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Even westerners often come away stunned at the purifying and renewing power of bathing, or merely standing with their feet in the Ganges.
Why this reference to westerners for authentication?
Knowledge that is borrowed always becomes a barrier to spiritual advancement.”
need for a Guru
The Need of a guru discussed here.
Premananda Bharati (who became popularly known in America as Baba Bharati)
Is this a reference to Baba Bharati of WW Atkinson
The Himalayas are a rarified field of pure Divine Energy.
Will you debate on it?
Traversing the diverse paths and disciplines of yoga, Lokenath reached the pinnacle of Realization. He attained the Self, the state of being one with the absolute ground of reality, at one with the Beloved. Transcending all duality and multiplicity, he became established in the non-dual ground of pure energy and pure being — a fully conscious witness to the Divine Play in all its myriad forms in the ecstatic dance of creation, preservation and annihilation.
Did he know what Lokenath knew? If it was so then the author knows more than what Lokenath knew. Now this is the problem of literature.
It is like a mute trying to express the taste of nectar.”
A sparkling express on the limits of the language or the inability of the language to impart linquistic express to the fact and reality.
“When I am talking about that, I am not able to stay in touch with my body. When I think of that, I become that. I am detached from body consciousness. It is impossible to express this, the deepest feeling of ecstatic bliss, in human language.
The answer of the baba to the previous noting.
Meister Eckhart
Surprise: Here it is first but no doubt a reference to a western scholar. Are Hindus the poor case of inferiority complex when they come across and interact with western scholarship and thought?
Through you, the doors of eternal freedom will open to me.”
A Guru seeking a guru in his disciple. Something that I am reading for the first time in my pursuits.
This is an episode unique in spiritual history.
Mark this UNIQUE Episode. Something relating to my previous and immediate notings.
describing this odyssey,
Description of Mansrovar
When they reached China,
Visit to China
Maya, Invincible Mother Nature, is the primal energy of existence. She can never be conquered. By worshipping her, by pleasing her through sadhana (spiritual discipline), one receives her Divine Grace. Lower nature is transformed and spontaneously transcends all bondage, ignorance, and attachment. Through worship, Maya ceases to be maya. She becomes Mahamaya, the Divine Herself, the Universal Mother. The realization comes that She Alone is manifested in the entire creation, so who will conquer whom?
A remarkable observation of the author. It answers many questions and doubt. It is not of the baba. It is by the author.
The Guru is destined in the life of a true seeker.
Go back to a story contained in this chapter which particularly stirred you. Reread it meditatively, feeling the tender possibilities and longings for such qualities of discipleship to flower in your own heart.
Fascinating. What is this? Is there a message in it?
Once, a couple of young men wanted to drive Baba out of Baradi because his wide popularity became great obstruction to the growth of the Institution of ‘Brahmo Samaj.’
Brahmo Samaj reference. Was there a conflict? Is he telling that Brahmo Samaj was was dwendling by that time?
Baba As Eye Witness
Legal Issues with Baba
Baba’s Only Picture!
Photopraph of the Baba
God is love,
God is bliss,
God is knowledge,
“If you intend to become spiritual, you must analyze your actions and thoughts each day before you go to bed at night. You must assess the good actions and the evil actions and come to a firm resolution not to repeat evil actions anymore.”
How to become spiritual: a pratical advice
Lokenath is eternal. His words of assurance are also eternal. His Promise, “Whenever you are in danger, whether in war, forest, ocean or jungle, remember Me. I shall save you,” can be tested and trusted. His assurance, “I have traveled in the hills and mountains extensively and have earned enough spiritual treasure, you will sit at home and enjoy the fruits of my austerities” calls us to join him in the heights of spiritual attainment.
The presense of Baba
