Part 51 (1/2)
”I was not surprised to see that ly, the master's directions In a few
”'Sir,' I replied, 'a beautiful woman appears She wears a red-bordered SARI, and stands near an elephant-ear plant' All the other disciples gave the same description The nize that wo with e ood wife I aive ood moral life for six matically added, 'Otherwise I won't have to initiate you'
”For three months my employer refrained from temptation; then he resumed his former relationshi+p with the wouru's veiled prophecy about the improbability of the man's initiation”
Lahiri Mahasaya had a very faa, as reputed to be over three hundred years old The two yogis often sat together in a's fame is so widespread that few Hindus would deny the possibility of truth in any story of his astounding miracles If Christ returned to earth and walked the streets of New York, displaying his divine powers, it would cause the sao as he passed through the crowded lanes of Benares
On many occasions the sas seen to drink, with no ill effect, thea feho are still living, have seen Trailanga floating on the Ganges For days together he would sit on top of the water, or re periods under the waves A co GHATS was the swa stone slabs, wholly exposed to the ht to teach en or ordinary conditions and precautions Whether he were above water or under it, and whether or not his body lay exposed to the fierce solar rays, the master proved that he lived by divine consciousness: death could not touch hireat not only spiritually, but physically His weight exceeded three hundred pounds: a pound for each year of his life!
As he ate very seldonores all usual rules of health, when he desires to do so for some special reason, often a subtle one known only to himself
Great saints who have awakened from the cosmic mayic dream and realized this world as an idea in the Divine Mind, can do as they ith the body, knowing it to be only a h physical scientists now understand that y, fully-illu passed from theory to practice in the field of a always remained coard hi problearden of Eden, was utterly unconscious of his nakedness The police were quite conscious of it, however, and unceremoniously committed him to jail General ea was soon seen, in its usual entirety, on the prison roof His cell, still securely locked, offered no clue to his ed officers of the law once uard was posted before the swaa was soon observed in his nonchalant stroll over the roof Justice is blind; the outwitted police decided to follow her exai preserved a habitual silence {FN31-4} In spite of his round face and huge, barrel-like stoa ate only occasionally After weeks without food, he would break his fast with potfuls of clabbered milk offered to hia as a charlatan A large bucket of calciu walls, was placed before the swami
”Master,” the ht you soa unhesitatingly drained, to the last drop, the containerful of burning liony
”Help, swaive i broke his habitual silence ”Scoffer,” he said, ”you did not realize when you offered me poison that e that God is present in my stomach, as in every atom of creation, the li of booain play tricks on anyone”
The well-purged sinner, healed by Trailanga's words, slunk feebly away
The reversal of pain was not due to any volition of theapplication of the law of justice which upholds creation's farthest swinging orb Men of God-realization like Trailanga allow the divine law to operate instantaneously; they have banished forever all thwarting crosscurrents of ego
The autohteousness, often paid in an unexpected coin as in the case of Trailanga and his would be nance at hueance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord” {FN31-5} What need for man's brief resources? the universe duly conspires for retribution Dull minds discredit the possibility of divine justice, love, omniscience, immortality ”Airy scriptural conjectures!” This insensitive viewpoint, aweless before the coss its oakening
The omnipotence of spiritual laas referred to by Christ on the occasion of his triumphant entry into Jerusalem As the disciples and the multitude shouted for joy, and cried, ”Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest,” certain Pharisees conified spectacle ”Master,” they protested, ”rebuke thy disciples”
”I tell you,” Jesus replied, ”that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out” {FN31-6}
In this repri out that divine justice is no figurative abstraction, and that a ue be torn from its roots, will yet find his speech and his defense in the bedrock of creation, the universal order itself
”Think you,” Jesus was saying, ”to silence men of peace? As well may you hope to throttle the voice of God, whose very stones sing His glory and His omnipresence Will you demand that men not celebrate in honor of the peace in heaven, but should only gather together in multitudes to shout for war on earth? Then make your preparations, O Pharisees, to overtopple the foundations of the world; for it is not gentle men alone, but stones or earth, and water and fire and air that will rise up against you, to bear witness of His ordered hara, was once bestowed onUncle saw the hat He a, whose feet he touched humbly
Uncle was astonished to find himself instantly freed from a painful chronic disease {FN31-7}
The only known living disciple of the great yogi is a woa's disciples, she received the swa from her early childhood She lived for forty years in a series of lonely Himalayan caves near Badrinath, Kedarnath, Amarnath, and Pasupatinath The BRAHMACHARINI (woman ascetic), born in 1826, is noell over the century ed in appearance, however, she has retained her black hair, sparkling teeth, and ay She comes out of her seclusion every few years to attend the periodical MELAS or religious fairs
This woman saint often visited Lahiri Mahasaya She has related that one day, in the Barackpur section near Calcutta, while she was sitting by Lahiri Mahasaya's side, his great guru Babaji quietly entered the room and held converse with the his usual silence, honored Lahiri Mahasaya very pointedly in public A Benares disciple objected