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"Our path took us to the edge of a tranquil field, where the rays of the late afternoon sun were still crowning the tall ripple of the wild grass. We paused in admiration. "'Bhagabati, you are too hard on your employee! His voice was resonant in our astounded ears. He vanished as mysteriously as he had come. On my knees I was exclaiming, 'Lahiri Mahasaya!
"The life of Lahiri Mahasaya set an example which changed the erroneous notion that yoga is a mysterious practice. It is the Infinite, the Ocean of Power, that is at the back of all manifestations. "The law of KRIYA YOGA is eternal. It is true like mathematics; like the simple rules of addition and subtraction, the law of KRIYA can never be destroyed.
"Compose yourself, Abhoya," he remarked. "How you love to bother me! As if you could not have come here by the next train!" Abhoya visited Lahiri Mahasaya on another memorable occasion. This time she wanted his intercession, not with a train, but with the stork. "I pray you to bless me that my ninth child may live," she said. "Eight babies have been born to me; all died soon after birth."
"Lahiri Mahasaya was the greatest yogi I ever knew. He was Divinity Itself in the form of flesh." If a disciple, I reflected, could materialize an extra fleshly form at will, what miracles indeed could be barred to his master? "I will tell you how priceless is a guru's help. I used to meditate with another disciple for eight hours every night. We had to work at the railroad office during the day.
He has stated that he gave yoga initiation to Shankara, ancient founder of the Swami Order, and to Kabir, famous medieval saint. His chief nineteenth-century disciple was, as we know, Lahiri Mahasaya, revivalist of the lost KRIYA art.
He blinked his piercing eyes and leveled them on your father. "'Bhagabati, you are too hard on your employee! His words were the same as those he had used two days before in the Gorakhpur field. He added, 'I am glad that you have allowed Abinash to visit me, and that you and your wife have accompanied him. Lahiri Mahasaya took a definite interest in your own birth.
"The KRIYA YOGA which I am giving to the world through you in this nineteenth century," Babaji told Lahiri Mahasaya, "is a revival of the same science which Krishna gave, millenniums ago, to Arjuna, and which was later known to Patanjali, and to Christ, St. John, St. Paul, and other disciples." Thus neutralizing decay and growth, by quieting the heart, the yogi learns life control."
I learned later that Lahiri Mahasaya had often characterized Kebalananda as RISHI or illumined sage. Luxuriant curls framed my tutor's handsome face. His dark eyes were guileless, with the transparency of a child's. All the movements of his slight body were marked by a restful deliberation. Ever gentle and loving, he was firmly established in the infinite consciousness.
"So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? Thus, Babaji said "Lahiri," not "Lahiri Mahasaya."
My tutor obliged me one day by telling me something of his own life with the master. "Rarely fortunate, I was able to remain near Lahiri Mahasaya for ten years. His Benares home was my nightly goal of pilgrimage. The guru was always present in a small front parlor on the first floor. As he sat in lotus posture on a backless wooden seat, his disciples garlanded him in a semicircle.
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