" Sebananda recounted details of the burial. "Come," he said,
"I will take you to the front garden to Sri Yukteswarji's grave."
Ma shook her head. "There is no grave for him! This morning at ten
o'clock he passed in his usual walk before my door! I talked to
him for several minutes in the bright outdoors.
"'Come this evening to the ashram,' he said.
"I am here! Blessings pour on this old gray head! The deathless guru
wanted me to understand in what transcendent body he had visited
me this morning!"
The astounded Sebananda knelt before her.
"Ma," he said, "what a weight of grief you lift from my heart! He
is risen!"
{FN43-1} In SABIKALPA SAMADHI the devotee has spiritually progressed
to a state of inward divine union, but cannot maintain his cosmic
consciousness except in the immobile trance-state. By continuous
meditation, he reaches the superior state of NIRBIKALPA SAMADHI,
where he moves freely in the world and performs his outward duties
without any loss of God-realization.
{FN43-2} Sri Yukteswar used the word PRANA; I have translated it as
lifetrons. The Hindu scriptures refer not only to the ANU, "atom,"
and to the PARAMANU, "beyond the atom," finer electronic energies;
but also to PRANA, "creative lifetronic force." Atoms and electrons
are blind forces; PRANA is inherently intelligent. The pranic
lifetrons in the spermatozoa and ova, for instance, guide the
embryonic development according to a karmic design.
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