Re: Mercy ... ts

08-22-2005, 09:17 AM

Zenbabaji, Mazie and all ...> There is one other picture of Yogananda
that I love...> it is of him playing the autoharp and looking like a>
delighted young boy...despite the fact that he must> have been 55 or
60 in the photo!this isn't an autoharp but certainly his face
expressesthe boyish delight you speak
of:http://www.guruji.it/galleria/yogana...esraj.jpgthere are
11 pages of photographs
here:http://www.guruji.it/galleria/yogana...ge_001.htm-ts-

Dearest ts,
It is indeed a boyish youthfulness expressed in his
countenance!Gurudeva often reminds his devotees to be childlike, not
childish.
"Except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."

Even in this the last picture taken of Paramahansa Yogananadaji,
called "The Last Smile," photographed right before he gave a talk on
Love and meditation, and of India "India ...where men dream God - I
am hallowed, for my body has touched that sod!" his contenance is so
sweetly youthful in appearance.

Then ts ... at those exquisite and loving words, with those last
beautiful words spoken in such rapture, Guruji turned his eyes
upwards toward the Kutashta Chaitanya,
the Christ center, (the place between the eyebrows - referred to as
the Ajna chakra), and he manifested the Truth of I Am in the Yogi's
final, conscious exit - Mahasamashi ... The Great Death, The Wedding
Day, as Rumi coins it.

Thank you, ts, for this so lovely photograph of Master.

As I Am,

Mazie