The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-16
TIGER MAHATMA.
Head of the Hindoo Yogi and Font Of
knowledge to Visit America.
New York Evening Worldly

New York Evening WORLDLY
A font of knowledge is approaching
US from abroad in the person of Ma
hatma Agamya Guru Paramahamsa.
better known to his pals as the Tiger
Mahatma. The Tiger is a Hindoo with
a little dash of Burmese. Also, he is
the upper case 1T of the Punjab. for.
let it be whispered, he is a chief of
Yogin.
Now, an ordinary Yogi, IN" not add
ed until the thirty-third baptism and
the fourth pilgrimage TO the shrine of
the Great God Budd, is a man Of ter
rible knowledge. He can read the Sc
crets that agitate any human breast.
He could trace the weird twistings
and turnings of a Rockefeller mind as
it struggled with a charitable impulse.
So much for a Yogi, and let us pass on
| to chief Yogin, such as is the Tiger
Mahatma.
The Tiger has solved the riddle of
the universe, which. however. is a SIM
pie stunt for a chief Yogin. AS a
child he had to learn the Chinese al
phabet of $1,000 characters. Then he
| began to train IN real strenuous
thought culture until finally he dis
| covered the secret OF all worldly happi-
ness. In solving this problem he ac
quired the saGdest set of features in
India. One glimpse at his saturnine
| feaures and a laughing hyena slobbers
in cataract of tears.
Mahatma Agamya Guru was not born
of ROYALTY. He is a scion of wealthy
Punjab family. and might have lived
obseurely surrounded by modest har-
EN- had it not been for his early men,
/ tai development. He began as an in
| FAINT phenom and developed into an
amazing adult prodigy.
| He began to talk when he was So
days old, and could read. write and
make Hindoo music on q brass kettle
at the age of II months. His parents
| began to instruct him in magic before
he could walk. He performed the man
GO trick while the family tailor was
cutting his first set of pajama pants.
He early developed faculty for hyp-
notism. hypnosis and metempsychosis.
Mental telepathy came to him as an
instinct. and while yet child he had
solved the most profound esoteric Sc
| crets.
Naturally the lad began to attract
attention in the jungle village where
| he fiourished toward adolescence. The
| wise men of the east travelled far to
see and converse with him, and went
| away in the depths of chagrin. for the
Tiger Mahatma had made them ap-
pear even unto themselves as low
| brows of little more than troglOdytic
development.
Came a Yogi to Agamya Guru. The
boy was sitting on the veranda of his
fathers bungaloo, translating half
dozen obelisks that had been dug from
the ruins of some antediluvian city.
| The Yogi solemnly asked the Tiger:
why is a half Sideways"
The youth smiled sardonically. re-
peated 81 verses of the Koran back
ward. and replied:
Because the moon is in full cres-
cent in half of the third meridian.
The Yogi expired with a gulp of
amazement, and gentle hands carried
him to a nearby tomb and locked hin!
in.
More Yogi came down from their her
NIT huts in the Himalayas. Wrapping
themselves tightly in their sackcloths,
they mingled dust and ashes in their
hair and boards. When sufflcientlS
smeared according to Yogi rites they
gathered beneath the shelter Of date
palm and thought in unison for three
weeks. They were bordering the rid
die OF the universe, that had not been
solved since the days of the Egyptian
goddess Nut.
While the Eve Yogi were still with
ing in desperate thought contortions,
Agamya Guru rode out to them bare
back On a wild zebra
"Old men, proclaimed the Tiger
while the lightnings of wisdom Diazeo
from his eyes, Il have solved it.
mol" cried the Yogi, rolling over
and over in the dusty road in token OF
their CONSERVATION.
Yes" Numbered the boy; the an
swer is not yet, but soon.'' Thereupon
the Tiger became chief of the Yogi.
But the honors and distinctions OF
Aganya Guru did not end with the ter
rible and mystic title of Chief fogin
1t was soon discovered that he was an
incarnation of Krishna.
Now the unwritten, unspoken ana IN
thought laws of the Yogi forbid more
than one bath every 80 years, but
Chief Yogin who has solved the riddle
OF the universe can lave as often as tins
impulse comes upon him. One day
the Tiger was swimming In the Ganges
diving about and under crocodiles anc
practicing the new crawl stroke.
Yogi happened along the bank OF the
stream and noticed ass Agamya Curt
turned a somersault from the back OF
one crocodile TO the upper deck OF
passing hippopotamus that his LETT ZOO
bore the birthmark of a lotus flower
THE sign walled the Yogi, beating