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Our first meeting was in Allahabad at a KUMBHA MELA." The religious fairs held in India since time immemorial are known as KUMBHA MELAS; they have kept spiritual goals in constant sight of the multitude. Devout Hindus gather by the millions every six years to meet thousands of sadhus, yogis, swamis, and ascetics of all kinds.
It is as near a primitive picture of earthly Paradise as anything that can be imagined. Every twelfth year, which the Hindus call Kumbha, the planet Jupiter enters the constellation of Aquarius, and this event is considered very propitious for the beginning of the religious fair; for which this day is accordingly fixed by the astrologers of the pagodas.
Long ago I met your guru Yukteswar at a KUMBHA MELA; I told him then I would send you to him for training." I was speechless, choked with devotional awe at his presence, and deeply touched to hear from his own lips that he had guided me to Sri Yukteswar. I lay prostrate before the deathless guru. He graciously lifted me from the floor.
Though nearing his eighty-first birthday, he looked well and strong. Basking day by day in the sunshine of my guru's love, unspoken but keenly felt, I banished from my conscious mind the various hints he had given of his approaching passing. "Sir, the KUMBHA MELA is convening this month at Allahabad." "Do you really want to go?"
When I set out for Allahabad the following day with a small group, Master blessed me quietly in his usual manner. Apparently I was remaining oblivious to implications in Sri Yukteswar's attitude because the Lord wished to spare me the experience of being forced, helplessly, to witness my guru's passing. Our party reached the KUMBHA MELA on January 23, 1936.
The eldest of them all was Prahlada, the next was Sahradha; the third was Anuhrada; and after him were Sivi and Vashkala. And, O Bharata, it is known everywhere that Prahlada had three sons. They were Virochana, Kumbha, and Nikumbha. And unto Virochana was born a son, Vali, of great prowess. And the son of Vali is known to be the great Asura, Vana.
Evidently the great guru wished me to be perfectly natural in his presence, not overawed by knowledge of his identity. "'What do you think of the KUMBHA MELA? "'I was greatly disappointed, sir. I added hastily, 'Up until the time I met you. Somehow saints and this commotion don't seem to belong together.
The eldest of them all was Prahlada, the next was Sahradha; the third was Anuhrada; and after him were Sivi and Vashkala. And, O Bharata, it is known everywhere that Prahlada had three sons. They were Virochana, Kumbha, and Nikumbha. And unto Virochana was born a son, Vali, of great prowess. And the son of Vali is known to be the great Asura, Vana.
Compare Sans., jan, to beget. Lat., gen-itus. German, kin-d. Eng., kin. Compare Sans., bãla, boy, child; bhri, to bear children, &c. Greek, polos, foal. Lat., pullus, filius. Eng.,foal, &c., &c. Sans., chasbaka. Sans., bajana. Compare Lat., vas. Eng., vase. Sans., kumbha. Sans., chamasa; from Sans., cham, to eat. Sans., machcha. Sans., sãka.
Tell him, then, that I won't see him this time, as he is eagerly hoping; but I shall see him on some other occasion." I was deeply touched to receive from Keshabananda's lips this consoling promise from Babaji. A certain hurt in my heart vanished; I grieved no longer that, even as Sri Yukteswar had hinted, Babaji did not appear at the KUMBHA MELA.
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