Within me I still hear her voice, an echo of
measureless sweetness:
"Behold, now and always one with the Eternal, 'I am ever the same.'"
{FN45-1} I find some further facts of Ananda Moyi Ma's life, printed
in EAST-WEST. The saint was born in 1893 at Dacca in central Bengal.
Illiterate, she has yet stunned the intellectuals by her wisdom.
Her verses in Sanskrit have filled scholars with wonderment. She
has brought consolation to bereaved persons, and effected miraculous
cures, by her mere presence.
{FN45-2} MARK 12:30.
CHAPTER: 46
THE WOMAN YOGI WHO NEVER EATS
"Sir, whither are we bound this morning?" Mr. Wright was driving
the Ford; he took his eyes off the road long enough to gaze at me
with a questioning twinkle. From day to day he seldom knew what
part of Bengal he would be discovering next.
"God willing," I replied devoutly, "we are on our way to see an
eighth wonder of the world-a woman saint whose diet is thin air!"
"Repetition of wonders-after Therese Neumann." But Mr. Wright laughed
eagerly just the same; he even accelerated the speed of the car.
More extraordinary grist for his travel diary! Not one of an average
tourist, that!
The Ranchi school had just been left behind us; we had risen before
the sun. Besides my secretary and myself, three Bengali friends
were in the party. We drank in the exhilarating air, the natural
wine of the morning. Our driver guided the car warily among the
early peasants and the two-wheeled carts, slowly drawn by yoked,
hump-shouldered bullocks, inclined to dispute the road with a
honking interloper.
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