The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-05-24
MRS. BULLS WEIRD BELIEFS
SOME YOGI LOVE STUFF SHE
PUT tP TO A BARBER.
lie Dreathed Deeply TIL His kundaiina
Began 10 Twitch and the Power
Got Into the Suss,inin Canal. hut Ills
Health Failed Ere He Got to lBc "a God.

Health Failed Ere He Got to Bc God.
ALpRED. Me. May 23-The love ele-
ment In the Hindu faith, which got such
a strong hold on the late Mrs Ole Bull
and which II was declared by Sherman l..
Whipple had undermined her intellect,
was brought into the contest OF her will
to-day by the testimony of Nicola Rob
erta, an Italian barber. who was pupil
OF Mrs. Bull for several years at the studio
house In Cambridge. Mass.
Roberta told Of the stages of mental
and physical cultivation that the Raja
Yogi or Hindu philosophy required
He said that Mrs Bull had finally reached
the Bhakti Yogi stage. a stage in which
all the believers were gods
What Is the Bhakti stage?" Mr.. Whipple
asked.
IT is the attainment of superconscious-
ness through love-" replied Roberta
"Did Mrs. Bull ever say anything about
love or Bhakti in relation to personal
duty9'
-Yes"
what did she say?"
II would rather not tell il in court
Il want to say at this time" put in Mr.
Whipple. that shall later have a grea,
deal OF evidence about this phase of the
Hindu practice to put in"
Did Mrs. Bull give you book on
love?"
-Yee. she gave me a book which she
said was personal. She said that her
that the book would give me a knowledge
Of love"
Did she tell YOU about her first meet =
ing with Ole Bull and the circumstances
connected with her marriage and of her
life with him?"
"Yes."
And you would rather not tell this
in public?'
I'D rather not"
What was the effect Of the teaching
on you?"
My health became poor I looked
at the world in an abnormal way and was
impracticable.
just before giving thi testimony
Roberta told how stude n. reached the
superconsc ious state. one Of the highest
stages Of Raja Yogi
The kundalina tsubtanio at hase Of
Npuio' oVoNVhr DoNtI IW-klls VI
ascend TO the brain. 1t passes up the
sussuma canal and overcomes the subtle
elements Of nature. II you can make
the current pass through the canal into
the brain you have solved the problem
Of freeing the mind from matter
Roberta testified that Mrs Bull told
him that the mysterious "sussima canal"
was closed in ordinary persons, Only
Yogi have it opened. This ia the only
way to obtain divine wisdom.
In the physical exercises, said Ro-
berta. you have your body straight
breathe deeply and speak some sacred
70 word such as Dom and then draw a
in the morning and evening. and finally
there is no need to 60 to the book for
knowledge. a. your mind becomes a book
containing profound knowledge
One Of the courses Of treatment through
which Mrs: Bull and other followers Of
as follows: The Yogi ietutlent) must 90
through physical and mental exercise
every day until the highest stages are
Roberta in explaining some Of the exer-
cises through which they went said:
breathed deeply. We tried to breathe
entirely through the left nostril and con-
centrated on IL until we felt the breath
going way down to kindalina (base OF
spine)."
Il suppose remarked Judge Hobbs
dryly. 'that means simply initiating the
lungS'
Did you take exercises in the imagina-
tion?' he was asked
Yes. We were told to imagine ,ha.
there WAS n locust on the top of our heads
growing brighter and brighter OF to
imagine that there was a locust in our
hearts growing brighter and brighter"
How did you soothe your mnd?-
by saying Peace. peace peace
How frequently did you hold exer-
cises?"
Every morning and sometimes in the
evening Then the Swami would talk
Mrs, Bull said that she had been through
all of the exercises but she would SIT in
the circle to help me"
Was there any talk about Code
"ies. she said the, God could manifest
himself in everything She said that when
men reached the superconscious state
they were all gods She said that the re-
suit of practising Raja Yoga WAS to be-
come god
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