Part 74 (1/2)

How uru! Each one had been a guardian angel of protection

”Dearest Master! Rebuke me a million times-do scold me now!”

”I shall chide you no rave, yet with an undercurrent of laughter ”You and I shall s as our two forms appear different in the MAYA-dreae as one in the Cos of joy vibrating throughout eternity to be broadcast to God-tuned souls!”

Sri Yukteswar gavethe two hours that he spent with me in the Bombay hotel room he answered my every question A number of world prophecies uttered by him that June day in 1936 have already come to pass

”I leave you now, beloved one!” At these words I felt Masterar into my very soul-firmament, ”whenever you enter the door of NIRBIKALPA SAMADHI and call on me, I shall come to you in flesh and blood, even as today”

With this celestial proht

A cloud-voice repeated in musical thunder: ”Tell all! Whosoever knows by NIRBIKALPA realization that your earth is a dream of God can come to the finer dream-created planet of Hiranyaloka, and there find me resurrected in a body exactly like ananda, tell all!”

Gone was the sorrow of parting The pity and grief for his death, long robber of my peace, now fled in stark shah endless, newly opened soul-pores

Anciently clogged with disuse, they noidened in purity at the driving flood of ecstasy Subconscious thoughts and feelings of my past incarnations shed their karmic taints, lustrously renewed by Sri Yukteswar's divine visit

In this chapter of uru's behest and spread the glad tiding, though it confound once , man knoell; despair is seldom alien; yet these are perversities, no part of man's true lot The day he wills, he is set on the path to freedo has he hearkened to the dank pessimism of his ”dust-thou-art” counselors, heedless of the unconquerable soul

I was not the only one privileged to behold the Resurrected Guru

One of Sri Yukteswar's chelas was an aged woman, affectionately known as MA (Mother), whose hoe

Master had often stopped to chat with her during hisof March 16, 1936, Ma arrived at the ashrao!” Swae, looked at her sadly

”That's i to protect the guru from insistent visitors?”

”No” Sebananda recounted details of the burial ”Coarden to Sri Yukteswarji's grave”

Ma shook her head ”There is no grave for hi at ten o'clock he passed in his usual walk before ht outdoors

”'Co to the ashraray head! The deathless guru wanted me to understand in what transcendent body he had visited !”

The astounded Sebananda knelt before her

”Ma,” he said, ”what a weight of grief you lift from my heart! He is risen!”

{FN43-1} In SABIKALPA SAMADHI the devotee has spiritually progressed to a state of inward divine union, but cannot maintain his cosmic consciousness except in the immobile trance-state By continuous meditation, he reaches the superior state of NIRBIKALPA SAMADHI, where he moves freely in the world and performs his outward duties without any loss of God-realization

{FN43-2} Sri Yukteswar used the word PRANA; I have translated it as lifetrons The Hindu scriptures refer not only to the ANU, ”atom,”

and to the PARAMANU, ”beyond the atoies; but also to PRANA, ”creative lifetronic force” Atoms and electrons are blind forces; PRANA is inherently intelligent The pranic lifetrons in the speruide the en