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Date Posted: 14:18:32 12/13/03 Sat
Author: ketch - 31 Oct 2003
Subject: Re: Yogananda's 'Satan' experiences
In reply to: Hendrik - 31 Oct 2003 's message, "Re: Yogananda's 'Satan' experiences" on 14:17:55 12/13/03 Sat

It is a question of perspective.

From the book "A Search in Secret India" by Paul Brunton:

In my heart I know that I come as one seeking to take up the position of a disciple, and that there will be no rest for my mind until I hear the Maharishee's decision. It is true that I live in a great hope of being accepted, for that which sent me scurrying out of Bombay to this place came as an absolute command, a decisive and authoritative injunction from a supernormal region. In a few words I dispose of the preliminary explanations, and then put my request briefly and bluntly to the Maharishee.

He continues to smile at me, but says nothing.

I repeat my question with some emphasis.

There is another protracted pause, but at length he answers me, distaining to call for the services of an interpreter and expressing himself directly in English.

"What is all this talk of masters and disciples? All these differences exist only from the disciple's standpoint. To the one who has realized the true self their is neither master nor disciple. Such a one regards all people with equal eye."

I am slightly conscious of an initial rebuff, and though I press my request in other ways the Maharishee refuses to yield on the point. But in the end he does say:

"You must find the master within you, within your own spiritual self. You must regard the body in the same way that he himself regards it; the body is not his true self."



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