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Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar

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Sri Yukteswar returns in flesh to Yogananda in Bombay and explains the astral and causal worlds.

  1. Resurrection happened on an astral planet, not earthSri Yukteswar says he is resurrected not on earth but on Hiranyaloka, serving there as a saviour to astrally reincarnating souls.
  2. The soul wears three bodies: causal, astral, physicalThirty-five causal ideas, nineteen astral elements and sixteen physical elements, held together by desire, which wisdom alone dissolves.
  3. Earth itself is one of God's dreamsThe body Yogananda buried at Puri was a dream body; the master tells him to differentiate between dreams and reality.
Executive Summary AI
  • In this chapter of Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogananda recounts seeing Lord Krishna from his third-story window at the Regent Hotel in Bombay, a vision he read as the sign of a coming spiritual event.
  • One week later, at three o'clock in the afternoon of June 1936, his dead guru Sri Yukteswar appeared in flesh and blood in the hotel room and embraced him, saying he had created an entirely new body from cosmic atoms.
  • Sri Yukteswar explains that he was resurrected by divine decree on Hiranyaloka, the Illuminated Astral Planet, where he helps advanced beings who have passed beyond Savikalpa into Nirbikalpa Samadhi work off their astral karma.
  • He describes the soul's three encasements — the causal body of thirty-five ideas, the astral body of nineteen elements and the physical body of sixteen elements — and says unfulfilled desire is the adhesive force holding all three together.
  • After two hours of questions and a number of world prophecies, the master tells Yogananda to broadcast the story of his resurrection, promises never to scold him again, and vanishes; separately, an aged disciple called Ma reports meeting him walking past her door at ten o'clock on the morning of the day she came to the Puri ashram on 16 March 1936.
Key Quote
“Yes, my child, I am the same. This is a flesh-and-blood body, though i see it as ethereal to your sight”
— Sri Yukteswar
Key Quote
“it is called Hiranyaloka, or Illuminated Astral Planet.”
— Sri Yukteswar
Key Quote
“The entire physical creation hangs like a little solid basket under the huge luminous balloon of the astral sphere.”
— Sri Yukteswar

Transcript

0:00 CHAPTER XLIII. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI.
0:23 THE RESURRECTION OF SHRI YUKTESHVAR. by parahamsa yogananda the resurrection of shri yukteswar lord krishna the glorious form of the avatar appeared in a shimmering blaze as i sat in my room at the regent hotel in bombay building across the street, the ineffable vision had suddenly burst on my sight as I gazed out of
0:48 my long open third-story window. The divine figure waved to me, smiling and nodding in greeting.
0:57 When I could not understand the exact message of Lord Krishna, he departed with a gesture of blessing. Wonderously uplifted, I felt that
1:07 some spiritual event was presaged. My western voyage had, for the time being, been cancelled.
1:17 I was scheduled for several public addresses in Bombay before leaving on a return visit to Bengal. Sitting on my bed in the Bombay Hotel
1:28 at three o'clock in the afternoon of June 1936, one week after the vision of Krishna,
1:36 I was roused from my meditation by a beatific light. Before my open and astonished eyes the whole room was transformed into a strange world,
1:50 the sunlight transmuted into supernal splendour. Waves of rapture engulfed me, as I beheld the
1:59 flesh and blood form of Sri Yukteswar. My son, master spoke tenderly, on his face an angel-bewitching smile.
2:12 For the first time in my life I did not kneel at his feet in greeting, but instantly advanced to
2:20 gather him hungrily in my arms. Moment of moments moments the anguish of past months was toll i have blamed myself for leaving you i did not want to interfere with your happy anticipation met Babaji. I left you only for a little while. Am I not with you again? But is it you, master,
3:09 the same lion of God? Are you wearing a body like the one I buried beneath the cruel Puri sands?
3:17 Yes, my child, I am the same. This is a flesh-and-blood body, though i see it as ethereal to your sight it is physical from the cosmic atoms i created an entirely new body the dream sands at Puri in your dream world. I am in truth resurrected, not on earth, but on
3:49 an astral planet. Its inhabitants are better able than earthly humanity to meet my lofty standards.
3:58 There you and your exalted loved ones shall some day come to be with me deathless guru tell me more master give a quick mirthful chuckle please dear one he said won't you relax your hold a little only a little embracing him with an octopus grip i could detect the same faint fragrant natural odor which had been characteristic of his body before
4:32 the thrilling touch of his divine flesh still persists around the inner sides of my arms and in my palms whenever I recall those glorious hours. As prophets are sent on earth to help men
4:48 work out their physical karma, so I have been directed by God to serve on an astral planet
4:57 as a saviour. Sri Yukteswar explained, it is called Hiranyaloka, or Illuminated Astral Planet.
5:07 There I am aiding advanced beings to rid themselves of astral karma, and thus attain liberation from astral rebirths.
5:19 The dwellers on Hiranyaloka are highly developed spiritually. All of them had acquired in their last earth
5:28 incarnation the meditation-given power of consciously leaving their physical bodies at
5:35 death. No one can enter Hiranyaloka unless he has passed on earth beyond the state of Savikalpa Samadhi into the higher state of Nirbikalpa
5:49 Samadhi. The Hiranyaloka inhabitants have already passed through the ordinary astral spheres,
5:58 where nearly all beings from earth must go at death. There they worked out many seeds of their past actions in the astral worlds.
6:09 None but advanced beings can perform such redemptive work effectually in the astral worlds.
6:17 Then, in order to free their souls more fully from the cocoon of karmic traces lodged in their astral bodies, these higher beings are
6:28 drawn by cosmic law to be reborn with new astral bodies in Hiranyaloka, the astral sun or heaven
6:37 where I have resurrected to help them. There are also highly advanced beings on Hiranyaloka who have come from the superior,
6:48 subtler, causal world. My mind was now in such perfect attunement with my gurus that he was
6:56 conveying his word-pictures to me partly by speech and partly by thought-transference. I was thus quickly receiving his idea-tabloids.
7:09 You have read in the Scriptures, Master went on, that God encased the human soul successively
7:16 in three bodies, the idea, or causal body, the subtle, astral body, seat of man's mental and emotional natures,
7:29 and the gross physical body. On earth a man is equipped with his physical senses.
7:37 An astral being works with his consciousness and feelings and a body made of lifetrons a causal bodied being remains in the blissful realm of ideas
7:51 my work is with those astral beings who are preparing to enter the causal world adorable master please tell me more about the astral cosmos. Though I had slightly relaxed my embrace
8:09 at Sri Yukteswar's request, my arms were still around him. Treasure beyond all treasures,
8:17 my guru who had laughed at death to reach me. There are many astral planets, teeming with astral beings, Master began. The inhabitants
8:27 use astral planes, or masses of light, to travel from one planet to another, faster than electricity
8:37 and radioactive energies. The astral universe, made of various subtle vibrations of light and color, is hundreds of

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