"There are vast
worlds all placed away within the hollows of each atom, multifarious
as the motes in a sunbeam."--YOGA VASISHTHA.
{FN34-7} Physical, mental, and spiritual suffering; manifested,
respectively, in disease, in psychological inadequacies or "complexes,"
and in soul-ignorance.
{FN34-8} Chapter II:40.
{FN34-9} A town near Benares.
{FN34-10} In the path to the Infinite, even illumined masters like
Lahiri Mahasaya may suffer from an excess of zeal, and be subject
to discipline. In the BHAGAVAD GITA, we read many passages where the
divine guru Krishna gives chastisement to the prince of devotees,
Arjuna.
{FN34-11} A porridge made of cream of wheat fried in butter, and
boiled with milk.
{FN34-12} The man, Maitra, to whom Lahiri Mahasaya is here referring,
afterward became highly advanced in self-realization. I met Maitra
shortly after my graduation from high school; he visited the
Mahamandal hermitage in Benares while I was a resident. He told
me then of Babaji's materialization before the group in Moradabad.
"As a result of the miracle," Maitra explained to me, "I became a
lifelong disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya."
CHAPTER: 35
THE CHRISTLIKE LIFE OF LAHIRI MAHASAYA
"Thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness." {FN35-1} In
these words to John the Baptist, and in asking John to baptize him,
Jesus was acknowledging the divine rights of his guru.
From a reverent study of the Bible from an Oriental viewpoint,
{FN35-2} and from intuitional perception, I am convinced that
John the Baptist was, in past lives, the guru of Christ.
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