Re: An Autobiography Of A Yogi Malayalam.pdf
Evaristo Nicholls
"Lord Krishna!" The glorious form of the avatar appeared in ashimmering blaze as I sat in my room at the Regent Hotel in Bombay.Shining over the roof of a high building across the street, theineffable vision had suddenly burst on my sight as I gazed out ofmy long open third-story window.
The divine figure waved to me, smiling and nodding in greeting.When I could not understand the exact message of Lord Krishna, hedeparted with a gesture of blessing. Wondrously uplifted, I feltthat some spiritual event was presaged.
Sitting on my bed in the Bombay hotel at three o'clock in theafternoon of June 19, 1936-one week after the vision of Krishna-Iwas roused from my meditation by a beatific light. Before my openand astonished eyes, the whole room was transformed into a strangeworld, the sunlight transmuted into supernal splendor.
For the first time in my life I did not kneel at his feet ingreeting but instantly advanced to gather him hungrily in my arms.Moment of moments! The anguish of past months was toll I countedweightless against the torrential bliss now descending.
"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. Fromthe cosmic atoms I created an entirely new body, exactly like thatcosmic-dream physical body which you laid beneath the dream-sandsat Puri in your dream-world. I am in truth resurrected-not onearth but on an astral planet. Its inhabitants are better able thanearthly humanity to meet my lofty standards. There you and yourexalted loved ones shall someday come to be with me."
"Only a little!" I had been embracing him with an octopus grip.I could detect the same faint, fragrant, natural odor which hadbeen characteristic of his body before. The thrilling touch of hisdivine flesh still persists around the inner sides of my arms andin my palms whenever I recall those glorious hours.
"As prophets are sent on earth to help men work out their physicalkarma, so I have been directed by God to serve on an astral planetas a savior," Sri Yukteswar explained. "It is called HIRANYALOKAor 'Illumined Astral Planet.' There I am aiding advanced beingsto rid themselves of astral karma and thus attain liberation fromastral rebirths. The dwellers on Hiranyaloka are highly developedspiritually; all of them had acquired, in their last earth-incarnation,the meditation-given power of consciously leaving their physicalbodies at death. No one can enter Hiranyaloka unless he has passedon earth beyond the state of SABIKALPA SAMADHI into the higherstate of NIRBIKALPA SAMADHI. FN43-1
"The Hiranyaloka inhabitants have already passed through theordinary astral spheres, where nearly all beings from earth mustgo at death; there they worked out many seeds of their past actionsin the astral worlds. None but advanced beings can perform suchredemptive work effectually in the astral worlds. Then, in orderto free their souls more fully from the cocoon of karmic traceslodged in their astral bodies, these higher beings were drawn bycosmic law to be reborn with new astral bodies on Hiranyaloka, theastral sun or heaven, where I have resurrected to help them. Thereare also highly advanced beings on Hiranyaloka who have come fromthe superior, subtler, causal world."
My mind was now in such perfect attunement with my guru's that hewas conveying his word-pictures to me partly by speech and partlyby thought-transference. I was thus quickly receiving his idea-tabloids.
"You have read in the scriptures," Master went on, "that God encasedthe human soul successively in three bodies-the idea, or causal,body; the subtle astral body, seat of man's mental and emotionalnatures; and the gross physical body. On earth a man is equipped withhis physical senses. An astral being works with his consciousnessand feelings and a body made of lifetrons. FN43-2 A causal-bodiedbeing remains in the blissful realm of ideas. My work is with thoseastral 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 at Sri Yukteswar's request,my arms were still around him. Treasure beyond all treasures, myguru who had laughed at death to reach me!
"There are many astral planets, teeming with astral beings," Masterbegan. "The inhabitants use astral planes, or masses of light,to travel from one planet to another, faster than electricity andradioactive energies.
"The astral universe, made of various subtle vibrations of lightand color, is hundreds of times larger than the material cosmos.The entire physical creation hangs like a little solid basketunder the huge luminous balloon of the astral sphere. Just as manyphysical suns and stars roam in space, so there are also countlessastral solar and stellar systems. Their planets have astral suns andmoons, more beautiful than the physical ones. The astral luminariesresemble the aurora borealis-the sunny astral aurora being moredazzling than the mild-rayed moon-aurora. The astral day and nightare longer than those of earth.
"The astral world is infinitely beautiful, clean, pure, andorderly. There are no dead planets or barren lands. The terrestrialblemishes--weeds, bacteria, insects, snakes-are absent. Unlikethe variable climates and seasons of the earth, the astral planetsmaintain the even temperature of an eternal spring, with occasionalluminous white snow and rain of many-colored lights. Astral planetsabound in opal lakes and bright seas and rainbow rivers.
"The ordinary astral universe-not the subtler astral heavenof Hiranyaloka-is peopled with millions of astral beings who havecome, more or less recently, from the earth, and also with myriadsof fairies, mermaids, fishes, animals, goblins, gnomes, demigodsand spirits, all residing on different astral planets in accordancewith karmic qualifications. Various spheric mansions or vibratoryregions are provided for good and evil spirits. Good ones can travelfreely, but the evil spirits are confined to limited zones. In thesame way that human beings live on the surface of the earth, wormsinside the soil, fish in water, and birds in air, so astral beingsof different grades are assigned to suitable vibratory quarters.
"Among the fallen dark angels expelled from other worlds, frictionand war take place with lifetronic bombs or mental MANTRIC FN43-3vibratory rays. These beings dwell in the gloom-drenched regionsof the lower astral cosmos, working out their evil karma.
"In the vast realms above the dark astral prison, all is shiningand beautiful. The astral cosmos is more naturally attuned thanthe earth to the divine will and plan of perfection. Every astralobject is manifested primarily by the will of God, and partially bythe will-call of astral beings. They possess the power of modifyingor enhancing the grace and form of anything already created by theLord. He has given His astral children the freedom and privilegeof changing or improving at will the astral cosmos. On earth asolid must be transformed into liquid or other form through naturalor chemical processes, but astral solids are changed into astralliquids, gases, or energy solely and instantly by the will of theinhabitants.
"The earth is dark with warfare and murder in the sea, land,and air," my guru continued, "but the astral realms know a happyharmony and equality. Astral beings dematerialize or materializetheir forms at will. Flowers or fish or animals can metamorphosethemselves, for a time, into astral men. All astral beings arefree to assume any form, and can easily commune together. No fixed,definite, natural law hems them round-any astral tree, for example,can be successfully asked to produce an astral mango or otherdesired fruit, flower, or indeed any other object. Certain karmicrestrictions are present, but there are no distinctions in theastral world about desirability of various forms. Everything isvibrant with God's creative light.
"No one is born of woman; offspring are materialized by astral beingsthrough the help of their cosmic will into specially patterned,astrally condensed forms. The recently physically disembodied beingarrives in an astral family through invitation, drawn by similarmental and spiritual tendencies.
"The astral body is not subject to cold or heat or othernatural conditions. The anatomy includes an astral brain, or thethousand-petaled lotus of light, and six awakened centers in theSUSHUMNA, or astral cerebro-spinal axis. The heart draws cosmicenergy as well as light from the astral brain, and pumps it tothe astral nerves and body cells, or lifetrons. Astral beings canaffect their bodies by lifetronic force or by MANTRIC vibrations.
"The astral body is an exact counterpart of the last physical form.Astral beings retain the same appearance which they possessed inyouth in their previous earthly sojourn; occasionally an astralbeing chooses, like myself, to retain his old age appearance."Master, emanating the very essence of youth, chuckled merrily.
"Unlike the spacial, three-dimensional physical world cognizedonly by the five senses, the astral spheres are visible to theall-inclusive sixth sense-intuition," Sri Yukteswar went on. "Bysheer intuitional feeling, all astral beings see, hear, smell,taste, and touch. They possess three eyes, two of which are partlyclosed. The third and chief astral eye, vertically placed onthe forehead, is open. Astral beings have all the outer sensoryorgans-ears, eyes, nose, tongue, and skin-but they employ theintuitional sense to experience sensations through any part of thebody; they can see through the ear, or nose, or skin. They are ableto hear through the eyes or tongue, and can taste through the earsor skin, and so forth. FN43-4
"Beauty in the astral world is known to be a spiritual quality,and not an outward conformation," Sri Yukteswar replied. "Astralbeings therefore attach little importance to facial features. Theyhave the privilege, however, of costuming themselves at will withnew, colorful, astrally materialized bodies. Just as worldly mendon new array for gala events, so astral beings find occasions tobedeck themselves in specially designed forms.
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