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{FN35-20} "A number of seals recently excavated from archaeological
sites of the Indus valley, datable in the third millennium B.C.,
show figures seated in meditative postures now used in the system
of Yoga, and warrant the inference that even at that time some of
the rudiments of Yoga were already known. We may not unreasonably
draw the conclusion that systematic introspection with the aid of
studied methods has been practiced in India for five thousand years.
. . . India has developed certain valuable religious attitudes of
mind and ethical notions which are unique, at least in the wideness
of their application to life. One of these has been a tolerance in
questions of intellectual belief-doctrine-that is amazing to the
West, where for many centuries heresy-hunting was common, and bloody
wars between nations over sectarian rivalries were frequent."-Extracts
from an article by Professor W. Norman Brown in the May, 1939
issue of the BULLETIN of the American Council of Learned Societies,
Washington, D.C.
{FN35-21} One thinks here of Carlyle's observation in SARTOR RESARTUS:
"The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and
worship), were he president of innumerable Royal Societies and
carried . . . the epitome of all laboratories and observatories,
with their results, in his single head,-is but a pair of spectacles
behind which there is no eye."

CHAPTER: 36
BABAJI'S INTEREST IN THE WEST
"Master, did you ever meet Babaji?"
It was a calm summer night in Serampore; the large stars of the
tropics gleamed over our heads as I sat by Sri Yukteswar's side on
the second-story balcony of the hermitage.


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