The ash-hidden flame, long smouldering, received its opportunity
to burst into flame. A divine decree, resting beyond the gaze of
human beings, works mysteriously to bring all things into outer
manifestation at the proper time. He met his great guru, Babaji,
near Ranikhet, and was initiated by him into KRIYA YOGA.
This auspicious event did not happen to him alone; it was a
fortunate moment for all the human race, many of whom were later
privileged to receive the soul-awakening gift of KRIYA. The lost,
or long-vanished, highest art of yoga was again being brought
to light. Many spiritually thirsty men and women eventually found
their way to the cool waters of KRIYA YOGA. Just as in the Hindu
legend, where Mother Ganges offers her divine draught to the parched
devotee Bhagirath, so the celestial flood of KRIYA rolled from the
secret fastnesses of the Himalayas into the dusty haunts of men.
{FN32-1} JOHN 11:1-4.
{FN32-2} A cholera victim is often rational and fully conscious
right up to the moment of death.
{FN32-3} The god of death.
{FN32-4} Literally, "Supreme soul."
{FN32-5} GENESIS 18:23-32.
{FN32-6} SRI, a prefix meaning "holy," is attached (generally twice
or thrice) to names of great Indian teachers.
{FN32-7} One of the trinity of Godhead-Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva-whose
universal work is, respectively, that of creation, preservation,
and dissolution-restoration. Shiva (sometimes spelled Siva),
represented in mythology as the Lord of Renunciates, appears in
visions to His devotees under various aspects, such as Mahadeva,
the matted-haired Ascetic, and Nataraja, the Cosmic Dancer.
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