Part 56 (2/2)

Pauls After we had eaten, Babaji blessed each of us in turn There was a sudden flash; itnessed the instantaneous dechemicalization of the electronic eleht The God-tuned will power of the ether as his body; forthwith the trillions of tiny lifetronic sparks faded into the infinite reservoir

”'With my own eyes I have seen the conqueror of death' Maitra, {FN34-12} one of the group, spoke reverently His face was transfigured with the joy of his recent awakening 'The supreuru played with time and space, as a child plays with bubbles I have beheld one with the keys of heaven and earth'

”I soon returned to Danapur Firain I assuations of a householder”

Lahiri Mahasaya also related to Swa with Babaji, under circuuru's promise: ”I shall come whenever you need me”

”The scene was a kumBHA MELA at Allahabad,” Lahiri Mahasaya told his disciples ”I had gone there during a short vacation fro of reat distances to attend the holy festival, I noticed an ash-sht arose inthe outward syrace

”No sooner had I passed the ascetic thanin front of a matted-haired anchorite

”'Guruji!' I hastened to his side 'Sir, what are you doing here?'

”'I a the feet of this renunciate, and then I shall clean his cooking utensils' Babaji s that he wantedequally in all body-teuru added, 'By serving wise and ignorant sadhus, I a to God above all others-humility'”

{FN34-1} Now a military sanatorium By 1861 the British Governraphic communciations

{FN34-2} Ranikhet, in the Almora district of United Provinces, is situated at the foot of Nanda Devi, the highest Himalayan peak (25,661 feet) in British India

{FN34-3} ”The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath”--MARK 2:27

{FN34-4} The karmic law requires that every human wish find ultimate fulfillment Desire is thus the chain which binds man to the reincarnational wheel

{FN34-5} ”What is a miracle?-'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an i, in NIGHT THOUGHTS

{FN34-5} The theory of the atomic structure of matter was expounded in the ancient Indian VAISESIKA and NYAYA treatises ”There are vast worlds all placed aithin the hollows of each atom, multifarious as the motes in a sunbeam”--YOGA VASISHTHA

{FN34-7} Physical, ; ical inadequacies or ”conorance

{FN34-8} Chapter II:40

{FN34-9} A town near Benares

{FN34-10} In the path to the Infinite, even illumined masters like Lahiri Mahasaya may suffer from an excess of zeal, and be subject to discipline In the BHAGAVAD GITA, we read ives chastisement to the prince of devotees, Arjuna

{FN34-11} A porridge made of cream of wheat fried in butter, and boiled with milk

{FN34-12} The , afterward becahly advanced in self-realization I h school; he visited the Mahae in Benares while I was a resident He told roup in Moradabad

”As a result of thedisciple of Lahiri Mahasaya”

CHAPTER: 35

THE CHRISTLIKE LIFE OF LAHIRI MAHASAYA