Babaji assures us, however,
that even a little meditation saves one from the dire fear of death
and after-death states. Do not fix your spiritual ideal on a small
mountain, but hitch it to the star of unqualified divine attainment.
If you work hard, you will get there."
Enthralled by the prospect, I asked him for further enlightening
words. He related a wondrous story of his first meeting with Lahiri
Mahasaya's guru, Babaji. {FN13-3} Around midnight Ram Gopal fell
into silence, and I lay down on my blankets. Closing my eyes, I
saw flashes of lightning; the vast space within me was a chamber
of molten light. I opened my eyes and observed the same dazzling
radiance. The room became a part of that infinite vault which I
beheld with interior vision.
"Why don't you go to sleep?"
"Sir, how can I sleep in the presence of lightning, blazing whether
my eyes are shut or open?"
"You are blessed to have this experience; the spiritual radiations
are not easily seen." The saint added a few words of affection.
At dawn Ram Gopal gave me rock candies and said I must depart. I
felt such reluctance to bid him farewell that tears coursed down
my cheeks.
"I will not let you go empty-handed." The yogi spoke tenderly. "I
will do something for you."
He smiled and looked at me steadfastly. I stood rooted to the
ground, peace rushing like a mighty flood through the gates of my
eyes. I was instantaneously healed of a pain in my back, which had
troubled me intermittently for years.
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