .
. The existence of such rays coming from man and all living things
has been suspected by scientists for many years. Today is the first
experimental proof of their existence. The discovery shows that
every atom and every molecule in nature is a continuous radio
broadcasting station. . . . Thus even after death the substance
that was a man continues to send out its delicate rays. The wave
lengths of these rays range from shorter than anything now used
in broadcasting to the longest kind of radio waves. The jumble of
these rays is almost inconceivable. There are millions of them. A
single very large molecule may give off 1,000,000 different wave
lengths at the same time. The longer wave lengths of this sort
travel with the ease and speed of radio waves. . . . There is one
amazing difference between the new radio rays and familiar rays
like light. This is the prolonged time, amounting to thousands of
years, which these radio waves will keep on emitting from undisturbed
matter.”
{FN15-3} One hesitates to use “intuition”; Hitler has almost ruined
the word along with more ambitious devastations. The Latin root
meaning of INTUITION is “inner protection.” The Sanskrit word AGAMA
means intuitional knowledge born of direct soul-perception; hence
certain ancient treatises by the rishis were called AGAMAS.
{FN15-4} SAT is literally “being,” hence “essence; reality.” SANGA
is “association.” Sri Yukteswar called his hermitage organization
SAT-SANGA, “fellowship with truth.”
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