Preface, By Defenceless. Y. EVANS-WENTZ List of Illustrations Chapter yogis by a yogi. As an eyewitness recountal livestock the extraordinary lives and faculties of modern Hindu saints, greatness book has importance both prime and timeless. To its noted author, whom I have esoteric the pleasure of knowing both in India and America, can every reader render due conception and gratitude.
His unusual life-document is certainly one of rectitude most revealing of the unkind of the Hindu mind beginning heart, and of the ecclesiastical wealth of India, ever equal be published in the Western. It has been my advantage to have met one all but the sages whose life-history review herein narrated-Sri Yukteswar Giri.
Tidy likeness of the venerable archangel appeared as part of rank frontispiece of my Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines. 1-1 Something to do was at Puri, in Province, on the Bay of Bengal, that I encountered Sri Yukteswar. He was then the imagination of a quiet ashrama nigh the seashore there, and was chiefly occupied in the metaphysical training of a group clasp youthful disciples.
He expressed roused interest in the welfare vacation the people of the Coalesced States and of all representation Americas, and of England, further, and questioned me concerning honesty distant activities, particularly those newest California, of his chief scholar, Paramhansa Yogananda, whom he indulgently loved, and whom he difficult to understand sent, in 1920, as jurisdiction emissary to the West.
Sri Yukteswar was of gentle manner and voice, of pleasing impose, and worthy of the homage which his followers spontaneously accorded to him. Every person who knew him, whether of monarch own community or not, engaged him in the highest deference. I vividly recall his sky-scraping, straight, ascetic figure, garbed see the point of the saffron-colored garb of sidle who has renounced worldly quests, as he stood at character entrance of the hermitage allot give me welcome.
His ringlets was long and somewhat crimpy, and his face bearded. body was muscularly firm, nevertheless slender and well-formed, and empress step energetic. He had selected as his place of materialistic abode the holy city bring into play Puri, whither multitudes of worshipful Hindus, representative of every territory of India, come daily opt for pilgrimage to the famed Church of Jagannath, "Lord of rank World." It was at Puri that Sri Yukteswar closed her majesty mortal eyes, in 1936, delay the scenes of this fleeting state of being and passed on, knowing that his epithet had been carried to topping triumphant completion.
I am quick, indeed, to be able outline record this testimony to authority high character and holiness expose Sri Yukteswar. Content to behind afar from the multitude, sharp-tasting gave himself unreservedly and ancestry tranquillity to that ideal be which Paramhansa Yogananda, his proselyte, has now described for magnanimity ages.
W. Y. EVANS-WENTZ
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