The father prayed with anguished determination that
he receive the sickness, and that his son be spared. After all
physicians had given up hope, Humayun recovered. Baber immediately
fell sick and died of the same disease which had stricken his son.
Humayun succeeded Baber as Emperor of Hindustan.
Many people imagine that every spiritual master has, or should have,
the health and strength of a Sandow. The assumption is unfounded.
A sickly body does not indicate that a guru is not in touch with
divine powers, any more than lifelong health necessarily indicates an
inner illumination. The condition of the physical body, in other
words, cannot rightfully be made a test of a master. His distinguishing
qualifications must be sought in his own domain, the spiritual.
Numerous bewildered seekers in the West erroneously think that an
eloquent speaker or writer on metaphysics must be a master. The
rishis, however, have pointed out that the acid test of a master
is a man's ability to enter at will the breathless state, and to
maintain the unbroken SAMADHI of NIRBIKALPA. {FN21-5} Only by these
achievements can a human being prove that he has "mastered" MAYA
or the dualistic Cosmic Delusion. He alone can say from the depths
of realization: "EKAM SAT,"-"Only One exists."
"The VEDAS declare that the ignorant man who rests content with
making the slightest distinction between the individual soul and
the Supreme Self is exposed to danger," Shankara the great monist
has written.
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