" His
safety charm was flypaper. "Every night I spread a quantity of
sheets around my camp and was never disturbed," he explained. "The
reason is psychological. The tiger is an animal of great conscious
dignity. He prowls around and challenges man until he comes to the
flypaper; he then slinks away. No dignified tiger would dare face
a human being after squatting down upon a sticky flypaper!"
{FN42-10} After I returned to America I took off sixty-five pounds.
{FN42-11} Sri Yukteswar passed at this hour-7:00 P.M., March 9,
1936.
{FN42-12} Funeral customs in India require cremation for householders;
swamis and monks of other orders are not cremated, but buried. (There
are occasional exceptions.) The bodies of monks are symbolically
considered to have undergone cremation in the fire of wisdom at
the time of taking the monastic vow.
CHAPTER: 43
THE RESURRECTION OF SRI YUKTESWAR
"Lord Krishna!" The glorious form of the avatar appeared in a
shimmering blaze as I sat in my room at the Regent Hotel in Bombay.
Shining over the roof of a high building across the street, the
ineffable vision had suddenly burst on my sight as I gazed out of
my long open third-story window.
The divine figure waved to me, smiling and nodding in greeting.
When I could not understand the exact message of Lord Krishna, he
departed with a gesture of blessing. Wondrously uplifted, I felt
that some spiritual event was presaged.
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