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Date Posted: 04:00:35 11/22/03 Sat
Author: a kriya yogi - 20 Oct 2003
Subject: Re: The blind cannot lead the blind
In reply to: nojdw - 19 Oct 2003 's message, "Re: The blind cannot lead the blind" on 03:59:52 11/22/03 Sat

If you are not leading, then whom do you follow? What kriya path are you on? What has it done for you? What were you like before you began practicing Kriya?

from my guruji- Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a yogi, chapter 12, Years in My Master's Hermitage

"A celebrated pundit received a similar jolt. With ostentatious zeal, the scholar shook the ashram rafters with scriptural lore. Resounding passages poured from the Mahabharata, the Upanishads,*(21) the bhasyas*(22) of Shankara.

“I am waiting to hear you.” Sri Yukteswar’s tone was inquiring, as though utter silence had reigned. The pundit was puzzled.

“Quotations there have been, in superabundance.” Master’s words convulsed me with mirth, as I squatted in my corner, at a respectful distance from the visitor. “But what original commentary can you supply, from the uniqueness of your particular life? What holy text have you absorbed and made your own? In what ways have these timeless truths renovated your nature? Are you content to be a hollow victrola, mechanically repeating the words of other men?”

“I give up!” The scholar’s chagrin was comical. “I have no inner realization.”

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