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Yogananda, Paramahansa, 1893-1952

"Autobiography of a Yogi"


{FN16-18} "Now the serpent (sex force) was more subtil than any
beast of the field" (any other sense of the body).-GEN. 3:1.
{FN16-19} "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and
there he put the man whom he had formed."-GEN. 2:8. "Therefore the
Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground
from whence he was taken."-GEN. 3:23. The divine man first made
by God had his consciousness centered in the omnipotent single eye
in the forehead (eastward). The all-creative powers of his will,
focused at that spot, were lost to man when he began to "till the
ground" of his physical nature.

CHAPTER: 17
SASI AND THE THREE SAPPHIRES
"Because you and my son think so highly of Swami Sri Yukteswar,
I will take a look at him." The tone of voice used by Dr. Narayan
Chunder Roy implied that he was humoring the whim of half-wits. I
concealed my indignation, in the best traditions of the proselyter.
My companion, a veterinary surgeon, was a confirmed agnostic. His
young son Santosh had implored me to take an interest in his father.
So far my invaluable aid had been a bit on the invisible side.
Dr. Roy accompanied me the following day to the Serampore hermitage.
After Master had granted him a brief interview, marked for the most
part by stoic silence on both sides, the visitor brusquely departed.
"Why bring a dead man to the ashram?" Sri Yukteswar looked at me
inquiringly as soon as the door had closed on the Calcutta skeptic.


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