"You can't do that to me now; you know God is in your
temple also! I won't let Divine Mother touch my feet through your
hands!"
If anyone observed the unpretentious master and myself as we walked
away from the crowded pavement, the onlooker surely suspected
us of intoxication. I felt that the falling shades of evening
were sympathetically drunk with God. When darkness recovered from
its nightly swoon, I faced the new morning bereft of my ecstatic
mood. But ever enshrined in memory is the seraphic son of Divine
Mother-Master Mahasaya!
Trying with poor words to do justice to his benignity, I wonder if
Master Mahasaya, and others among the deep-visioned saints whose
paths crossed mine, knew that years later, in a Western land,
I would be writing about their lives as divine devotees. Their
foreknowledge would not surprise me nor, I hope, my readers, who
have come thus far with me.
{FN9-1} These are respectful titles by which he was customarily
addressed. His name was Mahendra Nath Gupta; he signed his literary
works simply "M."
{FN9-2} The Oxford English Dictionary gives, as rare, this definition
of BIOSCOPE: A view of life; that which gives such a view.
Master Mahasaya's choice of a word was, then, peculiarly justified.
CHAPTER: 10
I MEET MY MASTER, SRI YUKTESWAR
"Faith in God can produce any miracle except one-passing an
examination without study." Distastefully I closed the book I had
picked up in an idle moment.
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