The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-10-08

nation being that should this photo
graph ever reach India his followers
would worship it, and he was strongly
against any such action. But after be-
ing convinced that he was in. America
to sit with his recognition of caste and
position resting upon his head. g.
The mahatma said: You people
have the highest regard for gold and
precious gems, which, to you, are most
valuable when they are the least plen-
ty. Your precious gems are not the
most precious things to us. The higher
truth is the most precious thing to us.
and / am anxious to meet, here in
America, the first student of the higher
truth. When I heard in India from
| Many people that America is growing
up in all professions and progress
| fixed my thought to see country where
such intelligent people are.
| To-day have written some letters
! to the chiefs of India, my disciples. I
have told them that the ideas of civili-
cation and prosperity which we gath
cred in the European countries have
| fed away from our minds when we saw
| the Americans. When we went into
| the streets of London three years ago,
or in Genoa or Naples recently, a lot of
people laughed at US and followed us as
curiosities. We We're annoyed, and diff
ficulties We're made for u.s. But here in
Boston, yesterday, when / was looking
for a place to stop, the children saw us
standing there looking around. They
came up and asked who we were and
what was our object. told them was
from India and looking for a place, and
| they said: There it is, over there and
then left us. They said nothing more
to me, and l said to my man: You see
the condition of this country. Mark its
| civilization. 1t is more than that in
European countries -
4 Here find the people are very quiet
4 and willing to help a stranger to find
| where he wants to go. There must be
no lack of intelligent, wise men to such
a country, and | sail be very glad If /
meet them. My object is to meet the
wise men who can understand the high
/ est teachings. Such persons are few.
In England was able to find only two,
Professor Max Mueller and Professor
Carpenter. / found many persons, but
cannot say they are fit only these two.
MY religion, it is the Aryan, and I
1 have personal following of about five
thousand. am the bishop. The people
4 of India are all followers of my philos-
ophy, but the people whom initiate
into the higher mysteries of the coneen-
tration of mind they are special disci-
pies. My philosophy is the Yoga phi
4 losoplly, the science of meditation.
There are eight stages in this philoso-
ply: the Yam, or observance; Nyan, or
endeavoring; Asan, or position; Bianay-
anna, or detention of breath; Pritahara,
or the result Of Bianayama; Dharna, or
retention: Dhyan, or meditation, and
Samadhi, or absorption. There are
thousands of principles In these eight
stages. $685..
''It is not my purpose to give public
lectures, but to talk to a few in their
homes. want my instructions of my
n precious gems to be to those who are
fit. don't want to excite the faith Of
men by performing miracles, because it
is not my business. {.
There are three classes of men in the
world. One believes in God through
fear; another through temptation and
the third after many discussions on the
I higher subjects, searching after the
truth. So the third I want to see. The
former have seen in India. Most men
cannot think because they will not hear.
"Tell something about myself? I took
my birth in the house Of a Vedantist
Pundit in the Himalayas fifty-six years
ago. I was taught Sanskrit by him and
English in the college. passed the col
, lege examinations and got the degree oil
high court pleader, a lawyer. After
| that thought that was harning my,
self by living in the world. / felt thai
must improve myself first, then try
for the good of others. The master al
first is taught, then the other people
, learn from him. I settled my worldly
affairs and put on the dress of the
Swami and went away to the noun
, tains, where I began to mediate for sell
control. Through self denial, sell
> abasement and contentment possessed
the truth as I had learned it from thu
I books. Then I began to travel, and thu
/, people would come and PROSTATE them
| oSlfC0 bCLpIC ltlC LllcII otllS
i offer me food and drink. They would
4 come to me- and according to their faitf
v I would teach them the subtle subjects
= of the highest. Every one can under
t stand that the beginning student can
4 not understand at first the lessons o
t the highest. Then tried to give then
: the lessons of the beginning student
When they grew in faith, as though
n from school to college, gave them thu
e lessons of the highest. So have spen
S my life.
It ''My belief: 1t is the religion of al
- religions, as, for example, tree ha
branches, fruits, leaves. But the tree i
II one, the others are different and many
Q In the same way there are different re
slations Of life, but they all believe in m!