0:00 CHAPTER XXVIII. yogananda kashi reborn and rediscovered please do not go into the water let us bathe by dipping our buckets i was addressing the young ranchi students who were accompanying me on an eight-mile hike to a neighboring hill the pompey for us was inviting mind. The group around me followed my example of dipping buckets, but a few lads yielded to
0:46 the temptation of the cool waters. No sooner had they dived than large water-snakes wiggled around
0:52 them. The boys comically came out of the pond with comical alacrity. We enjoyed a picnic lunch.
0:58 After we reached our destination, I sat under a tree surrounded by a group of students.
1:04 Finding me in an inspirational mood, they plied me with questions please tell me sir one youth inquired if i shall always can i be carried home but in a few months his parents arrived to take him away in spite of his tearful resistance some years later he did marry
1:33 after answering many questions i was addressed by a lad named kashi he was about twelve years old a brilliant student and beloved by all sir Sir, he said, what will be my fate?
1:47 You shall soon be dead.
1:50 The reply came from my lips with an irresistible force.
1:53 This unexpected disclosure shocked and grieved me,
1:55 as well as everyone present.
1:58 Silently rebuking myself as an enfant terrible,
2:00 I refused to answer further questions.
2:04 On our return to the school, Kashi came to my room. If I die, will you find me when I'm
2:06 reborn and bring me again to the spiritual path? He sobbed. I felt constrained to refuse this
2:12 difficult occult responsibility. But for weeks afterwards, Kashi pressed me doggedly. Seeing him
2:18 unnerved to the breaking point, I finally consoled him. Yes, I promised. If the Heavenly Father lends
2:24 his aid, I will try to find you.
2:26 During the summer vacation I started on a short trip. Regretting that I could not take Kashi with
2:31 me, I called him to my room before leaving, and carefully instructed him to remain against all
2:37 persuasion in the spiritual vibrations of the school. Somehow I felt that if he did not go home,
2:43 he might avoid the impending calamity.
2:46 No sooner had I left than Kashi's father arrived in Ranchi. For fifteen days he tried to break the
2:52 will of his son, explaining that if Kashi would go to Calcutta for only four days to see his mother,
2:58 he could return. Kashi persistently refused. The father finally said he would take the boy away
3:03 with the help of the police. The threat
3:05 disturbed Kashi, who was unwilling to be the cause of any unfavourable publicity to the school.
3:12 He saw no choice but to go. I returned to Ranchi a few days later. When I heard how Kashi had been
3:17 removed, I entrained at once for Calcutta. There I engaged a horse-cab. Very strangely, as the
3:24 vehicle passed beyond the Horwar Bridge over the G ganges i beheld kashi's father and other relatives in mourning clothes shouting bringing kashi to calcutta during the few days the boy had been there he had eaten contaminated food contracted cholera and passed on
3:54 my love for kashi and the pledge to find him after death night and day haunted me no matter where i went his face loomed up before me i began a memorable for him, even as long as I had searched for my
4:06 lost mother. I felt that inasmuch as God had given me the faculty of reason, I must utilize it and
4:12 tax my powers to the utmost in order to discover the subtle laws by which I could know the boy's
4:18 astral whereabouts. He was a soul vibrating with unfulfilled desires. I realized a mass of light floating somewhere
4:26 amidst millions of luminous souls in the astral regions.
4:30 How was I to tune in with them,
4:32 among so many vibrating lights of other souls?
4:35 Using a secret yoga technique,
4:37 I broadcasted my love to Kashi's soul
4:39 through the microphone of the spiritual eye,
4:42 the inner point between the eyebrows.
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