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Paramahansa Yogananda

The discovery shows that every atom and every molecule in nature is a continuous radio broadcasting station. . . .  Thus even after death the substance that was a man continues to send out its delicate rays.  The wave lengths of these rays range from shorter than anything now used in broadcasting to the longest kind of radio waves.  The jumble of these rays is almost inconceivable.  There are millions of them.  A single very large molecule may give off 1,000,000 different wave lengths at the same time.  The longer wave lengths of this sort travel with the ease and speed of radio waves. . . .  There is one amazing difference between the new radio rays and familiar rays like light.  This is the prolonged time, amounting to thousands of years, which these radio waves will keep on emitting from undisturbed matter.”

{FN15-3} One hesitates to use “intuition”; Hitler has almost ruined the word along with more ambitious devastations.  The Latin root meaning of intuition is “inner protection.”  The Sanskrit word Agama means intuitional knowledge born of direct soul-perception; hence certain ancient treatises by the rishis were called AGAMAS.

{FN15-4} sat is literally “being,” hence “essence; reality.”  Sanga is “association.”  Sri Yukteswar called his hermitage organization sat-Sanga, “fellowship with truth.”

{FN15-5} “If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light."-Matthew 6:22.  During deep meditation, the single or spiritual eye becomes visible within the central part of the forehead.  This omniscient eye is variously referred to in scriptures as the third eye, the star of the East, the inner eye, the dove descending from heaven, the eye of Shiva, the eye of intuition, etc.

{FN15-6} “He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see? . . . he that teacheth man knowledge, shall he not know?"-Psalm 94:9-10.

{FN15-7} Folklore of all peoples contains references to incantations with power over nature.  The American Indians are well-known to have developed sound rituals for rain and wind.  Tan Sen, the great Hindu musician, was able to quench fire by the power of his song.  Charles Kellogg, the California naturalist, gave a demonstration of the effect of tonal vibration on fire in 1926 before a group of New York firemen.  “Passing a bow, like an enlarged violin bow, swiftly across an aluminum tuning fork, he produced a screech like intense radio static.  Instantly the yellow gas flame, two feet high, leaping inside a hollow glass tube, subsided to a height of six inches and became a sputtering blue flare.  Another attempt with the bow, and another screech of vibration, extinguished it.”

CHAPTER:  16

OUTWITTING THE STARS

“Mukunda, why don’t you get an astrological armlet?”

“Should I, Master?  I don’t believe in astrology.”

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