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Master's Miraculous Arrival

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Executive Summary AI
  • Yogananda brings his doubting roommate Dijen Babu to Sri Yukteswar, and Dijen soon becomes a constant visitor at the Serampore hermitage.
  • When the guru is called to Calcutta, he writes asking them to meet the nine o'clock train, but at 8.30 Yogananda receives a telepathic message not to go.
  • Dijen scornfully leaves for the station, and Sri Yukteswar appears in Yogananda's room, says he will come by the ten o'clock train preceded by a boy with a silver jug, and dissolves in light.
  • At the station Yogananda describes the arrival in advance, and Sri Yukteswar comes into view behind a small lad bearing a silver jug.
  • Dijen, angry that the guru's message to him was 'concealed', relents and says the story makes any university seem a kindergarten.

Brief overview

Sri Yukteswar appears to Yogananda in Calcutta and correctly foretells his own arrival by the ten o'clock train.

  1. A telepathic message overrides the written oneAt 8.30 Yogananda heard: 'I am delayed. Don't meet the nine o'clock train.'
  2. The guru appeared before he arrivedSri Yukteswar materialised in the room, foretold the silver jug, then vanished.
  3. Restlessness blocks inner messagesDijen missed the guru's message because his mental mirror oscillated with restlessness.

Questions this recording answers

5 questions, each answered where it is said
Why did Yogananda refuse to meet the nine o'clock train?

Sri Yukteswar's postcard asked Yogananda and Dijen to meet the nine o'clock train at Serampore station on Wednesday. But about 8.30 that morning a telepathic message from the guru flashed insistently to Yogananda's mind: 'I am delayed. Don't meet the nine o'clock train.' He stayed seated.

What did Sri Yukteswar do when he appeared in Yogananda's room?

Yogananda knelt and touched his familiar orange canvas shoes and felt his robe. The guru said he would arrive by the ten o'clock train, preceded by a little boy with a silver jug, blessed him, then gradually melted into piercing light, feet and legs first, until only the window remained.

Did the guru's prediction about the train come true?

Yes. Dijen returned saying the master was on neither the nine nor the nine-thirty train. Yogananda rushed him to the station, where Sri Yukteswar came into view wearing the same clothes seen earlier and walking slowly behind a small lad bearing a silver jug.

Why did Dijen miss the guru's message?

Sri Yukteswar told Dijen he had sent him a message too, but he was unable to grasp it. When Dijen angrily accused Yogananda of concealing it, Yogananda retorted that Dijen's mental mirror oscillated with such restlessness that he could not register their guru's instructions. Dijen ruefully accepted this.

How did Dijen come to know Sri Yukteswar?

Dijen Babu, Yogananda's roommate at the boarding house, admitted to atheistic doubts but wondered whether untapped soul possibilities exist. Yogananda invited him to meet his guru, promising Kriya Yoga initiation. In the master's presence Dijen felt such spiritual peace that he soon became a constant visitor.

Key Quote
“The trivial preoccupations of daily life are not enough for man.”
— Narrator
Key Quote
“Wisdom, too, is a native hunger.”
— Narrator
Key Quote
“I sent you a message too, but you are unable to grasp it.”
— Sri Yukteswar

Transcript

0:00 chapter nineteen of autobiography of a yogi my master in calcutta appears in serampore i am often beset by atheistic doubts yet a torturing surmise sometimes haunts me may not untapped soul possibilities exist these remarks of dijen babu my roommate at the banthi boarding-house were called forth by my invitation that he meet my guru sri yukta svarji will initiate you into kriya yoga i replied Evening, Dijen accompanied me to the hermitage. In Master's presence, my friend received such spiritual peace
1:08 that he was soon a constant visitor.
1:10 The trivial preoccupations of daily life are not enough for man.
1:14 Wisdom, too, is a native hunger.
1:17 In Sri Yukteswar's words,
1:19 Dijen found an incentive to those attempts,
1:22 first painful, then effortlessly liberating, to locate a realer self within his bosom than the humiliating ego of a temporary birth seldom ample enough for the spirit
1:34 as dijen and i were both pursuing the a b course at serampore college we both got into the habit of walking together to the ashram as soon as classes were over we would often see sri yukteswar standing on his second-floor balcony welcoming our approach with a smile
1:51 one afternoon kanai a young hermitage resident met dijen and me at the door with disappointing news master is not here he was summoned to calcutta by an urgent note. The following day I received a postcard from my guru.
2:07 I shall leave Calcutta Wednesday morning, he had written. You and Dijan meet the nine o'clock train
2:12 at Serampore station. About 8.30 on Wednesday morning, a telepathic message from Yukteswar
2:19 flashed insistently to my mind. I am delayed. Don't meet the nine o'clock train. I conveyed the latest instructions to D.J. It was already dressed for departure.
2:30 You and your intuition, my friend's voice was edged in scorn. I prefer to trust master's
2:36 written word. I shrugged my shoulders and seated myself with quiet finality.
2:41 Muttering angrily, D.J. made for the door and closed it noisily behind him as the room was rather dark i Bewildered to the point of shock,
3:06 I rose from my chair and knelt before him. With my customary gesture of respectful greeting at
3:12 my guru's feet, I touched his shoes—these were a pair familiar to me—of orange-dyed canvas,
3:19 sold with rope. His Oko Swami cloth brushed against me me i distinctly felt not only the texture of his robe but also in serampore by the ten o'clock train as i am now i shall be preceded by a fellow passenger a little boy carrying a silver jug
4:14 my guru placed both hands on my head with a murmured blessing as he concluded with the words taba asi i heard a peculiar rumbling sound his body began to melt gradually within the piercing light first his feet and legs vanished then his torso and head like a scroll being rolled up faded. Nothing remained before me but the barred window and a pale stream of sunlight.
4:45 I remained in a half-stupor of confusion, questioning whether I had not been the victim
4:51 of a hallucination. Crestfall and Dijon soon entered the room. Master was not on the nine
4:56 o'clock train, nor even the nine-thirty. My friend made his announcement with a slightly
5:01 apologetic air.
5:03 Come, then. I know he will arrive at ten o'clock.
5:06 I took Dijon's hand and rushed him forcibly along with me, heedless of his protests.
5:12 In about ten minutes we entered the station where the train was already puffing to a halt.
5:17 The whole train is filled with the light of Master Zora.
5:20 He is there!
5:21 I exclaimed joyfully.
5:24 You dream so?
5:26 Dijon laughed mockingly.
5:28 Let us wait here.
5:32 I told my friend details of the way in which our guru would approach us. As I finished my description, Sri Yukteswar came into view,
5:36 wearing the same clothes I had seen a short time earlier.
5:40 He walked slowly in the wake of a small lad bearing a silver jug.
5:44 For a moment a wave of cold fear passed through me at the unprecedented strangeness of my experience i felt the materialistic twentieth-century world slipping from me As Sri Yukteswar, a modern yogi, Christ, reached the spot where Dijan and I were speechlessly rooted, Master smiled at my friend and remarked,
6:08 I sent you a message too, but you are unable to grasp it.
6:13 Dijan was silent, but glared at me suspiciously.
6:16 After we had escorted our guru to his hermitage,
6:19 my friend and I proceeded toward Serampore College.

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