Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-22
OISCOURSES ON
HIS YOGI TEACHER
Rsba 5hsrsti Tells Of the Teachings
That Influence Hln-A eers
sonsIIty That stag
gered Him

Bahia Bharati discoursed last night i'm
the Krishna temple, taking for his
subject, My Yogi Teacher. 100 Years
Old" illustrating the discourse by a
picture of his Grand-Gooroo. He said
in part:
"It is to talk to you about my
Grand-Gooroo, that is to say, the
spiritual teacher of my spiritual teach
or, that have invited you all to talk
mostly of my grand teacher and, in
cidentally, of my immediate teacher.
My own spiritual teachers life and
spiritual development would be very
interesting, In some respects much
moro interesting than those OF his
teacher, especially because my gooroo
is still I'm the flesh. But people In the
west want so much to hear of Yagi
with psychical powers and extraor-
dnt!y longevity, so I have selected
OH this occasion to tell you Of my
grand-gooroo, Of his life and powers,
and some day / may talk of my GOO
roo.
"The Theosophical society speaks of
mahatmas, which means great souls.
All spiritual souls, especially ascetics,
are called great souls in India, and
these great souls can be met by hun
dreds of thousands in that land where
renuncia tion and asceticism are still in
full force. To the skipping globe
trotter these saints seem to be lazy
Idiots. But If they knew what these
seemingly lazy idiots think of them.
these trotters and trash-scribblers
would stop before writing their in
competent opinions about them. If
they knew that these Hindoo saints,
from the standpoint of their own
poised mind, dwelling incessantly in
the inmOst essence of life within them,
regarded. their western visitors of
restless body and restless mind, as no
better than human monkeys. 1t might
stop much of the airing of opinions
about Hindoo men and manners and
induce a spirit of introspective re-
Election within them.
MY grand gooroo was saint and
Yogi of the highest type. 1t was
the proudest privilege of my life that
I saw him before he gave up his body
at his own will, wonderful scene of
which L was privileged witness. He
was 160 years old when he gave up his
body and this people found out by
inquiry from his descendants, whom he
never invited after he had renounced
the world at the age OF II, when he
accompanied his gooroo to the jungle.
This picture. though 1t reveals
very remarkable traits and express
sions of his individuality, is nothing
CoilpdTSQ u lHe piCIuI6 WHICH MS per-
sonality presented to one who cast
his eyes upon him when in the flesh.
That personality staggered me when
/ first saw him. A pair Of eyes
large, lustrous, wide-open, winkless.
The light which shone from those eyes
expressed an absolute poise of the
minds forces, which seemed to be the
forces of nothing else but love and
kindness which cleaned through every
n ha n or
fully handsome and radiant features
of his face crowned by the dark brown
matted locks. coiled upon his head
| and with the bright, molten gold color
of his complexion, he looked verit-
able god on earth. Though he had
human-looking limbs and features
| yet he did not seem to be human;
there was nothing about him that was
human, nothing that denoted flesh,
nothing that expressed earth
THAT was the Yogi of Baradi, my
and-gooroc as 1 first saw him in
Baradi. village about thirty miles
from Dacca, the capital Of East Ben
gal-Baradi, one of the fortunate places
on earth where he fixed his seat for
thirty years and which he sanctified
and protected from every evil by his
presence. power and holy magnetism.
During my three weeks stay with
him, my first impression was empha-
sized by a clear glimpse into the de-
tails of his daily life and charac cter.
He fed about one hundred people with
simple though sufficient and most
tasteful meal twice a day with means
and food stuffs which came to him
from pious and benefited devotees,
things sent out of spontaneous hon.
age to him, for he never asked any
thing of anybody in the world. Milk.
fruits, vegetables and rice that came
every morning were cooked by his
devotees and distributed to his Wis
itors and inmates of the hermitage.
In addition to his wonderful store of
wisdom, which he >xplained luminous
ly to all around him, he was most
powerful healer of diseases, however
incurable. He neither used medicine
nor enunciated any process of mental
or spiritual healing to his patients.
When patient came to him first he
would drive him away with seemingly
harsh words; but if the patient stayed
and prayed to him daily for a few
days his heart would melt and he
would command the cure. Co., he
would say you will be cured by night
or tomorrow And the cure would un-
failingly come to pass. The magnet
ism of his words of command was
enough to drive out any disease.
Sometimes he would absorb a disease
from a patients body into his own,
suffer from it slightly for few hours
or a day and then it would go from
him and the patient would be cured.
MANY were the wonderful miracles
which he performed only when there
was any need for it. He kept away
epidemic diseases from his own and
adjacent villages, though they might
be raging all around them. He was the
most powerful human magnet of spir-
ituality / have seen, rldiating har-
mony,. peace and love, with which his
devotees were filled and which nobody
who visited him, even for little while,
could escape being infected with. In
his eyes saint and sinner We're
the same, for he saw in both the light
of his soul, of the one universal soul,
the all-pervading essence of the one
God in which his consciousness dwelt
constantly"
"GOOD LUCK" FOR DYING TREE
special to The Hera Id.