"No sooner had I passed the ascetic than my astounded eye fell on
Babaji. He was kneeling in front of a matted-haired anchorite.
"'Guruji!' I hastened to his side. 'Sir, what are you doing here?'
"'I am washing the feet of this renunciate, and then I shall clean
his cooking utensils.' Babaji smiled at me like a little child; I
knew he was intimating that he wanted me to criticize no one, but
to see the Lord as residing equally in all body-temples, whether of
superior or inferior men. The great guru added, 'By serving wise
and ignorant sadhus, I am learning the greatest of virtues, pleasing
to God above all others-humility.'"
{FN34-1} Now a military sanatorium. By 1861 the British Government
had already established certain telegraphic communciations.
{FN34-2} Ranikhet, in the Almora district of United Provinces,
is situated at the foot of Nanda Devi, the highest Himalayan peak
(25,661 feet) in British India.
{FN34-3} "The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the
sabbath."--MARK 2:27.
{FN34-4} The karmic law requires that every human wish find
ultimate fulfillment. Desire is thus the chain which binds man to
the reincarnational wheel.
{FN34-5} "What is a miracle?-'Tis a reproach,
'Tis an implicit satire on mankind."
--Edward Young, in NIGHT THOUGHTS.
{FN34-5} The theory of the atomic structure of matter was expounded
in the ancient Indian VAISESIKA and NYAYA treatises.
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