Yoganandji expressed his great reverence for his beloved Guru with this tribute “I often reflected that my majestic master could easily have been an emperor or world-shaking warrior had his mind been centered on fame or worldly achievement. The illustrious disciple was Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, who later on established Yogoda Satsanga Society of India at Ranchi, and Self Realization Fellowship in California, which continue to illumine both the East and the West with the ineffable light of Kriya Yoga since its inception more than a century ago. Furthering his great role in the ‘coming harmonious exchange between Orient and Occident’ Babaji promised to send him a disciple to be trained for yoga dissemination in the West. It was during a Kumbh Mela that Mahavatar Babaji, the deathless Himalayan Master, had requested Sri Yukteswarji to write ‘The Holy Science’ a short book on the underlying harmony between Christian and Hindu scriptures. The Master vehemently advocated to his disciples that no outward forms of honour mattered except one’s ‘steady, daily spiritual advancement.’ He reminded them to practise the highly advanced spiritual technique of Kriya Yoga. “Roam in the world as a lion of self-control don’t let the frogs of sense weakness kick you around!” Was his clarion call to his disciples.

He often encouraged them with the words “Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.” Those disciples who took the training in the right spirit eventually discerned a deeply loving heart under the guise of fiery sternness. Though his verbal assaults, ‘never wrathful but impersonal with wisdom,’ were only on students who had asked him to discipline them. When those students craving an easy path or an ‘ego balm’ from the stoic master fled from the hermitage, he would comment wryly “Tender inner weaknesses, revolting at mild touches of censure, are like diseased parts of the body recoiling before even delicate handling.” All the chelas under his care were meticulously trained to be ‘the living liaisons of Western and Eastern virtues.’īeing a perfectionist, his methods were often drastic, as Yoganandji confesses, “I shook many times under the weight of his disciplinary hammer.” Understandably the Master was not sought after by superficial students, but the wise, though minuscule in number, deeply revered him. Intellectual and spiritual education being his lifelong interest, he turned his ancestral mansion into a hermitage of learning. Later he joined the Swami Order and received the new name of Sri Yukteswar Giri. Clovia looks to up offline play, get skincare folio right with Skiviaīorn Priya Nath Karar on in Serampore, Bengal, he became the disciple of the exalted yogi Lahiri Mahasaya of Benaras.

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