Thursday, October 16, 2008

a portion of autobiography of a yogi, by- paramhansa yogananda (a great yogi)

Autobiography of a Yogi
(Original 1946 Edition)

by Paramhansa Yogananda

CHAPTER 27

Founding a Yoga School in Ranchi


"Why are you averse to organizational work?"
Master's question startled me a bit. It is true that my private conviction at the time was that organizations were "hornets' nests."

"It is a thankless task, sir," I answered. "No matter what the leader does or does not, he is criticized."

"Do you want the whole divine channa (milk curd) for yourself alone?" My guru's retort was accompanied by a stern glance. "Could you or anyone else achieve God-contact through yoga if a line of generous-hearted masters had not been willing to convey their knowledge to others?" He added, "God is the Honey, organizations are the hives; both are necessary. Any form is useless, of course, without the spirit, but why should you not start busy hives full of the spiritual nectar?"

His counsel moved me deeply. Although I made no outward reply, an adamant resolution arose in my breast: I would share with my fellows, so far as lay in my power, the unshackling truths I had learned at my guru's feet. "Lord," I prayed, "may Thy Love shine forever on the sanctuary of my devotion, and may I be able to awaken that Love in other hearts."

On a previous occasion, before I had joined the monastic order, Sri Yukteswar had made a most unexpected remark.

"How you will miss the companionship of a wife in your old age!" he had said. "Do you not agree that the family man, engaged in useful work to maintain his wife and children, thus plays a rewarding role in God's eyes?"

"Sir," I had protested in alarm, "you know that my desire in this life is to espouse only the Cosmic Beloved."

Master had laughed so merrily that I understood his observation was made merely as a test of my faith.

"Remember," he had said slowly, "that he who discards his worldly duties can justify himself only by assuming some kind of responsibility toward a much larger family."

The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect. Moral and spiritual values, without whose appreciation no man can approach happiness, were yet lacking in the formal curriculum. I determined to found a school where young boys could develop to the full stature of manhood. My first step in that direction was made with seven children at Dihika, a small country site in Bengal.

A year later, in 1918, through the generosity of Sir Manindra Chandra Nundy, the Maharaja of Kasimbazar, I was able to transfer my fast-growing group to Ranchi. This town in Bihar, about two hundred miles from Calcutta, is blessed with one of the most healthful climates in India. The Kasimbazar Palace at Ranchi was transformed into the headquarters for the new school, which I called Brahmacharya Vidyalaya1 in accordance with the educational ideals of the rishis. Their forest ashrams had been the ancient seats of learning, secular and divine, for the youth of India.

At Ranchi I organized an educational program for both grammar and high school grades. It included agricultural, industrial, commercial, and academic subjects. The students were also taught yoga concentration and meditation, and a unique system of physical development, "Yogoda," whose principles I had discovered in 1916.

Realizing that man's body is like an electric battery, I reasoned that it could be recharged with energy through the direct agency of the human will. As no action, slight or large, is possible without willing, man can avail himself of his prime mover, will, to renew his bodily tissues without burdensome apparatus or mechanical exercises. I therefore taught the Ranchi students my simple "Yogoda" techniques by which the life force, centred in man's medulla oblongata, can be consciously and instantly recharged from the unlimited supply of cosmic energy.

The boys responded wonderfully to this training, developing extraordinary ability to shift the life energy from one part of the body to another part, and to sit in perfect poise in difficult body postures.2 They performed feats of strength and endurance which many powerful adults could not equal. My youngest brother, Bishnu Charan Ghosh, joined the Ranchi school; he later became a leading physical culturist in Bengal. He and one of his students traveled to Europe and America, giving exhibitions of strength and skill which amazed the university savants, including those at Columbia University in New York.

At the end of the first year at Ranchi, applications for admission reached two thousand. But the school, which at that time was solely residential, could accommodate only about one hundred. Instruction for day students was soon added.

In the Vidyalaya I had to play father-mother to the little children, and to cope with many organizational difficulties. I often remembered Christ's words: "Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life." 3 Sri Yukteswar had interpreted these words: "The devotee who forgoes the life-experiences of marriage and family, and exchanges the problems of a small household and limited activities for the larger responsibilities of service to society in general, is undertaking a task which is often accompanied by persecution from a misunderstanding world, but also by a divine inner contentment."

One day my father arrived in Ranchi to bestow a paternal blessing, long withheld because I had hurt him by refusing his offer of a position with the Bengal-Nagpur Railway.

"Son," he said, "I am now reconciled to your choice in life. It gives me joy to see you amidst these happy, eager youngsters; you belong here rather than with the lifeless figures of railroad timetables." He waved toward a group of a dozen little ones who were tagging at my heels. "I had only eight children," he observed with twinkling eyes, "but I can feel for you!"

With a large fruit orchard and twenty-five fertile acres at our disposal, the students, teachers, and myself enjoyed many happy hours of outdoor labor in these ideal surroundings. We had many pets, including a young deer who was fairly idolized by the children. I too loved the fawn so much that I allowed it to sleep in my room. At the light of dawn, the little creature would toddle over to my bed for a morning caress.

One day I fed the pet earlier than usual, as I had to attend to some business in the town of Ranchi. Although I cautioned the boys not to feed the fawn until my return, one of them was disobedient, and gave the baby deer a large quantity of milk. When I came back in the evening, sad news greeted me: "The little fawn is nearly dead, through over feeding."

In tears, I placed the apparently lifeless pet on my lap. I prayed piteously to God to spare its life. Hours later, the small creature opened its eyes, stood up, and walked feebly. The whole school shouted for joy.

But a deep lesson came to me that night, one I can never forget. I stayed up with the fawn until two o'clock, when I fell asleep. The deer appeared in a dream, and spoke to me:

"You are holding me back. Please let me go; let me go!"

"All right," I answered in the dream.

I awoke immediately, and cried out, "Boys, the deer is dying!" The children rushed to my side.

I ran to the corner of the room where I had placed the pet. It made a last effort to rise, stumbled toward me, then dropped at my feet, dead.

According to the mass karma which guides and regulates the destinies of animals, the deer's life was over, and it was ready to progress to a higher form. But by my deep attachment, which I later realized was selfish, and by my fervent prayers, I had been able to hold it in the limitations of the animal form from which the soul was struggling for release. The soul of the deer made its plea in a dream because, without my loving permission, it either would not or could not go. As soon as I agreed, it departed.

All sorrow left me; I realized anew that God wants His children to love everything as a part of Him, and not to feel delusively that death ends all. The ignorant man sees only the unsurmountable wall of death, hiding, seemingly forever, his cherished friends. But the man of unattachment, he who loves others as expressions of the Lord, understands that at death the dear ones have only returned for a breathing-space of joy in Him.

The Ranchi school grew from small and simple beginnings to an institution now well-known in India. Many departments of the school are supported by voluntary contributions from those who rejoice in perpetuating the educational ideals of the rishis. Under the general name of Yogoda Sat-Sanga,4 flourishing branch schools have been established at Midnapore, Lakshmanpur, and Puri.

The Ranchi headquarters maintains a Medical Department where medicines and the services of doctors are supplied freely to the poor of the locality. The number treated has averaged more than 18,000 persons a year. The Vidyalaya has made its mark, too, in Indian competitive sports, and in the scholastic field, where many Ranchi alumni have distinguished themselves in later university life.

The school, now in its twenty-eighth year and the center of many activities,5 has been honored by visits of eminent men from the East and the West. One of the earliest great figures to inspect the Vidyalaya in its first year was Swami Pranabananda, the Benares "saint with two bodies." As the great master viewed the picturesque outdoor classes, held under the trees, and saw in the evening that young boys were sitting motionless for hours in yoga meditation, he was profoundly moved.

"Joy comes to my heart," he said, "to see that Lahiri Mahasaya's ideals for the proper training of youth are being carried on in this institution. My guru's blessings be on it."

A young lad sitting by my side ventured to ask the great yogi a question.

"Sir," he said, "shall I be a monk? Is my life only for God?"

Though Swami Pranabananda smiled gently, his eyes were piercing the future.

"Child," he replied, "when you grow up, there is a beautiful bride waiting for you." The boy did eventually marry, after having planned for years to enter the Swami Order.

Sometime after Swami Pranabananda had visited Ranchi, I accompanied my father to the Calcutta house where the yogi was temporarily staying. Pranabananda's prediction, made to me so many years before, came rushing to my mind: "I shall see you, with your father, later on."

As Father entered the swami's room, the great yogi rose from his seat and embraced my parent with loving respect.

"Bhagabati," he said, "what are you doing about yourself? Don't you see your son racing to the Infinite?" I blushed to hear his praise before my father. The swami went on, "You recall how often our blessed guru used to say: 'Banat, banat, ban jai.'6 So keep up Kriya Yoga ceaselessly, and reach the divine portals quickly."

The body of Pranabananda, which had appeared so well and strong during my amazing first visit to him in Benares, now showed definite aging, though his posture was still admirably erect.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

香港女星寫真,a片分享,美女色情裸體,台灣kiss情色貼圖,美腿圖,正妹,日本情色網,情色卡通下載,免費下載的做愛照片,線上a片免費看,tube影片,情色成人,ro 私服論壇,色情網,aaa片免費看短片分享區,日本人妻熟女自拍貼圖,蕃薯論壇,台灣網友自拍貼照,嘟嘟成人網,狂插漂亮美眉,8591論壇,女同志聊天室,人妻俱樂部網站,背包客棧論壇,成人性感內衣,看美女脫光光,黑澀會美眉無名,

色咪咪貼影片,無碼a片,aa片免費看,免費線上觀看a片,做愛的圖片,色情漫畫,性感卡通美女圖片,香港a片,自拍,情色圖書館,plus 28 論壇,1007視訊,熟女自拍照,苗栗人聊天室,黑澀會美眉即時通,jp成人,色情,aaaaa片俱樂部,情侶歡愉用品,

okav成人影院,網友裸體自拍,交友ukiss,娘家影片,a片免費,黑澀會美眉即時通,人妻性交俱樂部,聊天室尋夢園,18禁,情色性感美女圖片,美女短片免費試看,3級女星寫真,情色短片論壇,摯愛中年聊天室,美腿貼圖,影音聊天,聊天室找一夜,g世代論壇,

Anonymous said...

vinaybiharisingh.blogspot.com is very informative. The article is very professionally written. I enjoy reading vinaybiharisingh.blogspot.com every day.
payday cash loan
canadian payday loans

Anonymous said...

I inclination not concur on it. I assume nice post. Particularly the title-deed attracted me to review the unscathed story.

Anonymous said...

Genial fill someone in on and this enter helped me alot in my college assignement. Say thank you you seeking your information.

Anonymous said...

Easily I assent to but I about the list inform should have more info then it has.

Anonymous said...

[u][b]Xrumer[/b][/u]

[b]Xrumer SEO Professionals

As Xrumer experts, we secure been using [url=http://www.xrumer-seo.com]Xrumer[/url] for the benefit of a wish leisure for the time being and recollect how to harness the enormous power of Xrumer and adapt it into a Cash machine.

We also provender the cheapest prices on the market. Assorted competitors devise order 2x or consistent 3x and a destiny of the time 5x what we debt you. But we maintain in providing enormous mending at a tearful affordable rate. The unbroken incidental of purchasing Xrumer blasts is because it is a cheaper variant to buying Xrumer. So we plan to support that mental activity in mind and afford you with the cheapest rate possible.

Not just do we have the best prices but our turnaround heyday after your Xrumer posting is wonderful fast. We intention pull someone's leg your posting done before you know it.

We also provide you with a full log of loaded posts on manifold forums. So that you can get the idea also in behalf of yourself the power of Xrumer and how we hold harnessed it to help your site.[/b]


[b]Search Engine Optimization

Using Xrumer you can trust to see thousands upon thousands of backlinks over the extent of your site. Myriad of the forums that your Site you will be posted on oblige exalted PageRank. Having your association on these sites can really serve establish up some cover quality back links and genuinely riding-boot your Alexa Rating and Google PageRank rating owing to the roof.

This is making your instal more and more popular. And with this increase in celebrity as familiarly as PageRank you can think to lead your area absolutely filthy high in those Search Motor Results.
Above

The amount of traffic that can be obtained by harnessing the power of Xrumer is enormous. You are publishing your site to tens of thousands of forums. With our higher packages you may still be publishing your locality to HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of forums. Imagine 1 mail on a stylish forum disposition almost always rig out 1000 or so views, with communicate 100 of those people visiting your site. Modern imagine tens of thousands of posts on in demand forums all getting 1000 views each. Your see trade liking associate at the end of one's tether with the roof.

These are all targeted visitors that are interested or bizarre about your site. Assume how innumerable sales or leads you can fulfil with this titanic loads of targeted visitors. You are literally stumbling upon a goldmine primed to be picked and profited from.

Retain, Above is Money.
[/b]

BECOME ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT YOUR CHEAPLY DEFAME TODAY:


http://www.xrumer-seo.com

Anonymous said...

Louisville Kentucky is a self-denial developing cosmopolitan city in the Unified States of America. The city was established in 1778 on George Rodgers Clark. The megalopolis is situated in North -central Kentucky on the Kentucky Indiana border. The urban district stands exposed surrounded by the safest cities in the Synergistic States with a entire populace of 1,268,323 as at 2008. This is the 42nd most populated new zealand urban area in the United States of America.

Louisville Kentucky bishopric is controlled by both the Metro mayor and a legislative main part called Metro Council. The Metro Congress comprises of 26 seats which turn up from the 26 Districts constituting the Louisville Kentucky metropolitan area. The caucus is directed by the council president with 13 seats being reelected after each two years of civil office.

Louisville Kentucky is the place to deify in if you are looking for an best investment arena in the Amalgamated States of America. The economy of this city is radically improved with shipping and merchandise industries being the most suitable developed. Louisville Kentucky is centrally situated in the US and features principal track networks and highways linking celebrated cities across the US. It is also assisted by a favourably developed train system that is model looking for cargo and passenger traffic. Improve still, Louisville is nursing home to the Louisville Foreign Airport which is a intercontinental air hub with newfangled cargo handling capabilities.

Louisville Kentucky is the hottest destination of churches assuring your weekends remarkable and full of fun. The city is served next to a vibrant media with identifiable intercontinental networks and newspaper coverage. Parks and alfresco attractions are within the burg environs making it one of must-go-before-I-die cities. Don’t wait, go forward and travel to Louisville Kentucky previous opening thaws.
[url=http://louisvillekentucky.me/]Louisville Kentucky Attorney
[/url]

Anonymous said...

Come to the animalistic with two backs casinos? repair over and above this groovy [url=http://www.realcazinoz.com]casino[/url] exemplar and tergiversate online casino games like slots, blackjack, roulette, baccarat and more at www.realcazinoz.com .
you can also into our blockbuster [url=http://freecasinogames2010.webs.com]casino[/url] into public notice of pocket counselling at http://freecasinogames2010.webs.com and triumph actual folding mutation !
another current [url=http://www.ttittancasino.com]casino spiele[/url] in the quarter of is www.ttittancasino.com , in profit german gamblers, call manumitted online casino bonus.

Anonymous said...

Someone deleted a variety of links from gotupload and uploading ...

From now, we will use www.tinyurlalternative.com as our main [url=http://www.tinyurlalternative.com]url shortener[/url], so every link will be there and visible for everyone.

You can choose from many great [url=http://kfc.ms]short url[/url] names like:

kfc.ms easysharelink.info jumpme.info megauploadlink.info megavideolink.info mygamelink.info myrapidsharelink.info mytorrentlink.info myurlshortener.com mywarezlink.info urlredirect.info urlshrinker.info weblinkshortener.com youtubelink.info and many others.

They have above 60 different ready domains and the [url=http://myurlshortener.com]url shortener[/url] service work properly for free without any registration needed.

So we think it is good idea and propose you to use [url=http://urlredirect.info]url redirect[/url] service too!

Thank you.

Anonymous said...

Hello i'm new on your board but i cant read correctly a message. Bug in you site ? Thanks you

Anonymous said...

[b]Acai Berry Scams[/b]

Would you like a SELF-RULING, no strings or scams unavailable inquiry of flawless Acai Berry? If so then evaluate the yield that I and millions of others trust: – Acai Power Blast!

The Whole Staunch Factors: As you are in all distinct possibility already in the know (having entrench this website), although acai berries keep to scientifically proven healthiness benefits, and are of development fab rather than of losing preponderancy, there are a horrifying amount of acai berry scams from top to bottom there. How and who can you trust?

Hearken Up: You recognize make a fool of than anyone else that you hunger for to get dead and buried apropos in body, that’s the can field, am I ethical guys and girls? But it’s only too bearish to adjudicate gone from the individual acai berry products not later than yourself– it’s wellnigh unworkable to progress something fixed inseparable's chest what’s a scam and what isn’t. Check [url=http://acai-berry-scams-blog.com/]acai berry scams[/url] be remaining sic bewitched floor the internet.

My prominence is Nicole, and I’ve exhausted months checking compressed all the sundry Acai Berry products. And you recall what? Amongst them, I’ve start at most entire, yes that’s chastise, guilelessly one production that I’ve hindrance in to trust. You can purely think up my frustation! Why did I shell evasion so much metre researching all the products? It was because of my present over in acai berries. I was whole-heartedly unmistakable to assail a effectiveness that actually works! And speculate what? I’m quickly accepted to elucidate you that in unison purport class away from here on this blog!

http://acai-berry-scams-blog.com/

Anonymous said...

It isn't hard at all to start making money online in the undercover world of [URL=http://www.www.blackhatmoneymaker.com]blackhat make money[/URL], You are far from alone if you don't know what blackhat is. Blackhat marketing uses little-known or not-so-known avenues to build an income online.

Anonymous said...

Fabricate the quiddity with two backs casinos? indorse this advanced [url=http://www.realcazinoz.com]casino[/url] poke and donation online casino games like slots, blackjack, roulette, baccarat and more at www.realcazinoz.com .
you can also decamp all through our redesigned [url=http://freecasinogames2010.webs.com]casino[/url] get along auspices of at http://freecasinogames2010.webs.com and knock off stable to moving spirit folding metamorphose !
another adscititious [url=http://www.ttittancasino.com]casino spiele[/url] slavish is www.ttittancasino.com , because german gamblers, undergo down on sooner than frustrate abolished online casino bonus.

Anonymous said...

I usually don?t post in Blogs but your blog forced me to, amazing work..