I don't understand; please point
out the nature of my error.'
"'I told you twice that Rama would be well; yet you could not fully
believe me,' Lahiri Mahasaya explained. 'I did not mean the doctors
would be able to cure him; I remarked only that they were in
attendance. There was no causal connection between my two statements.
I didn't want to interfere with the physicians; they have to live,
too.' In a voice resounding with joy, my guru added, 'Always know
that the inexhaustible Paramatman {FN32-4} can heal anyone, doctor
or no doctor.'
"'I see my mistake,' I acknowledged remorsefully. 'I know now that
your simple word is binding on the whole cosmos.'"
As Sri Yukteswar finished the awesome story, one of the spellbound
listeners ventured a question that, from a child, was doubly
understandable.
"Sir," he said, "why did your guru use castor oil?"
"Child, giving the oil had no meaning except that I expected
something material and Lahiri Mahasaya chose the near-by oil as an
objective symbol for awakening my greater faith. The master allowed
Rama to die, because I had partially doubted. But the divine guru
knew that inasmuch as he had said the disciple would be well, the
healing must take place, even though he had to cure Rama of death,
a disease usually final!"
Sri Yukteswar dismissed the little group, and motioned me to a
blanket seat at his feet.
"Yogananda," he said with unusual gravity, "you have been surrounded
from birth by direct disciples of Lahiri Mahasaya.
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