"Here is a force which history clearly teaches has been
the greatest power in the development of men. Yet we have merely
been playing with it and have never seriously studied it as we
have the physical forces. Someday people will learn that material
things do not bring happiness and are of little use in making men
and women creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world
will turn their laboratories over to the study of God and prayer
and the spiritual forces which as yet have hardly been scratched.
When this day comes, the world will see more advancement in one
generation than it has seen in the past four."
{FN44-20} That is, resist not evil with evil. (MATTHEW 5:38-39)
CHAPTER: 45
THE BENGALI "JOY-PERMEATED" MOTHER
"Sir, please do not leave India without a glimpse of Nirmala Devi.
Her sanctity is intense; she is known far and wide as Ananda Moyi Ma
(Joy-Permeated Mother)." My niece, Amiyo Bose, gazed at me earnestly.
"Of course! I want very much to see the woman saint." I added, "I
have read of her advanced state of God-realization. A little article
about her appeared years ago in EAST-WEST."
"I have met her," Amiyo went on. "She recently visited my own little
town of Jamshedpur. At the entreaty of a disciple, Ananda Moyi Ma
went to the home of a dying man. She stood by his bedside; as her
hand touched his forehead, his death-rattle ceased. The disease
vanished at once; to the man's glad astonishment, he was well.
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