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Date Posted: 09:35:32 04/04/04 Sun
Author: anon. - 10 Mar 2004
Subject: Re: A Call To Hendrik
In reply to: anonymous - 10 Mar 2004 's message, "Re: A Call To Hendrik" on 09:34:04 04/04/04 Sun


The Self-Realization Magazine, March-April 1962, pp. 20-22, paid the following tribute to Sanyal Mahasaya, one of the great disciples of Lahiri Mahasaya. We can see the loving relationship between he and SRF leaders at that time:

Mahasamadhi of Sri Bhupendra Nath Sanyal

Sri Bhupendra Nath Sanyal (Sanyal Mahasaya), eighty-five-year-old disciple of Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (Paramparamguru of members of Self-Realization Fellowship and Yogoda Satsanga Society) passed away on January 18th at his ashram in Mandar Hill, Bihar, India. His cremation took place at Bhagalpur on the banks of the Ganges. The sraddha (last rites) ceremonies were performed on January 28th in Mandar Hill.

Sri Bhupendra was born in 1877 and came under the guidance of Lahiri Mahasaya at the age of fifteen. In 1895 his guru entered mahasamadhi. "For a time I was inconsolable," he told Sri Daya Mata when she visited him in May 1959. "I slept but seldom and I wept all the time. One night I was weeping and fell asleep while doing so. Suddenly I woke up to find Lahiri Mahasaya in front of me, looking just as he had while in the flesh. He asked, 'Why are you weeping? You live not only in this world; you are also with me.' Lahiri Mahasaya smiled and added, 'Why have you imagined I was not here? I am always with you. I am here now with you. You need not be afraid.' I touched his body and he then disappeared. This miracle happened in Deoghar."

Sanyal Mahasaya continued: "A similar incident took place in Shantiniketan when I was there as superintendent. I was very ill and given up for lost. One night when I was sleeping, Lahiri Mahasaya appeared in a dream and asked me what was the matter. I said, 'Now that I am going to die, I regret that I have not been able to do more in this life.' Lahiri Mahasaya touched me and said, 'You are not going to die. You have something more to achieve in this life.' The doctors who were treating me were greatly surprised the next morning to see me better and talking with the people around me."

Daya Mata said, "We learned this from our Guru--that you can judge a disciple by his feeling toward his own Guru. To see your love and devotion for Lahiri Mahasaya is deeply touching to our hearts."

Sanyal Mahasaya replied, "My Guru is my father, my God. I like to see him as my God. Never have I met another so great as he. Meeting him once, one could never forget him."

Daya Mata asked Sri Sanyal whether Lahiri Mahasaya had manifested more of bhakti or of jnana. The saint replied, "He was all-sided. He was the most loving person I have ever met, yet he expressed himself in terms of sublimest wisdom."

After a few moments of silence Sri Sanyal remarked, "I heard you have been on a pilgrimage." Daya Mata replied, "Now that pilgrimage is completed in seeing you." In his sweet way, Sanyal Mahasaya replied, "You will feel Lahiri Mahasaya's presence if you go to the Guru Mandir," pointing to a small shrine on the grounds.

Later Sri Sanyal said, "I am really very happy to meet you all. I hope you will come again, as often as you can."

Lahiri Mahasaya's Prediction about Spread of Kriya Yoga

Sri Kriyananda wrote about this visit: "Remarking on the growth of Paramahansa Yogananda's work in the West, Sanyal Mahasaya said, 'Lahiri Mahasaya predicted that about fifty years after his passing, Kriya Yoga would start to become known all over the world.' Sri Sabyal was very loving toward us. He said, 'I feel you are all mine. You are a part of our family.'"

Sri Daya Mata and her party visited this great disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya again in December 1961. In a letter to SRF devotees in America, Daya Mata wrote from India:

"Sanyal Mahasaya's life span, it appears, is coming to a close. We recently saw him at his ashram in Mandar Hill. He was resting. When he became aware that we were in the room he stretched forth his hand and silently blessed each one of us. Tears filled my eyes as I stood before him, realizing that this great devotee of God would soon withdraw from the body that has housed his soul for so many years. However, he has had a long and fruitful life; and surely the blessings of his beloved Gurudeva, Lahiri Mahasaya, ever abide with him."

The loss of the venerable saint is greatly mourned by his followers and by the members of SRF-YSS.

******

In the same magazine, pp. 6-8, Sri Daya Mata wrote about her harmonious meeting with Satya Charan Lahiri, a grandson of the Yogiraj. She wrote in her "Indian Travel Notes":

"An interesting incident took place soon after our arrival [at Banaras]. We were riding through the streets on our way to the shrine of Lahiri Mahasaya when we noticed a man waving his hand at us from a horse-drawn cart. The cart stopped and its passengers alighted and came over to greet us. They were the sister and brother of the Naidoos, SRF members who reside in Africa. The brother and sister had been in India on a tour for the last three months. They had not expected to see me here in Banaras, nor did I know that they were in the country; it was a delightful happening that out of thousands of people on the streets of Banaras, we friends should meet. I invited them to accompany us to the shrine of Lahiri Mahasaya, which is on the grounds of the home of Sri Satya Charan Lahiri, a grandson.

"As we walked down the lane I heard a quiet voice behind me: 'I have been following you.' I turned around to behold the grandson himself! We were happy to meet him once again and also to have him direct us to the temple, for we were having a rather difficult time finding the address in the narrow winding lane.

"We sat long in the sacred shrine with its beautiful, almost life-size statue of our beloved Paramparamguru, Lahiri Mahasaya. My mind became locked in bliss; gone was the awareness of the body and of the temple itself; only the thought of 'God and I' existed. A divine and exhilarating experience came upon us--one so sacred and so dear to my heart that I am reluctant even to speak of it. I came away from that morning of meditation with my mind fully absorbed in the love of God and in the awareness of the presence of Sri Lahiri Mahasaya.

"Leaving the home of the grandson, we told him that we would come again to attend a satsang at four o'clock in the afternoon....

"Around four o'clock in the afternoon we drove to the home of Sri Satya Charan Lahiri for satsang. Chanting was in progress and we sat and meditated, after which I was asked to speak. I was grateful for the opportunity to pay humble tribute once again to Lahiri Mahasaya and to speak of his universal message of Kriya Yoga, carried to the West by our own blessed Master."

*****
In a letter to Dr. Lewis (published in "Treasures Against Time," by Brenda L. Rosser), Sri Ananda Mohan Lahiri tells Doctor he was "under an able guide and hope you all success."

*****
In his book "Saints and Sages", Swami Sivananda, founder of the Divine Life Society, writes: "Yogananda was born a Siddha and a Yogi. He used to have mystic experiences even in his childhood, and had perfect control over his body.... His supreme devotion to God and his Guru brought him a variety of spiritual experiences, until at last he received the experience of cosmic consciousness."

True saints always held Yoganandaji and his work of Kriya Yoga world-dissemination in high regard.

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