0:00 chapter fifteen of autobi care of a mother nursing her child.
0:28 I presented the basket of vegetables with a ceremonial flourish.
0:33 Thank you.
0:34 Sri Yukteswar's smile was warm with appreciation.
0:37 Please keep them in your room.
0:39 I shall need them tomorrow for a special dinner.
0:42 I had just arrived in Puri to spend my college summer vacation
0:46 with my guru at his seaside hermitage.
0:48 Built by master and his disciples,
0:50 the cheerful little two-storied retreat fronts
0:53 on the Bay of Bengal.
0:54 I awoke early the following morning,
0:56 refreshed by the salty sea breezes
0:58 and the charm of my surroundings.
1:01 Sri Yukteswar's melodious voice was calling.
1:04 I took a look at my cherished cauliflowers and stored them neatly under my bed.
1:08 Come, let us go to the beach.
1:12 Master led the way, several young disciples and myself,
1:15 followed in a scattered group.
1:17 Our guru surveyed us in mild criticism.
1:20 When our western brothers walk, they usually take pride in unison.
1:24 Now, please march in two rows rows keep rhythmic step with one another sri yukteswar watched us as we obeyed he began to sing boys go to and fro in a pretty little row was able to match the brisk pace of his young students halt my guru's eyes sought mine did you remember to lock the back door of the hermitage i think so sir said finally. Divine contemplation must not be made an excuse for material carelessness. You
2:07 have neglected your duty in safeguarding the ashram. You must be punished. I thought he was
2:12 obscurely joking when he added, your six cauliflowers will soon be only five. We turned
2:18 around at master's orders and marched back until we were close to the hermitage. Rest a while.
2:24 Mukundo, look across the compound on our left. the road beyond a certain man will arrive there presently he will be the means of your chastisement
2:34 i concealed my vexation at these incomprehensible remarks a peasant soon appeared on the road he was dancing grotesquely and flinging his arms about with meaningless gestures almost paralyzed with curiosity i glued my eyes on the hilarious spectacle as the manam. Crossing a sandy tract, he entered the building
3:05 by the back door. I had left it unlocked, even as my guru had said. The man emerged shortly,
3:12 holding one of my prized cauliflowers. He now strode along respectably, invested with the
3:18 dignity of possession. The unfolding farce, in which my role appeared to be that of bewildered
3:24 victim, was not so disconcerting that I failed an indignant pursuit i was half-way to the road when master recalled me he was shaking from head to foot with laughter I thought it would be a good idea if he got one of yours, so ill-guarded.
3:50 I dashed to my room where I found that the thief evidently, one with a vegetable fixation,
3:55 had left untouched my gold rings, watch and money, all lying openly on the blanket.
3:59 He had crawled instead under the bed, where, completely hidden from casual sight,
4:03 one of my cauliflowers had aroused his single-hearted desire.
4:06 I asked Sri Yukteswar that evening to explain the incident, which had, I thought, a few baffling features. My guru shook his head slowly.
4:12 You will understand it some day. Science will soon discover a few of these hidden laws.
4:18 When the wonders of radio burst some years later on an astounded world, I remembered Master's
4:23 prediction. Age-old concepts of time and space were annihilated no peasant's home so narrow that london or calcutta could not enter
4:32 the dullest intelligence enlarged before indisputable proof as one aspect of man's omnipresence the plot of the cauliflower comedy can be best understood by a a radio analogy. Sri Yukteswar was a perfect human radio.
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