In reference to miracles, Lahiri Mahasaya often said, "The operation
of subtle laws which are unknown to people in general should not
be publicly discussed or published without due discrimination."
If in these pages I have appeared to flout his cautionary words,
it is because he has given me an inward reassurance. Also, in
recording the lives of Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, and Sri Yukteswar,
I have thought it advisable to omit many true miraculous stories,
which could hardly have been included without writing, also, an
explanatory volume of abstruse philosophy.
New hope for new men! "Divine union," the YOGAVATAR proclaimed, "is
possible through self-effort, and is not dependent on theological
beliefs or on the arbitrary will of a Cosmic Dictator."
Through use of the KRIYA key, persons who cannot bring themselves
to believe in the divinity of any man will behold at last the full
divinity of their own selves.
{FN35-1} MATTHEW 3:15.
{FN35-2} Many Biblical passages reveal that the law of reincarnation
was understood and accepted. Reincarnational cycles are a more
reasonable explanation for the different states of evolution in
which mankind is found, than the common Western theory which assumes
that something (consciousness of egoity) came out of nothing, existed
with varying degrees of lustihood for thirty or ninety years, and
then returned to the original void. The inconceivable nature of
such a void is a problem to delight the heart of a medieval Schoolman.
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