Part 41 (1/2)
”Get up, Mukunda,” he said indulgently ”The Lord siraduate than to rearrange the sun and moon!”
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{FN23-4} MATTHEW 6:33
CHAPTER: 24
I BECOME A MONK OF THE SWAMI ORDER
”Master, my father has been anxious for pur Railway But I have definitely refused it” I added hopefully, ”Sir, will you not ly atyears, in order to test the depth of my determination, he had refused this saraciously
”Very well; tomorroill initiate you into swamishi+p” He went on quietly, ”I am happy that you have persisted in your desire to be a monk Lahiri Mahasaya often said: 'If you don't invite God to be your summer Guest, He won't come in the winter of your life'”
”Dearto the Swami Order like your revered self” I smiled at him with measureless affection
”He that is un to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: but he that is s of the world, how he may please his wife” {FN24-1} I had analyzed the lives ofcertain spiritual discipline, had then married Launched on the sea of worldly responsibilities, they had forgotten their resolutions to meditate deeply
To allot God a secondary place in life was, to h He is the sole Owner of the cosifts fro yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow- infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one h free will With what velvet glove of every humility has He not covered the iron hand of o day was one of the most memorable in my life It was a sunny Thursday, I reraduation froe, Master dipped a new piece of white silk into a dye of ocher, the traditional color of the Swauru draped it around o to the West, where silk is preferred,” he said
”As a symbol, I have chosen for you this silk material instead of the customary cotton”
In India, where monks embrace the ideal of poverty, a silk-clad swaarments of silk, which preserves certain subtle bodily currents better than cotton
”I am averse to ceremonies,” Sri Yukteswar remarked ”I will make you a swami in the BIDWAT (non-ceremonious) manner”
The BIBIDISA or elaborate initiation into swa which symbolical funeral rites are performed The physical body of the disciple is represented as dead, creiven a chant, such as: ”This ATMA is Brahma” {FN24-2} or ”Thou art That” or ”I am He” Sri Yukteswar, however, with his love of simplicity, dispensed with all formal rites and ive you the privilege of choosing it yourself,” he said, sht The nah divine union (YOGA)”
”Be it so Forsaking your family naananda of the Giri branch of the Swami Order”
As I knelt before Sri Yukteswar, and for the first time heard hiratitude How lovingly and tirelessly had he labored, that the boy Mukunda be so a few verses fro Sanskrit chant of Lord Shankara:
”Mind, nor intellect, nor ego, feeling; Sky nor earth nor metals am I