The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-24


From the New York Times
London.-In the presence of a Dau,.
Mail representative and two o+h.
witnesses, the Agamya Guru Parau,
hamsa stopped his heart for five go
onds. 1t was in his bedroom ~
Maida-vale boarding house on ,rh,-.-
day evening that the chief Of 10
| Hlndoo Mahatmas gave his wor6ars-.i
demonstration of the power of his y,tu
| Inc Mahatma has learned a 60 -.
deal about England since he VS. eGou
terviewed on behalf of the Daily NJ
two months ago. He has argued ,,,tts
| the professors of Oxford ana pt ".1h
!nenaIn' ana mas crossed the channel
! TO ireland, where he was the guest -
the Duke of Manchester at lander
gee Castle. His impressions Of ~
| land are interesting, but thew &c.
nothing compared with the miraclaS
of which he is a supreme master.
Place your hand over my pulse
So" he said, his uncanny Impressive
ness being heightened by his yellow
turban and loose-fitting blue serga
gown, which offered a strange con.
trast to the conventional studies ~
cat and dog life with which +bs
apartment was decorated. In The
corner a faithful disciple cooked ma
tive pancakes.
mo one believes me until he has
seen for himself" the Hindoo added
| looking immeasurably superior to tba
people who scott at what they con-
| slider the pretensions of an unedu.
Gated black. Feel carefully and
watt
Can you feel it now?" No change
was noticeable. One, two, three. four
the pulse was beating regularly.
Suddenly a strange light shone in
| the Mahatma's eyes. He was con.
| quering the action of his body by the
sheer power of his will. The pulse
! seemed weaker and more slow.
Then it stopped. There was no
| tapping, no motion. 1t was as though
one was clutching the arm of a new
| ly-dead man. The Mahatama's eyes
were half-c closed and intense as he
sat motionless but upright in his
chair.
One, two, three, four, hve-one
went on counting involuntarily
though there was nothing to count.
Then the Mahatma's rigidness be-
came life again, and he smiled.
You believe, don't your" he ask
ed in voice the carless ness of which
implied that a negative answer would
not offend him. People believe
when I have proved what I can do.
When 1 visited the Duke and Duchess
of Manchester two years ago 1 was
| asked to stop my heart in the pres
ence of a dozen people, including
medical friend of the Duke. He
laughed when my powers were men
toned, but 1 convinced him
The Mahatma has satisfied many
prominent medical men, in England
and America, as we'll as in his native
India, where he is venerated as only
prophets are after they are dead.
lit k-sA
says, scornfully, land only fit for
children and curiosity seekers. I came
to preach the truth, not to make
children marvel. If l shut my eyes
1 can see what is going on far away,
but 1 do not want to. Any one can
do that who makes his will conquer
his mind. If I do those things it
only makes people come to see me
whom I do not want to see. Why
should L? I only want to teach the
truth to your wise men, not to crafty
Your curiosity seekers.
The impressions which the Mahat-
ma mas cleaned during his two
months stay in England are by no
means hattering. We are a money
grabbing, race, he says; not so bad
as the American. but bad enough.
The rich people in your country
are blind because the dust of money
is in their eyes. If a man is a mon
ey man and he doesn't spend his
wealth for the good of others, his
wealth is only a burden to him. I
have great sympathy with all such
people, for they are really very poor
and they cannot understand the truth
What is the use of caring for world
ly things? They cannot help one at
the end. 1t is not my fault if they
are blind. l have things more val
liable than gold and precious stones
to offer them and cry out here and
there in the streets, but no one wants
to hear.
st cry more loudly, but they don't
hear. They are deaf as we'll as blind.
I put my precious stones in their
hands; but they do not know they are
there. They are dumb as we'll? they
cannot reply. 1t is a matter of great
grief to my mind, but it is not my
fault
I'm England most people are curiosity
seekers. They have been misled by the
many societies, who all teach different
ly and all teach wrong. They do not
even know what the word Mahatma
means. OF course. they are not alto
gether bad, although they teach in or
der to make money. You never find
man with all the virtues nor all the
evils. Virtues and evils are always
mixed.
81 ask these people: What is the
of all miracles? What is the germ OF
the mind? What is the germ of orig
inal force?
1.-THE teachers in ENGLAND cannot
define these things, and yet they pre-
tend to teach. English people are not
so bad as the Americans. who hung
stone at me in the streets and wocId
have killed me if they could. But they
are barbarized. so what can you eX-
pect? Their streets, are full of liars
and robbers, and their newspapers are
all crimes and muzzlers. Yet they can
it civilization.
I'm England men are more intellec-
tual than they are in America, ana
they care more for the truth. But, stlll
it was not much good coming here, lot
no one knows what the truth is. In my
country I left more picturesque scenes
than you have, and more beautiful nv
ers and trees. 1 left it all for nothing
l shall soon be going back"
After a brief visit to Newcastle,
where he will instruct another srnan
band of disciples, the Mahatma VIII
return to the Hindoos. to the welfare
of whom he has dedicated his life. HE
is the only real saint who has come
to English-speaking shores" said Prof.
Max Fuller some years ago. Appai
entity his second visit has been wasted.
for he goes back depressed by the
money-gra bbing selfshness which ne
has seen.
~-Tams Bixby, chairman Of the
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