Ananta das babaji biography of martin
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1. Prologue.
2. Everlasting the spot. The romance of description Paundraka Vrindavan Today.
3. Staking out rendering high social order. The frequentations of swans and crows.
4. Confession, a religious find. A buried provocation.
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with a preface by
W. Y. Evans-Wentz, M.A., D. Litt., D. Sc.
“Except ye see signs and wonders,
ye will not believe.”—John 4:48.
The Philosophical Library
New York
Copyright, 1946, by
Paramhansa Yogananda
1946 First Edition, First Printing Published by
The Philosophical Library, Inc.
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New York, N.Y.
This electronic manuscript has been prepared in an effort to match the layout of the original 1946 edition in every respect. Any typographical errors in the original have been intentionally preserved.
Dedicated to the Memory of
Luther Burbank
An American Saint
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Preface
By W. Y. Evans-Wentz, M.A., D.Litt., D.Sc.
Jesus College, Oxford; Author of
The Tibetan Book of the Dead,
Tibet’s Great Yogi Milarepa,
Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines, etc.
The value of Yogananda’s Autobiography is greatly enhanced by the fact that it is one of the few books in English about the wise men of India which has been written, not by a journalist or foreigner, but by one of their own race and training—in short, a book about yogi
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| The procession around Radha Kund and Shyam Kund |
At 7.30 yesterday morning, when most of us at the Jiva Institute were still engaged in our morning bhajan, Manjari came to my neighbor Pradeep Das’s door and in a trembling voice announced that their Guru, Ananta Das Babaji, the Mahant of Radha Kund, had left his body a few minutes before. There are three initiated disciples of Mahanta Maharaj living at Jiva. They immediately made arrangements to go to Radha Kund. I joined them. We traveled in silence, each preoccupied by our own memories of Pandit Baba
By some turn of events, Babaji had left his body in Vrindavan and was being transported by ambulance to the Gopinath temple in Radha Kund, where he lay in state for a few hours near the samadhi temple of Srila Raghunath Das Goswami, whose throne he had adorned for the past three decades.
There I sat with the kirtaniyas, thinking that I am only a distant admirer of Babaji Maharaj and I should not get in the way of his disciples and certainly not for any crass purpose like taking a photo of his mortal remains.
When I left Iskcon in 1979, I was initiated by Lalita Prasad Thakur who was very near the end of his life, over 100 years old. At that time I took it that my guru had given me the keys to the wider Gaudiya