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Sri Ramakrishna

Story of a Himalayan Yogi I remember one thing which I put here I made a table I've told the story number of times the first time

I put it on the table I'll tell you the story first then you'll make sense I wasn't gonna go 3 a few years back after taking Sannyasa
I thought as non-traditional mission monks, we have schools and colleges and ashrams and hospitals

so day and night we are working we do a lot of work most of the people think you know amongst all you have it easy Mirage Aramis Eilat they are
So we have a really do a lot of work plenty of work I don't know when
I first became a monk a Brahmacari first thing they told me three days after

I joined in the ochre as a newcomer and then the senior monk told me First I'll tell you in Bengali on a condo gong-show ever get to Calcutta the hostel Touch it the only the static attacker is it you have eaten we have free food for a long time three days now time to do some work here is the hostel with 40 boys you go and look after them
I thought you had a defender in some sir I had gotten married

Sri Ramakrishna

Story of a Himalayan Yog I would have got one or two children now 40 children but look after 42 and it started like that
So I thought let me be after taking some yes let
I wander like a traditional monk you know of the old days I will take a big shock I'll beg for food sleep under the tree whatever whatever comes Katia
so I went up to can go three ten thousand feet higher you go more spiritual you know that's what you think this is still higher as most of us we mopped my one person is to stay beyond topo1 gonna go three Romek a poor one there are 14,000 15,000 feet

I asked him what was it like he said Personally I will tell you it was held the quay there's no chance of missing potential practice because of it just to survive it was difficult first months that I had to attend Anyhow I was in Dongo 3
I still live in a little Katia wooden cabin I don't know how many would like to stay here head was very beautiful scenery but no furniture to sleep on the only thing you have got reside blankets three or four on the ground you put and three or four on top of yourself no bedding nothing no electricity no table chair nothing and there's only one small window if you open it it's like having six air conditioners blowing at you at once

so I have to close that and if you close that it is so dark inside I used to open my eyes and do this I couldn't make out if his eyes would open or closed
I couldn't see anything and only sometimes you can see the static electricity sparks from the clothes

Sri Ramakrishna

Story of a Himalayan Yog I may know in we're in winter and his static electricity is therefrom woolen clothes there a monk

I met Asada who was living there for many years one day you're sitting next to me near the Ganga those who have gone there must have seen its very narrow but very fast torrential flows very fast and that was autumn around this time in July or August and he told me he stood there telling me the difference between the mind of a wish a worldly person and a yogi what is the difference if you do this practice for a long period of time what will be the difference he says he told me if
I'll tell you in Hindi and then translate it into English Mark Messier is a hey Deacon gauzy code a crime look at this Ganga now in the rainy season what is their lot of water fast-flowing water very turbulent and dirty because of a lot of landslides are there in the soil gets deposited brownish

so he says this water is this lot of water and it flows very fast it's very dangerous if you put your foot in it you will be stripped away and simply be killed there's no way of coming out of it anymore and you cannot drink this water you cannot give it to anybody drink you cannot drink it yourself also and then he told me in winter the same Ganga is wrong because it is mostly frozen it is snow up to here ice and there's very little water and the water is it flows slowly and it's crystal clear he said if there's a bridge there two bridges in fact over that in gun cocking gun go three you said if you throw up how many peg dangle percept you can see what denomination of the coin it is
so clear like glass she told me to be shy come on Jason here doncha gee there's
so much water and a wish I worldly person's mind full of many thoughts good and back many many sounds similar just like so much water is flowing second he says it's

So this tanga is dangerous in this autumn rainy season Officially person's mind is dangerous anytime anything happens
So many times we regret saying certain things or doing certain things because our mind said it and it seemed like the right thing to do at that time or we could not resist it and we did it it can be very dangerous in IITs itself you once in a while we see in the papers this boy or girl committed suicide and

Sri Ramakrishna

Story of a Himalayan Yog I read a story of not the story or this is a very famous American novelist, William Styron, he's written a book journey into the darkness he was a schizophrenic and sometimes to his idol because another list he could write very well memorize of darkness memorize of madness story memorize of madness William Styron my minds of madness at one time he was going to commit suicide and he's written vividly he said absolutely it felt like
I have to commit suicide now there's no other way and somehow you are saved he was put under medication and all that, later on, he said I didn't understand why
I was going to commit suicide at that time there's no reason at all this is the mind
so dangerous it can sweep you into destruction addiction spoil relationships spoil your career everything that same mind Third the point he said just like the Ganga is polluted now a lot of mud is there our thoughts are also polluted
so many kinds of thoughts this the water he said it couldn't IPSec take in secret villa be a nice acting job Giovanni a Bechara and he said how people's minds are like that they don't get peace and those around them also don't get peace from them opposite he said jolly Maccabee

I am a project of Benghazi coda Haga when you come in winter

Sri Ramakrishna

Story of a Himalayan Yog I'll show you can garden this is very little water very few thoughts in the mind of a yogi, not that is mindless very few thoughts we have got a lot of unconnected thoughts flowing through us continuously they start habitual thoughts those are not born in the mind of a yogi it is safe just like the Ganga, he says you can cross over its

so little water is there it's absolutely safe you can walk across the says and if my Yogi's mind is very safe it's not harmful to him or to anybody else third, he says pani Mita he could be sucked into
so people are suffering and he says the mind of a yogi is like that it's always at peace and serene and others who come into contact with that person also get that peace I have seen some of the senior monks of the Ramakrishna Order

I have met and outside also others are those good shadows just to be with them you feel uplifted you need not go and discuss something spiritual with them you simply be with them and exchange a few words you feel uplifted all should simply sit near them this whole thing in an atmosphere about them which is
Story of a Himalayan Yogi so much serenity and calmness is there which transforms your mind at least for some time you

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